Remember that time when I spent two hours out of every day, five days a week, writing, shooting, and editing a daily newspaper webcast?
It stunk. It was no fun, a waste of time, and a poor way to engage online readers with video.
No one — and I mean no one — wants to watch you [...]
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- Wendy Parker said: TPM also practices rather obvious point-of-view journalism that you didn’t mention….
- Paul Balcerak said: This is the second great piece of journalism-as-art-via-video I’ve seen in the last couple weeks (here’s the other). I’m not convinced there’s any one solution…
- Tom Altman said: I’m thinking a distributed un-conference. We can figure out a way to have a few (5 or less) satellite locations which we could all…
- stk said: If this is going to happen between December 7th and January 7th anywhere in the US, drop me a line. Seriously — I only planned…
- Lisa Williams said: Thanks,Ryan! I appreciate that. And it is about the lived experience — including that elementary particle of citizen journalism, the picture of somebody’s…
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On IdeaLab: Stack Overflow is your premium question answer tool
I’m trying to get into the habit of posting a few medium-length items over at IdeaLab every week. here’s a start:
Stack Overflow Sets an Example for News Commenting Systems
The premise? Stack Overflow, a new-ish site for programmers to answer each other’s questions, has a great voting system for comments, which are really just the answers [...]