What I'm Reading
- VIDEO: Freedom Daywww.youtube.comAll my favorite Abbey Lincoln recordings are off Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite. Watch this.
- North Korea makes Twitter debutGuardianTalk about sources going direct. North Korea is on the Twitters.
- Morning storms upend regionTBDThe tone of the @TBD severe weather liveblogthing is remarkably honest, even snarky at times.
- Confessions of an Online StalkerAssembly JournalIn which @heyitsnoah is made an example of, on the topic of Internet/"real life" privacy. I'm unimpressed.
- Poligraft Brings Politics and Influences Together in Just One ClickSunlight Foundation BlogMore than a little fascinated by Poligraft, a @sunfoundation project that... Well, you'll see. Try the bookmarklet.
- The Twitter Diet: a simple, three-point plan for Twitter dominanceArgo Project BlogFrom @mthomps at NPR's Project Argo, a strategic content analysis of @poynter and @niemanlab's tweets.
- TBD debuts with no new ideas, but real actionLost RemoteFriends at @lostremote review friends at @TBD: "What’s novel about TBD is not the ideas, but the action."
- Demotix partners with Publish2 for new photo-sharing networkJournalism.co.ukHere's the Journalism.co.uk story by @lauraoliver on the Publish2 partnership with @Demotix.
- Demotix and Publish2 News Exchange Partner!DemotixHere's the Demotix post about their Publish2 News Exchange partnership and plans for photo distribution.
- Can Publish2 Change the Way Newspapers Share Content?Editor & PublisherFree from the surly bonds of the paywall, here's E&P's story on Publish2 News Exchange from the July print issue.
- VIDEO: Freedom Day
Tag Archives: rss
When all I have left is my Fun folder, I win
If you don’t use Google Reader or Bloglines or some other feed reader, you can stop reading now. OK, still here? Months ago, after at least a couple years of just throwing all my feeds in Google Reader and sorting … Continue reading
Modernize your newsroom today
Many employees at news organizations have a very easy time blaming out-of-date computers, front-end print publishing systems, and Web content management systems on such faceless, amorphous entities as “Corporate,” or perhaps “The Budget.” Nevertheless, there are plenty of free or … Continue reading
Posted in Media
Tagged cameras, flickr, mobile, modernization, news-organization, newspapers, rss, software
8 Comments
If you don’t get unbundled media, you’re not selling attention*
Command-and-control, top-down, masthead mass media is dead. Seriously. It’s over, and the readers/users/viewers won. And without getting all “Information wants to be free,” I’ll just say that if you don’t get what Howard** and Zac are talking about here, it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Media
Tagged blogs, new-media, online-news, rss, unbundled-media, undead-reporters
2 Comments
Meta notes: Where to find my microchunks
If you get the feeling I haven’t been writing here as much lately, you’re right. But I’m still out here, reading everything I can get my hands on and throwing up links left and right. They’re just not always where … Continue reading
Using RSS to track the politicians you cover
Megan Taylor, an online journalism student at the University of Florida*, has been reviewing RSS feeds from newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post this week. She points out a feature I hadn’t seen yet in the Post’s … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged aggregators, feeds, online-news, reporting, rss, Technology, washington-post
1 Comment