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: software
Be the platform, use the platform, syndicate the platfom
A lot of talk about platforms for news these days, no? A sampling: Joey Baker at CoPress defines one of the many things that “newspaper platform” could mean to a local news site: “…taking lessons from Gawker, Slashdot and the … Continue reading
Posted in Media
Tagged businessweek, copress, new-york-times, newspapers, software, syndication
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Check out my online news toolbox
I finally finished a basic Tools page to start a list of some of the basic, mostly-free, mostly-embeddable applications that I recommend for quick and simple Web production. It’s not intended to be all-encompassing; it’s just a short list of … Continue reading
Dealing with the elephant: Build the software you need, then sell it.
This is the fourth post in a short series I’m pretty much done with about the business model for online news before I go back to my usual routine of pointing out the obvious to people wearing dark glasses. The … Continue reading
Posted in Business
Tagged elephant in the room, news-business, news-organization, software, web development
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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
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Five ways to innovate today
A colleague looking for a few new ways to integrate free Web services into his newsroom asked me to chip in with a list of five, so here they are. A note to student journalists: These are all free and … Continue reading
Posted in Media
Tagged innovation, multimedia, online-news, social-networking, software, storytelling, video
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