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: undead-reporters
2000 strong at Wired Journalists
So many milestones this week… Here’s another one: Wired Journalists now has more than 2000 members. The Ning-powered social network that Howard Owens, Zac Echola, and I created back in January has exceeded our expectations, in terms of numbers, interaction, … Continue reading
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Tagged beatblogging, community building, ning, social-networking, training, undead-reporters, wiredj
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Five minutes with Peter Shankman of HelpAReporterOut.com
I asked Peter Shankman a few easy questions today about his Help A Reporter Out project. You can listen in or download the mp3 below. (I recorded the call with cinch.blogtalkradio.com, for those of you keeping score at home.)
I like it when you’re angry
So I’m the last person in the world to blog about AngryJournalist.com, a good (albeit a little twisted) deed done by Kiyoshi Martinez to give folks a place to vent in public, anonymously. While I would certainly prefer that you … Continue reading
Work with us, people
GateHouse Media is hiring two reporters. Here’s the important bit from Boss Owens’ post on the matter: The ideal candidate: A recent college graduate (or graduating this spring) At least six months experience blogging Capable of shooting and editing his … Continue reading
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Tagged community, hyperlocal, jobs, journalism, local-news, undead-reporters
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Next Newspaper
Funny thing about the newspaper business. If you’re interested in innovation, you find yourself constantly trying to demonstrate the present to people with their feet (and desks, workflow, and hierarchy) planted firmly in the past. And while The Future of … Continue reading
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Tagged digital divide, disruption, futurist, innovation, mindset, newspapers, unbundled-media, undead-reporters, wiredj
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