Month: May 2006
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Building a community with newspaper blogs
John Robinson, editor of the blog-and-citizen-journalism-happy Greensboro News & Record in North Carolina, points to Robin Roger’s UNC-Chapel Hill master’s thesis on “Creating community and gaining readers through newspaper blogs.” [The full thesis as a PDF is here.] Robinson on the broad strokes of community-building: “We use the blogs to help us add information, context…
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Poynter Online – Putting Endings First
“Ending a story with a quote is a reflex action, understandable especially in the crush of deadline, but overused to the point of cliché.” Poynter Online – Putting Endings First
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The Mechanic & the Muse: To Be Continued…On iTunes
“If serial narrative pioneers Charles Dickens and Honoré de Balzac were writing today, we’d be eagerly uploading their novel installments onto our iPods.” The Mechanic & the Muse: To Be Continued…On iTunes
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Learning Flash, vol. 1
First attempt, apologies to RSS readers, try not to get dizzy, all photos copyright me, etc….
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Sulzberger to speak at Web 2.0 conference
An interesting crossing-of-paths here as NYT chairman Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. gives a speech at the Web 2.0 conference in SF next November. Sulzberger to speak at Web 2.0 conference
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ESPNsoccernet – World Cup – World Cup Schedule
The full schedule for the cup, June 9th through July 9th. ESPNsoccernet – World Cup – World Cup Schedule
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Online and print partying together
via E&P: Editors from the Washington Post and USA Today talk about “the continuous news desk” and “platform-agnostic coverage” on a panel at an Interactive Media conference. One j-school professor in the audience asked what the panelists were looking for in young journalists — should they already be focusing on multi-tasking, shooting video and the…
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Get more email from me
You can now subscribe to this blog by email, if you’re into that sort of thing. All of you glued-to-your-inbox types can shift your gaze over to the sidebar, enter your address, and off you go. RSS readers are more than welcome to switch over to the new version of my feed, which might do…
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Interactive Narratives: Photo Blogs & Aggregators
More newspaper photoblogs and other multimedia journalism sites… Interactive Narratives: Photo Blogs & Aggregators
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Flash Journalism
The homepage for Mindy McAdams’ Flash Journalism book. Somebody buy me a copy, okay? Flash Journalism