Year: 2008
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A quick survey about comments on your news site
I have a little theory. It’s my opinion that commenters — or anyone, really — is the most civil when they’re speaking in public and everyone can see who they are. So, I think that news site commenters/readers are most civil on news story comments, then blog posts, then message board threads. When I popped…
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SPJ’s News Gems blog to close?
Jon Marshall’s News Gems blog at SPJ.org has been a quiet, consistent resource, chronicling high-quality reporting for more than three years. Marshall is moving on to other endeavors: “As we reach the end of 2008, I wish I could say that things have gotten easier for journalists. Of course they haven’t. But after producing this…
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Looking back: My year at the Santa Cruz Sentinel
For those of you unfamiliar with my personal and professional timeline, I worked at the Santa Cruz Sentinel from October 2006 through the end of September 2007, first in a position accurately titled Webmaster, and later as the Online Editor, working in a mostly bright, young newsroom in downtown Santa Cruz, blocks from the Pacific…
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CoPress launches hosted WordPress sites for student media
First, a bit of history: The first time I fiddled with a newspaper Web site, it was thespartandaily.com, after I walked into an adviser’s office at San Jose State’s School of Journalism & Mass Communications and asked something like “hey, any way to get an RSS feed off that thing?” There was, and we did,…
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Wired Journalists in 2008: Were you in it to win?
Howard “yes, he’s my boss” Owens follows up on the December 2007 post that spawned Wired Journalists with an update as the year grinds to a burly, overwhelming close. (Well, it’s been that way the last couple weeks for me, at least.) Howard asks how wired you’ve become in 2008: The post stirred a lot…
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Krunchd: Another URL Shortener… with an Interesting Twist – ReadWriteWeb
Good RWW write-up of http://krunchd.com, a URL shortener that allows you to save multiple links as a “collection” with one short URL. Very newstangly. Krunchd: Another URL Shortener… with an Interesting Twist – ReadWriteWeb
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Carnival of Journalism: Five positive predictions for new media in 2009
For this month’s Carnival of Journalism, Dave Cohn is asking for positive (if possible) predictions for the new media world of 2009. How about 5? Mobile video streaming goes mainstream: Probably tied to disaster/breaking news reporting from non-professionals, a la 9/11 blogs, the YouTube tsunami of 2004, Flickr bombings of 2005, and the livetweeted siege…
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The Vegan Dad Cookbook
$10 for the PDF on Lulu. We’ll try one more of his recipes and then probably pick this up. The Vegan Dad Cookbook
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6 Amazing Vegan Holiday Baking Projects
Yum. We have a serious gingerbread man agenda in my house at the moment. 6 Amazing Vegan Holiday Baking Projects
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Is this the democratization of media or a Media Republic?
A massive new report from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University takes on some of the most important questions about change in the world of journalism — and to be more precise, change in the world of information distribution, consumption, and participation. I talked with project leader Persephone Miel during a…