Month: November 2008
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Further notes on how investigative journalism continues in online-only news organizations
From a New York Times story on VoiceOfSanDiego.org and other onlne-only local news organizations doing original reporting and investigative journalism: The people who run the local news sites see themselves as one future among many, and they have a complex relationship with traditional media. The say that the deterioration of those media has created an…
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Who’s hiring? Blogs.
Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo on plans for 2009: “So January will usher in a new Democratic Ascendancy in Washington. And here at TPM we believe we are uniquely qualified to chronicle it. So to that end we are hiring two new reporter-bloggers to be based in Washington, DC, one assigned to the White…
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JSON output, Ping services – Benjamin Golub’s Blog
Mmmmm – Add a JSON model to your Django app for easy export. JSON output, Ping services – Benjamin Golub’s Blog
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Bought out? Laid off? TypePad has your bailout.
The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program: Recently bought out, laid off, or otherwise relieved of your daily newspapering duties? SixApart’s TypePad blog service is offering a free account that usualy costs money, advertising services, and promotion at Blogs.com. “Your blog can act as a clip file for your best pieces, whether you’re looking for freelance work…
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Let’s go BARcamp on the API CEO meetup
Know what Foo Camp is? Know what BarCamp is? OK, now that we have that out of the way, Jason Kristufek is calling for a “summit” of future-of-news hotshots/thinkers as a counterpoint to the recent American Press Institute mostly-executives meeting of the minds. Sounds like a BarCamp to me. Like Jason, I’m not entirely sure…
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Notes from Sergey Brin and Chris Anderson on building participatory systems to scale
Chris Anderson takes notes on the Long Tail at a Sergey Brin talk that turns to participation and scale. It turns out, Brin through no one would show up to populate Wikipedia with articles: “But he was wrong, he says, because he–even he!–had underestimated the way scale can change the game. Sure, the experts say…
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Reporting with Twitter: Orange County is on fire
The Orange County Register is aggregating tweets about fires in the area right now. This is advanced reporting with Twitter, jumping way ahead from using it as a tool to push out headlines, and serving a very different information need than the promotional / community building of a Colonel Tribune, as much as I admire…
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On IdeaLab: Stack Overflow is your premium question answer tool
I’m trying to get into the habit of posting a few medium-length items over at IdeaLab every week. here’s a start: Stack Overflow Sets an Example for News Commenting Systems The premise? Stack Overflow, a new-ish site for programmers to answer each other’s questions, has a great voting system for comments, which are really just…
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Placeblogger: More human than ever
Check out the redesigned Placeblogger a 2007 Knight News Challenge winner. The aggregation-by-location niche seems to be blowing up lately, especially as startups try to hitch their maps to the iPhone’s wagon, but Placeblogger feels like real live humans are writing blog posts in real live places. I like that. via the Knight Foundation Blog.…