Tag: inspiration
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Culture shock
Trying to turn the tide of the decline of newspapers from the inside involves a great deal of evangelizing and pontificating and running through sets of common scenarios with folks who are still firmly planted in the Paper business rather than the News business. That’s no surprise. And it’s no surprise that top-down, do-it-this-way mandates…
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Links that redefine news
Wednesday night, I’ll be speaking with Steve Sloan’s New Media class at San Jose State University. I’m planning to show off some of the best of your work. Yes, you. I’m looking for online news sites and projects that stray from the traditional definition of news. I’m assuming these journalism students get enough Gloom &…
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Introducing WiredJournalists.com
At the end of 2007, Howard Owens* published a blog post outlining a year-long program he called 2008 objectives for today’s non-wired journalist. A few of the objectives: Howard soon started fielding e-mails and requests for guidance from reporters looking to take him up on his offer of a $100 Amazon gift certificate for the…
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The Cloths of Heaven are Old Shirts and Dark Slacks (Ftrain.com)
I really need to start writing again. Great, another side project. Stupid good writing inspiring me to … write more. via Unstoppable Robot Ninja (which you should also check out.) The Cloths of Heaven are Old Shirts and Dark Slacks (Ftrain.com)
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Imagination is everywhere
Scott Karp says part of the problem with the newspaper business has been its lack of imagination: “Nobody imagined that somebody would be so recklessly uncapitalistic as to create a website where people could post classified ads for free. Nobody imagined that an online software company specializing in information retrieval, but which produced no information…
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Stranger’s Flash Links
Gobs and gobs of links to Flash tools and inspiration, for when I actually learn how to do something other than “Import Video” and “Publish.” Thx Richard… (Note to self: Read Mindy’s book.) Stranger’s Flash Links