Tag: Technology
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Wabbit season, duck season, conference season, soccer season
I missed Vloggercon and Bloggercon. Gnomedex was too far away. The World Cup – also a bit of distance to cover (Yeah, so we were in Italy for most of it, but who’s counting.). Okay, that wasn’t a conference, and I did manage to watch quite a bit of it, including the final (Forza Azzurri!).…
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Does your college newspaper cover the blog beat?
Bryan Murley at Reinventing College Media lays out some instructions for covering the campus blogosphere. I think it’s a good idea, but I look at it another way: Reading blogs written by students, faculty, and alumni should be a way to find story ideas — not necessarily a beat in itself — unless, of course,…
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Geeks for journalism or journalism for geeks?
Lex Alexander, Greensboro News-Record citizen-journalism guru, in a post about a community meetup to talk about the paper’s online CJ section: “We frequently get asked why we don’t do X, or whether we have ever thought about doing Y. Regarding Y, the answer is “probably.” But the N&R’s news department has an appetite for doing…
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Computer assisted reporting 2.0
Now that the SJSU J-School is cooking up a New Media class for next semester, which I’ve suggested should be mostly a practical lab for future online editors, it’s time to start thinking about the next step in revising the curriculum. Which, of course, it’s not my job to do, but I haven’t let that…
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Don’t fear the user-created content?
Do online news sites need to reinvent uploading and editing tools to gather user-created content? Steve Outing says no, making the case that YouTube, Google Video, and myriad third place finishers do the heavy lifting, hosting the video and spitting out the little block of code that a user can paste into a post in…
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More talk about new media classes
Steve Sloan has posted the second half of the Pizzacast, a discussion about a New Media class to be offered next semester in SJSU’s J-School. I’m going to stand by my idea that this class should be a training ground for Online Editors going on to student media, in the way that the 133 Copy…
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the blog
That might not be the first (or last) time I use that title, but it seems appropriate enough for the always entertaining discussion that ensues when journalists say things like “Any blog entry counts as journalism if the person posting it says it is, but journalism written by professionals cannot lose its special qualities and…
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Why news organizations might be afraid to blog
Terry Heaton: “I believe media companies are afraid of interacting with their audiences, because they (mistakenly) believe that their audiences are made up of people just like them — resentful, mean spirited, backbiting, hostile egomaniacs with inferiority complexes who, if given the opportunity, will spout their opinions without regard or respect for anyone but themselves.”
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Sending you away so you’ll come back later
Well folks, I’m pretty much all blogged out on the whole New Newspapers thing for now. I’ve started to feel like a broken record playing a recording of a broken record where lots of people tell each other why they need to change how they run their businesses. I’m still reading plenty of on-topic stuff,…
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How to get ahead in the newsroom
Steve Outing in E&P: “What seems to be becoming the norm in newsrooms these days is that a growing group of reporters, photographers and editors are now working in jobs where there’s a wide variety of tasks to be done each day: feeding the newspaper’s Web site; writing for blogs and interacting with blog readers;…