Tag: Technology
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Site notes
A couple tweaks here lately. I’ve added a feed in the sidebar that pulls in everything I post to my del.icio.us account, and I’m using it to post links to useful and timely things like news stories about the McClatchy/Knight Ridder sale process, webcasts of cool conferences, and blog posts about how to save the…
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No really, listen to your readers
Jeff Jarvis runs down another list of advisements to local news organizations trying to stay relevant online. “7. Start a Digg edition. Go ahead and make your front page. But allow readers to tell you what they think is most important on their front page and let that guide your resource and news judgments.” I…
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SJSU blogger shout out time
There are a bunch of bloggers these days in the SJSU journalism program, and although I don’t regularly point out the ones who aren’t writing about media much, I do catch plenty of what they write in the feed vacuum known as my aggregator. So without further preamble… Andrew the “Soapbox Prophet” hasn’t posted since…
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A lesson in covering breaking news on campus from the Daily Iowan
The first thing I thought when I heard a tornado hit the Iowa City and the University of Iowa last night was “I bet the Daily Iowan has video up.” Sure enough, the student newspaper has a package of stories, plus some fantastic tornado-at-night video, including shots of students watching and describing the scene. The…
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This boring headline is full of keywords
I’m having fun reading the headlines on all the blog posts that refer to a New York Times story from a few days ago. The story, which sported the headline “This Boring Headline Is Written For Google,” sort of half-explained the fact that online editors are now writing their headlines to specifically appeal to a…
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Talking points for a visit to Journalism 132
[I’m sitting in on Prof. Greene’s information gathering classes this morning…] Hi everyone. I’m supposed to be providing some constructive criticism on your blog posts, but the odds are pretty good that I’ll be going off on a tangent or three, so here are links to a few things I figure I’ll be rambling on…
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A pair of photojournalism events at SJSU
If you’re a photojournalist, an art photographer, or a J-School student interested in multimedia journalism, you should check out Dai Sugano’s talk Thursday April 13th at an SJSU NPPA event. Sugano shoots for the San Jose Mercury News and works on a small team of photographers, editors, and web producers putting together multimedia presentations at…
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Redesign round-up: The New York Times
The New York Times launched a redesigned home page yesterday, with Multimedia and Video high enough on the page to make me happy, and a cute little “Most Popular” tabbed box that includes the stories getting e-mailed and blogged the most, as well as the top search terms on the site. It gets better. Click…
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So who do we lock in the room with a whiteboard and a laptop…
…to figure out the answer to the $4.5 billion question: “What’s the new business model for newspapers?” At last night’s Who Needs Ink? panel discussion, everyone punted on that question, but Jerry Ceppos (to my delight) again insisted that newspapers need to stop screwing around and devote a large chunk of their staff to the…
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Who Needs Ink? A panel discussion on the Future of Newspapers
Commonwealth Club event at San Jose City Hall: Who Needs Ink? Who’s here? Ex-Mercury News tech writer Dan Gillmor, currently of various citizen journalism initiatives Jerry Ceppos, ex-Knight Ridder news executive (and Merc alum) Peter Appert, a Goldman Sachs analyst Joan Walsh, Salon‘s editor-in-chief Jim Bettinger, communications prof from Stanford (and Merc alum) is moderating…