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31 Mar 09
PressThink: Introducing the new Huffington Post Investigative Fund (And My Own Role in It)
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"The announcement of its birth, along with the $1.75 million starter budget, is really the launch of a new Internet-based news organization with a focus on original reporting. You might say the Fund's operating principle is: report once, run anywhere."
07 Mar 09
Reflections of a Newsosaur: How to charge for online content
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If you happen to be a publisher wrestling with how to move from free to paid content, don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t charge for it. If it’s good enough, readers will pay. If you attract the right audience, advertisers will pay, too.
29 Dec 08
Building community around neighborhood news: An interview with Tracy Record of West Seattle Blog (Part 1 of 2) « Online Community Strategist
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Building community around neighborhood news: An interview with Tracy Record of West Seattle Blog (Part 1 of 2)
Eurozine - Blogging, the nihilist impulse - Geert Lovink
There is a quest for truth in blogging. But it is a truth with a question mark. Truth has become an amateur project, not an absolute value, sanctioned by higher authorities. I
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Can we talk of a "fear of media freedom"? It is too easy to say that there is freedom of speech and that blogs materialize this right. The aim of radical freedom, one could argue, is to create autonomy and overcome the dominance of media corporations and state control and to no longer be bothered by "their" channels. Most blogs show an opposite tendency. The obsession with news factoids borders to the extreme. Instead of selective appropriation, there is over-identification and straight out addiction, in particular to the speed of real-time reporting. Like Erich Fromm (author of Fear of Freedom), we could read this as "a psychological problem" because existing information is simply reproduced and in a public act of internalization. Lists of books that still have to be read, a common feature on blogs, lead in the same direction. According to Fromm, freedom has put us in an unbearable isolation. We thus feel anxious and powerless. Either we escape into new dependencies or realize a positive freedom that is based upon "the uniqueness and individuality of man".[49] "The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own."[50] The freedom from traditional media monopolies leads to new bondages, in this case to the blog paradigm, where there is little emphasis on positive freedom, on what to with the overwhelming functionality and the void of the empty, white entry window. We do not hear enough about the tension between the individual self and the "community", "swarms", and "mobs" that are supposed to be part of the online environment. What we instead see happening on the software side are daily improvements of ever more sophisticated (quantitive) measuring and manipulation tools (in terms of inbound linking, traffic, climbing higher on the Google ladder, etc.). Isn't the document that stands out the one that is not embedded in existing contexts? Doesn't the truthness lie in the unlinkable?
16 Nov 08
10 Things Every Newspaper And Magazine Website Must Do | Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications Blog and Podcast - By Mitch Joel at Twist Image
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10 Things Every Newspaper And Magazine Website Must Do
30 Oct 08
Econ Bloggers Gain Clout in Financial Crisis
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As mainstream reporters have struggled to cover the crisis, a group of bloggers focused on the economy has risen to prominence over the last few years, diving in-depth into complex economic issues in a way unseen in the sound-bite-driven mainstream media. In recent months, many of these econ bloggers have seen their web traffic double as people scramble to understand the crisis and how the government, with its monolithic bailout legislation, is going to fix it.
10 Sep 08
Credibility costs | Good Morning Silicon Valley
Near-fatal United nosedive started with an unexpected jerk
02 Sep 08
Newspapers Attain That Nightmare Scenario – Print Revenues Hemorrhaging Worse Each Quarter With Online Growth Down To A Trickle
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The big business news companies – Reuters, Bloomberg, Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal – either keep back from the web the alerts that market professional pay big bucks for by subscribing directly to such financial services, or in the case of the Wall Street Journal, their really “good” stuff is available only behind a pay wall. In other words, these guys know it doesn’t pay to give everything away right away!
The naysayers will say there is so much competition out there anyway so holding back copy from the web is futile, but remember it is newspapers that excel at local coverage and most others steal from that newspaper coverage, so if that coverage is no longer available so timely on the newspaper web site then the competition won’t have much of it either.
Online journalism must free itself from the chains of advertising - and commerce | Greenslade | guardian.co.uk
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We have to see beyond commercial models that echo those of the past. Though it's fair to say that newspapers are dying, what we really should be saying is that the traditional newspaper business model is dying. It cannot be resurrected by trying to secure online advertising.
Ad-funded journalism in the digital world is going to be very different. The old models, and the culture that has grown up with it, are largely irrelevant. Journalists should be jumping for joy after 150 years in which advertisers called the tune.
18 Aug 08
Are editors a luxury that we can do without? | Media | The Guardian
Not so fast. There is still a role for editors, but it changes. There is a need to add context and fill holes in understanding - by using links. As we move from an economy of scarcity in media to one of abundance, there is a need to curate: to find the best and brightest from an infinite supply of witnesses, commentators, photographers and experts. As news becomes collaborative, editors will need to assemble networks from among staff and the public; that makes them community organisers. I also believe editors should play educator, helping to improve the work of the network.
17 Apr 08
There's no money in political coverage ... so who will wither?
There's no money in political coverage, so blogs will wither ... but what does that mean for the newspaper?
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The answer is, in short, that there is not much advertising in political coverage. Nick’s biggest sites, such as Gawker, Gizmodo and Jezebel, draw advertisers because they have high traffic and clear commercial niches.
01 Apr 08
Military Report: Secretly 'Recruit or Hire Bloggers' | Danger Room from Wired.com
Military Report: Secretly 'Recruit or Hire Bloggers'
21 Mar 08
Cooked Books
support the old institutions of knowledge, advises Tyler Cowen
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We cannot quite embrace
the wonderfully egalitarian world of knowledge on the web. Error, falsehood,
sloppy untruths, and just downright lies are found all too frequently and they threaten
to spread even further. That's why we should defend institutions--such as
academia and the standard canons of traditional journalism--that promise full
fact-checking and tough standards of rigor. Yes those institutions are very
often hypocritical. Everyone faces a deadline or a budget. Nonetheless, dropping
our stated loyalties to such institutions would be like removing our thumb from
the dike and letting the flood waters in.
should criticize our truth-testing institutions and try to improve their
truth-tracking properties; of course, this can mean an active life in Wikipedia,
Amazon.com, and the blogosphere. But
in the final analysis the standards of mainstream institutions are necessary. We
should use the web to strengthen, rather than weaken, those procedures.
24 Feb 08
Comment is free: Media and the mob
Politicians have long grown used to facing the wrath of the rabble. It was the vote that brought them to heel. Now, it seems, the web may subject journalists to similar treatment. We shouldn't be surprised that they don't like it. Priesthoods prefer quiescent congregations.
For the moment, our media elite just doesn't seem to get it. The Guardian's director of digital content, announcing she has a "duty of care" to protect contributors from abuse, sounds like the Speaker, trying to safeguard MPs from attacks on their dubious perks. Yet even he doesn't attempt to insulate his flock from mere denigration.
The media's audience has seized hold of the microphone. It will express itself as it will, and we shall all be the better for it.
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Since the dawn of the mass media, its practitioners have enjoyed a peculiar degree of immunity from the complaints of those they address. Understandably, they've taken advantage of this, growing lazy, sloppy, self-satisfied, self-indulgent, nepotistic and arrogant. Readers have sensed this, but until recently have been powerless to do anything about it. Now, the internet has given them a voice.
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Hoo-blinking-ray.Someone gets it!
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The Last Post | Inside guardian.co.uk | Guardian Unlimited
One final question Emily, and I hope you will reply:
Have you seen Paul Gogarty's website, where he boasts about his ability to place travel-related articles in the mainstream media?
http://www.paulgogartycommunications.co.uk/media_contact.aspx
And if you're now seeing it for the first time, does it explain to you better our indignance?
Again, congratulations for being the first one to come down to talk to us, so to speak.
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One final question Emily, and I hope you will reply:
Have you seen Paul Gogarty's website, where he boasts about his ability to place travel-related articles in the mainstream media?
http://www.paulgogartycommunications.co.uk/media_contact.aspx
And if you're now seeing it for the first time, does it explain to you better our indignance?
Again, congratulations for being the first one to come down to talk to us, so to speak.
Forget Web 2.0. Say Hello to Web 3.0 by Evgeny Morozov - The Globalist > > Global Technology
We are entering a world where users can accomplish more with a click of a mouse than lawyers and bankers can do with threats of a lawsuit and angry phone calls to the chief executive
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We are entering a world where users can accomplish more with a click of a mouse than lawyers and bankers can do with threats of a lawsuit and angry phone calls to the chief executive
A Russian Oligarch Faces the "Streisand Effect" by Evgeny Morozov - The Globalist > > Global Technology
Hoping to defeat the complex network of invisible insurgents who have a panoply of tools and anonymity options unmatched by the corporate world, is not only naïve — it carries big publicity costs for those who are convinced otherwise.
What's worse (for the companies), many contemporary legal regimes — particularly in Scandinavian countries — provide a legal shelter for these cyberactivists-turned-insurgents, and there is no indication that such laws will become stricter. If anything, they might be relaxed.
23 Feb 08
The blind newsmaker | openDemocracy
So, with these two types of institutions in mind, can we rest assured that the pieces of the newspaper will be re-assembled with no loss? Or will there be a systematic ``blind spot'' created by the mechanisms of fragmentation and re-aggregation? Conceptually the blind-spot is plainly there: where what is produced depends for any part of its character on the particular aggregate that it will form, the breaking of the link between the pieces of lego and the final assemblage will change what lego is built.
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