"Yep, it's brutal. It's pointed.
And Bleacher Report's new training site, Bleacher Report U, and its other editing resources really should be part of your tool box if you are teaching journalism in a digital age."
"As it turns out, we have a way to prevent gangs of humans from acting like savage packs of animals. In fact, we've developed entire disciplines based around this goal over thousands of years. We just ignore most of the lessons that have been learned when we create our communities online. But, by simply learning from disciplines like urban planning, zoning regulations, crowd control, effective and humane policing, and the simple practices it takes to stage an effective public event, we can come up with a set of principles to prevent the overwhelming majority of the worst behaviors on the Internet.
If you run a website, you need to follow these steps. if you don't, you're making the web, and the world, a worse place. And it's your fault. Put another way, take some goddamn responsibility for what you unleash on the world."
"The number of blogs launched every day is staggering, and the number of blogs that die out shortly after is most likely just as high (read our The Graveyard of dead design blogs for a sample). There are countless lists out there on what to do when your new blog is up and running, from submitting to search engines, to setting up social media accounts, to optimizing you site — lots of things to do. And that’s on top of actually writing useful content. But many fall into a trap of pushing it a bit too far, and we’ve gathered a few tips on what not to do when you launch that new blog of yours."
"This year, as the Arab revolutions have unfolded, live blogging has rapidly become the dominant form for breaking news online – deployed by virtually every major news organisation on their home page and the online answer to 24/7 television news. The Financial Times has had to commandeer Gideon Rachman's blog to keep up, while the styles vary from the quickfire updates of the BBC (complete with BBC News broadcast feed), to the tight and factual Daily Telegraph technique, to a slightly more expansive approach from the Guardian."
"The sale of The Huffington Post to America Online for $315 million has prompted another flurry of journalist hand wringing about people who write for no pay. Journalists need to step outside their fear that their steady, white collar paychecks are disappearing, get practical about what volunteers can and cannot contribute, and figure out how journalists add value in the new mix. "
A guide for students from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Mostly centered on minors, but with some salient information for college students who are blogging.
Link to legal issues faced by those who blog. Many will be familiar to college media publishers.
A program that subscribes to video blogs as channels and syncs with portable music players. Better, if your media operation has vlogs, you can submit them as channels, thus opening up your content to a wider audience.
A good starter history of the citizen journalism movement with all the appropriate names and links.
MIT-developed widget for making Timelines. Requires a bit of XML knowledge, but could be useful for presenting chronological information.
Web video gurus' presentation about creativity online. Free view.
A blogging policy from Dell Computers, found through Jeff Jarvis' blog.
57 million and counting, the blogosphere remains a force to deal with.
Notes on business, marketing and the meaning of life from the author of Gaping Void. Not specifically related to news media, but the lessons are essential, through the translation.
If you reference specific statements from other web sites, this is a nifty little app, with a firefox extension. found at Lifehacker.
A dynamically updating blogroll system. I found it via <a href="http://silverinsf.blogspot.com/">silverinsf</a> I might try it on a separate page in the blog.
Kathy Sierra finds the underside of the blogosphere raging against her. Ugly episode, but something we all need to be vigilant against in an "open" marketplace of ideas. This should never happen.
The headline spells it out, with some good tips on how to keep inside the law.
Great reference, and lots of probably redundant advice about blogging.
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