Jul
9
A little late getting to today’s links, but here you have them:
- Facebook and (My) continual partial attention. Susan Mernit pretty much nails way the oh-so-addictive Facebook has become the latest internet darling.
- Recommendations for video storytelling books. Angela Grant has finished her extensive overview of available books on video storytelling and come up with her final list of essentials. I have four of the six but am still looking for a truly exceptional one.
- Writing for the Web: the basics still apply. Roy Peter Clark, author of one of my favourite books on writing (Writing Tools), strips away the bs to get to the essentials.
- Journalists: Preening, Self-important Simpletons? Joe Pappalardo has some strong feelings about one of the pitfalls of j-school. A short post but, given the headline, I couldn’t resist.
- Does photographic digital manipulation in the media takes place more often than most people think? Dennis Dunleavy gives a report on how his annual survey on photo manipulation is playing out. If you haven’t yet taken the survey, there’s no time like…..
- Google And Web 1.0 Killed Backfence. Lots has been written about the death of Backfence and the reasons why but, as seems to be frequently the case, Scott Karp appears to have nailed down a big part of the answer.
- This will become the trend: news sites to require real names on comments. The Sacramento Bee does away with anonymous commenters and Howard Owens approves. So do I.
- Scared of their audience… Cyndy Green picks up on a TVSpy post on panic in the broadcast TV world over the ‘net, and adds some relevant thoughts.
- What’s black & white but not read all over? Tom Abate passes along information from an international survey on newspaper readership. Bottom line: folks think newspapers are important but don’t have time for ‘em.
