Mar
11
My Lord, I have a lot of open browser windows.
- The world’s 50 most powerful blogs. Surprisingly, I’m not on the list. No media bloggers, in fact.
- McClellan Street. Early ’70s work from two of my favourite photojournalists — Peter and David Turnley — is the showcase feature in this month’s The Digital Journalist.
- Web 1, 2, and 3. Vin Crosbie counts and defines the iterations of the web and points out this isn’t a straight line evolution, with plenty of mixing and matching still to be done.
- Exclusive: Charting the 4-Year Circ Plunge at Major Papers. Plunge is definitely the word, as this Editor & Publisher piece makes clear. They total the loss among “the top newspapers in the U.S.” at 1.4 million copies over the last four years. An interesting follow-up might be to take those same “top newspapers” and compare page counts. Via Jim Romenesko.
- Digital Transition: From Redundant News Coverage To Original Link Journalism. Scott Karp asks: “…when you stop and think about, you have to ask — WHY are there 2,580 versions of this story?” He has, of course, a thoughtful answer that points to something newspapers ought to be seriously considering to help readers out.
- Part-free papers on the increase. From Manchester, word of a new business model for print that seems to be working.
- All The News that’s Fit to Post, Not Print. NYT coverage of the Eliot Spitzer mess shows how media sjould work at the moment.
- Twelve of the best. An interesting “short course” in Canadian media history. A very interesting read.
- On photography. I really liked these two posts — one on the short video as the contemporary equivalent of the snapshot and Dennis Dunleavy’s meditation on Redefining culture through the pictures we share.
