Aug
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I intended to do some blogging last night but instead got caught up in watching the 55-minute video An anthropological introduction to YouTube, a presentation by Dr. Michael Wesch of Kansas State University. I highly recommend it, both for the entertainment value and the thoughts it provokes.
On to squibbing, drawing on open browser windows from the past few days. I may have more later today.
- 12 Things to tell your tech-impaired editor. A straight-from-the-shoulder list of new realities at 10,000 Words.
- Still a newspaperman. Steve Smith takes a lingering, nostalgic look at the past. This is a fun read but what makes it especially enlightening are the comments.
- The Guardian does it cheap and simple with 3rd party widgets. Paul Bradshaw points out how The Guardian does Web 2.0 faster and cheaper by tapping into what’s already out there.
- Frustrations of a young journalist. Not a post, but a whole blog. I like the blog; love the graphic at the top of Hilary Lehman’s place, which includes the words, “I [stubbornly] believe in the profession of journalism.”
- Ted Rall tells daily papers to close their websites. Pointage to a business model for newspapers: get off the web or charge premium rates, copyright everything and aggressively police it, cut off the wire services, and find the bottle and stuff genie back into it (sorry, that last one was my own).
- Today’s Thought: Maybe it’s not such a bad thing that newspapers suck on the Web. Pat Thornton figures the fact the websites for many smalltown newspapers suck means the door is open for a lot of enterprising journalists. Personally, one of the thing I’ve thought for a while is how easy it would be for someone to take local sports coverage, and the advertising that goes with it, away from the local newspaper.
- One Month to Raise Money for Independent Journalism – Walking the Walk. DigiDave updates progress on spot.us and appeals for funding for a reporter to fact-check political advertising in a coming election. This is an experiment I’m following with great interest.
- New Canadian service to connect journalists with sources. Updating an old Canadian resource for the 21st century. It’s professional-to-professional and not nearly as interesting as Peter Shankman’s HARO (Help a reporter out).
