Sep
20
Blogging is the perfect recreation on a rainy Vancouver day.
- Students: We’ll pay for your ideas! What a great idea: pick the fertile brains of the young for ideas on reinventing classified ads. And pay for the winning essay.
- Wednesday was a really fun day at the Las Vegas Sun. Rob Curley calls his post inside baseball, but it really is a fascinating look at the inner workings of a unique newspaper and one of the best online publications out there. The Sun may, in fact, be one of the models for newspapers.
- Online news tools. Ryan Sholin’s latest list destroys any reasons legacy newspapers may have — cost, hard-to-use tech, etc. — for not getting interactive in big, big ways.
- Listening to Jonie. I found David Sullivan’s post a little hard to follow at times, but some slow, careful reading set me on the right path. It’s worth the effort if you care about the future of journalism and newspapers. Very much related: Looking ahead, local will be the big media winner. Howard Owen’s post has been around for a bit (one of the advantages of falling behind is I can keep older stuff out in front of my public). See also: Mark Potts’s Hyper About Local, and especially read the comments.
- Media Bloggers Association creates blogger insurance scheme. Good idea, as is the online course in media law (American media law, I suspect). I’d make the course mandatory before I’d let anyone buy insurance: insurance doesn’t prevent defamation, and unless the insurance industry has changed, any negligence on the part of a blogger — even unwitting — is not likely to be covered. Still, kudos to the MBA, which has been working on this for a long time. Note: I used to be a member of the MBA. Still may be, for all I know.
- The increasingly disposable journalist. The advice to “go freelance,” isn’t that helpful to mid-career journalists who find themselves outside the newsroom, says Wendy Parker. If you haven’t subscribed to Wendy’s relatively new blog, you should.
- Stewardship v. ownership of our news, money, and society. Another example of why Jeff Jarvis is an A-lister in a post on news media, content and control, and a lively debate in the comments.
- Build your own echo chamber. Robert Niles has some sound advice for newspaper reporters who want to connect. First-class.
