Dec
31
Today’s round-up of interesting links, none of which lead to a look back at 2008.
- We have audio! It is inexplicable that in 2008 major media still can’t get its head around the concept of the link.
- Dan Gillmor’s principles for a new media literacy. Kirk Lapointe offers Dan Gillmor’s list of essential principles for creators and consumers of media.
- Will Work for Praise: The Web’s Free-Labor Economy. Nice Business Week piece on how the web works and how some businesses that are being built on the profusion of free help that’s available. Much to ponder in there.
- Your Google Docs May Be Open to Hijacking. Some practical advice about document safety when working in the cloud.
- Ten questions for journalists in the era of overload. This is a brilliant, must-read piece, with links for deeper reading on all 10 questions about connecting with readers and helping them wade through the river of information.
- A journalist’s guide to search-engine optimization. Because it’s not just about putting it out there any more.
- Can links kill? Dan Kennedy, who has been following the story from the start, has the best piece I’ve yet read on the Gatehouse-NYT lawsuit and the potential collateral damage to the concept of linking.
- CoPress offering hosting solution for college media looking to strike out on their own. That fact that CoPress is offering college newspapers a hosting solution is interesting news. More interesting is CoPress itself and the group of folks driving it, most of them j-school students or recent grads. Keep an eye on these folks: they’re the next generation of media leaders.
- Make Something Valuable to Journalism and Give it Away: Stanford Re-Deploys its Journalism Fellows. Jay Rosen’s latest looks at how one university is changing the way it handles mid-career journalism fellowships and the impact that could have on how media develops.
- Journalists as experts. Good post from Neil McIntosh, who sees expertise in journalism as one of the ways of saving the craft. Others, in the comments, don’t quite agree. Via Martin Stabe.
- 30 Most Notable Blogs of 2008. Rex Sorgatz knows the ‘net as well as anyone, so checking out this list just makes sense.
- Very depressing local media predictions. Includes this: “Yikes. 2009 is not cyclical, folks. It’s game-changing.” Read the comments, too, and realize that while the folks are talking about TV, much of the discussion applies to newspapers, too.
