Saturday squibs

There are interesting things, as always, on the ‘net. Here are some of them:

• Learning the Wrong Lessons. Editor & Publisher’s look at online news failures, in the opinion of Mark Potts, is preaching the wrong lessons. All the failures, he contends, contain ideas that need to be tried and tried again.
• Representative Journalism: Making It Work. If you’re not following what Len Witt is up to with his posts on Representative Journalism, you should be. It’s some of the most important recent work on the theme of reinventing media.
• Code and queries at the reporters’ cookbook. NewsU, a valuable resource on its own, points to another: an online repository of tools for those working with, and wanting to work with, computer-assisted reporting.
• “IPod moment” could render print extinct, predicts Guardian editor. Martin Stabe has a short piece pointing to a quote from Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger. I suspect he’s right: despite the love of ink on paper, it’s a technology that replaced earlier forms, and it will face the same fate.
• Learning. A couple of resources for learning: Doug Fisher points to Final Cut Pro Tips
  and Lifehacker says you can Take Better Shots with the Nikon Digital Learning Center. Both are worth taking a look at.