Mar
14
As always, the web delivers wonders. (Oops, wrote this last night, forgot to post it. Let’s pretend it’s still Thursday.)
- Blogging and Newspapers, a Lesson in How Not to Brand and Market. Mark Cuban, who has twisted noses out of joint by banning bloggers from the Mavs locker room, defends himself and in doing so offers what seems to be sound advice aimed at newspapers: “Never, ever, ever consider something that any literate human being with Internet access can create in under 5 minutes to be a product or service that can in any way differentiate your business.”
- Globe leads newspaper-award nominations. Good journalism still gets done and people continue to honour it. Here’s a somewhat self-congratulatory look at the nominees for Canada’s National Newspaper Awards. Interestingly, the local quality daily has only one nomination (the Globe and Mail has 15).
- How to make a photo gallery with a Google map. Za Echola schools us all in combining Google Maps and the new-to-me service MapChannels to create a very nice package for storytelling, with particular value to those doing the hyperlocal thing.
- What’s up at the Mercury News these days. Back when I started blogging, one of my constant reads was Tom Mangan, who wrote regularly, elegantly (and with great humour) about doing journalism. He’s moved on to other topics but this post, looking at the state of newspapers in the wake of latest round of layoffs, takes on newspapering again and it is a doozy. I discovered this through Doug Fisher’s Another round of angst, please, which is also a post you should read.
- How can newspapers get the most out of their Web site? Just about every newspaper I know of could do a whole lot worse than running their website through this checklist from Sean Blanda.
