Jun
4
Some interesting stuff on the web today:
- Local schmokel. Adrian Monck brings up a good point: how does hyperlocal work when community is defined by geography and not the people. This resonates from my days as editor of a suburban newspaper. Related: Hyperlocal effort LoudounExtra.com ‘a flop.’
- Flip Video’s mighty Mino. The little video point-and-shoot that can gets a sleek, downsizing makeover.
- New Courses at News U. Six new courses at NewsU, at least one of which — Understanding and Interpreting Polls — I’m planning on taking (and will probably make my students take, too, when classes resume).
- Web editor Angus Frame takes your questions. Interesting online chat between readers and the Globe & Mail’s web editor. He gets lots of kudos for the G&M’s decision to take its paywall down.
- 3 Reasons FriendFeed Is Great — and 3 Ways It Scares Me. I’m not active enough to make FriendFeed that attractive at the moment, but Mark Glaser’s piece gives a nice picture of why it might be important.
- Top 10 journalistic uses for Twitter. Another good piece that shows the ways Twitter can (and probably should) be used by journalists and publishers.
- Drivers of change in the media environment. A very, very good post by Robert Picard that lays out the media business challenge. Keep reading to take in the comments, too.
- 10 obvious things, one year later. Ryan Sholin updates a post from a year ago and sounds optimistic about progress being made.
- Can Wal-Mart Save Local Newspapers? A Slate piece that suggests newspapers will benefit from Wal-Mart’s new classified ad initiative thanks to the Oodle platform that it runs on. Possible, I guess.
- news hunting for quality journalism. Interesting: “news hunters” that scour the web and apply journalistic criteria before highlighting what they find, in an effort to cut through the glut. Didn’t those folks used to be called “editors”?
