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The Future of Journalism - What Does it Look Like? USC II
--I'm currently exhausted. I spent today at USC's School of Journalism where I gave a quick presentation along with other notable people (see p.s.). ...
First look at spot.us before launch
--First look at Spot.Us in Action This morning I had an early video chat with the developers of spot.us. I did a video capture of the conversation, w...
The Future of Journalism - What Does it Look Like? USC
--Giving a presentation tomorrow at USC as part of a faculty symposium. I think I'm playing the part of the young web-savvy journalist. Below is a sl...
Owning The News
--Interesting article in Forbes today: "Owning the News." I think there are some positive and negative aspects to this. Positive: We need an entrepre...
Get It In Quotes - Google
--Damn. Google continues to be tooooo freak'n smart. Organize the world's information - including quotes. Check out their newest lab project "In Quot...
Professional Startup-er Andrew Hyde
--This last Sunday, in the middle of my drafting (twitter followers know that I tend to draft things on Sunday to be sent out on Monday), I took a ni...
Interview with Josh Marshall on Community Funded Reporting
--For the most part, I try to keep the spot.us blog separate from this personal blog (so you should really subscribe to that RSS Feed). But on the oc...
Delicious Sucks and If They Don't Respond - I Will Put Energy into Letting People Know How Sucky They Are
--Update: Delicious has responded and deleted the extra Daily Blog Posting. Okay - they don't get one big fat fail. The comment left by somebody from...
links for 2008-09-21
--Privacy Policy | Citizen Media Law Project Notes on "privacy policy" legal stuff. Lots of fun learning about this stuff. (tags: legal) Terms of Use...
links for 2008-09-21
--Privacy Policy | Citizen Media Law Project Notes on "privacy policy" legal stuff. Lots of fun learning about this stuff. (tags: legal) Terms of Use...
September: Young Journalist Blogging Carnival - Why I'd Fire Everyone
--Last month was the first ever "young journalist blog carnival." I posted this in response to the question "what are the biggest challenges young pe...
Just for Fun
--I'm in Ithaca today and tomorrow for a journalism symposium. I hope to get some good video. But just for fun - check out All About George's ode to ...
The Importance of Being Iterative - Eliminating the Fear of Being Open
--Spot.Us is about to hit the ground running. We hope to have something to show in mid-to-late October (assuming everything stays on schedule). We've...
Learning How to be Agile
--Blogging this week will be cut short. I'm in the process of taking the designs of spot.us and turning them into a functional site. What that looks ...
This is What The Web Enables
--Update: Jordan asks: "Why no link back." Answer: Really - it's a result of multi-tasking. Remember - this blog isn't my job - it's actually a horri...
Your Chance to Create Digital Poetry - The Knight News Challenge
--As you can probably tell - this is a quick post to remind people that the Knight News Challenge is about to enter its third year. For obvious reaso...
One Man's Garbage...... How Can We Decide What Garbage Is?
--Thoughts that cross my mind while watching the Republican National Convention. I admit my bias: I'm a young Jewish liberal who has grown up in Cali...
Mantra's of Development and Innovation
--A couple things I've been learning and constantly repeating to myself while developing spot.us. 1. Keep it agile and iterative. I can't predict how...
links for 2008-08-31
--How To Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning With Ruby Welcome to the home page of How To Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning With Ruby, ...
I Too Have a Crush on Obama - A Rare Political Post
--I'm not a political blogger. I don't intend to become one. But after Obama's speech tonight - I have to write something. I was 18 when George W. Bu...
The great journalism education debate
--I share a lot of the same feelings as Pat here. What should journalism education look like? One thing I often think: It should emphasis more than r...
The News Wheel Turns and the NY Times Spins It
--It's interesting to be on the other side of the media. It's not surprising that the NY Times article on spot.us got a lot of attention and kudos, e...
Spot.Us in the New York Times - Not "Victory" by any means - but kinda cool
--I woke up Sunday morning, checked twitter and was instantly referred to a New York Times article "A Different Way to Pay for the News You Want." It...
The Beijiing Six
--Recently I had a quick post about my friend No Neck Noel who was deported from Beijing for capturing a Tibetan protest on video. Well, No Neck gave...
Crowdsourcing.... The Book
--Regular readers know I was the research assistant for Jeff Howe on the book Crowdsourcing. In a silly way - via winning the Knight News Challenge f...
Community Organizing IS Media
--Yesterday was one of those "run around" days. The morning was spent at the Silicon Valley Foundation. They are preparing to enter the Knight Commun...
"You Reporters"
--This is not just funny - it touches on the otherness of reporters. Plus - it's just funny. My new friendster.
The biggest challenge facing a young journalist in today’s media is…
--I'm very excited that this post will also appear in a new journalism blog ring for young journalists 30 and under. I only wish I had more time to d...
Two Lessons I Need to Reflect and Internalize
--Yesterday I drove down to Santa Cruz for FreelanceCamp. I wrote a quick post about it at the Spot.Us blog. One thing I love about unconferences is ...
links for 2008-08-17
--Huffington Post goes local (and the press doesnâ??t like it) I remember when the HuffingtonPost launched in 2004. I was working at Wired and we loo...
Citizen Journalist Deported from Beijing, China
--Chuck Olsen from the UpTake does an interview with my buddy Noel Hidalgo about his recent experience being kicked out of China for creating indepen...
links for 2008-08-16
--What Is Newsmastering And What Are Newsradars? I love this - it's what I mean when I often refer to linking as an "editorial service." "Newsmasteri...
links for 2008-08-16
--What Is Newsmastering And What Are Newsradars? I love this - it's what I mean when I often refer to linking as an "editorial service." "Newsmasteri...
Cutting Jobs = Short Term Investment = Failure
--Wall Street cheers as Gannett cuts 1,000 positions This is the message sent: If you cut jobs, big time, we will reward you. Newspapers that are run...
Reach Out and Teach Someone
--I continue to work nonstop on Spot.Us. Soon I will have design wireframes to share (will probably do so at the Spot.Us blog). I am incredibly touch...
links for 2008-08-13 [delicious.com]
--A paper'??s sad decline in debt??s grip An amazing break down of Media News Group and the state of affairs in the Bay Area newspaper industry. If y...
Twenty-Something Journalists and Open.Salon
--First: Lock up your curmedgeons the 20-something journalists are starting to get organized. Not crazy about the U.I., but I LOVE the idea that youn...
Could the Internet Revolutionize Taxes?
--A Sunday brainstorming session. How could the interent be used to change the way we pay taxes? I hope the video explains what I picture in my head....
links for 2008-08-10 [delicious.com]
--The power of five dollars This is a good post on the economics of content. The problem is - the tricks of the trade (which Jason has identified) ar...
links for 2008-08-09 [delicious.com]
--The Many Challenges of the Social Media Industry Great list - and although I know it's a bit presumptious of me, I think Spot.Us answers a LOT of t...
The Military Structure of Newspapers and the Obvious Choice of the Philly Inq.
--There has been some noise about the Philadelphia Inquirer's decision to treat print like gold and the web like a dirty troll child to stuff in the ...
Knight News Challenge - Garage
--No, I am not required by Knight to pimp them out. I do it because I believe in their mission. I got my startup money from them. If you have a crazy...
All Voices Hiring and 42 Lessons Learned
--42 things I know good list of things learned while working for a newspaper. The folks at AllVoices.com are hiring a community manager. Somebody in ...
A 15-Year Old Innovator - You Have Now Seen the Future
--I'm fascinated by 15-year old entrepreneur Daniel Brusilovsky and his new startup Teens In Tech. Not so much because I intend on being a 'teen in t...
All I Wanted To Do Was Buy Cereal/Find the News
--As a "digital native" I actually welcome an abundance of information. At a computer the world is my oyster. More information means that with the ri...
Stop Gawking Over Citizen Journalism
--The citizen journalism genie is out of the bottle. I don't even think it's worth having these re-hashed trend pieces on it. They are formulaic and ...
links for 2008-08-03 [delicious.com]
--Severe Job Cuts at San Francisco Chronicle Today Employees were shown the door, so to speak, at the Chronicle today. The number we're hearing right...
MixedInk and the Collective Hive Mind of Writing
--Earlier this week I was on a phone call with Nathaniel James and the Media Democracy Coalition. Also on the line was David Stern from MixedInk who ...
I Am a Technology Curmudgeon
--Perhaps this is related to my rant on why I hate "social media experts." There is a hype machine that is driving the evolution of technology (gadge...
One Month to Raise Money for Independent Journalism - Walking the Walk
--The stage is set. We've quietly raised close to $400 at Spot.Us to hire a journalist who will fact-check political advertisements for 10 weeks prec...
links for 2008-07-29
--Nine Questions on Newspapers' 2Q Reports In June, Dean Singleton told the World Association of Newspapers that 19 of the top 50 US dailies were unp...
Crowdsourcing - The Trailer
--The book is due out next month. To wet your appetite, here's Jeff Howe.
Digidave's Day Dreams - Take One
--An American Idol-esque show for web 2.o startups. The first daydream is credited to Muhammed Saleem. I know there are plenty of web incubators - bu...
Question to Readers: How Do I Describe My Blog?
--It's time to change my the tagline of my blog. At the end of this post I have my own suggestions. You can skip right to them and leave a comment, b...
links for 2008-07-25
--Journalism.me - The journalism blogosphere An attempt to create a definitive list of journalism bloggers (specifically young journos). Brought to y...
In Chicago for Knight Gathering and UNITY
--Live Blogging.... I'm in Chicago. While here I hope to meet Andrew Mason from ThePoint.com and long time e-friend Muhammad Saleem. But today I'm at...
links for 2008-07-22
--Crowdfunding (and pitching) news stories What's cool about this: I've been reading this blog since 2004 when I worked at Wired. Now an idea of mine...
Interview - Kevin Hessel from Marin Independent Journal
--I met Kevin via FriendFeed. Yes, we are obviously both nerds. What I particularly like about Kevin, which I mention in the video, he is not obnoxio...
links for 2008-07-14
--The economics of publishing made simple The economics of content creation are in fact fairly simple. The two critical questions are “Does the suppo...
So You Wanna Be a Web 2.0 Super-Star?
--Having trouble sleeping, so take this for what it is - 4:26am rambling (either my best or worst thinking, perhaps the comments will let me know). J...
Changing the Legal Structure for Digital Journalism
--Doug Fisher is hosting this month's Carnival of Journalism. He asks: "What changes will need to be made in national and international leg...
links for 2008-07-11
--Would You Like to Read about Problems with Meeting Ethanol Mandates in California? The first pitch on Spot.Us is 46% funded as of bookmarking this....
links for 2008-07-10
--Fund the Journos Josh Levy, a super nice guy, is down with the idea for Spot Us and spreads the word.
My Father's Old/New Routine
--In a post today at Crowdsourcing.com (where I continue to guest post) I wrote about the changing routine of my father's media consumption. I w...
links for 2008-07-09
--New Media and Local News A look at the stats of our sleepy little town’s web stats as seen by Quantcast. I was very surprised the number of folks l...
Guest Blogging over at Crowdsourcing.com
--My good friend Jeff Howe is out of town for the next two weeks. So, I will be guest blogging over at Crowdsourcing.com. I will try and do the occas...
links for 2008-07-04
--Whining about your impending death is not medicinal It's not the job of the Web site to pay the expenses of the printed newspaper. The newspap...
Spot.Us Gets Started! - Starting Small and the Importance of Being Iterative
--The short story: People are starting to ask me how they can get involved in Spot.Us. The site won't really be ready until the Fall, but I hate...
Barriers to Online Success - What Keeps You Down?
--I love Twitter for many reasons. One - it lets you brainstorm in real time with other people. Because tweets are somewhat disposable there is no pr...
links for 2008-07-03
--Deeper staff cuts likely at newspapers What a lede: "Tens of thousands of additional jobs may have to be eliminated at newspapers because the ...
Interview with Howard Rheingold and Robin Good
--I've been reading Robin Good's blog for.... since I started reading blogs. It really is a fantastic resource for anyone who wants to figu...
links for 2008-07-02
--Newspaper shares slid $23B in 6 months Title says it all. "The value of 11 newspaper companies traded on the public market since 2005 dove a c...
So You Want to Build a Startup? - Step One: Get Your Story Straight
--Ryan Sholin has a good post on "Working with Developers and Designers." It hit the spot for me - because it's the stage I'm at ...
The Wizard of Digg - Lead Scientist Kast
--Kevin Rose is great at explaining Digg's new recommendation system in the first video below. Digg Recommendation Engine from Kevin Rose on Vim...
CopyCamp - The Idea Has Legs: What Worked and What Could be Improved
--Long time readers will know a side passion of mine has been the proliferation of this idea I call "CopyCamp" - which was thought of with ...
links for 2008-06-27
--Mixx Gets Serious About Community Building If I were a newspaper publisher - this is something I'd seriously look into. It's everything I...
At the Spot Us Blog - Different Modes of Community Funded Reporting
--This is the problem of trying to manage too many blogs. You write a good post and you want to re-post it here, but you are worried that it'll ...
American journalism is in a crisis - Dan Rather
--I have been a fan of Adbusters since I first came across it in college (yes, very typical Berkeley undergrad reading). I've also been critical...
links for 2008-06-24
--Papers Facing Worst Year for Ad Revenue Over all, ad revenue fell almost 8 percent last year. This year, it is running about 12 percent below that ...
Quick Fun Interview with Adrian Holovaty
--I had the pleasure to hear Adrian Holovaty speak while I was a student at Columbia and he was still working for the Washington Post. It was a great...
links for 2008-06-23
--information overload in 1613 “one of the diseases of this age is the multiplicity of books; they doth so overcharge the world that it is not able t...
links for 2008-06-22
--Who controls journalism’s future? When people ask me to define a journalist, I always start with the first paragraph from the book of Luke (tags: j...
links for 2008-06-21
--Beth's Blog: HowDave Cohn about first steps into social media An interview with me (tags: davidcohn,) Why I Help “The Man”, and Why You Should...
Is (digital) journalism better the more local it is and what does that do to growth?
--In keeping with last months Carnival of Journalism which focused on a theme, our host Andy Dickinson has posed the following question to the lot of...
Dan Pacheco Demonstrates PrintCasting
--A quick video of Dan Pacheco demonstrating a VERY basic version of PrintCasting, which he won a Knight News Challenge award for. But don't tak...
links for 2008-06-20
--LOUD3R Launches Dozens of Vertical Search Sites Yesterday, LOUD3R announced the launch of a network of websites for enthusiasts whose passions are ...
links for 2008-06-19
--WeSay.com - Your News, Your Photos, Your Voice Citizen journalism - photography. My initial thoughts clicking the link: If it's focus is photo...
Ethan Zuckerman - Explains Global Voices
--I've seen Ethan Zuckerman speak twice now and this time, before I left MIT, I had to let him know just how inspiring I think he is. Every time...
You Can Get Anything You Want at the AP's Restaurant
--There is a lot of talk about boycotting the AP. I say, don't boycott. Make like Nike and "just do it." This just in: "Hamas&apo...
Are You a "TimesPeople"?
--It's in beta. I wonder what the NY Times is up to? It's basic right now, but as my friend Joha in Germany notes in the comments: "Th...
links for 2008-06-17
--ProPublica Launches, Fights Injustice using Apture ProPublica uses Apture on campaign finance reform. In an article by Paul Kiel, ProPublica report...
links for 2008-06-16
--Training helps bloggers hone professionalism Non-journalists entering the world of blogs, online feedback forums, online videos and news Web sites ...
What Web Terms Do You Hate?
--I asked: "What terms do you DISLIKE the most?: user generated content, citizen journalism, social media. Or: Name your own hated word." I...
The Future of Civic Media
--I'm at the Future of Civic Media conference at MIT. (you can follow me on twitter). I'm absolutely stoked and will try to get some good v...
Interview - Chris O'Brien on CopyCamp
--CopyCamp is coming. Originally rescheduled, it is slated to take place June 28th 10am-3pm at the San Jose Mercury Newsroom. All it is: A chance for...
IRE - Wrapup: Now Citizen Journalists Can Join
--The Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference in Miami is done. From my last post you know that internet connection has been tough. I didn&apo...
Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference
--I am doing a little traveling. Currently I am in Miami at the Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference. Unfortunately the internet connectivi...
Interview - SocialActions, a Search Engine for Giving
--When I was writing the proposal for Spot Us I began to study Kiva.org, SellaBand and DonorsChoose. Little did I know how many micro-philanthropy si...
Interview - Beth Kanter - The Cute Dog Theory
--I am fairly new to the nonprofit world, but not to Beth Kanter. I've actually been reading her blog since around the time beat blogging starte...
Interview - Ellen Miller, Sunlight Foundation
--I have always been a fan of the Sunlight Foundation. In fact, while trying to brainstorm names for my next project "community funded reporting...
Interview - Chris Messina on DiSo
--At the Netsquared conference last week I got to interview several people, like Bryan from Ask A Lawmaker. I was also very excited to see and interv...
Know More About A Corporation
--Curious to know whether Nestle is acting as a responsible corporate citizen? One nonprofit startup at the third Netsquared Mashup Conference has bu...
Interview - Ask A Lawmaker
--I love this idea "Ask Your Lawmker." It is participatory and pro-am. Very similar to Yoosk in the UK whose founder wrote this NewAssignme...
links for 2008-05-28
--Young New Yorkers Make a Brand New Start of It, on the Cheap Starting Salaries but New York Tastes: I remember living like this. It was great to be...
links for 2008-05-26
--Seesmic: Why it's so important to just frackin' start Bottom line? As an entrepreneur you have to follow your nose and don't worry i...
Clay Shirky - the Creative Commons Version of Corporations
--Clay Shirky blows my mind again via J.D. Lasica.
links for 2008-05-25
--Fund A Beat | American News Project And so it goes: Community Funded Reporting is being adopted before I can even sink my teeth in. (tags: spotjour...
Carnival of Journalism - Two, Count Em, Two Interviews!
--I'm very excited for this month's Carnival of Jouralism hosted by Ryan Sholin, just after San Francisco's own Bay to Breakers (a loc...
links for 2008-05-23
--Excitement, Questions About Spot.us The best constructive criticism so far of Spot.Us: Spot.us could help define a new era of quality, independent ...
Interview - Andrew from ThePoint.com
--I don't hide the fact that my new project, Spot.Us, is inspired by other sites. Sometimes the best innovation is plagiarism. While my focus is...
links for 2008-05-21
--Lost Media, Found Media I get called a "found media-ite" - cool! Overall - a great article on what seems to be two camps in journalism.
Doc Searls on Vendor Relationship Management
--A video interview with Doc Searls - "Advertising as we know it today is terminal. Part of this vendor relationship management thing that I wan...
Interview - Amit Gupta
--I first met Amit Gupta at a New York Barcamp that he organized - and I was reporting on for Wired. I remember talking to Amit about NewAssignment.n...
links for 2008-05-20
--Why I blog …I thought I understood the nature of the link. But until people linked to something I wrote, until I saw the way these links raised my ...
Spot.Us - Drupal versus Ruby
--So the big news last week was winning the Knight News Challenge. The grant is going to enable me to work on Spot Us, community funded reporting, fo...
Interview - Ryan Sholin
--I have been a HUGE fan of Ryan's since... well, since I first came across his blog. In fact, fan isn't the right word. Ryan is a digital ...
links for 2008-05-18
--Knewsroom: A Look at the Latest Social News Site Not exactly like Spot.us - but similar. More like a video game aspect than about covering local im...
Video Comments - Have a Conversation on Your Blog
--Having a "conversation" on your blog just got much more intimate. I've posted about Seesmic before. Now imagine if you could integra...
Spot Journalism
--If you are looking for "spot journalism" - it's at Spot Us (www.spot.us). Just want to clear up any branding confusion that might ha...
My Next Assignment, Hopefully A Lifelong Contribution to Journalism
--Note: I am not disappearing from NewAssignment.net, Beat Blogging, NewsTrust or Broowaha, but I am taking a serious step back to work on a new proj...
Interview - Dan Gillmor
--As far as I'm concerned Dan Gillmor is the Pope of participatory journalism. I was very lucky to grab this interview with him where he describ...
links for 2008-05-13
--Online magazine about Open Source Flyp Mag is a great interactive magazine. I helped produce one page of this issue dedicated to OS software. See i...
Critique on Crowdsourcing - We Want to Hear From You
--Via Jeff Howe at Crowdsourcing.com. As you may know, I'm writing a book about crowdsourcing and also operate the blog, Crowdsourcing.com. I&ap...
Interview - Ben Melancon on Drupal
--I met Ben at the NewsTools conference about two weeks ago and after the conference we got a chance to hang out, talk shop and get to know each othe...
links for 2008-05-10
--Chronicle to cut 25% of jobs in newsroom Note the paragraph where a Hearst attorney says SF Chron is loseing 1 million a week. (tags: spotjournalis...
Interview - ME!!!
--I really wanted to interview Amy Gahran at the NewsTools conference and that interview is below. But right when I was finished, she turned the came...
Interview - Guy Kawasaki
--I still don't know how - but I ended up on Journalism.alltop. So hey, I like it. I'm a little bummed that the interview below got cut-off...
Interview - Geneva Overholser
--If you've never heard of Geneva Overholser you should take a look at her epic report: On Behalf of Journalism, a Manifesto for Change. Yes, ep...
Interview - Amy Gahran
--What can be said about Amy Gahran? She is a force of nature. In the video below she talks about: The future of journalism education: "I'm...
Interview - Ryan Budke, Scout Master at Propeller
--Video interview week continues here at Digidave. Later today I'll have a fantastic video with Amy Gahran who, if you are a journalist, you kno...
Clay Shirky - Professional Mind Blower #2
--It's a video week here at Digidave. I was hoping to stick just to my own video interviews, but this one is too good not to post. Hat-tip to Bo...
Interview - Scott Karp, Publish 2
--I've always been a big fan of Scott Karp's. He is a great thinker and one of the best evangelizers of the editorial power/service of link...
links for 2008-05-06
--Facebook, Wikipedia better in emergencies Assuming this is true I challenge news organizations to follow advice from Jeff Jarvis: Do what you do be...
And the Student Webby-Award Goes Too....
--My posting this week is going to be mostly videos from the NewsTools conference, but I had to take a moment to point out the student webby award wh...
Interview - Mark Glaser from MediaShift
--If you don't read PBS's MediaShift - you should. In this interview Mark talks about how the ideas for MediaShift posts come about, what h...
NewsTools Video Interview One: Ashoka Looks for Fellows in Journalism
--The NewsTools conference at Yahoo was fantastic. It was a perfect mix of open space technology (ie: unconference) and productivity. It seemed like ...
links for 2008-05-04
--13 Ways to Talk to a Programmer If you want to work with programmers learn to speak their language (tags: programming,) Coming Home Online Sites li...
links for 2008-05-01
--Vancouver gives rise to new citizen journalism project (tags: canada, vancouver, citizenjournalism,)
Quote of the Moment
--At NewsTools2008 - a good quote (not mine): "aggregation is creation."
News and Tools: Yahoo!!!
--I haven't been writing about it much - but I've been doing some work with Bill Densmore and the Media Giraffe team on the NewsTools2008 c...
links for 2008-04-29
--Dueling Identities: Ethics of web names An article about identity on the web - something that can always use more attention.
links for 2008-04-28
--DigitalJournal Rev Shares With Their Citizen Journalists Where Digital Journal perhaps is a little different in this space is that it revenue share...
All Time LOL Catz Caption Contest - Be Back Soon
--I will be away from all things internet for the next week. To keep you busy I have created the all time LOL Catz Caption Contest starring my kitty ...
links for 2008-04-18
--Why are we still asking if blogs are journalism? Blogs have developed to become a publishing platform, just like television or radio. The content m...
Yochai Benkler - Professional Mind Blower
--If you've never read "Wealth of Networks" by Yochai Benkler, you should. End of story. He is more than just a cool name. Proof in th...
links for 2008-04-17
--St. Louis Bloggers Guild Enough said (tags: spotjournalism) Back of the Bus Podcast A show about city life in San Francisco (tags: spotjournalism, ...
Journo-Chic: When Was the Last Time You Saw Somebody Geek-Out Over Journalism?
--In yesterday's post I talked about different shifts that need to happen in journalism. One important shift is how journalism is perceived. In ...
links for 2008-04-16
--Of blogs, accuracy and editors - mathewingram.com/work This isn’t something the blogosphere invented — wire services like Reuters and Associated Pr...
Journalism Shifts that Need to Happen - Join a Natural Conversation
--So jobs are being cut and news organizations are going bankrupt. Despite the mayhem, I still see potential for journalism pending a few shifts. One...
links for 2008-04-15
--Public Citizen Public Citizen is a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress, ...
What I Hate About the Internet - Everyone is a "Social Media Consultant"
--Already you can tell this will be a different kind of post for me. Before I begin my curmudgeoned polemic, let me state for the record: Overall I L...
links for 2008-04-13
--The Adolescence of the Blogosphere A fantastic post that hits on some of my concerns about the maturing blogosphere. One that was overlooked: It&ap...
links for 2008-04-10
--Are Newspapers Doomed? (Do We Care?): Newspapers & the Net Forum Traveling Geeks Friends and other bloggers who I admire in SF are taking a tri...
The Truth According to Wikipedia
--If you have a spare 48 minutes - watch this YouTube video. Note: I think it's skewed a bit more on the side of Andrew Keen and Larry Sanger.
links for 2008-04-09
--Google for Non-Profits Checkout and Adsense (tags: spotjournalism, google) Neighborhood Public Radio NPR collaborates with SF and Oakland neighborh...
Stop The Presses - That Doesn't Mean Stop the Journalism
--The trailer to what looks like a fantastic documentary below. Via: Mindy McAdams "See the trailer on YouTube. See the promo Web site. Read a r...
Interview with ParisLemon - M.G. Siegler from VentureBeat
--A quick interview with M.G. Siegler from VentureBeat, also from ParisLemon. M.G. is another person on my long list of digital friends/acquaintances...
links for 2008-04-07
--Newspapers on Twitter The ultimate list (tags: twitter) Desperate times need desperate models The latest bad news is word that Journal Register, pu...
Saturday Night Rant on Personal Branding - An Aspect of the Internet I hate
--Take this for what it is, me talking to my computer screen. Still - the issue of personal branding is something that I'm thinking about more a...
links for 2008-04-05
--Finding ways of making journalism pay It’s time for the “show me the money” part of the Online Journalism Symposium at Austin, Texas, with speakers...
links for 2008-04-04
--Can we afford the news? How the hell am I going to get paid? (tags: spotjournalism)
Think You Know Your Web Traffic?
--I have a piece in CJR today. Think You Know Your Web Traffic? Think again. The scramble for online measures. "If you hopped into a time machin...
links for 2008-04-03
--Interview: Clay Shirky He's one of the smartest thinkers I know about how people live, love, and work online. (tags: Clay+Shirkey, interview) ...
Hip Hop in 85' and the Internet in 2008
--Interesting video from Gary Vanynerchuk. There are several points I unequivocally agree with and other parts I disagree with (I think because I&apo...
links for 2008-04-02
--Six Months In, And 600 Posts Later . . . The Worlds Of Blogging and Journalism Collide (In My Brain) The journalist in me has been avoiding this po...
Views in the Bay
--1. Quick time video: View of SF from MT Tamalpais 2. View of my hair from perspective of a kitty. 3. View of Journalism industry via Journalistopia
Interview: Marc Cooper - OffTheBus.net
--Also posted at NewAssignment.net: Rough transcript What have you learned from OffTheBus? I've learned that, as Jay Rosen said a couple years a...
links for 2008-04-01
--The Problem with Citizen Journalism Today my startup closed its doors. ScribbleSheet was a citizen journalism website which provided a platform on ...
links for 2008-03-29
--New News Media Not even in full beta yet. Could be cool (tags: newmedia, spotjournalism) The Future of News A good thought experiment I use often, ...
Medai Re:Public - Berkman Center, Pushing the Conversation Forward
--Through tales I've heard that this conference (three years ago) was where "boss Rosen" proclaimed the battle between journalists and...
Re-Thinking the Inverted Pyramid and Other Artifacts of Newsroom Culture
--Part of the Carnival of Journalism, this month hosted by Will Sullivan. While helping to organize the next Journalism that Matters conference - whi...
links for 2008-03-25
--Behind CNN's New Citizen Media Site After a year-and-a-half of experience soliciting material from its audiences, CNN is embarking on a new ap...
Lunch With Digg
--Today I had lunch with Fabrice Florin from NewsTrust.net, Anton Kast, lead scientist at Digg.com and Mark Lewandowski, a new hire at Digg also work...
links for 2008-03-24
--The Future of News What will “the news” look like once things have finally stabilized, following the disruptions caused by Internet and Cable TV ne...
Today's Quote: Susan Mernit
--I had tea this morning with Susan Mernit. I caught her before she was off to lunch with Tara Hunt, another person I'm a big fan of. I'm s...
links for 2008-03-21
--S.F. Activists Use Twitter, Pirate Radio to Manage Anti-War Protesters | Threat Level from Wired.com San Francisco anti-war protesters marking the ...
Stop Talking, Start Doing - My Conversation with Gazette Communications
--Yesterday I had a nice chat with Annette Schulte, who is working on starting a community based site in Ceder Rapids Iowa. The gist of that conversa...
links for 2008-03-20
--WWGD? - The book Boss Jarvis got a book deal: "What Would Google Do"? I propose a follow up: WWAD: What Would Apple Design? (tags: jeffja...
Former Major Label Band Seeks Fan Funding
--Via one of the beat bloggers, Listening Post I have been thinking increasingly about the business model of journalism. In the past - it's been...
Former Major Label Band Seeks Fan Funding
--Via one of the beat bloggers, Listening Post I have been thinking increasingly about the business model of journalism. In the past - it's been...
Harder, Better, Faster Stronger... When I Return
--The next week or two will be very intense. I'm helping to organize two events, I will be visiting my folks and going to a conference at the Be...
How Has This Changed - How Will It Utterly Crumble?
--I found this video via KnackeredHack and fell in love it with instantly. About a minute into it I noticed they were talking about the structure of ...
Blogosphere - Welcome Daniel Victor
--I love welcoming new bloggers into the world. Past welcomings: Magic City News, Maurreen Skowran, and Tim Adams There is a new blog that just launc...
Newsweek Advances Andrew Keen's Ignorance
--I try very hard to ignore Andrew Keen's book "Cult of Amateur." But, like Terry Heaton, I too read a recent Newsweek article that pr...
How to "Win" as a Reporter
--Of course - that title is a bit misleading. One can argue there is no "winning" or "losing" as a beat reporter. But I came acro...
The Future of Social Networks - The Death of Silo'd Journalists
--Beat Blogging is an exciting project - but sometimes it feels like pulling teeth (or bone marrow) in an industry that just doesn't get it. And...
How The News Shapes The World
--An awesome video that I wish I could embed. Alas. go check it out.
Drupal versus Wordpress
--Via Mathew Ingram and others: Wordpress is moving towards the social. Via my general research and what I know about Drupal's goal - it is movi...
Are You My Identity?
--This has been coming up lately. So I thought I'd take a look at MediaShift's blog post on it: Am I a journalist or a blogger. My answer: ...
Making Lists for My Digital: New Tools
--I am a list maker. On the flight last night I made a list of 19 things to try and accomplish today. I am pretty confident I got this habit from my ...
Making Lists for My Digital: New Tools
--I am a list maker. On the flight last night I made a list of 19 things to try and accomplish today. I am pretty confident I got this habit from my ...
Making Lists for My Digital: New Tools
--I am a list maker. On the flight last night I made a list of 19 things to try and accomplish today. I am pretty confident I got this habit from my ...
WeMedia Updates.... sorta
--I don't dare try to recap WeMedia today. I did have two live blog posts: One for the Ifocus blog on "The Power of the Media to Change the...
At WeMedia
--Today and tomorrow I'll be at WeMedia. Updates will come via Twitter. Other posts I've come across on it: WeMedia 08/Miami: Power On! WeM...
"Free" and Future Business Models of Journalism
--Below is a good recap of Chris Anderson's new essay on the future of business online. It's something I've been thinking about as wel...
If We Aren't Reading Them: 10 New Uses for Newspapers
--The list is below - click into the article to find the explanation of how newspaper can work to do any of these nifty-handy things. Hey: I love jou...
Computational Journalism - Maybe A Way To Describe My Niche?
--I'm back from the computational journalism symposium at Georgia Tech. It was fantastic. I only wish I had a better cell phone to twitter/take ...
Traveling in Atlanta: Excited about Future Business Models
--It's been an interesting 24-hours and will continue to be so for the next ten or so days as I go between Atlanta and Miami. Right now I'm...
Lessig to Change Politics
--I normally try to stay away from politics - but this one has to be reblogged. Lawrence Lessig, part of my Community Dream Team is considering runni...
"True" Citizen Journalism?
--I recently came across Neaju and has the same reaction to their catch phrase "true citizen journalism." I am not convinced that having an...
Bleacher Report Launches Citizen Journalism for Sports; Raises Series A
--clipped from mashable.com Bleacher Report, a citizen journalism site for sports, has announced its public launch and the completion of a Series A r...
Social Bookmarking For Journalists: 101
--Social Networking Built Around Content, So Why Aren't Journalists All Over It? This is the second in a series of practical tips to change your...
CNN's Ireport.com - It's Pretty Fugly
--Cnn's new Ireport.com is getting a lot of attention. I haven't played with the site too much, but at first glance, it's pretty fugly...
Looking for Advice for Tomorrow (Today)
--I just got back from a party for Stage Two Consulting, run by Jeremy from Live Digitally (where I first started blogging and all around super guy),...
Advice Portal for News Publishers
--Steve Outing has a new project which aims to give advice to anyone who is working in the niche of news publishing online. The fact is - there are a...
CNN Goes CJ
--I'm really looking forward to catching up with Lila King - who heads CNN's iReport.com. I'll be seeing her in Atlanta later this mon...
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Awesome. Will be good to see you, too.