January 2009
December 2008
Quick but important Wordpress tutorial. Good to know if you’re custom-coding a theme.
Best of luck with the deadline, and thanks for posting Joe!
Great counter example for a newsorg using links all the time.
Use the Delicious tag: “PPlinks”
It’s also an example of how not to link: Link to a site once, then don’t link again in the same article. It’s poor form that makes users think that there are more link destinations than there really are.
Scott Karp, CEO of Publish 2, twitters: “Failure to link to original sources should be seen as failure of practice of journalism generally, not just online.”
Has links to some great apps for iphone photos.
The internet = democratization. In this case, literally. The power to self-publish means that the government cannot censor the media. It keeps them honest and corruption down.
- GPSBabel+
- myTracks
- HoudahGeo
- Geotagger
Jarvis is a bit to eager to abandon print. Not that print shouldn’t be phased out, but we still can’t make money on it. Even if the LAT severely reduced newsroom can be paid for by online revenue,…
Read the executive summary at least. Basically: New media is more popular among the young, but even they prefer a certain amount of print media.
Goes over possible revenue streams for newspapers. Some good idea, some bad (printcasting), but I think it touches on all the points.
Greenslade presents the standard argument for why blogging has revolutionized media: it’s a two-way stream of information as opposed to the editors controlling the info. It’s democratization of the…
• 72 percent enjoy reading magazines over finding the same information online
• 58 percent of Millennials agree magazines help them learn about what’s “in”
• Compared with online activities like surfing the Web and downloading music, all generations aspire to reading a book in the coming year” —The State of the Media Democracy: Are You Ready for the Future of Media? | Media Democracy | Future of Media | Survey - Deloitte LLP