A nice post by Kevin Anderson on the Corante web site about fostering community turns out to be more about getting buy in from the old media rather than takeover.
[But] the last few weeks have only reinforced my fundamental view that Big Media blogs have to remember they are taking their place in a pretty [...]

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Here’s an interesting article on tagging as a transparency tool. Transparency is a hot topic at the moment. I’m convinced it’s as much a tool for protecting the ownership and so financial interests of news organisations as it is a way of making sure we are getting the whole truth and nothing but; but we [...]

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An interesting article from Reuters about China’s increasing attempts at media regulation, reveals a worrying imapact on online resources
…news Web sites collectively agreed to censor themselves to eradicate pornography and violence along with other “unhealthy content”.
The article continues
But the restrictions found favour in the Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily, which praised the news Web sites’ [...]

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Final Salute - an special report from Denvers Rocky Mountain News has won several awards; rightly so.
I showed the multimedia part to my students a while back as they got started on their own multimedia projects. I have rarely heard a class so quiet when it finished.
Im over at one of our regional newspapers next [...]

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Journalists, they say, would be wise to do a little keyword research to determine the two or three most-searched words that relate to their subject–and then include them in the first few sentences. “That’s not something they teach in journalism schools,” said Danny Sullivan, editor of SearchEngineWatch, an online newsletter. “But in the future, they [...]

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Jemima over at dotjournalism has a great comment about the rise of text-to-speech podcasts.
So yes - an inevitable innovation, but not one that does anything at all for the medium of podcasting. This technology must be ergonomic, rather than built around the convenience of the producer. It will only work for people when it has [...]

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After my thoughts yesterday regarding the web setting print agenda; this from CyberJournalist.net
Lots of sites let readers pick their favorite stories, but The Wisconsin State Journal is taking advantage of that online tool to help its print edition.
Readers vote online for their favorite story each day, and the day’s top vote-getter will appear on the [...]

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 There never has been a better time to get into Web journalism. We are making money, we are hiring, and we are actively searching for new, innovative ideas. After ten years, there are no veterans in this field. This is your chance to be among the first.
So says Anthony Moor, Associate Managing Editor/Online at the [...]

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