A great take on the speech ’setting up an interviewee’ that TV people can often fall in to – “By the time the well-meaning reporter fully mirandizes the interview subject, the tension is so thick you could bounce your fill-light off of it” – very true
“Have your browser understand what you are blogging about and suggest pictures, links, articles and tags to make your posts more vibrant. We are making blogging fun again.” Loving this at the mo
John from Scribblesheet on CJ startups. “There is a future – and a potentially prosperous one – once the amateur and the professional work together to tread that tricky balance between quality and extensiveness.”
Some good points,but at the end it is all about adding value.It is not where the content comes from but what it can provide for a potential audience and advertising.It is unlikely that people are going to pay for content unless it is very niche orientated or specialised.User generated content alone is not a reason for journalism sites to fail.
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Nigel Barlow
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:56 am
1On John Ndege’s piece on journalism.co.
Some good points,but at the end it is all about adding value.It is not where the content comes from but what it can provide for a potential audience and advertising.It is unlikely that people are going to pay for content unless it is very niche orientated or specialised.User generated content alone is not a reason for journalism sites to fail.
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