Interviewing the interviewer... Rest of the day's take here... http://www.andersonfreepress.net/types/video This centers around Anderson, Indiana wanting to be picked by Google for their hometown fiber project... Please spread the word that it would be good for Google and so-called "citizen journalism"? Okay, I figured I'd give it a shot. ;) Have a great week everyone.
sorry about that, folks... correct link is http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=134&aid=178793 Prof. Sree Sreenivasan | <email obscured> Dean of Student Affairs, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism http://www.sree.net | http://www.sreetips.com Contributing editor, DNAinfo: http://DNAinfo.com FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/sreetips TWITTER: @sreenet - http://twitter.com/sreenet
I got the message too, but the link worked after I continued through it. Ordinarily wouldn't do so, but knew it was poynter.
Somethings up with that link, Sree. When I clicked on it I got this WARNING:
via Twitter Poynter 6:34am, Mar 03 from HootSuite Record-breaking month for @washingtonpost mobile site is followed by launch of paid iPhone app today http://bit.ly/buGtft Prof. Sree Sreenivasan | <email obscured> Dean of Student Affairs, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism http://www.sree.net | http://www.sreetips.com Contributing editor, DNAinfo: http://DNAinfo.com FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/sreetips TWITTER: @sreenet - http://twitter.com/sreenet
See: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Online-News.aspx Overview The overwhelming majority of Americans (92%) use multiple platforms to get their daily news, according to a new survey conducted jointly by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Project for Excellence in Journalism. The internet is now the third most-popular news platform, behind local and national television news and ahead of national print newspapers, local print newspapers and radio. Getting news online fits into a broad pattern of news consumption by Americans; six in ten (59%) get news from a combination of online and offline sources on a typical day. The internet and mobile technologies are at the center of the story of how people’s relationship to news is changing. In today’s new multi-platform media environment, news is becoming portable, personalized, and participatory: * Portable: 33% of cell phone owners now access news on their cell phones. * Personalized: 28% of internet users have customized their home page to include news from sources and on topics that particularly interest them. * Participatory: 37% of internet users have contributed to the creation of news, commented about it, or disseminated it via postings on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter. In addition, people use their social networks and social networking technology to filter, assess, and react to news. And they use traditional email and other tools to swap stories and comment on them. Among those who get news online, 75% get news forwarded through email or posts on social networking sites and 52% share links to news with others via those means. Despite all of this online activity, the typical online news consumer routinely uses just a handful of news sites and does not have a particular favorite. And overall, Americans have mixed feelings about this “new” news environment. Over half (55%) say it is easier to keep up with news and information today than it was five years ago, but 70% feel the amount of news and information available from different sources is overwhelming. Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.Org Follow me - http://twitter.com/democracy New Tel: +1.612.234.7072
Please share with journalists you know. Some of the winners each year are NOT South Asian. SAJA 2010 Journalism Awards DEADLINES 3/5/10 and 3/26/10 http://bit.ly/sajajawards2010 The South Asian Journalists Association and SAJA Group Inc. invite individual journalists and news organizations in North America to submit entries to this year's contest. The SAJA Journalism Awards recognize excellence in coverage of South Asia and the diaspora, as well as outstanding reporting by South Asian journalists in the U.S. and Canada. The 2010 Awards, which are open to media companies and freelancers headquartered in the U.S. and Canada, consist of 10 categories (including one for students). Submissions can include print articles, editorials, photographs and new media pieces published, and broadcasts aired by Dec. 31, 2009. The EARLY deadline to enter is FRIDAY, March 5, 2010 The FINAL deadline to enter is FRIDAY, March 26, 2010 Apply online at http://bit.ly/sajajawards2010 Any questions, please contact: Jigar Mehta, <email obscured> SUBJECT: SAJA AWARDS cheers, sree Prof. Sree Sreenivasan | <email obscured> Dean of Student Affairs, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism http://www.sree.net | http://www.sreetips.com Contributing editor, DNAinfo: http://DNAinfo.com FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/sreetips TWITTER: @sreenet - http://twitter.com/sreenet
Sree, Different stokes for different folks... Welcome to the world of software where personalization is the key to success since virtually no single solution will solve everyone's needs... Your proposal that services not send out "Spoiler Alerts" whose subject lines reveal their content would probably be appreciated by most, but not all, people who expect to actually watch the events. However, for those who don't expect to watch the events, a spoiler alert is often exactly what they are looking for and is generally more efficient and effective. (They aren't forced to open an alert to discover the urgently forwarded information. They can get the gist of current events simply by scanning the subject lines which summarize their alerts...) Personally, I really don't like alerting systems that don't maximize their use of the subject line. In cases where I don't want a spoiler, I simply don't sign up for alerts. Like you, I am a user of WSJ alerts. However, it really irritates me that they, like many other similar services, start all their subject lines with "WSJ News Alert: ". I consider that attribution text to be selfishly wasted space since it largely duplicates the "sender name" which is already displayed to me. (It is "selfish" since it is probably intended to serve the WSJ's needs for branding more than it is intended to serve my needs for information...) These prefixed attributions also often push the meat of the subject so far to the right that interesting information is clipped. (This is particularly the case on smaller mobile devices.) The subject I would want for your example alert would be something like: "Bode Miller wins Gold: WSJ News Alert". What would be *best* in this case would be offering users a choice -- provide personalization. Offer to give them alerts either with meaningless subjects or with information rich subject lines. You would find users who will passionately argue for each of these approaches. No one system will satisfy everyone... bob wyman
Yesterday afternoon, I wrote about a great way to do sports e-mail alerts, respecting the way people see the Olympics: - WSJ.com's Olympics alerts: http://sree.ly/wsjoalert Soon thereafter, I got an alert from another news org (you know who you are!) that ruined the bobsled results for me by putting the result in the subject line. I'd love to see more folks do what the WSJ.com is doing in this regard than many of the others. Prof. Sree Sreenivasan | <email obscured> Dean of Student Affairs, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism http://www.sree.net | http://www.sreetips.com Contributing editor, DNAinfo: http://DNAinfo.com FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/sreetips TWITTER: @sreenet - http://twitter.com/sreenet
kpaul mallasch wrote: > http://www.journalismhope.com/new-media/making-journalism/i-heart-journalism-the-mallard-lake-landfill-press-conference-story/ Damn. KPaul, I am now officially scared shitless, since next week I will officially be the editor of http://thebradentontimes.com - doing almost exactly the same work you're doing except with the advantage of a rich-guy publisher backing the thing and building an ad sales force while I worry about nothing but content. Anyway, I will be following in your footsteps, complete with camcorder and shotgun mic at meetings and news conferences. I've theorized about and discussed and followed small-time local online news operations like yours for over a decade, but now I'm in the thick of the thing and I hope I have enough stamina to build what I think our community needs in the way of a "dialog, not monologue" news medium. I also hope I'm right in my estimation of what people around here *need* and *want*, which are not necessarily the same things. One thought that gives me hope is that both local paperlets are chain operations, as bland as a chain restaurant like Pizza Hut, while we're the equivalent of the much more flavorful Joey D's Pizza down the street from my home, and I take heart in the fact that Joey D's is almost always busier than Pizza Slut. Anyway, I will take all the advice I can get from any of you. I'll be making just enough money to support a single-wide trailer lifestyle, which is okay since my wife and I aren't pretentious enough to need a double-wide, if you know what I mean. Not kidding about the trailer thing, BTW. I live in (and am now on the board of directors of) the 680+ unit Fair Lane Acres mobile home community, right across Tamiami Trail from the Bradenton Hooters. Since I'll mostly work from my home office, this is an experiment in true trailer trash journalism (except, of course, that nowadays we like to be called "manufactured housing recyclables," not "trailer trash.") We'll see what kind of semi-citjourn writers I can attract for the munificent sum of $20/story, and if I can get the only other staff writer, Erica Newport, to cover anything besides arts, culture, and other soft feature stuff. Ah, well. Wish me luck. I'm going to need it. Robin 'Roblimo' Miller http://thebradentontimes.com Bradenton, Florida, USA
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Dear Madame, Sir any idea what happened to the Consultation Institute's Centre for Excellence concernig the the fact that every Council should introduce an e-Petitioning system? Thanks for your information. daniel roschitz
Robin, Great. The Huffington Post model is not so bad, i.e., pull in and publish the stuff of others. You do some stuff, add in stuff Googled from other sources. So easy to drop in video, etc. these days. Also. I use Google News a lot, actually set up a special-interest group in Google News for Ocala, FL and Marion County FL, and Loudoun County VA -- amazing how often I find news items I otherwise would have missed. Good luck! Gene Gaines sometime in Ocala On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Robin 'Roblimo' Miller
Their reasoning Reporting an Olympian's death: AP's Tom Kent explains the decision-making process: http://bit.ly/aYyDue -EC My response The @AP_WinterGames clearly wants to report at a speed comparable to the speed all Olympic athletes pursue...dangerous speed 4 all concerned
I guess we'll find out. I've been doing a little video and text freelance work for http://thebradentontimes.com -- Last week the one staff reporter told me the editor gave notice. I called the publisher/owner and he hired me on the spot, starting March 1. People I know, money behind it, a decent sales rep out on the streets, 30K subscribers to the weekly "update" email. The owner's a County Commissioner and rather large local rental property owner (we don't call them slumlords here; they're "real etate investors") and sailboat freak. He and I already knew and liked each other. He didn't hire me when he started his little venture because he didn't think I was interested in the salary he could afford. Hey! It's more than Wal~Mart or unemployment. And I still can and will do music and commercial video work on the side, although I will now be a lot pickier about which clients I take on. So we'll see. Am I capable of driving a low-budget Web site into profitability? Well know in a year or so. Robin 'Roblimo' Miller Bradenton Florida USA
AP covering the winter olympics posted this story http://wintergames.ap.org/story.aspx?st=id&id=e5dfc4b70881473d908d2a23393e1ff1 (full text of link below in case they pull it) about the death of the luge driver. I noticed this was published before official announcement-- the family needed to be told of the death before letting the news out. But they let it go... I tweeted them this... KickTime So @AP_WinterGames reports on death of Olympian from ANON source"because..FAMILY hadn't been notified yet??"ETHICS? http://bit.ly/bDUgC7 about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck and they responded with this...so far Very important question about reporting Kumaritashvili's death @KickTime. 1/2 -AS Stay tuned @KickTime: A high-level editor who oversees ethics at the AP is on the way to explain what went into our decision. 2/2 -AS TEXT of AP story: VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — An Olympic official with direct knowledge of the situation says a men's luger from the former Soviet republic of Georgia has died after a crash during training. The official tells The Associated Press that the International Olympic Committee received confirmation of Nodar Kumaritashvili's death. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the 21-year-old luger's family hadn't been notified yet. An official statement is to be released soon. Kumaritashvili lost control of his sled near the finish Friday, went over the track wall and struck an unpadded steel pole near the finish line at Whistler Sliding Center. Copyright 2010 The Associated Press.All rights reserved.This material may not be published,broadcast,rewritten or redistributed.
Folks: A note from a current student of mine, working at King. Please take a look. Please respond to her directly if this interests you (and CC me, if possible, so I know if she go any traction). If nothing else, I thought some of you might be interested in the contact. Prof. Sree Sreenivasan | <email obscured> Dean of Student Affairs, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism http://www.sree.net | http://www.sreetips.com Contributing editor, DNAinfo: http://DNAinfo.com TWITTER: @sreenet - http://twitter.com/sreenet
Robin, That's actually brilliant. Microsoft has been doing that for years with their MVP program; we're about to hold our second such conference in a month or so, and I'm convinced that they're the best thing going.
Steve Yelvington wrote: > The truth is there's no substitute for getting out of the office, in > front of people, talking with them (and not to them), listening and > learning and understanding their issues. Then you build your concept > and go back, selling your concept in person. I may be working with the local dudes who put out http://thebradentomtimes.com & I've already suggested community-building parties. I mean like at local bars and coffee houses, with music. Meetup-type things where humans meet face to face. Most of my long-term online relationships are with people I know in person, and I believe the same holds true for a lot of people (hi, Gene Gaines! - we reconnected after many years right here on this email list) so why not use that fact to build a local community? Our local chain-owned newspaperlets do nothing like this. Offering something they don't -- in this case, sponsored parties -- is a great way to set The Bradenton Times apart from other local media. Might be fun, too, and fun never hurts! :) - Robin