By Mindy McAdams
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Andrew Keen (author of Cult of the Amateur) makes a good talk show guest, and a good panelist too. He’s patient. Smart. Calm. Doesn’t shout. Doesn’t get angry. Makes some rather weird facial expressions sometimes, but on the whole, he’s very civil.
Keen has adopted a position that social networking is basically bad for society. He’s [...]
I’ve been in sessions all day at the Online News Association gathering in Toronto. Danny Sanchez just posted a good roundup of who is blogging what from Queen Street West.
The morning started with a keynote speech by Hilary Schneider, a Yahoo marketing VP and former high-level executive at Knight Ridder Digital. While her talk was [...]
A Los Angeles Times article by Alana Semuels (Oct. 9) discusses the widening intersection of blogging and journalism:
The blurred lines make many uneasy. “There’s a lot of uninformed opinion on the Internet and not a lot of solid reporting,” said Fred Brown, vice chairman of the Society of Professional Journalists’ ethics committee and a columnist [...]
The annual ONA conference begins tomorrow. I’m leading a beginners Flash workshop from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. It’s been sold out for months. My materials are all online, as usual.
More information about the conference here. I’ll try to post some reports here if I have time.
The SNDies competition honors online journalism story presentations, with an emphasis on effective design. We see different winners here, compared with other competitions, because the judges in this competition focus on how well the package works, as well as its overall aesthetic (and the journalism must be good).
Joe Weiss has tagged them all for us [...]
Lee Glynn, a multimedia artist and designer at The St. Pete Times, in Florida, showed off a package about the Sputnik anniversary at a workshop held Saturday at our university. It’s kind of a workaday package, but that’s worth thinking about. It’s an anniversary story — you can plan ahead. It’s not a huge story [...]
My favorite:
It sounds old-fashioned, but we generally don’t view information submitted by our users as data to be used for other purposes. (Jim Buckmaster, CEO, Craigslist)
My other favorite:
We’re comfortable with anything honest, including good research and fact-checking. (Craig Newmark, founder, Craigslist)
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