By Mindy McAdams
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What is a community? Paul Conley has delighted me many times with his writings about business (or “trade”) journalism and online media. This post is one of his all-time best.
Print is something that I read. A trade show is someplace I go. But a community is a place where I belong.
He’s writing about the multimillion-dollar [...]
Here’s one of those ideas that could make lots of money for you. I’m giving it away free, so buy me lunch or something if it works for you.
I was poking around on the Wichita Eagle site, looking at Ron Sylvester’s story about the BTK killer book, which he explained in a post at his [...]
Part 1 was the deletion of a very successful Flickr member’s photo, a subsequent apology from Flickr management, and a discussion about copyright and disputed naïveté. (The member is Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir, whose commercial success via Flickr was recently the subject of a fascinating post at the photo-flash blog Strobist. Photocritic posted a great how-to about [...]
I was thinking about writing about what motivates people to contribute photos, stories, etc. You can call it citizen journalism or whatever, that’s not the point.
Limor Peer (research director for the Media Management Center and Readership Institute at Northwestern University) saved me the trouble. She wrote a thoughtful, intelligent post (but it’s not overlong) that [...]
Shouldn’t every city have this?
Anyone with a laptop computer equipped for wireless access will be able to connect to the Internet from virtually anywhere in the city with the purchase of a $21-per-month account. The wireless connection will be free in two dozen designated zones …
EarthLink also will provide discounted accounts of $9.95 per month [...]
Tim Porter reports today on a deal that would smush the San Francisco Chronicle into an online Dumpster of sorts with the newspapers newly acquired by Dean Singleton’s MediaNews — the San Jose Mercury News, the Contra Costa Times and the Monterey Herald.
What a shame. And what a shortsighted, clueless plan that would be.
Porter gets [...]
PaidContent is keeping an eye on MySpace and the other social sites popular among young people:
MySpace had 6 per cent more visits than Bebo last week but three months ago that was 39 per cent. Bebo has already overtaken MySpace in terms of session duration which averages around 25 minutes. Faceparty and Facebook have both [...]
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