By Mindy McAdams
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I found myself repeating the sentence “Blogs are a conversation” several times in different sessions at BlogOrlando on Friday. I didn’t originate that idea — far from it! But it seemed like a lot of people, or more than a few, didn’t fully understand what that means.
Common questions were:
Should I read other blogs?
Should I comment [...]
Reading the BBC’s excellent online coverage of the protests in Burma (Myanmar), I learned something new (to me, anyway): BBC News has two types of comment moderation. Each one is briefly explained on this page. (The Burma discussion is “fully moderated.”)
E-mails are arriving from inside Burma, describing the events there. BBC News has been publishing [...]
Last week I had the good fortune to hear two daily journalist bloggers speak about their work. (This was at the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute, which I have written about here, here and here.) They were:
Bridget Gutierrez, who writes the blog Get Schooled for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Gutierrez covers K-12 education for the newspaper. Previously, [...]
The Science Museum of Minnesota has some interesting graphics online related to the bridge collapse in Minneapolis.
Flickr has more than 1,100 photos tagged “35w.” The stills at the Star Tribune beat everything I saw on Flickr except a set from a Flickr user called Dani Bora, which includes some unique shots.
A Wikipedia page about the [...]
Buzz words fly, collide, crash and burn. Microformats are gaining altitude. Widgets have somehow plopped onto the hairpieces of older newspaper executives and nested there. And now — micro media.
Jeremiah Owyang is one of those San Francisco-based Web strategy guys — the type who’s always on top of new things like Pownce (and back in [...]
A bunch of people analyzed the death of Backfence last week — a massively overhyped (and overfunded) site from the very beginning, in my opinion, and nothing I’m going to shed any tears over.
Examining the idea of hyperlocal sites and approaches is worthwhile, though — and Pat Thornton did a nice job of it [...]
The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World “trains women in developing countries to serve as reporters and writers in their own communities.” This is where the rubber meets the road for citizen journalism — where people who have something important to say finally get a platform, a channel, in which to publish and [...]
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