By Mindy McAdams
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Thanks to Mathew Ingram for highlighting an article by Brian Stelter about networked information, in which Stelter illustrates ways in which younger voters act as conduits of news and current events. Their networks are not the old top-down networks of mass media — they resemble more the interpersonal networks of the bazaar, the coffee shop, […]
Colin Mulvany, a veteran photojournalist and, more recently, a videographer for his newspaper, started his blog on Jan. 1, 2008. Already he has learned all kinds of unexpected things — in just two short weeks. Not because he read about blogging. Because he IS blogging:
We talk a lot about being web-centric at my paper. But […]
When I hear about someone who’s supposedly an expert in some area, I type that person’s name into Google. (Don’t you?) If I don’t see a likely link on the first page of search results, I add a keyword to the search and re-run it.
Here’s a simple example. The newly appointed dean of our journalism […]
The other day, a friend of mine said some sites we were discussing should get together and become a “portal.” I had to bite my tongue. Portals — what a sad, misguided idea that was!
Portals always seemed to me like an undifferentiated mess — like the failed Pathfinder site that Time Inc. carried around its […]
The missing link in the concept of “community” on news organizations’ Web sites: Who are these people? New media consultant Marshall Kirkpatrick says you can add the necessary social glue without trying to look like a cheesy Facebook imitator:
… instead of adding a social network to their site, they should just add rich user profile […]
Jason Pontin (writing in The New York Times on Sunday) anointed Pownce as the next great online thing:
What struck me most was the site’s potential to be powerfully disruptive. Most file-sharing occurs on public sites, which can be monitored by media companies; if the users violate copyrights, the sites or the users themselves […]
If you’re going to build a social networking site online for a geographical community — what I like to think of as a “real world” community — what software will you use?
You might think with all the free and open source tools available, the hardest part would be choosing one. Not so. According to an […]
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