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Quoted via Contentious.com or Poynter's Emedia Tidbits: "Most of what I do is help journalists and news orgs wrap their brains around the Internet. Generally I enjoy that work. Lately, though, I’ve been getting quite aggravated at the close-minded and helpless attitudes I’m *still* encountering from too many journalists about how the media landscape is changing. Those attitudes are revealed by

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(via IHT) Philip Meyer, in his book The Vanishing Newspaper, predicts that the final copy of the final newspaper will appear on somebody’s doorstep one day in 2043. For some, it's come sooner. Can an 180,000-circulation, weekly magazine go web-only and still survive? International Data Group, the world's largest publisher of technology newspapers and magazines, says it can be done.

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From Guardian's pda: the digital content blog: It seems that Britons are more addicted to poking and tweeting and writing on each other's walls than anyone else in Europe. Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace reached 9.6 million users in the UK in 2007, according to a new report from Datamonitor. This puts it ahead of bigger countries, including France with 8.9 million and

Juliannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769336.post-61272346841406573282008-04-30T14:28:00.003+08:002008-04-30T14:33:40.474+08:00

From Meranda Writes: Doing more with less since 1690. We’ll always have Paris … or Britney. It’s how I change the world. Get it right, write it tight. They’ll miss us when we’re gone. Feed the watchdog, euthanize the lapdog. Who, what, when, where, why, Web. Facts, schmacts … how is my hair? Dirty commie latte-sipping liberal scum. Please stop griping, now start typing. We’re sorry

Juliannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769336.post-16174881502727791232008-04-28T13:44:00.006+08:002008-04-28T14:12:16.836+08:00

(from Techdirt and WSJ) Quote: "The Wall Street Journal has an article focusing on a blog set up by Miller Brewing Company called Brew Blog. The blog isn't used as a blog about what's going on at Miller Brewing. Instead, Miller hired an experienced reporter, James Arndorfer, 37, and told him to just cover the beer industry as if he were a beat reporter. "In other words, it's reporting news --

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Press Gazette reports on the structure of the converged newsroom: "In the short term, he said, most journalists working in the BBC newsroom will continue to work primarily in the media that they have traditionally worked. Over time, producers will increasingly work across television, radio and online as staff are put through a training programme. "A centralised Media Wire desk now monitors

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Conclusions of Universal McCann's Wave 3 survey of 17,000 active internet users in 29 countries, aged 16-54 (via BizCommunity.com): 1. SOCIAL MEDIA is a global phenomenon happening in all markets regardless of wider economic, social and cultural development. If you are online you are using social media. 2. ASIAN MARKETS are leading in terms of participation, creating more content than any other

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Jeff Jarvis looks at Dell and Starbucks in setting up brainstorm forums to solicit ideas from customers. (via Guardian) "When Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz returned to his company to put it back on track - as Dell had done a year before - the two chiefs compared notes. Now the coffee empire has opened its version of Dell's IdeaStorm at MyStarbucksIdea... "The Starbucks discussion is

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Lisa Williams, the founder of Placeblogger, and H2Otown draws an interesting parallel of the tech industry in the 80s and 90s and the news business today: "When our central institutions blew up, people asked many of the same questions I hear among journalists today. Without these institutions, who will fund the mission? How will we attract the talent we need to make the transition? Just as

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Malaysia's ruling party, United Malays National Organisation (Umno), has made it a requirement for future candidates to have blogs. Abdul Rahman Dahlan, Umno secretary general of the party's youth wing, told AP all those vying for national youth posts "must have blogs to introduce themselves and their programs ahead of party elections in December." "All candidates must have blogs, if not,

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TheStandard.com predicts the death of Twitter, Joost and SecondLife and the rise of other unheard of services like Trulia, Scenecaster and Kaltura in "10 net services that will succeed and 10 that may fail" Succeed: Trulia | SceneCaster | CafeScribe | OverlayTV | Fav.or.it | Hulu | Huddle | Kaltura | ModiFace | Cognitive Code Fail: Joost | Twitter | Zillow | Chumby | eCirkit | Flock | Spock |

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From TimesOnline: When the bestselling travel writer Paul Theroux fell out with his old mentor VS Naipaul he produced a damning memoir Sir Vidia’s Shadow. But a new biography of the Nobel laureate makes him think he pulled his punches. Excerpt: I did the best I could. I have an excellent memory. But I’ll admit I took a few liberties with geography, made a Malaysian dinner guest into a Kiwi and

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The episodic Photoshop videos by Donnie Hoyle that are part tutorial, part divorce rant that everyone is Digging about. The rest of it (caution: strong language): Ep 1 | Ep 2 | Ep 3 | Ep 4 | Ep 5 | Ep 6 | Ep 7 | Ep 8 | Ep 9 |

Juliannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769336.post-80143148604437271742008-04-07T09:54:00.004+08:002008-04-08T18:30:44.575+08:00

From the NYTimes.com: Two weeks ago in North Lauderdale, Fla., funeral services were held for Russell Shaw, a prolific blogger on technology subjects who died at 60 of a heart attack. In December, another tech blogger, Marc Orchant, died at 50 of a massive coronary. A third, Om Malik, 41, survived a heart attack in December... To be sure, there is no official diagnosis of death by blogging,

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Here's a list of tutorials for those who want to get started in new media: SEARCH 01. Google Advance Search Tips 02. 10 Most Amazing Google Search Tricks 03. Top 10 Obscure Google Tricks 04. 7 Clever Google Tricks Worth Knowing 05. 4 Google Tricks ALERTS 06. Customize Google Alerts to your email box 07. How to create a Yahoo Alert RSS 08. RSS In Plain English 09. How to use Google Reader 10.

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My friend Dinesh sauntered into his office on April Fool's Day to discover he was a victim.. His entire room was wrapped in tin foil - including his desk, chairs, wastepaper basket, PCs, notebook, mouse, picture frames, awards, files, in-tray, mug, ashtray, lighter, every cable, socket and plug - even the loose change. The floor, walls and window frames were covered in brown paper and,

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How does an industry icon stumble so badly? Numair Faraz, personal adviser to Motorola CMO Geoffrey Frost, gives an insider view in a letter to engadget.com on Frost's untimely death, his wife's suicide, former CEO Ed Zander's extravagances, including a fleet of private jets and US$30m golden parachute, and the ineptitude of current CEO Greg Brown who insists all his emails be printed by his

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Everywhere is a glossy travel magazine made up entirely of contributed photos and short pieces by visitors to the site. Published contributors get paid and you can even download the PDF version of Issue 1 and Issue 2. Rohit Bhargava is enthused by it: Every month, the editors select the best articles and photos (based on their editorial team and a system of voting on their website) and lay out a

Juliannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769336.post-36462813786820416482008-03-26T17:02:00.009+08:002008-03-26T18:09:30.439+08:00

via HowardOwens.com "Out of Print" is an 6,623-word New Yorker story on the rise of Huffington Post as the ninth most visited news site. Here are some nuggets: In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad. Newspapers have created Web sites that benefit from the growth of online advertising, but the sums are not nearly enough to

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I found this chart off of Steve Rubel's Micropersuasion. It's from research done by Forrester's Charlene Li and it was useful for a recent presentation on "Crisis Communications in the YouTube Age". Click to enlarge Interesting excerpt: Many large companies stand on the brink of blogging, yet they are unwilling to take the plunge. Others, having dove in early, now face the challenge of

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Tech provocateur John Dvorak takes on the news industry: I think much of the problem stems from what I've been harping on for years: redundancy. Simply put, there are too many newspapers selling the exact same news. And because the owners of these papers do not understand the fact that the public hungers for original material, different from all the rehashed AP stories, papers will continue to

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From the LA Times:Arthur C. Clarke, who peered into the heavens with a homemade telescope as a boy and grew up to become a visionary titan of science-fiction writing and collaborated with director Stanley Kubrick on the landmark film "2001: A Space Odyssey," has died. He was 90. The knighted British-born writer died early Wednesday in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had made his home for decades,

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Brain scientist and stroke victim Jill Bolte Taylor describes the profound connectedness she felt when she survived a brain haemorrhage. Download MP4, download via iTunes.

Juliannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769336.post-5213286339367227712008-03-13T22:12:00.006+08:002008-03-14T03:12:21.188+08:00

David Meerman Scott comes up an interesting theory on why CEOs can't blog: "When CEOs are in a meeting, everyone defers to them. At conferences, people clap at CEO speeches even if they suck. CEOs talk about their company, its products, and nothing else. CEOs happily ignore email and phone calls because nobody expects a personal answer back. CEOs direct others to do their work for them. "These

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Michael Skoler from Minnesota Public Radio/American Public Media is behind Public Insight Journalism. Some choice quotes from various sources: "Public insight journalism starts with a truth. On any given story, some people in the audience know more than even our smartest reporters and editors. "No matter how hard newsrooms try with their hiring, they still have a hard time creating the kind

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