KPBS - How a small Public TV/Radio Station served it’s public - Part 1 - The technology (Robert Paterson)
Brilliant exploration of smart ways for journalists to use social media, online tools, and mobile distribution on a limited budget. Part 1. MUST READ!!!!!!
(tags: community mashup web2.0 journalism breaking+news social+media tidbits+fodder)
KPBS - How a small Public TV/Radio [...]
Rob Lee, via Flickr (CC license)
Some ways of approaching what looks like the end of the world are more constructive than others.
(NOTE: I originally wrote this for Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits. I’m cross-posting it here because I think it might also interest Contentious readers.)
This morning I read in the New York Times a cold litany of [...]
Future Tense from American Public Media
Can you imagine the strings that would come with a deal like this? Geez… Jan 29: “Columbia j-school dean Nicholas Lemann argues that the news business needs new economic models to keep it afloat. He says it’s time to consider government subsidies.”
(tags: newspapers news+biz business+models government shortsighted problems tidbits+fodder podcast [...]
An issue worth correcting, newspapers and errors | editor on the verge
“I am a firm believer that corrections need to be made, not just because an error was made, but because acknowledgment of the error makes us all better, reporters, editors and such. “
(tags: mistakes solutions ethics newspapers news+biz print journalism tidbits+fodder)
Tomgram: Jay Rosen, Mindlessness [...]
Author-it Home - Author-it Component Content Management
CMS I’m checking out
(tags: content+management software)
IT Conversations: Chris Anderson
Wired editor and author of “The Long Tail” is about to come out with a new book called “Free: the Economics of Giving Stuff Away.” This podcast is a must-listen for anyone involved with publishing (print, electronic) especially if you’re writing [...]
This says it all, brilliantly:
Thanks to Terence Hoaglund for the tip!
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Questioning romance may not be popular, but it’s vital when stakes are high.
This morning I finally figured out why I’ve been feeling so utterly disengaged from the inescapable frenetic quest for Presidential candidates.
Well, actually Canadian blogger Rob Hyndman figured it out for me in his post this morning: We Won’t Get [...]
Are journalists anti-business? | yelvington.com
AMEN!!! “I applaud ASU for making this a required course. In struggling to understand business challenges faced by news cos today, these students may develop a framework that helps them do better journalism by understanding business in general.”
(tags: business business+models journalism education entrepreneurship media+evolution mindset culture solutions)
Vara Software : Wirecast
My friend [...]
Yesterday I wrote about a spectacularly unpleasant and unhelpful message I received in response to a query I sent to my web host, Bluehost, on Jan. 22. (The response arrived yesterday, 11 days after my query.)
Here’s an update — someone there in possession of both a brain and manners (Brandon West, Level 2 support) finally [...]
Conversational Media Marketing: A big, hairy Facebook faux pas
Social media sensitivities. The implications of tagging: “My intention was to use tags as notification, I found out that’s not the function tags are primarily designed to serve. Seems several were annoyed that I included them and considered it spam.”
(tags: social+media mistakes tips spam perceptions problems)
Silence and [...]
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