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The myth of the creative class (Jeff Jarvis)

August 7, 2008 – 8:31 am

Just now, Jeff Jarvis posted something that resonates strongly with me. See: The myth of the creative class:
“We have believed – I have been taught — that there are two scarcities in society: talent and attention. There are only so many people with talent and we give their talent only so much attention — not [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Media Musings, culture, media evolution, relevance | Comments (1)

New J-Skills: What to Measure?

April 10, 2008 – 10:02 am

Berbercarpet, via Flickr (CC license)

Journalism sudents need the right tools — and skills — for the kinds of careers and opportunities they’re really going to be making for themselves.

Picking up on my post yesterday, Univ. of Florida journalism professor Mindy McAdams challenged me (and her other readers) to translate my quick list of what j-schools [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Content Style & Business, General, Labels and Metadata, PR & marketing, Resources, Strategy, Wikis, blogs, business, careers, collaboration, community, content management, conversational media, creativity, credibility, critical thinking, culture, distribution, education, experience, forums, innovation, journalism, media evolution, mindset, mobile, networking, news, processes, projects, research, search, services, skills, social media, traffic, transparency, world | Comments (18)

Los Angeles Times Switches to All-Wiki Format

April 1, 2008 – 1:24 pm

…OK, not really. It’s an April Fool’s Day spoof from Bunkmag.com, and it’s definitely better than any prank I’ve dreamed up so far today. If you need a laugh (and really, who in the news business doesn’t?) then go check out The Los Wikiless Timespedia. This had me in hysterics, especially considering the LA Times’ [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Wikis, community, fun stuff, journalism | Comments (0)

CA Wildfires: Watershed Moment for Collaborative Online News?

October 25, 2007 – 11:00 am

Alex Miroshnichenko

Freelance photojournalist Alex Miroshnichenko is offering great fire coverage (and smart marketing of his skills) with Creative Commons-licensed photos on Flickr.

For the last few days at Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits, I’ve been blogging examples of innovative ways that online media is being used to cover the Southern CA wildfires. It’s been astonishing. There have been [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in General, citizen journalism, collaboration, conversational media, history, innovation, journalism, media evolution, news, services, tools | Comments (0)

It’s a Conversation, Stupid! Video is online

October 22, 2007 – 1:39 pm

Knight Digital Media Center

Me waving to the internet from the stage at USC.

As I mentioned earlier, on Oct. 1, I helped moderate an excellent panel discussion at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism in Los Angeles called It’s a Conversation, Stupid! Blogs, Wikis, Social Networking, UGC meet Journalism. This was part of an intriguing [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Amy's Adventures, Strategy, business, citizen journalism, conversational media, events, journalism | Comments (1)

Webcast tonight: It’s a conversation, stupid!

October 1, 2007 – 2:57 pm

Greetings from Los Angeles, where I just flew in because in a couple of hours I’m speaking at a cool event at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism. And you can watch — and participate!
Michelle Nicolosi of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and I are co-chairing a panel at 5pm Pacific. It’s called “It’s a Conversation, Stupid: [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Amy's Adventures, Conversations, community, conversational media, culture, events, language, media evolution | Comments (1)

Community site shuts down; whither goes the content?

August 25, 2007 – 8:21 am

Internet Archive

At one time, Zipingo apparently offered a fair amount of content. (Click image to enlarge) Now it’s gone.

This morning, I learned via the Ajax blog that yet another site that relied on content contributed by its user community has shut down. On Aug. 23, Zipingo, a small business review site launched in 2002 by [...]

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