On IdeaLab: The Pitch mashes up journalists, bloggers, and social media types in SeattleOver at IdeaLab, an IM interview with Jason Preston of Eat Sleep Publish about a series of events he’s organizing called “The Pitch.”
The premise? Put together some of the smartest, most engaged, passionate thinkers about the changing media landscape in a room, buy them a few drinks, and let the conversation flow.
Jason:
“And I think that read more.. November Carnival of Journalism: What would the Obama campaign do?Pretty much every single industry that involves convincing consumers that your product, or idea, or business is a great idea has been strafed with a raft of “What [Your Industry Here] Can Learn From Barack Obama” blog posts lately, and journalism is no exception.
This month’s Carnival of Journalism, which I’m late for due to an read more.. Everything you know about online news design is wrong?Over at Signal vs. Noise, Jason Fried explains “why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the Web.”
“The Drudge Report usually leads with a “font size=+7” ALL CAPS headline in Arial. Sometimes it’s italicized. Sometimes, for something big big, he’ll cap it off with the infamous siren.
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Stories aren’t grouped or organized read more.. Further notes on how investigative journalism continues in online-only news organizationsFrom a New York Times story on VoiceOfSanDiego.org and other onlne-only local news organizations doing original reporting and investigative journalism:
The people who run the local news sites see themselves as one future among many, and they have a complex relationship with traditional media. The say that the deterioration of those media has created an opening read more.. Who’s hiring? Blogs.Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo on plans for 2009:
“So January will usher in a new Democratic Ascendancy in Washington. And here at TPM we believe we are uniquely qualified to chronicle it. So to that end we are hiring two new reporter-bloggers to be based in Washington, DC, one assigned to the White House read more.. Bought out? Laid off? TypePad has your bailout.The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program:
Recently bought out, laid off, or otherwise relieved of your daily newspapering duties? SixApart’s TypePad blog service is offering a free account that usualy costs money, advertising services, and promotion at Blogs.com.
“Your blog can act as a clip file for your best pieces, whether you’re looking for freelance work or a read more.. Let’s go BARcamp on the API CEO meetupKnow what Foo Camp is? Know what BarCamp is?
OK, now that we have that out of the way, Jason Kristufek is calling for a “summit” of future-of-news hotshots/thinkers as a counterpoint to the recent American Press Institute mostly-executives meeting of the minds.
Sounds like a BarCamp to me. Like Jason, I’m not entirely sure we can read more.. Notes from Sergey Brin and Chris Anderson on building participatory systems to scaleChris Anderson takes notes on the Long Tail at a Sergey Brin talk that turns to participation and scale. It turns out, Brin through no one would show up to populate Wikipedia with articles:
“But he was wrong, he says, because he–even he!–had underestimated the way scale can change the game. Sure, the experts say only read more.. If you’re not playing, you’re just working.Daniel Sato is one of a circle of photojournalists I met at San Jose State University while I was spending a lot of time there working on my (still-but-not-for-long) unfinished graduate degree.
Now that whole crew has spread out from the Bay Area across the country and in at least two cases, into Southeast Asia.
Here’s Daniel’s read more.. Reporting with Twitter: Orange County is on fireThe Orange County Register is aggregating tweets about fires in the area right now.
This is advanced reporting with Twitter, jumping way ahead from using it as a tool to push out headlines, and serving a very different information need than the promotional / community building of a Colonel Tribune, as much as I admire that read more..
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