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"And so I say - once again - that AT&T is holding Apple back when it comes to massive adoption in the United States. There are people - myself included - who would buy an iPhone today if it were available on another carrier. And now that the standard device is priced as low as $99, it’s almost a no-brainer of a purchase - but I still wouldn’t do it." = yeah, there are a lot of people in that boat.
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"It’s criminal to not have a website as a freelancer these days. You need your own corner of the digital universe where people can easily learn who you are and peruse your samples and/or client testimonials." - the same could be said for any journalist starting out these days. Buy your name. Now!
links for 2009-06-09
links for 2009-06-08
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"And yet “The Robert Wone Stabbing” is an amateurish stumble, an obvious mismatch of medium and message, a squandering of scarce newsroom resources that delivers very little benefit to the community and creates zero business value." - ouch. And yet we have to ask - why is "business value" even in the equation?
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"Readers on the web generally scan content, and oftentimes they’re not viewing our content from our websites directly. They are seeing a headline or a summary from a search engine, an RSS feed or some other content aggregator. Therefore, it’s important that our headlines are descriptive enough to let a reader know what an article is about. Otherwise, they’re not likely to clickthrough to the story." - funny, my cues are now mostly through twitter.
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"If you want a glimpse of what local news may soon look like in big cities with shrinking newspapers, head to San Diego. Here you'll find a Web news venture that gives writers a cut of the ad money created by their own stories; another whose nonprofit founders raise money from readers to buy laptops for their reporters; and a third venture which, in spite of the $10 million it nets each year, faces a very uncertain future. " - via @neimanlabs on twitter.
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"With newspapers’ traditional business model in free fall, the top media minds at global design firm IDEO (designer of the Apple mouse, consultant to Fortune 500 companies) were asked to imagine: How will we get our news after the traditional model falls apart? Here's their answer."
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"Universities are finally losing their monopoly on higher learning, as the web inexorably becomes the dominant infrastructure for knowledge serving both as a container and as a global platform for knowledge exchange between people. Meanwhile on campus, there is fundamental challenge to the foundational modus operandi of the University — the model of pedagogy. Specifically, there is a widening gap between the model of learning offered by many big universities and the natural way that young people who have grown up digital best learn." - get back to me when you get rid of academic publishing companies who lock up academic research behind paywalls.
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"What Charlie meant by that is that news journalism works best when it’s simple and direct, at least in the story’s lead sentences. And simplicity (and other tenets of good journalism — like brevity, and clarity, and immediacy) are now cornerstones of how many businesses, brands and individuals communicate on Twitter."
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"Just as a news photographer should drop his camera to rescue a child from a burning building if no one else is around, I felt obliged to contribute what I believe is a constructive solution to the revenue crisis that threatens the future of journalism."
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"Mutter and his business partner, Ridgely Evers, are pitching a targeted-advertising and e-commerce system that, in an intriguing twist, would be owned by the newspaper industry. They are, essentially, seeking venture capital from publishers “who would gain a permanent, preferred share in the future profits,” according to a two-page document distributed at the Chicago meeting. We obtained that briefing and called up Mutter to see what it was all about."
Radio stations urge Congress to stop the fee madness
College and high school radio stations urge Congress to oppose record-label supported legislation
In a letter to members of Congress delivered earlier today under the banner of the Free Radio Alliance and the College Broadcasters Inc. (CBI), faculty, staff, and students from more than 80 stations including Duke University, Harvard University, the University of Wisconsin, SUNY-Brockport, Rice University and Virginia Tech argued that “other serious threats” would result from the passage of the performance fee.
College Broadcasters, Inc. has been leading the charge to stop ridiculous fees from the recording industry that would probably put a lot of college radio stations out of business. Hat tip to those folks for leading the way. Let’s hope there’s some common sense in Congress about these fees.
Posted using ShareThis
links for 2009-06-05
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"This week, we launched a redesign of TPM’s front page. This project has been my labor of love for the past month, so I’d like to talk a little bit about its genesis, process and eventual fruition." Politics aside, a nice post about redesigning an online news site.
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"Yesterday, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) launched the Media Fairness Caucus, made up of about a dozen House Republicans, aiming “to fight liberal media bias.” The group will “point out unfair stories, meet with members of the media, and write op-eds and letters to the editor to highlight media bias,” Newsmax reported. Appearing on Fox News today, Smith declared that “liberal media bias” is a bigger threat to the United States than the recession or terrorism." - proving that one doesn't have to live in reality to get elected to Congress.
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Another search engine.
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"Listening to news executives talk about micropayments, Kindles, public subsidies, micropayments, collusion, blocking Google and anything else that might save their businesses, it occurs to me that they may have missed some developments in, ah, well, the past ten years. For those and anyone else who is interested, I offer the following primer on how things have changed." - via Jay Rosen on Twitter, Paul Bradshaw with the 20,000 foot view.
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"In a 31-page white paper prepared for last week's newspaper executive's summit in Chicago, API concludes, "newspapers can make the leap from an advertising-centered to an audience-centered enterprise" and should get on with it immediately."
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Yesterday, Rosen shared some ideas about teaching blogging on Poynter. You can view the chat archive at this link. some good stuff there.
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Not surprising to me.
links for 2009-06-04
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Albert Sun gets a shout-out from Nieman Labs. I'm skeptical, but then, I'm skeptical of most everything these days.
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That's free for you to use. Via CoPress.
links for 2009-06-03
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"Webdesigner Depot has compiled an exhaustive list of 50 different data visualization examples from around the web. All bases are covered here, from social media ecosystem mapping to music visualization. There are hours of really interesting stuff to wade through." - because we all have hours to spend, right?
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"Journalism will survive because it fills an important social need. But the shape of the industry and the jobs of industry workers obviously already are changing dramatically, and that change will continue. Here is one blue-sky scenario of how the not-too-distant future might look for our graduates."
links for 2009-06-02
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"Imagine if a newspaper’s Web site didn’t look like a news Web site at all. Instead, when you entered the site, you faced a question: What do you want to do? (I’m picturing it almost like Facebook’s “What’s on Your Mind?”)" - Newspapers are gradually learning that "community" isn't geographic.
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"The next time anyone in the employ of a newspaper company — or anyone blogging here on Nieman Journalism Lab, for that matter — throws up their hands in despair and cries, “I’ve run out of revenue ideas,” I suggest we all return to this list of ten entrepreneurs and idea-generators who do not yet qualify to drink legally — or even drive a car in some cases – who have launched new, growing businesses that are actually making money."
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"And the award for the Most Bitterly Ironic Media Award goes to … the Fred Dressler Lifetime Achievement Award, to be bestowed upon Arianna Huffington by Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at the upcoming Mirror Awards luncheon in Manhattan."
Congratulations, Arianna!
Now please excuse me as I crawl under my desk and curl into the fetal position.
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Tracy Boyer provides some useful links about interactivity.
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Via Twitter - the 2009 ONA convention. Lots of good stuff there.
Updates coming soon
I’m on the road again today, but planning to finally update the WordPress installation to 2.7 in the next few days, so if things look wonky for a while, bear with us.
links for 2009-05-29
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American Journalism Review covers some new-fangled Intertube phenomenon called "Twitter." Next month, I think they're covering GeoCities.
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Once it was Mogulus - Now it's Livestream. A web 2.0 company with a name that actually fits what it does.
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"That’s never more true than now, because, well, most all professors at j-schools are from an era that digitization is fast making irrelevant (There are many exceptions, two at Temple being here and here). The rules are broken and more than ever, journalism schools are repugnantly, distastefully, woefully far from leading students to careers, aside from the Temple name and, yes, the contacts they make."
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Write a "script" and watch it turn into an animated movie before your eyes.
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"On earth you kern with the best of them. But how well do your skills hold up in a fraction of earth's gravity? Check the gauges, fire the boosters, and do your best to give 80-point type a 3-point landing. And remember… in space, no one can hear you kern."
Last minute summer internship
Via Will Sullivan, this multimedia internship in Wisconsin for the summer.
The Oshkosh Northwestern is currently accepting applications for a part-time multimedia intern for the summer. The position will be for college credit.
Summer events in the Oshkosh area provide a prime use for those with multimedia talents. EAA AirVenture; the weekly Waterfest concert series, the weeklong concert festivals Country USA and Lifest; Soccer Saturday, a weekend soccer tournament; and the Miss Wisconsin pageant; among daily assignments and events, are just a few of the multimedia-worthy events and coverage opportunities.
In addition to shooting video this position also be working on creating dynamic photo galleries for our Web site and working with the Web editor on assigned Web duties.
The ideal candidate would have a basic working knowledge and experience in shooting and editing both stills and video, and working with programs such as Avid (or similar video editing software), Adobe Creative Suite, and Mogulus, among other programs.
The aim of the internship is to help broaden the skills needed for advancement in the media field post-graduation and to also give the applicant some real-life experiences covering breaking news, features and longer-term projects, among others, as the events and stories of the field dictate. Skills garnered and polished include video shooting and editing, still photography shooting, digital story development, editing for the Web and others.
Because the internship is for credit, documentation of internship acceptance from the university is required and under the supervision of the Assistant News Editor for Digital Media, the position will also complete any relevant coursework as dictated by the university.
To apply or for questions, email Dave Wasinger at dwasinge@thenorthwestern.com with a letter, resume and links to any related work.
