- Model for the 21st century newsroom pt.6: new journalists for new information flows | Online Journalism Blog: Breaks down the responsibilities of a new media corp. very smartly. The six roles necessary: • Data Miner • Multimedia Producer • Newsfeed Aggregator • MoJo • Networking • Community Editor
- David Ardia: Why news orgs can police comments and not get sued Nieman Journalism Lab Pushing to the Future of Journalism: re: user content online and immunity granted by “CDA section 230” • you do not have remove defamatory material if legal action is brought against you until the court instructs you to do so. • you can…
- Team Obama Told to Ditch Instant Messaging – Politics news | Newser: How backward is this!? We finally bring in a team that wants to use technology in the US government that corporations rely on and the lawyers tell them it would be too embarrassing!?
- Study: Web Ad Prices Fall, Lowering Site Revenue – AppScout: No surprise here: online ad revenue is down in Q4 2008.
- MediaShift Idea Lab . Two Coders Head Off to ‘Fix Journalism’ | PBS: Why does journalism need programers? “Because it’s fucking important.”
- “Google CEO Eric Schmidt was quoted recently as saying, “All information wants to be free,” – “Google CEO Eric Schmidt was quoted recently as saying, ‘All information wants to be free,’” - Time for Newspaper Folks to Fight Back! Here’s How
- Yahoo BOSS Twitter Google App Engine = fresh news | Webware – CNET: Search meets real-time with by using twitter. You get authority from the press, and news value from crowdsourcing a’la twitter
- Can CNN, the Go-to Site, Get You to Stay? – NYTimes.com: CNN.com is profitable, but they’re still worried about innovation, and how to make money.
- “WHICH brings us to a pivotal issue: money. While audiences for online news sites are growing, “revenue is everyone’s billion-dollar question,” Mr. Brown says.”- Can CNN, the Go-to Site, Get You to Stay? – NYTimes.com
- Twitter May Have Found Its Business Model: Twitter…what is it good for? It turns out this little service is good for a whole lot of things, despite the loud objections of people who’ve never really …
- MediaShift . The Place of Blogs in Journalism Education | PBS “The notion of blogs as immediate, uncensored and unmediated can appear at odds with established journalistic norms and practices. But it provides a valuable learning tool as it makes the students…
- Hulu – It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia This is how transparency is supposed to work folks.
Links for January 16th Through January 19th
These are my links for January 16th through January 19th: