Links for January 16th Through January 19th
These are my links for January 16th through January 19th:
- 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.
