I have a lot of feeling about Metromix, mostly negative, but I thought this was an interesting conversation with The Nevada Sagebrush Editor-in-chief Nick Coltrain: Me: It’s a bad city guide that doesn’t target anyone. A national city guide truly does not have its audience in mind. That in and of itself, is bad journalism. ...
These are the questions I’d like to see a judge answer, this could be interesting if the charges don’t get dropped. I also dig the counter suit the editor is making. That the lawyer owes him money. I would suspect the editor is right. In response to your news as commodity, news as need question. ...
http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2008/07/reader-strikes-back-at-newspaper-cuts/ This brings up ancient debates about why we do our work, how much it’s worth. What do you think? Donica: the ethics of charging for public service (Warren would say we are owed millions by our readers in order to continue protecting the First Amendment) Too bad the guy isn’t trying to make a ...
“But however much the changes, it won’t be presenting its reconfigured self as the newspaper of the future. The newspaper business has pretty well conceded that its future is online, which means the print is deciding how to dress smartly for its funeral.” I feel so much better. I feel like I’ve been turning my ...
At my lunch with the developer yesterday, he said he wants to make a news site that has two home pages. One is like google’s home page but only for the s ite so people who drilldown can do so with no interruptions. And a My Homepage for people who like to browse. Ingenius. ...
Nick said an interesting thing, he’s either a genius or completely stupid. He said Wikipedia is the most social networked news site out there and he relates the story of Columbine. We talked about how stories were constantly receiving write throughs, something the AP only does, and the write throughs were written by citizens, not ...
It's another experiment, I want to see how many people will be driven to the site without a journalist. I want to see what it takes to get people to participate on their own. ...