http://www.fixjournalism.com a conversation about journalism's future Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:35:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.fixjournalism.com/uncategorized/making-information-valuable/ http://www.fixjournalism.com/uncategorized/making-information-valuable/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:14:26 +0000 Donica Mensing http://www.fixjournalism.com/?p=562 http://www.fixjournalism.com/uncategorized/making-information-valuable/feed/ 1 http://www.fixjournalism.com/news/what-happens-when-your-local-newspaper-disappears/ http://www.fixjournalism.com/news/what-happens-when-your-local-newspaper-disappears/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:03:20 +0000 Michael Higdon http://www.fixjournalism.com/?p=516 http://www.fixjournalism.com/news/what-happens-when-your-local-newspaper-disappears/feed/ 1 http://www.fixjournalism.com/news/journalists-might-as-well-be-the-gop/ http://www.fixjournalism.com/news/journalists-might-as-well-be-the-gop/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:29:38 +0000 Brian Duggan http://www.fixjournalism.com/?p=314 http://www.fixjournalism.com/news/journalists-might-as-well-be-the-gop/feed/ 1 http://www.fixjournalism.com/news/part-5-group-3-prototype-the-nomadic-community-journalist/ http://www.fixjournalism.com/news/part-5-group-3-prototype-the-nomadic-community-journalist/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:28:30 +0000 Michael Higdon http://www.fixjournalism.com/?p=414 GROUP 3 PROTOTYPE

The concept

Our group identified two major problems: the disappearance of local journalism institutions and a public disconnected from journalists. So we wondered, "how might nomadic journalists work and how would community life continue to be successful?" This idea builds on Group 2 (inadvertently), mixes Spot.Us, Innocentive.com, OhMyNews.com, uWeb/iTunes/iNews and other journalism movements: public journalism, citizen journalism, etc. [...] ]]> http://www.fixjournalism.com/news/part-5-group-3-prototype-the-nomadic-community-journalist/feed/ 2 http://www.fixjournalism.com/news/part-4-group-2-prototype-an-incentive-for-democracy/ http://www.fixjournalism.com/news/part-4-group-2-prototype-an-incentive-for-democracy/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:56:35 +0000 Michael Higdon http://www.fixjournalism.com/?p=410 GROUP 2 PROTOTYPE

The concept

This group wanted to develop a point system on a news website. For every activity users do, they receive points. People receive more or less points depending on their level of engagement. For example, commenting on a story nets maybe 2 points, but writing your own story is worth 10. The site basically becomes a customized delivery system with an incentive to participate in democracy. [...]]]> http://www.fixjournalism.com/news/part-4-group-2-prototype-an-incentive-for-democracy/feed/ 4 http://www.fixjournalism.com/social-networking/why-wont-readers-pay-for-content-well-they-will/ http://www.fixjournalism.com/social-networking/why-wont-readers-pay-for-content-well-they-will/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:02:06 +0000 Michael Higdon http://www.fixjournalism.com/?p=349 http://www.fixjournalism.com/social-networking/why-wont-readers-pay-for-content-well-they-will/feed/ 2 http://www.fixjournalism.com/social-networking/journalism-cannot-just-save-itself-or-it-will-fail/ http://www.fixjournalism.com/social-networking/journalism-cannot-just-save-itself-or-it-will-fail/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:13:34 +0000 Michael Higdon http://www.fixjournalism.com/?p=340 news needs to find a way to create something that doesn't only help the journalist, but helps thousands of other unpaid creative people. uNews must be for more than news. It must be for all creative endeavours. It must be for InnoCentive.com, it must be for people who want to make money off of their own videos, images news, games, information and other content. uNews can't actually be called "uNews." uNews needs to be for everyone AND news. And it has to be as fun and interesting to be a part of as all of your awesome Apple products. uNews must be a paradigm shift on how we operate on the Web. It must serve as a focusing point for all communications. Otherwise, it will fail like the other micropayment systems did. Other systems segregated content away from the Web instead of integrating people into each other. That is the key. uNews must CENTALIZE the web instead of further DECENTRALIZING it. But wouldn't it be great of a news company made it? [...]]]> http://www.fixjournalism.com/social-networking/journalism-cannot-just-save-itself-or-it-will-fail/feed/ 1 http://www.fixjournalism.com/users/why-micropayments-will-improve-journalism/ http://www.fixjournalism.com/users/why-micropayments-will-improve-journalism/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:15:36 +0000 Michael Higdon http://www.fixjournalism.com/?p=315 http://www.fixjournalism.com/users/why-micropayments-will-improve-journalism/feed/ 2 http://www.fixjournalism.com/news/the-continuing-micropayment-unews-conversation/ http://www.fixjournalism.com/news/the-continuing-micropayment-unews-conversation/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:55:39 +0000 Michael Higdon http://www.fixjournalism.com/?p=322 http://www.fixjournalism.com/news/the-continuing-micropayment-unews-conversation/feed/ 2 http://www.fixjournalism.com/social-networking/credibilty-and-credulity/ http://www.fixjournalism.com/social-networking/credibilty-and-credulity/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:22:41 +0000 Donica Mensing http://www.fixjournalism.com/?p=277 http://www.fixjournalism.com/social-networking/credibilty-and-credulity/feed/ 0