Archive for the ‘Ning’ Category

Re: Final paper on public journalism

Mike, I like your paper very much. I don’t think you should make a choice between social networking and a design career. One of the things that is dooming many of the advanced social networking/Web 2.0 applications for journalists is that they are so ugly and clunky (think Ning, Drupal, etc.). We haven’t yet designed [...]

Re: If you build it they won’t come

That’s an interesting statement: “I want to see how many people will be driven to the site without a journalist.” Isn’t it marketing that drives most people to a site? Your pitch is a marketing call, not a journalistic one. The best way to make it bigger than Soup is to write about it in [...]

If you build it, they won’t come

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.