The Nevada Sagebrush Web site has newly added forums that aren’t very active while the comments are very active. I see two variables that might explain this (well really three). One is time, I’m just impatient and forums need more time to explode. Two is promotion. We post starter content on them and try to ...
Geo coding is using geographically coded content so it’ll appear on a map like on Flickr. A great idea that Chris Vannoy helped me realize is to make a news site homepage a big map of the city and to have all of your news geocoded according to its location. Then you can make the ...
Here are my questions: Is the division between mass media and niche media a useful dichotomy? Is national v. local media? Or geographic communities vs. communities of interest? Or are there alternative models for analyzing the evolution of our media/journalism systems? On one hand, Amy Gahran questions why the Knight Foundation focuses on geographically defined ...
So this took me eight books, 20 pages, nine months and hundreds of e-mails, but I think I just figured out the most simplistic and practical and unacademic way to synthesize a small portion of social-networked news. They’ve figured out “oh, forums, those are cool” but not how to use them. It’s in a dialogue ...
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. ...
You have a lot of rich material here to think about. We should just call it a seminar and both get credit for it. All I can do at the moment is react and keep thinking about it. First, (let’s give Nick the nod and just call him a genius) Wikipedia is definitely a network, ...
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 ...
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 ...