Tag Archives: Citizen Journalism

Observe, Learn, Adapt, Flourish–All Publishing is at a turning point

I don’t buy terribly many books anymore, or magazines, and certainly not newspapers. A bit of an ironic statement from someone who’s first book comes out in January, but I don’t equate publishing with paper. I assume that my books … Continue reading

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What skills will make the best journalists? Tech ninjas to rule the roost?

Journalists seem to always be taking it on the chin. If it isn’t that their craft is dying (which I don’t think is true) or their publications are failing (okay that one is true), now it’s that in order to … Continue reading

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Remind me again, why don’t we live blog as much anymore?

Way, way back in 2005 I started live blogging at conferences. Blog Business Summit was the first a) blogging related conference I attended and b) the first conference I live blogged. From that point on I got to be pretty … Continue reading

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MSNBC shows that the media can adapt: MSNBC grabs Breaking News Twitter account

We often talk about the old guard media outlets having trouble adapting to “new media”, I think we pushed old media into such a corner that they either just crawled into the walls or came out swinging. MSNBC seems to … Continue reading

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That’s One Way To Get People To Stop Reading Your Papers: Microsoft To Help News Corp Get Off Google

I’m not sure if Rupert Murdoch is a brilliant business mind, just doesn’t get the Internet, or just plain nuts. Maybe buying MySpace was a good idea when News Corp bought it, but it certainly isn’t holding much value now. … Continue reading

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Again The Globe & Mail Leads Newspapers Into Uncharted Waters: Mathew Ingram Tapped As Communities Editor

Image by cfarivar via Flickr As conservative as Canadian business have been jumping onto the Web 2.0-Social Media bandwagon, the Globe & Mail newspaper has been ahead of the curve. Yes, they kept a walled garden up for a while, … Continue reading

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Media Democracy Day Panels: Journalism in a time of Big Media Domination & The Battle for New Media and Open Communication

I had a great time today at Media Democracy Day. I didn’t get there until after lunch time, but I managed to catch a couple panels and live tweeted them. First was: Journalism in a time of Big Media Domination … Continue reading

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Social Media lights up election results blackout: Can they arrest all of us?

Even though I was at Net Tuesday, I was also very interested in the results of the election. Of course we really shouldn’t have been getting results until 7 PM PDT, because our polls were still open, but thanks to … Continue reading

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Tip’d brings the hot tip to social media

When Truemors came out, Guy Kawasaki wanted to give people the chance to submit rumors and other tidbits and then have the community vote whether it was interesting or not. Now Tip’d give that ability to recommend to something more … Continue reading

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