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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Can we record that?
Where is it legal to record a telephone conversation? Who has to know the call is being recorded? What about interstate phone calls? Do you know the answer, reporters?
If not, check out the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press’s guide to recording conversations. It’s got the rules for all 50 states.
Also, check out the [...]
Consider the journalism on Twitter, not whether Twitter is journalism
Twitter is a medium and cannot be considered as a whole, writes Alfred Hermida, who’s worried that we’re about to rehash the old argument about whether a new medium “is journalism.”
Rather than arguing about whether Twitter is or isn’t journalism, we should shift the conversation to understanding the journalism taking place on this platform [...]
Optimized headlines
Lately, I asked people to start adding Web headlines to their articles so that we could use them with the copy that goes online.
The idea behind this is to make it easier for people to find our articles in search engines, such as Google, which play an increasingly important role in driving visitors to [...]
Posted in The Web Site Tagged BBC, headlines, search engine optimization, SEO, Web site Leave a comment
Blogs and Web logs
John Naughton, on the difference between writing for Web and writing for print:
The other difference between writing for print and writing for one’s blog is that there comes a moment with the print essay when it has to be ‘finished’ and dispatched to the sub-editors: there’s an ‘end-point’, in other words. But, in a sense, [...]
UPDATED What’s Twitter?
Twitter is really hard to explain to people who aren’t using it, and when people ask about the Twitter features they’ve heard of, such as hashtags and retweets, it gets worse. Then people start to ask about “Twitter on their phone” or programs that work with Twitter, and the confusion multiplies.
It’s like trying to explain [...]
Newspapers as memorabilia, for a few dollars more
Mac Slocum at the Nieman Journalism Lab wonders why we can’t make a few extra bucks turning out high-quality, memorabilia-class newspapers.
Envisioning a newspaper as a product, rather than a mere delivery mechanism, taps into a mindset already present in adjacent industries. Savvy musicians and filmmakers long ago embraced limited-run exclusive editions aimed at the top [...]
Comment moderation: How far is too far?
Matthew Ingram has a short post up about a comment moderation decision made by Kurt Greenbaum at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
In short, Greenbaum made a call to the system administrator behind an IP address that left two vulgar comments. As a result, the commenter lost his job.
It’s a post that’s sparked some fascinating questions [...]
Posted in Social Media Tagged commenting, Kurt Greenbaum, Matthew Ingram, moderation Leave a comment
RSS 101
RSS is one of those words that gets thrown around a lot these days when you’re talking about the Web, but do you know what it is?
It stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it’s a way of disseminating content online.
Now that’s as far as I’m going to go explaining it. For the primer, [...]
Jimmy Wales speaks with Poynter about AP topic pages
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales spoke with Poynter about the Associated Press’s plan to produce some sort of topics pages for news. This comment from Wales stuck out to me.
People do often come to Wikipedia when major news is breaking. This is not our primary intention, but of course it happens. The reason that it happens [...]
Posted in Curation, Social Media Tagged Associated Press, Jimmy Wales, Poynter Online, Steve Myers, topic pages, wikipedia Leave a comment
Pervasiveness