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Why We Should Feel Bullish For the Future of Journalism
What a week!!!!! Sunday I left San Francisco for a wedding in Charleston. Tuesday I left Charleston to visit Columbia's J-school to speak (video here). Thursday I left New York for Miami to help out with this years Knight News Challenge screening....
Launching The Spot.Us Ship: Community Funded Reporting
It's a simple principle: Journalism is a process, not a product - and that process should be participatory. That sentence describes what I have worked for throughout my journalism career. I am constantly trying to push that principle forward. It s...
A Civil Rights Movement in San Francisco - Gay Marriage Protest
As the liberal U.C. Berkeley graduate now living in San Francisco I was bummed about Proposition 8 being passed, which outlawed gay marriage. From the video below, I think you'll see that this is more than just a proposition on the California ball...
I'm Told There Is Some Kind of Election Thing Going On Today
My friend Mark Glaser at MediaShift asked me to give some internet pundantry at his blog - PBS' MediaShift. I will be doing so in the hours from 8-9pm PST but will probably sneak into the e-pundocracy throughout the day. So if you want to live cha...
Obama Goes Trick-o'-Treating - Palin Accuses Him of Being a Pagan
No, Palin didn't actually accuse Obama of being a male witch, putting his daughter through a Pagan ride of passage ritual this Halloween, but the political satirist in my brain could just imagine that comic strip in the Sunday newspaper. He's been...
Possibly My New Favorite Site
Stuff Journalists Like(had to happen eventually). Of course inspired by the now famous "Stuff White People Like" blog.
Interview - Michael Rosenblum
For last year's Networked Journalism Summit I did 60+ interviews with leading thinkers and practitioners in the participatory journalism space. This year for the New Business Models for News Summit I did ZERO preparatory interviews. What I will be...
Daily Dose of Meta
Here's a photo of J.D. Lasica interviewing Premal Shah, president of Kiva.org. I'm absolutetly enthralled by Kiva.org and Premal is actually a big supporter of Spot.Us. I met him a few months ago and after this interview was going to re-introduce ...
New Business Models for News - Summit
Today is the second Networked Journalism Summit which I've helped to organize with Jeff Jarvis. This year's focus is on new business models for news. Part of the day will be live-streamed. Check below.
Gary Vaynerchuck Lays It Down
When I spoke about passion last week I brought up Gary Vaynerchuk (who is now synonymous with the word in my mind). In a post this week Gary talks directly to us in the journalism/content industry. I know he can be tough to handle at first because...
Answer From RSS Subscribers: Just Make a New Feed
I hear you all loud and clear. The RSS you are currently subscribed to will remain the same. But for those info-junkies out there that want to know what I'm 1. Sharing on google reader (along with pithy comments)2. Submitting to Digg (where I'm st...
The Future of Journalism - What Does it Look Like? USC II
I'm currently exhausted. I spent today at USC's School of Journalism where I gave a quick presentation along with other notable people (see p.s.). USC PresentationView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. The school itself, under the leader...
First look at spot.us before launch
First look at Spot.Us in Action This morning I had an early video chat with the developers of spot.us. I did a video capture of the conversation, which included demonstrating the basic action of spot.us for the first time. The site isn’t complete....
The Future of Journalism - What Does it Look Like? USC
Giving a presentation tomorrow at USC as part of a faculty symposium. I think I'm playing the part of the young web-savvy journalist. Below is a slideshare of the quick talk I'll be giving. It's not 100% self-explanatory, but it gives a good sense...
Owning The News
Interesting article in Forbes today: "Owning the News." I think there are some positive and negative aspects to this. Positive: We need an entrepreneurial spirit to thrive in journalism. Hands down. May a thousand flowers bloom. Curious to learn m...
Get It In Quotes - Google
Damn. Google continues to be tooooo freak'n smart. Organize the world's information - including quotes. Check out their newest lab project "In Quotes." It lets you place two politicians (in this case Obama and McCain) and comapre their quotes on v...
Professional Startup-er Andrew Hyde
This last Sunday, in the middle of my drafting (twitter followers know that I tend to draft things on Sunday to be sent out on Monday), I took a nice break to have lunch with Andrew Hyde. Andrew is the force behind Startup Weekend and also works o...
Interview with Josh Marshall on Community Funded Reporting
For the most part, I try to keep the spot.us blog separate from this personal blog (so you should really subscribe to that RSS Feed). But on the occasion that I get to interview somebody like Josh Marshall who founded Talking Points Memo and has r...
Delicious Sucks and If They Don't Respond - I Will Put Energy into Letting People Know How Sucky They Are
Update: Delicious has responded and deleted the extra Daily Blog Posting. Okay - they don't get one big fat fail. The comment left by somebody from Delicious was descent, but still leaves me a little unhappy with the experience. Also got a good em...
links for 2008-09-21
Privacy Policy | Citizen Media Law Project Notes on "privacy policy" legal stuff. Lots of fun learning about this stuff. (tags: legal) Terms of Use | Citizen Media Law Project Notes on "terms of use" legal stuff. Lots of fun learning about this st...
links for 2008-09-21
Privacy Policy | Citizen Media Law Project Notes on "privacy policy" legal stuff. Lots of fun learning about this stuff. (tags: legal) Terms of Use | Citizen Media Law Project Notes on "terms of use" legal stuff. Lots of fun learning about this st...
September: Young Journalist Blogging Carnival - Why I'd Fire Everyone
Last month was the first ever "young journalist blog carnival." I posted this in response to the question "what are the biggest challenges young people face." Cliffs Notes: We need to find each other and start talking - institutions (newspapers) m...
Just for Fun
I'm in Ithaca today and tomorrow for a journalism symposium. I hope to get some good video. But just for fun - check out All About George's ode to Google Chrome. Made my night. I love that we live in a time when somebody can, with relatively littl...
The Importance of Being Iterative - Eliminating the Fear of Being Open
Spot.Us is about to hit the ground running. We hope to have something to show in mid-to-late October (assuming everything stays on schedule). We've gotten here through a couple of stages. The Cliffs Note version of that is as follows. Stage one: N...
Learning How to be Agile
Blogging this week will be cut short. I'm in the process of taking the designs of spot.us and turning them into a functional site. What that looks like: Click To Play From Florida (where the developers are based) I'm going up to Ithaca for a quick...
This is What The Web Enables
Update: Jordan asks: "Why no link back." Answer: Really - it's a result of multi-tasking. Remember - this blog isn't my job - it's actually a horrible distraction. Truth is - if Jordan hadn't pointed it out - I wouldn't have remembered where I fou...
Your Chance to Create Digital Poetry - The Knight News Challenge
As you can probably tell - this is a quick post to remind people that the Knight News Challenge is about to enter its third year. For obvious reasons, I'm a big fan. I encourage anyone and everyone who has ever had a cool/crazy/different idea abou...
One Man's Garbage...... How Can We Decide What Garbage Is?
Thoughts that cross my mind while watching the Republican National Convention. I admit my bias: I'm a young Jewish liberal who has grown up in California and lived in New York. We all know what that means - I'm a flaming liberal. Yes - it's true. ...
Mantra's of Development and Innovation
A couple things I've been learning and constantly repeating to myself while developing spot.us. 1. Keep it agile and iterative. I can't predict how people are going to engage with my site. I shouldn't try and force them into a user experience they...
links for 2008-08-31
How To Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning With Ruby Welcome to the home page of How To Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning With Ruby, by Elizabeth Wiethoff. (tags: ruby,) Gnomedex Real-Time Social Fundraising Experiment Beth Kanter ra...
I Too Have a Crush on Obama - A Rare Political Post
I'm not a political blogger. I don't intend to become one. But after Obama's speech tonight - I have to write something. I was 18 when George W. Bush took office. It was the first election I voted in. I have lived my entire adult life under G.W.'s...
The great journalism education debate
I share a lot of the same feelings as Pat here. What should journalism education look like? One thing I often think: It should emphasis more than reporting and writing - but a sense of what it's like to be an independent journalist (a freelancer)....
The News Wheel Turns and the NY Times Spins It
It's interesting to be on the other side of the media. It's not surprising that the NY Times article on spot.us got a lot of attention and kudos, etc. etc. Again - my immediate response has been "does spot.us really deserve the attention yet." It'...
Spot.Us in the New York Times - Not "Victory" by any means - but kinda cool
I woke up Sunday morning, checked twitter and was instantly referred to a New York Times article "A Different Way to Pay for the News You Want." It seems Spot.Us became the focus of an article that, from my understanding, was originally supposed t...
The Beijiing Six
Recently I had a quick post about my friend No Neck Noel who was deported from Beijing for capturing a Tibetan protest on video. Well, No Neck gave me even worse news today. Brian Conely and James Powderly have been arrested. I know James Powderly...
Crowdsourcing.... The Book
Regular readers know I was the research assistant for Jeff Howe on the book Crowdsourcing. In a silly way - via winning the Knight News Challenge for Spot.Us, an idea that coalesced while researching the chapter on crowdfunding, I could be conside...
Community Organizing IS Media
Yesterday was one of those "run around" days. The morning was spent at the Silicon Valley Foundation. They are preparing to enter the Knight Community Challenge and believing in the mission of the Knight Foundation - I was happy to help them think...
"You Reporters"
This is not just funny - it touches on the otherness of reporters. Plus - it's just funny. My new friendster.
The biggest challenge facing a young journalist in today’s media is…
I'm very excited that this post will also appear in a new journalism blog ring for young journalists 30 and under. I only wish I had more time to dedicate towards this question - because it's a doozy. But here are my thoughts (posted on my persona...
Two Lessons I Need to Reflect and Internalize
Yesterday I drove down to Santa Cruz for FreelanceCamp. I wrote a quick post about it at the Spot.Us blog. One thing I love about unconferences is the end when it gets a little sappy. You might not tell from this or other blog posts, but I have a ...
links for 2008-08-17
Huffington Post goes local (and the press doesnâ??t like it) I remember when the HuffingtonPost launched in 2004. I was working at Wired and we looked at the home page with an article from John Cusak and laughed. We all thought "who the f*ck cares...
Citizen Journalist Deported from Beijing, China
Chuck Olsen from the UpTake does an interview with my buddy Noel Hidalgo about his recent experience being kicked out of China for creating independent media as a citizen journalists.
links for 2008-08-16
What Is Newsmastering And What Are Newsradars? I love this - it's what I mean when I often refer to linking as an "editorial service." "Newsmastering is the process by which a human being identifies, aggregates, hand-picks, edits and republishes a...
links for 2008-08-16
What Is Newsmastering And What Are Newsradars? I love this - it's what I mean when I often refer to linking as an "editorial service." "Newsmastering is the process by which a human being identifies, aggregates, hand-picks, edits and republishes a...
Cutting Jobs = Short Term Investment = Failure
Wall Street cheers as Gannett cuts 1,000 positions This is the message sent: If you cut jobs, big time, we will reward you. Newspapers that are run like businesses will follow suit. The problem - this is short term thinking. It's cut-throat and bu...
Reach Out and Teach Someone
I continue to work nonstop on Spot.Us. Soon I will have design wireframes to share (will probably do so at the Spot.Us blog). I am incredibly touched by how people have pledged for the SF Election Truthiness Campaign. We have raised 64% of our goa...
links for 2008-08-13 [delicious.com]
A paper'??s sad decline in debt??s grip An amazing break down of Media News Group and the state of affairs in the Bay Area newspaper industry. If you are not reading Alan Mutter's blog - you really should. He is more versed in the business side of...
Twenty-Something Journalists and Open.Salon
First: Lock up your curmedgeons the 20-something journalists are starting to get organized. Not crazy about the U.I., but I LOVE the idea that young journalists are coming together. Second: Mathew Ingram has a post on Open Salon. I bookmarked it w...
Could the Internet Revolutionize Taxes?
A Sunday brainstorming session. How could the interent be used to change the way we pay taxes? I hope the video explains what I picture in my head. Apologies for not writing this out - but it was just a brainstorm and I'd rather capture it in vide...
links for 2008-08-10 [delicious.com]
The power of five dollars This is a good post on the economics of content. The problem is - the tricks of the trade (which Jason has identified) are traits of tech-startups, not newspaper companies. So a higher level question is - how can we get n...