links for 2008-07-29
OpenID and OAuth: Why Should We Care? Kevin: Rob Diana explores OpenID and OAuth and explains why the two are so important for Internet users. (tags: oauth openid)
NPR’s On the Media and ‘Comments on Comments’
As I’ve mentioned before, National Public Radio’s (US) On the Media is part of my weekly podcast diet. It was an interesting look at three different views on internet comments on articles and radio programmes. Host Bob Garfield interviewed This American Life’s Ira Glass, ‘professional writer and critic’ Lee Siegel and Roanoke Times editor Carole Tarrant. It spawned a round… Read more →
‘Should journalism degrees still prepare students for a news industry that doesn’t want them?’
Paul Bradshaw invited me on Twitter to answer this question on Seesmic recently, and Paul reported on the responses on his blog. He asked the question in light of a punishing wave of redundancies, many in US newspapers, and hiring freezes and programme cuts in the UK. The blog Papercuts lists 6358 job cuts in US newspapers already in 2008…. Read more →
John Zhu’s top tips for encouraging cultural change
After I responded to John Zhu’s post about battles lines in the recent ‘curmudgeons’ versus young journalists flap, John left several thoughtful comments. John said in his first comment: I’ve found that the only way to defeat the resistance and win over the skeptics is to keep at them and continuing to engage them. Can it be frustrating as hell?… Read more →
‘Brick walls let you show your dedication’
I thought I had shown this video to Suw. The link is probably in her inbox, but she hadn’t seen it. And I hadn’t watched it the whole way through. But when I saw the story that Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch had died from cancer, we sat down and watched it together. What a loss in so many ways,… Read more →
links for 2008-07-25
MediaShift . Digging Deeper::Young Newspaper Journalists Could Flee Because of Slow Pace of Change | PBS Kevin: Mark Glaser has a lengthy and incredibly useful interview with Vickey Williams from the Media Management Center at Northwestern University. Increbily useful information on cultural challenges in news organisations. (tags: change culture newspapers) Journalism.co.uk :: Raising the quality of online debates – Norway’s… Read more →
Local can work, complete with facts and figures
In the recent round of virtual mud-slinging in the ‘curmudgeons’ versus digital journalists, one of the arguments by way of assertion is that hyper-local doesn’t work. It is, of course, a reductionist argument, lumping together a wide range of strategies. A lot of the assertions are short on facts, but Vickey Williams at the Readership Institute highlights two dailies that… Read more →
links for 2008-07-24
Haarsager on BPP, plus reactions | Gravity Medium Kevin: Details and discussion on the cancellation of NPR’s social media experiment, the Bryant Park Project (BPP). NPR struggling with it’s own organisation is hardly unique, but it faces some unique challenges. (tags: BryantParkProject NPR socialmedia) NPR: NPR CEO Responds To The ‘BPP’ Crowd Kevin: NPR’s CEO responds to the cancellation fo… Read more →
links for 2008-07-23
Paul Graham – Disconnecting Distraction Paul deals with distracting nature of the net by having two computers – one for ‘work’ and one for ‘online activities’ such as email and surfing. Question is, what do you do if your work resides online, in the cloud? (tags: productivity procrastination distraction internet online email paulgraham)
Required reading for public media executives and programme makers
I have followed the trajectory of (US) National Public Radio’s Bryant Park Project because they were experimenting with so many social media tools and ideas, and more than that, they seemed to have grokked the ‘social’ in social media. Their Twitter feed wasn’t just an automated bland, bloodless promo for the programme but rather a way that the staff showed… Read more →
