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Kevin: An interesting post comparing and contrasting the British media from an American newspaper editor who spent time in the UK. Read the 1993 journal entry
Author Archives: Kevin Anderson
links for 2007-11-16
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Kevin: Rich Gordon uses Gannett to explain why data is journalism and how best to deliver it.
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Kevin: Alex Clover at the Bivings Report gives 10 tech predictions for 2008. Google drives adoption of OpenID. Asus’ barebones laptop a hit. Interesting
Radio Lab Master Class
Kevin Marks turned Suw and me onto the excellent WNYC programme/podcast Radio Lab. The programme deals with scientific, bordering on, philosophical issues such as Time, Morality or the biggest of big questions: Who am I? Or more precisely asking, “How does the brain make me?”
In this episode, actually an extra while they work on season 4, they talk about the craft of making the soundscapes that they create for the show. They begin by playing a clip from the Musical Language show of developmental psychologist Anne Fernald talking about how mothers talk to their babies. She said, “Sound is like touch at a distance.” Listen to them play with the sound. For journalists not working with sound, this is an inspirational master class. Listen and learn.
Technorati Tags: production, radio, sound
links for 2007-11-15
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Kevin: Andy Dickinson points to a WSJ article via Lost Remote an interesting article about MSN and Yahoo teams looking for niche content providers. News organisations take note.
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Kevin: A mobile online reporting vehicle from the Shelby Star. Online gives newspapers an opportunity to break news and do rolling news for a fraction of the cost of television. This is a competitive advantage that few newspapers are exploring.
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Kevin: Ryan Sholin has a great post on how to do traditional coverage in non-traditional ways. Don’t just cover the meeting, cover the impact of the meeting. Make politics real for people. That’s good journalism and good for democracy.
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Kevin: When I first started in reporting in the mid-90s, our sports team still used the TRS-80 portables. Is there one device that is that useful and robust now? What’s your favourite mobile tool of choice? Is there one tool that can do it all?
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Kevin: Dan Gillmor thinks outloud about how to improve political debates. This is thinking that a lot of us are doing: How to raise the bar for online debates and discussions. What innovations editorially and technically can we devise to make debates bett
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Kevin: Scott Karp has an interesting post about why the NYTimes isn’t offering full feeds on Stephen Dubner’s Freakonomics blog now that it’s move to the Times’ site. Advertisers won’t pay for ads in feeds. Sometimes, many times, advertisers are slow and
links for 2007-11-13
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Suw: James Gardner talks about “the difficulty that a certain segment of the workforce is having grasping the rapid shifts in the way that business is done, mostly because of new collaboration and social media tools.”
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Kevin: FishbowlDC (via TechRepublican.com) posts a Washington Post memo on what works and doesn’t work for blogging. Blogs have a voice. Blogs have focus. Blogs are frequently updated.
links for 2007-11-12
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Kevin: Jay Rosen gives some advice to the Cleveland Plain Dealer following the meltdown of their blogging experiment Wide Open. Jay called P-D’s reader rep’s explanation: ‘almost a primer in legacy media sludge think’
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Kevin: Frightening graph showing McClatchy’s $4bn loss in market value in two years after it purchased Knight-Ridder. McClatchy is a hard-driving, focused company. Pretty unsettling.
Breaking news: Fire east of London
Photo: Fire east of London, by Kevin Anderson
Six fire engines to the scene east of London as huge plume of smoke billows over London.
Within minutes of the fire being reported, pictures were posted on Flickr and one blogger even posted a video. I’m following the news via Flickr and blogs through Technorati on the Guardian’s News blog.
Journalism.co.uk has a good roundup of the breaking news coverage of the fire via Twitter and blogs.
Technorati Tags: London
links for 2007-11-10
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Kevin: I just re-discovered this roundup of excellent posts from Derek Willis he titles: Fixing Journalism. This is a must read grouping of posts. Derek makes the case for better collaboration, for more structured information and for innovation.
links for 2007-11-09
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Kevin: Ewan McIntosh has a great post about digital literacy in education, but put your industry in when he says education and see if it it’s relevant to your industry.
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Kevin: New news site launches in Minnesota trying to create ‘an online news site that’s committed to in-depth high-quality journalism – and is financially viable for the long term’.
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Kevin: Steve Yelvington reviews the new MinnPost launch, unfavourably. “MinnPost is a mid-20th century product in a strange 21st century world, and I found it needlessly dull.”
links for 2007-11-08
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Kevin: Dan Gillmor has a new project: founding director of the new Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University. Can’t wait to hear more.
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Kevin: Anne Speckman of Times Online looking to recruit: “The people who are by far the most valuable are those who combine journalism skills with real technical skill.”
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Kevin: Tom Curley of AP says that newspapers should “quit thinking like gatekeepers of information and reach out to people who are accustomed to receiving news in real time online” (via Techno-news)
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Kevin: Charlie Beckett has a great line-up including friend Richard Sambrook of the BBC and Emily Bell of the Guardian talking about the future of public service journalism.