How to cover an election in 2008:
Mark Glaser: Iowa Caucuses Blanketed by Twitter, Blogs, Video
Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins: Huckabama Wins, a Few Observations
Instapundit: Like Twitter, but longer (sometimes).
We need referees in the press box. According to the New York Times in a Dec. 20 story that I missed: The NCAA issued new rules this week that will allow credentialed press to blog live NCAA championship sporting events....
Needed: Serious Newsroom Cultural Change
Knoxify, a blog by Brandon Clarke and Casey Peters, have an innovative way of sorting a passel of local political candidates this election season. Just ask them three rather novel questions on a blog and let them introduce themselves. Easier...
Some more thoughts on how to compensate online content creators. Yoni Greenbaum says extend a performance bonus plan beyond writers to online producers and editors, too! (Bring it on!) Scott Karp says pay for performance plans might spur traffic, but...
Top 10 blog postings in 2007 On Being There Predictions from the disco era It’s not the paper, stupid! Crowdsourcing fatigue Shots were fired With host Alison Stewart Charlie Daniels should be ashamed On polar bears Find sex offenders around...
The rumor about Led Zeppelin headlining at Bonnaroo just won’t go away. Maybe that means there’s some truth to it or maybe it means the Internet is nothing but an echo chamber. My suspicion is that AC Entertainment’s Ashley Capps...
Details have emerged on Valleywag about a new writer compensation plan for those at Nick Denton’s Gawker media empire, which includes the highly read Silicon Valley gossip blog. It’s very close to what online journalist Lucas Grindley proposed as the...
A handy newspaper stock scorecard for the year.