Journalism, Technology, History

Serious news can be fun

I’m thinking this is the type of site that would rate positively with the subjects in the AP’s new study on youth-adult readers. It fun and short! Test your who-must-have-said-that skills at pullquotes.org. Looks to be from the Sunlight foundation....

A Web 2.0 guide for work

View Upload your own I’m not a Gen Yer and this is not about journalism, but I think it applies to journalists of any generation. From Sacha Chua. (Via Scott Merrick)

The catcher

I took a lot of photos Sunday of Mark’s baseball games between the Tennessee Copperheads and the Brentwood Bulldogs. I even liked a few of them. I’m not sure why, but the one above is one of my favorites.

Encyclopedia Braun creates a journo-New Media reading list

Want a human filtered stream of blog postings from selected new-media-and-journalism blogs? Josh Braun, a journalist, researcher and teaching assistant at Cornell University, has created one.  He says: “I’ve created a combined RSS feed, not of this site, but of...

Original content curators

This Old House, a Time Inc. magazine, is changing the name of its June issue to “Your Old House,” because it will consist entirely of user-submitted content. Time magazine managing editor Richard Stengel says that: the future of journalists is...

A joke is journalism

We’ve all heard the cliche “journalism is a joke.” In a sort of dog bites man story, a joke is developing into journalism. What began as a parody of “the real” Shel Israel featuring a sock puppet has actually started...

The buttered popcorn guide to fair use

An excellent short film by Eric Faden, an assistant professor of English and film studies at Bucknell about copyright and fair use. It’s an extra on a longer DVD being distributed by the Meida Education Foundation. There’s a six minute...

The search engine is overrated

A new research from Indiana University showed that 54% of URL requests had no referrals. That means that most of the time, people do not click on links. They merely pick a site in their favorites or type in an...

He can be a bit difficult

Meet Norman Naysayer … wait, you know each other? Quotes that reveal you’re dealing with a “Norman”
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