The Cult of Me

How Social Technologies Will Save the Story

Steve Pearlstein Knows What Everyone Wants

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Pulitzer Prize winning business writer Steve Pearlstein gave a talk at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference this week. Unbeknownst to me, the solution to the news industry’s failings have already been figured out.
You can read the full story here, but check out this excerpt:
“And what they want and need [...]

We Built It and Nobody Came. Stupid Nobodies.

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Rick Edmonds has a post at Poynter discussing the decline of print readers and the slow adoption of online readers at newspapers.
The contention is that online will not grow enough for some time — maybe ten years — to replace the readership that has left. There are some half-hearted attempts at analyzing what [...]

Mapping the Community. The Way to Truly Interactive Stories.

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All the blog research says that you’re headlines should be of a positive nature to attract readers. I don’t always do that. I’m doing it right now.
::Props::
I’ve been scanning The Wired Journalist site, a place where journalists can congregate to discuss what’s going on at the papers — and what problems they are [...]

Ohio Newspapers Share Content

The Modern Journalist reader TJ, webmaster for WWJ 950 in Detroit, instant messaged me a story about the top eight Ohio newspapers sharing content with each other.
It seems the top papers, which are spread geographically far enough that there is little competition between them, have set up an Intranet that enables each paper to [...]

Crisis in News. KAAAHHHNNNN.

I’m reading Mark Glaser’s recap of my alma mater’s latest journalism conference, Crisis in News.
Now, I’m not going to bag on Glaser or my school because frankly, I don’t know Glaser and I paid a boatload of money to go to Cal-Berkeley. However, I am going take issue with the conference — at least Glaser’s [...]

Book Review: The Cult of the Amateur

Research for a book means reading lots of other books, finding out what discussions other experts in your field are having and parsing out the salient points they miss.
For all intents and purposes, this is social media for authors. Those of us who still love the written word and long form.
During my research, I came [...]

Distributed Conversation

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There’s been talk in the blogosphere about the effect of lifestreaming applications on blogs and traditional media companies.
Forget the advertising issues that RSS raises, for instance. What’s ultimately more important is tracking the conversation that begins in one place across multiple networks, making sure that you are somehow aggregating what people are talking [...]

Upgraded

I’ve upgraded the site as you can see. We have a fresh new look and some cool additions on the back end, which should make the search process work a bit better.
For now, I’m running a few tests on the system. The first is the addition of a photo system that will enable you find [...]

Qik Streaming. Everyone’s a Television.

I’ve been poking around with Qik since SXSW Interactive, but I haven’t really followed anyone with it because frankly I don’t much care what people are doing with their lives.
If I did, I presume I would be with them.
Which is stupid, since I’m on the road so dang much it’s difficult for me to ever [...]

Reading List Updated

I’ve updated the reading list with a few conferences and books I’m reading for research on MY book. If you have suggestions, please comment here. I’m also looking for good conferences.
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