Archiving the Distributed Story: I Have No Idea

My buddy Glenn Platt, a professor and program director at Miami (OH) University, and I were chatting the other day about distributed stories.
I feel confident that I know what a distributed story is, how you build a network to tell those stories and some tools you might use that don’t seem obvious.
More importantly, he asked [...]

journalists versus bloggers

Finally found the link (via Twitter) for Scott Rosenberg’s new book. I’ve been awaiting this chapter in particular: Journalists versus Bloggers.

The Problem of Newspapers, Framed

It’s difficult to imagine a time in the near future when new software applications won’t be rolling off the digital assembly line, changing — or more likely making easier — our interactions with the cyber stream of information that is shaping the way we will live in the next, near future.
This is problematic for storytellers, [...]

My New York City Experience

This book — or more accurately the process of the book — is about exploring the new ways we create, consume and connect with stories, information and data. That has changed dramatically despite what you will read writers telling you.
They are wrong. The world has changed. A good story is still important. It’s just not [...]

4 Thoughts on Design

My main point is that the tradeoffs should usually be skewed further in the direction of “Obvious” than we care to think. (Don’t Make Me Think, p 14)
I’ve been spending a lot of time writing about the editorial side of digital news, but that’s only part of the story. In fact, it’s not even half [...]

Newspapers v. the Web: 2 Choices, 1 Answer

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Of the 23 percent who got news on the internet yesterday, only a minority visited newspaper websites. Instead, websites that include quick updates of major headlines, such as MSNBC, Yahoo, and CNN, dominate the web-news landscape.(July 20, 2006, The Pew Center for the People and the Press: Online Newspapers Modestly Boost Newspaper Readership)
I’ve [...]

4 Steps to Create A Modern News Story

(The) “big successes” on the Internet, Web sites such as YouTube, have content that’s 95 percent generated by the public. Content on the Tribune’s site is 97 percent house generated, just 3 percent public — the comment boards and photos. (June 18, 2008, Chicago Reader: Will Newspapers Survive?)
There is a disturbing construct I’ve noticed in [...]

5 Reasons the Story is Dead

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The past few days have transformed my thinking about the future of journalism. For the first time since I started this project, I had time to sit, contemplate and read what other people far smarter than me had to say — not about journalism, but about the way we work in the modern [...]

8 Rules: What it Takes to Build an Online Community

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At 36, I’ve spent more of my life online than I have offline. I’m not sure how that happened. I was supposed to play shortstop for the Reds.
But that didn’t happen. Instead, I threw myself into the world of journalism and technology from a very early age. Throughout the years, I’ve devoured every [...]

40 Questions: Who Should Run Your News Website?

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The high profile split between part of the Washington Post’s digital team and the paper has certainly sparked a conversation. There seems to be two camps: those (like me) who see this is another colossal failure on the part of traditional media and those who believe the experiment failed because of [...]

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