http://importance.corante.com/ en-us ernest.miller@aya.yale.edu 2005-07-04T10:54:33-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/07/04/experiments_in_newspaperblog_hybrids.php The New York Times has a good summary of the many changes that are ongoing and coming up at the News & Record daily newspaper (Why Newspapers Are Betting on Audience Participation). In this world, "Get me rewrite" will in... 6283@http://importance.corante.com/ Blogging and Journalism 2005-07-04T10:54:33-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/07/04/the_marginality_of_blogging.php Stephen Baker wonders about how important blogs are (How to Appeal to Non-Bloggers? Think Virus Wikis).I haven't been blogging. I've spent the best part of a week in Oregon, wandering from the misty coast to the high desert to the... 6282@http://importance.corante.com/ Blogging and Journalism 2005-07-04T10:34:56-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/07/02/trust_me.php There has been a bit of a hubbub over codes and labeling of bloggers. The Media Blogger's Association is "is a non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting MBA members and their blogs, educating bloggers, and promoting the explosion of citizen's media."... 6266@http://importance.corante.com/ Blogging and Journalism 2005-07-02T10:40:27-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/30/new_england_cable_requests_viewers_videos_for_broadcast_and_posting_on_the_net.php The Boston Globe reports that New England Cable News will soon broadcast and host on their website user-submitted videos (NECN Will Air Viewers' Videos, Post Them on Web). This is great, but since is the only announcement I could find,... 6254@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-30T13:02:33-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/25/implications_of_the_power_law_for_grokster_punditry.php Seth Finkelstein has responded to my response to his post, Meta-Meta-Grokster. My response here: Meta-Meta-Meta-Grokster. Seth's response is an interesting one, well worth responding to in full, so I will reply in full:This commentary misunderstands my main point, which is... 6223@http://importance.corante.com/ Blogging and Journalism 2005-06-25T22:01:26-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/25/wkrntv_gets_it_they_really_get_it.php Lostremote is reporting from Gnomedex about the future of media and Terry Heaton talks about what WKRN in Nashville is doing (The WKRN-TV 'Breakthrough'). Read the whole thing, but this really caught my attention:On July 17th, WKRN's chief photographer will... 6222@http://importance.corante.com/ Blogging and Journalism 2005-06-25T20:21:39-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/25/openx2_letter_to_the_editors_of_the_la_times_on_wikitorials.php Ross Mayfield is sending an open letter to Michael Kinsley and the other editors of the LA Times tomorrow (Open Letter on Wikitorials). Bonus: the letter is open in more than one way. It will be published to the world... 6221@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-25T16:32:54-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/24/a_vision_of_prs_future.php Brother Michael O'Connor Clarke, on Flackster, has a vision of the future of PR (Minor Epiphany?).Much gnashing of teeth and tearing of hair in the PR world over how the practice of public relations must evolve to tune into the... 6208@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-24T23:02:18-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/24/give_michael_kinsley_your_answers.php Radio Open Source will be interviewing LA Times Editorial and Opinion Editor Michael Kinsley this coming Wednesday, June 29 (Wikitorials). Among the topics, natch, will be wikitorials and Radio Open Source is soliciting your answers (what is this, Jeopardy! or... 6204@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-24T21:10:42-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/24/metametametagrokster.php Seth Finkelstein takes an interesting and pre-emptive shot at post-Grokster commentary, claiming that there will only be one of three main story lines (Meta-Meta-Grokster). For the traditional media, sure. But this is wrong:So, as a matter of mathematics, the number... 6195@http://importance.corante.com/ Blogging and Journalism 2005-06-24T07:51:28-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/23/never_trust_anyone_who_says_trust_me.php As part of his Bayosphere project, Dan Gillmor has put forth a "Citizen Journalism Pledge" (Let's Discuss the Citizen Journalism Pledge). It contains a number of unobjectionable bromides (fairness, thoroughness, accuracy, openness) and avoids some awful ones (such as objectivity).... 6181@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-23T08:56:38-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/22/a_handful_of_wikitorial_posts.php 6172@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-22T18:01:18-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/22/a_loss_of_order.php Terry Heaton has another great essay on his Donata Communications website about the future of news journalism (TV News in a Postmodern World).There is one group who could slow this down, of course. They are the keepers of the status... 6168@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-22T09:45:13-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/21/beware_the_blogarazzi.php Q. What do you get when you cross cameraphones, celebrities and blogs? A. Blogarazzi. Well, at least according to Mobile Content News (Enter The Blogarazzi Era).... 6157@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-21T22:57:22-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/21/journalists_use_blogs_dont_trust_them.php Wow, what a paragraph in this report on a study on how journalists use blogs (ClickZ | Study Bolsters Blog-Related PR Practices).Journalists mostly used blogs for finding story ideas (53 percent), researching and referencing facts (43 percent) and finding sources... 6143@http://importance.corante.com/ Blogging and Journalism 2005-06-21T10:46:27-08:00