I realize it’s only about money. The $15-million-per-year Katie Couric will anchor CBS News’ evening headlines program, and CBS figures her presence will pay for itself and more. She’s a talented journalist, to be sure. But her hiring is so, well, 20th Century. CBS is competing for something that is disappearing. I’d have put the […]
Posts from ‘April, 2006’
Department of the Obvious
Washington Post: For Future Readers, Papers Should Look Online. The newspaper industry may be afflicted with declining circulation, falling stock prices and for-sale signs, but two reports issued yesterday suggest newspapers can find new hope in their Web sites.
MediaGiraffe Conference in Early Summer
The title is “Democracy and Independence,” and it’s taking place in Amherst, Mass., at the end of June.
Vermont Talk Next Week
A reminder to any Vermont friends that I’ll be giving a talk a week from Thursday evening at Vermont College in Montpelier. This is something of a homecoming for me, as I lived in Vermont for almost 15 years (longer than anywhere else) and worked at several papers there including the Times Argus in Barre-Montpelier.
Fair Use Project Needs Director
The Center for Internet & Society at Stanford Law School is looking for a director for a new “Fair Use Project” — here’s the description:
Microformats, a Key Part of the Connected Future
I’ve been studying up on something called “microformats” — open data formats, such as tags, that are going to help make digital information vastly more useful. If you’re interested in citizen media, microformats are important to understand. I’ll be talking much more about them in coming months. Meanwhile, if you’re curious, here are two useful […]
Bottom Up and Top Down
Jeff Jarvis, commenting on a couple of stories in the New York Times, says: The problem is that they still think the internet is something the powerful use to affect the rest of us. Wrong. It’s what the rest of us use to affect the powerful. It’s both, actually. The bottom-up (or as I prefer […]
Dan's Public Schedule in April
April 5, Berkeley, California: Rise of Grassroots Journalism April 7-8, Ohio University Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics and the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism: Blogging and Online Journalism: New Media, New Challenges, New Ethics April 13, Montpelier, Vermont: Lecture and Discussion April 16-20, Cambridge, Mass. with public talk on April 19 at Harvard […]
Working for Something Other Than Money
Mark Glaser, MediaShift: Sense of Community Motivates You to Work for Free.
Straw Men Versus Citizen Journalists
Samuel Freedman: On The Difference Between The Amateur And The Pro. Instead of providing the ultimate marketplace of ideas, however, cable TV and the Internet have become the ultimate amen corner, where nobody ever need encounter an opinion, much less a fact, that runs counter to what he or she already believes. To treat an […]