Posts from ‘March, 2007’

Ad Age: TimesSelect Free for College Students — and Graduates? I assume that grads will do the honest thing and not abuse their .edu addresses, but I also wonder if this is a bit like Microsoft’s “Student & Teacher” editions of software that are way, way cheaper than the versions for everyone else — and […]

Jay Rosen and his crew at NewAssignment.net have launched AssignmentZero: How the Web makes it possible for the crowd to be the source of good ideas. But instead of one journalist reporting, we’ve created a site where many people can work on the story, with editors as guides. It’s a great start to a project […]

David Lazarus of the SF Chronicle, in “Pay-to-play is one way to help save newspapers,” says “it’s time for newspapers to start charging for — or at least controlling — use of our products online.” Lazarus, normally an excellent columnist, gets things almost precisely wrong in this piece. He raises the issue of charging and […]

I’ll be sitting down in a public conversation with JD Lasica next week in Palo Alto, kicking off the Mid-Peninsula Media Center’s new Conversation Series. If you’re in the area, please stop by.

The Project for Excellence in Journalism has issued its annual State of the News Media report. This year’s identifies seven major trends. (The report calls them new trends even though they are not new, but that’s a quibble.) The trends are: News organizations need to do more to think through the implications of this new […]

Project Red Stripe is a small team set up by The Economist Group, the parent company of the eponymous newspaper. Our mission is to develop truly innovative services online. I’ve met with several members of this team. These are serious, smart folks who have backing from a highly traditional organization — which produces the best […]

Doc Searls on Giant Zero journalism. Brilliant, illuminating.

Len Witt: Journalists of the World Unite–and Innovate.

LA Times: Blogging for dollars raises questions of online ethics. Payments by advertisers to bloggers for writing about their goods, critics say, blur the line between opinion and product placement. This is not a close call. To take money for touting products in a blog and not disclose it — prominently, and in context — […]

It’s called “triangle.com community sharing,” operated by the Raleigh (North Carolina) News & Observer. It doesn’t resemble the newspaper at all, which is smart.