Posts from ‘April, 2007’

On another blog in early 2005 I posted an essay entitled, “Newspapers: Open Your Archives” — a plea to the newspaper industry to recognize the value it had hidden away behind pay-walls. I’m republishing it below, in part because I think the logic has held up even as newspapers have continued to hold back.

(Note: This will appear tomorrow as an op-ed piece in the Washington Examiner newspaper.) Once again, horror has given us a glimpse of our media future: simultaneously conversational and distributed, mass and personal. The killings Monday at Virginia Tech brought to the forefront the remarkable evolution in media over the past few years. And as […]

National Post (Toronto): Midnight blogger exposes a scandal. For a July, 2006, post that questioned the photo identification method that Mr. Nifong used, for example, Prof. Johnson says he contacted every district attorney in North Carolina, as well as 10 police departments. He questioned them about lineup policies and procedures, and concluded the process used […]

Doug Kaye has started PodCorps, “an all-volunteer team of audio/video producers who record and publish important spoken-word events anywhere in the world.”

The horrific events at Virginia Tech this morning — the killing of “at least 21” (update: at least 31) are the top of everyone’s news in the U.S. The reporting, if you will, was enhanced by mobile-phone camera images that CNN is showing (available via the link above). More and more major news stories will […]

In Helsinki last Friday morning, I had a meeting-room accident just before a talk to some folks at Nokia, the mobile-phone company. The result was a non-functioning computer requiring the replacement of the machine’s internal hard disk. This occurred just hours before I had to give a talk at a large gathering of journalists. To […]

Mark Glaser, in “Netflix Return::What We Lose (and Gain) Without Video Stores,” ponders the pluses and minuses of the demise of local video stores. Quote: In general, I’d say that the loss of the physical store feels like a loss for the neighborhood, and a loss of the human touch. And the advantage of Netflix […]

KQED, the public TV station in San Franscisco, posted its QUEST documentary Earth Day Special: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Headed, on the Web ahead of the scheduled broadcast next week. Good move. A sign of things to come?

Two new reports about citizen media have been released recently, both with a focus on local sites. Citizen Media: Fad or the Future of News? The rise and prospects of hyperlocal journalism was released by J-Lab. The report by Jan Schaffer consolidates and analyzes responses from 191 people involved with or familiar with online citizen […]

On my way to Helsinki for the Mediapäivä international Media Fair, where I’m giving two talks and appearing on a panel. More (much) later… Caution: If you click through to that site, be aware that it’ll start an audio-video presentation that makes noise. Turn down your speakers if that will disturb anyone nearby.