Posts under ‘News’

We’re in the middle of moving, so don’t expect a lot of activity here for a few days at the least.

Dan Bartlett in Texas Monthly: I mean, talk about a direct IV into the vein of your support. It’s a very efficient way to communicate. They regurgitate exactly and put up on their blogs what you said to them. It is something that we’ve cultivated and have really tried to put quite a bit of […]

Alan Mutter: Flat-footed in Omaha. The Omaha World-Herald was caught completely flat-footed today when a gunman killed eight people in a local mall, producing the worse online coverage in memory by a newspaper with a major story breaking in its own backyard.

I’m an advisor to NewsTrust, a site where people rate news articles and blog postings for accuracy and quality. So I’m happy to report that the site just was awarded a substantial grant from the MacArthur Foundation. Fabrice Florin and his team have done amazing work to bring the service this far. Now they’ll have […]

“Jon Swift” offers Journalism 101, a sarcastic, clever set of rules for journalists. Funny stuff….

Steve Outing offers “An Important Lesson About Grassroots Media” — a chronicle of the demise of his company, the Enthusiast Group, which created sports sites. He gave it his best effort, but in the end, as he explains, he and his colleagues couldn’t sustain a business. Steve’s venture (I was an early investor) was one […]

Slate’s Trailhead column notes: You know it’s 2007 when a candidate, in this case Mike Huckabee, holds a bifurcated conference call, first with reporters, then with bloggers. I listened in on both calls to see what the differences were. The reporters’ questions were much more concise and polished. But the bloggers’ questions were more substantive […]

Jay Rosen’s new experiment: These Beat Reporters Will Try the Social Network Way. Thirteen sites want to see if it works: from the Houston Chronicle to the Patriot-News in Harrisburg, PA, plus ESPN.com, MTV, the Seattle Times… Some of the beats: Child welfare, Dallas public schools, “green” tech, Big Pharma, digital music, Procter & Gamble. […]

In this morning’s piece in the Boston Globe, reprinted below, is a suggestion for new kind of political debates that would: unfold online over the course of days, or even weeks and months. Imagine that one candidate takes a position and poses a question. The opponent would answer with a written response of some predetermined […]

I have a piece in today’s Boston Globe called “Net gains” — some suggestions on how to improve politics in the digital age, specifically political debates. Here’s what the Globe ran. In this posting I amplify, as promised, on one part of what follows. On Thursday night, most of the Democratic presidential candidates will travel […]