Posted on June 19, 2005 9:07 pm by Shel Holtz | Media | Wikis
As newspapers experiment with blogs and podcasts, it must have seemed like a good idea to the editors of the Los Angeles Times to see if another element of the social software suite could be put to good use. The notion of a wiki for newspapers isn’t new; after all, Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, has been giving it a go…
Posted on June 14, 2005 5:11 pm by Shel Holtz | Media
While Neville was away at the at-sea Communication Directors Conference, I proceeded with the “For Immediate Release” podcast with our first-even guest host, Sam Whitmore, who runs Sam Whitmore’s Media Survey and writes the media column for Forbes.com. One of the topics Sam raised was the wall that exists in most business publications between the print and online staffs. The print staff—where…
Posted on May 11, 2005 8:05 am by Shel Holtz | Media | RSS
The BBC has made its RSS feeds available to commercial Web sites to use on their pages without any contractual obligations, according to a report from Digital Lifestyles. According to Pete Clifton, editor of the BBC’s news website,
“Liberating the availability of our content for re-use is an important step for the BBC. We’ve been a bit cautious about it up to now but there’s…
Posted on April 19, 2005 9:15 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Media
The front page of the business section of my hometown paper, The Contra Costa Times, bore this headline this morning: “Papers broaden margins, jump in the blogosphere” (free subscription required). Included in the article is a sidebar listing the blogs hosted by the Times itself, including one by editor Chris Lopez whose blog addresses “what goes on in the newsroom of the…
Posted on April 18, 2005 9:26 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Media
San Jose State University journalism professor Richard Craig jumps into the blogs-vs.-journalism debate with a well-reasoned op-ed piece appearing in today’s San Jose Mercury News. Craig wins points by noting the whole debate is specious, but goes on to explain why. He lists several points, my favorite of which is: “Declaring that blogs equal journalism is like saying that television equals…
Posted on April 18, 2005 8:25 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Media
Scott Baradell cites an Economist article in which Bruce Lowry of Novell foresees blogs “completely replacing press releases within 10 years.”
The argument goes like this: The Net has promoted transparency. Your press releases don’t just go to a targeted segment of the press; they also get posted to Yahoo! and other sites. Since everybody sees all releases, companies need to be more…
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