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I spent yesterday with a client in Santa Clara, which is something of a haul from my office. I used the time to catch up on some backlogged podcasts, including a January 31 edition of Corante Event Lab. The show involved podcasting challenges. David Berlind, executive editor of ZDNet’s Tech Update, was one of the guests. Most of the show dealt with…

An intriguing note from Steve Outing at PoynterOnline, pointing to a New York Sun story by Roderick Boyd. Boyd cites a Wall Street Analyst and a hedge fund manager who see problems in continued investments in newspapers considering the diffused competition, high cost structures, and growing use of the Internet as a channel for obtaining news. ‘That decreases the need to pay…

Fredrik Wacka cautions against using a corporate blog in a crisis. Caution in a crisis is always good counsel, but one of Wacka’s primary arguments needs closer scrutiny.

In a crisis, emotion is in play more than logic. Publics have emotional responses to crises, which means companies can never come out ahead by engaging in rational debate no matter how right they…

In the first iteration of the Don Middleberg-Steven Ross “Media in Cyberspace” study several years ago, reporters and editors said they used newsgroups (message board, bulletin boards, forums) for story fodder. Most often they visited the boards for information about a story they were already covering, but some trolled message boards looking for story ideas.

Heath Row from FastCompany magazine (the guy behind the…

A lot of people apparently never got the word that the blog-vs.-journalism debate was over. I’m reading more commentaries by journalists now than I was before the end of the issue was proclaimed. The latest comes from Slate editor-at-large Jack Shafer, published in today’s National Post. Shafer has no issue with bloggers, only the notion that somehow they represent the end of…

If the blog-journalism war is over (or was stupid to begin with), nobody told Nick Coleman. The columnist from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune has launched an outright war against bloggers, warning other journalists that nothing good can come from blogging and that they need to be aware of blogs and prepared to fire back at blog posts.

Coleman’s comments—and the story of how he came to…

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