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…
Posted on April 14, 2005 8:31 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Media
When you think of champions for blogs, you think Dan Gillmor, Doc Searls, Mark Cuban. But Rupert Murdoch? Murdoch is portrayed as a traditionalist, an arch-conservative, a tyrant. Yet in a speech last night to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, he sang blogs’ praises and exhorted his audience to stop whining about them and get on board.
According to a report in…
Posted on April 11, 2005 9:21 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Media
Dan Gillmor’s short piece about the value professional journalism brings to the table has elicited a variety of responses. Gillmor points to a New York Times investigation that required a commitment of resources—personnel, money, and time—resulting in an expose. Gillmor doubts any individual blogger would be able to make the same kind of commitment in pursuit of a story.
Pete Shinbach agrees. Andy Lark is…
Posted on March 24, 2005 9:05 am by Shel Holtz | External | Media | RSS
PubSub, which enables monitoring of the blogosphere, has launched a new free service that sends RSS alerts in real time to text messaging-enabled cell phones. Dubbed FeedBeep, the service simply forwards results from selected watch lists to SMS devices such as cell phones.
FeedBeep has been around for a while, but the relationship with PubSub will speed up the process…
Posted on March 23, 2005 9:17 am by Shel Holtz | Media | Participatory Communication
Mark Glaser interviews several people who might someday have the title “Citizen Media Editor,” an official position in the newsroom responsible for the news outlet’s participatory journalism efforts. Writing in Online Journalism Review, Glaser notes…
...it’s not surprising that the more industrious news sites have started to ask their readers to take on citizen media projects, submit photos, start a blog or give live online feedback…
Posted on March 23, 2005 8:57 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Media
A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released March 11 revealed, not surprisingly, that traditional news outlets remain the dominant source of information for Americans. According to an article on EditorsWebLog.org, traditional news outlets shouldn’t get too comfortable. The piece cites for reasons things will change, including…
- Demographics, which suggest younger people read blogs while older people read newspapers. It’s not hard to see where this trend is…
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