Posted on January 27, 2005 11:04 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Media
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…
Posted on December 28, 2004 10:48 am by Shel Holtz | Media
The blogosphere is teeming today with items about where you can send your contributions to aid in humanitarian and relief efforts in the wake of the strongest earthquake in 40 years and the resulting tsunami. Keeping track of each of these blogs would be dicey at best, even with the massive amount of trackbacking and cross-linking that’s going on.
It’s a situation that puts…
Posted on December 27, 2004 8:19 am by Shel Holtz | Media
Bacon’s publisher Ruth McFarland wasn’t entirely convinced that blogs warranted inclusion in the media monitoring company’s list of media worth monitoring. Blogs have made enough of an impact (e.g., coverage as an also-ran in Time’s Person of the Year coverage) that McFarland has relented and assigned three of her 56 editors to keep an eye on the blogosphere.
“The news cycle for a story sometimes…
Posted on December 13, 2004 10:57 am by Shel Holtz | Media
The Media Drop has produced a list of 142 newspapers that offer RSS feeds. Media Drop author Tom Biro (originally misreported as Tim Porter, who does First Draft) also has his next steps planned: “I plan on contacting the PR contacts at some of the larger newspaper companies and asking them if a) they have feeds available that haven’t been found yet or b)…
Posted on December 13, 2004 10:50 am by Shel Holtz | Media
Self-described “recovering journalist” Mark Potts and his partner, Susan DeFife, are launching Backfence.com, another entry in the growing open-source journalism field. According to Potts, interviewed for a Washington Post article, major media newspapers are unable to get to the “hyper-local” news that will make up the content of Backfence.com. ““A housewife or hardware store owner can have something to contribute, that’s important to them, that would be way…
Posted on December 9, 2004 9:57 am by Shel Holtz | Media
We’ve been talking about citizen journalists and news sites where readers write the news for some time now. The trend has reached a point where some think it’s worth investing some money. According to a Washington Post story,
Several notable ventures have launched or raised money this year to create local news sites online in which readers contribute all or most of the news.…
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