I’ll be flying to Princeton University early tomorrow for a two-day workshop on the Future of News, put on by the Center for Information Technology Policy. The workshop will be broadcast live and can be accessed at www.princeton.edu/webmedia on Wednesday and Thursday. Panels are The People Formerly Known as the Audience; Economics of News; Data […]
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ReelChanges: viewer-funded documentaries
Big banner on the wall: “How can the intersection of journalism & technology serve democracy?” That’s the overarching theme of NewsTools 2008, where 200 or so folks are gathered today (and tomorrow) at Yahoo! as well as Saturday at a Sunnyvale hotel for Innovations in Journalism Expo 2008. I’ll post a few highlights from today: […]
At Digital Hollywood 2007
Back now from Digital Hollywood in LA. Met a lot of great folks there, like David Gale of MTV New Media, Eric Forst of Visible Technologies, Alex Nesbitt of DigitalPodcast.com, Ann Greenberg of Sceneplay, James Segil of Edgecast, Brenda Garcia-Wierzchucki of Archos and Mark Rotblat of TubeMogul, among others. And saw a lot of familiar […]
TechCrunch doesn’t understand ‘off the record’
Nelson’s weblog on When bloggers aren’t journalists. Or, how TechCrunch doesn’t understand ‘off the record.’ To help the TechCrunch gang, here’s journalistic sourcing at Wikipedia: "On-the-record": all that is said can be quoted and attributed. "Unattributable": what is said can be reported but not attributed. [Actually, this is almost always called "On background."] "Off-the-record": the […]
My interview with BlogTalkRadio
John C. Havens, vice president at BlogTalkRadio, has been doing interviews with participants at the Online News Association conference in Toronto. Here’s the blogtalkradio page with all the interviews. I just finished up a 25-minute talk with him about the state of online news, blogging, the personal media revolution and Ourmedia. You can listen to […]