The most interesting thing to come out of last night’s Technorati Developers Salon — at least from the perspective of this new media guy — was the slide that David Sifry showed depicting the number of links back to each media site from the blogosphere. The importance of this measurement is obvious: The higher your […]
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Wrapping up the U. of Florida symposium
Here are some photos from the University of Florida’s Symposium on Converged Journalism, including Elizabeth Spiers of Gawker/New York mag fame (left). I was happy to see Buzz Bruggemann drive down from Orlando and join us for the conference on April 1. Dave Winer, who was in the area on family business, also joined us […]
Journalism symposium at U. of Florida
I’m off to Gainesville, Florida, tomorrow morning (taking BART to SFO Airport at 4:14 am — ugh) for three days, so won’t be checking email and will only sporadically update this blog. Here’s the event: The Third Annual Symposium on Converged Journalism at the University of Florida. Conference details (Flash required). When: Thursday, April 1, […]
BBC’s new media director on television’s future
This morning I interviewed Ashley Highfield, the BBC’s director of new media, for my book about the digital media revolution. Wonderful, and terribly bright, fellow. (He delivered a brilliant speech last fall to the Royal Television Society titled “TV’s Tipping Point: Why The Digital Revolution Is Only Just Beginning.” I’ve decided to do something with […]
A nifty personalized news site
I’ve written thousands of words about personalized news, for OJR here and here, and on my blog here. So I was intrigued when the Greg Linden, the founder of Findory News, steered me to its personalized news site. In a word, I was impressed. Whenever I chose a story that interested me and clicked back […]