Monthly Archives: September 2008
‘We need to be skeptical of everything, but not equally skeptical of everything’
More from Technorati's State of the Blogosphere 2008. This time a few words of note from journalist Dan Gillmor on how we decide who to trust as we become swamped with information from an increasing number of diverse sources: From a journalistic perspective: Blogging and other conversational media are entering a new phase when it comes to community information needs — they're growing up. Traditional media are using these tools to do better journalism, and are beginning to engage their audiences in the journalism.
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Blogging is niche and slowing, says RWW
ReadWriteWeb posts about Technorati's latest breakdown of the blogosphere and disagrees that the figures show blogging has become mainstream.
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What Samuel Johnson has to offer the
news business
It strikes me as timely to ponder this, from British essayist and lexicographer Samuel Johnson: What is written without effort is, in general, read without pleasure.
Justin’s survival guide for sub-editors
I've been meaning to point to this for a while. It's a post from Justin Williams, workflow guru and assistant editor at Telegraph Media Group in the UK. He talks about the decline of the role of sub-editors, or rather an evolutionary blurring of the lines between what a sub, a news editor, commissioning editor and web editor does. "If I was a reporter now and an old hand sidled up to me and suggested that I might like to retrain as a sub, I’d run a mile. And as for joining one of the nationals’ subbing schemes for graduate trainees … fugeddaboutit."
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ReadWriteWeb signs syndication deal with
New York Times