Earlier this year I was invited to attend the international Reporting New Realities media conference in Hong Kong. With financial help from the Asia NZ Foundation I was able to not only go to the conference but also spend a few days exploring Hong Kong and, very briefly, Guangzhou in southern China. The latter was [...]
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
A couple more links from this morning’s tab-clearing activities. Semantic BBC Been meaning to point to this for a while. Interesting post about how BBC used dynamic semantic publishing on its World Cup 2010 website. The underlying publishing framework does not author content directly; rather it publishes data about the content – metadata. The published [...]
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
My browser is close to exploding under the weight of so many open tabs so I’m in tab-clearing mode this morning. Here’s a link wrap of things that lodged in my brain for one reason or another recently. TBD Mathew Ingram does a nice round-up on two US local-news-and-blog-network initiatives, TBD and GrowthSpur. TBD.com, which [...]
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
The Times paywall has been the subject of plenty of speculation and comment. I won’t weigh in on what, how, why and how well they’re doing but here’s a roundup of some of the commentary I’ve read recently: The Guardian said the Times website had lost almost 90% of its readers since the paywall kicked [...]
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
From a PBS blog post, via givemesomethingtoread.com, which pulls out great stuff bookmarked for later reading on Instapaper (and which I came across in a Twitter link from @stkonrath), comes a lovely piece Mark Twain wrote (and probably didn’t finish) about what it’s like to be interviewed. “Concerning the ‘Interview.’” No one likes to be [...]
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
I’m breaking my own rule. Until recently I’d sworn off subscribing to magazines because too often they pile up in a corner unread and mock me. But I’ve decided to subscribe to Lapham’s Quarterly. Partly because it’s a quarterly and I reckon I can handle four issues a year. Partly because the magazine’s sturdy enough [...]
Monday, July 12, 2010
From the Nieman report The Digital Landscape: What’s Next for News? comes a few thoughts about our brains, the way we respond to digital media and what that might mean for journalism. Ooh, shiny shiny Russell Poldrack, a professor of psychology and neurobiology and director of the Imaging Research Center at the University of Texas [...]
Friday, July 2, 2010
The future of journalism in New Zealand There’s a lunchtime series of talks coming up about the future of ‘serious journalism’ in New Zealand that looks interesting. Organised by the University of Auckland, the talks will run each Tuesday lunchtime (1pm) from July 20 to August 24 at the Maidment Theatre in Auckland. The topics [...]
Thursday, July 1, 2010
I reckon I read 10 to 15 per cent of what a news org produces on a given day; more on some days, less on others, and some days none at all. So my perception of ‘the news’ as a whole is based on this small amount I see of what the world’s news orgs [...]
Thursday, June 10, 2010
A few weeks back I attended an International Media Conference in Hong Kong along with hundreds of journalists from a staggering array of Asia-Pacific countries including Myanmar, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, China, US, Taiwan, Australia, Japan, Singapore and Nepal. I travelled to the conference with financial support from the Asia NZ Foundation, which aims to [...]
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