This is the blog of Julie Starr and allaboutthestory.com - visit now to buy news features, images and cartoons. I write about the news business and consult on newsroom integration and change projects.
I am currently working on...
* Newsroom change management and web-and-print development for Fairfax Media NZ.
* Media liaison for Webstock 2012. It's going to be another great conference: here's the speaker list. Email me if you'd like to interview one of these smart people. (We'll do our best depending on everyone's availability.) julie@allaboutthestory.com.
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All Evolving Newsroom
This is why Webstock rocks
I’m at Webstock and I’m sitting across the table from a guy who built the BBC’s iPlayer and customisable homepage, next to the manager of NZ On Screen and listening to US journalist and blogger Annalee Newitz talk about how science fiction gives us vocabulary and a frame of reference for emerging technologies.
Earlier today I heard from Derek Featherstone about how difficult the web is to navigate for people using screen readers and about some of the strengths and shortcomings of TV via Russell Brown.
Yesterday I heard first-hand about the highs and lows of managing online communities from Flickr community manager Heather Champ and Fray founder Derek Powazek, saw art created by programmers via Cameron Adams and learned about feedback loops in science, nature and business from Nat Torkington.
I was impressed down to my shoes by Adrian Holovaty talking about everyblock.com, interested to hear about the Guardian‘s goals for participatory journalism from community experience director Meg Pickard, and genuinely moved by some of the collaborative creativity shepherded into being by Ze Frank.
And that’s less than half of it. This is an outstanding conference.