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Sunday, June 26, 2005
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The first three items fit the "news media of the future" theme. (The
rest of the words on this page are directly fron the blogs and
publications cited, except for the introductions and closing bits in
square brackets.)
From The New York Times: The Newspaper of the Future.
The Lawrence Journal-World and its parent company have turned a dot on
the map in Kansas into an online metropolis.
From J's Scratchpad: The LA Times Wikitorial.
Somehow I totally missed the news about the L.A. Times Wikitorial until hearing a segment on Weekend America that included an interview with Jimbo Wales, founder of Wikipedia.
The newspaper used a wiki in its editorial section for a little while.
Vandalism got to be too much for them to handle, so they removed it. Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine has some thoughts on why it failed, too. Using wikis on news sites sounds like a great way to inspire
community interaction, as long as people don't abuse it. It's akin to
news organizations hosting blogs.
Via Ed Cone in Greensboro: 'Converge' unconference plans and Vidbloggers on the job.
Lenslinger:
"I see a lot of surveillance tape. Bank robberies, gas station heists,
fast food break-ins -- but...nothing illustrates the casual
brutality of man like a recent piece of tape out of High Point." The video is not pretty, but the interview with Marion McKinney Jr is more heartening.
Lenslinger also says of the video, "If you live
around here, you've seen it." I hadn't. But thanks to his blog, I have.
TV execs, please pay attention: "Let there be downloads."
Via SmartMobs: Do you trust the blogger next to you?
In the ever-expanding world of personal publishing on the Web--whether
it be blogging, audio/video casting or social networking--helping to
establish trust between virtual strangers will be one of the next big
technology issues to tackle, according to several industry executives
here at technology confab Supernova. Source: Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com, June 21, 2005
Last night Sally and I sat down for a chat with Philip K Dick. Whilst
it was no a seance, it was closer to that than to say Mark Twain
Tonight. The Philip K Dick robot from Hanson Robotics (and others)
features a very flexible and eeriely realistic face... [Also see: Best of NextFest]
Software giant hopes to better support the publishing of ordered lists. [But Dave knew first.]
Here's another interesting use of RSS. A solider in Iraq is using a
blog to write home, allowing all his friends to subscribe to his
entries via RSS because military mail is notoriously slow... [Steve also reports other RSS announcements at Gnomedex.]
Producers Martin Smith and Marcela Gaviria of Frontline worked with the
Center for Public Integrity reporters André Verlöy and Bob Williams on
"Private Warriors," a collaborative effort between Frontline, RAINMedia
and the Center for Public Integrity.
Hypertext linkage flurry thanks to Mountain Laureate: In the line of fire -- a toast to journalists who still do the right thing; also via M.L., pointers to a couple of other essays
journalism students and faculty should read for the same reason. (It
was easier for me to link to them from my other address, which I seem
to use about once a season.) And, about two skips later, thanks to M.L.'s blogroll, I landed at a site called Buzzflash with a review of a record I'll just have to buy.
11:31:33 AM 
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Michael Silence of the Knoxville News Sentinel finished out the week the way the publisher of the Metro Pulse began it -- apologizing to South Knox Bubba, a well-known local blogger of the sort sometimes called "citizen journalists."
Ironically, Silence's apology on Saturday concerned his News Sentinel story about the earlier apology, which was from Brian Conley, publisher of the local alt-weekly.
Conley was apologizing for sending SKB e-mail messages that threatened
to reveal the blogger's name, his unrelated business, his credit report
and other personal info by putting them in a Metro Pulse cover story.
Even though his message began, "If I wanted to manipulate you," Conley
said he didn't really mean it.
Next round: Silence was apologizing for his News Sentinel story that
reported Conley's apology without quoting the offensive e-mail, which would have made
it clear that SKB was being threatened with more than revelation of his
name. (In fact, as a result of Conley's mail, SKB felt it necessary to make
those revelations himself, taking the teeth out of what he saw as a
real threat from Conley.)
As Silence points out, his own weblog last week did a better job of telling the story than his newspaper article. He said the print edition's editors
removed the threatening e-mail text and put in more quotes from Conley,
making it sound like SKB was at fault. (That would be for allowing anonymous readers to
make harsh comments about authors of a MetroPulse entertainment
story, the behavior Conley says got him angry in the first place.)
Even News Sentinel editor Jack McElroy ultimately agreed his paper mishandled the SKB story, Silence said, and the editor agreed the result was unbalanced.
(Unless I missed it, both Silence's blog and the News Sentinel
article neglected some meaningful context: SKB and his readers
have long engaged in commenting on Conley's
local business interests as a real estate developer, as well as his ownership of the weekly paper. Many
commenters on SKB's blog suggested Conley's focus on the frivolous
entertainment article was an excuse to
get leverage over those more serious topics.)
Final note: At this point, everyone has apologized and SKB has suggested that folks just drop this
topic and move on, but since I've mentioned the beginning of the saga, I felt I had
to add this closing item. At least that gives me a trendy ending:
I apologize, Bubba.
10:23:11 AM
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