I'VE BEEN MEANING TO TELL YOUA three items I've been meaning to link to but haven't gotten to until now: Westport Now is online hyperlocal journalism that draws a lot from its readers. Nice site: check out 2004: The Year in Pictures featuring the work of "dozens of contributing photos." From Nicole at A Capital Idea: The Wall Street Journal has begun posting its internal Style & Substance newsletter online. I took a look at the December issue: an entertaining and educational read for anyone interested in writing.
At I Want Media: Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," VH1's "Best Week Ever" and other select shows from MTV Networks are set to be customized for Verizon cell-phone users, starting in February. This comes a day or so after Motorola started showing mockups of a cellphone that integrates with Apple's iTunes to bring MP3s to the cell world. |
EXPLAINING BLOGSDavid Kirkpatrick uses his blog to further explain his Fortune Magazine piece on, you guessed it, blogs. Both are good reads, but this sentence shows why media should be adopting blogs in a big way.
Magazine stories are published under tight space constraints, so there was lots of great stuff Dan and I had to leave out of our cover story. For instance, there's much more to say about the impact of blogs on advertising and public relations. Yep: newsprint (or magazine pages or alloted newscast time) is limited: the space available on the internet is as big as you want it (can afford it) to be. The published story has never been "the final word," but now media has no excuse for not extending the conversation.
SOURCE: DOC SEARLS |
CHECK THE SOURCEThis report at Boing Boing sparked a little outrage...
Stop sketching, little girl -- those paintings are copyrighted! Museum security guard told a child to stop sketching paintings in a museum -- because they're copyrighted. ...until I checked the source, an ABC affiliate, and found this:
Actually, the museum guard was mistaken. There was no copyright issue, and the museum apologizes and is telling artists to sketch away as long as they do not interrupt the flow of traffic in the always crowded gallery. Unfortunately, the above graf didn't appear until nearly two-thirds of the way through the story. Anyone who hit only the Boing Boing report or scanned the first few grafs of the original online report would miss that. Moral of the story: whenever possible, check the sources. AN ASIDE: A little weirdness at the ABC affiliate's site: I had to hit the back button five times before I got back to Boing Boing. The first four times, the ABC page just reloaded. UPDATE: Joi Ito's comments:
What is scary about this story is, just like the notion that ideas (vs the expression of ideas) can and should should be "owned", wrong ideas about copyright propagate very quickly like some bad urban legend and cause this sort of "ignorance creep." 7:14:09 PM LINK TO THIS POST |
THE BUY-INFrom Ed Cone:
John Robinson: "As soon as he's finished with a couple of stories, Lex Alexander will begin designing and building our new Web presence fulltime following the open source journalism model. "His report was comprehensive, and we want to do much of it."
Greensboro is not just an exciting idea: the reality is coming. |
Last update: 1/30/05; 10:21:45 PM .
