Link journalism: Last column for ASNE in print?
The American Editor, the magazine for the American Society of News Editors, is no longer going to be publishing in print — as I understand it. Great idea, if you ask me. I’ve been writing a column for the magazine for the past two or three years. And frankly, a quarterly magazine is a bit of anachronism in this day and age — particularly when I’m writing about online journalism.
As always, the target audience is largely people who aren’t as up to speed on this stuff as most readers of this and similar blogs.
Anyway, this may very well be the last column for the printed version of the The American Editor. They’re in the midst of revisiting how to publish. I wrote this several months ago. It came out not too long ago, though it’s not up on The American Editor web site yet.
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The most-viewed story on Jack Lail’s web site last year wasn’t a story. And it wasn’t news he or anyone in his newsroom produced.
No, the biggest story on KnoxNews.com was a list of updated, outbound links to blogs and other media sites, chronicling the drama between the departure of Tennessee Volunteers’ football coach Phillip Fulmer and the hiring of his replacement, Lane Kiffin. Read more
Interesting stuff I saw online, May. 30 to May. 31
Here’s some of the stuff I thought was interesting while stomping through the Internet from May. 30 through May. 31:
- Four observations about charging for news that are often overlooked – “Plenty has been written about the futility of erecting pay walls — much of which I agree with — but a few points are often overlooked.”
- 100 Amazing Free Wordpress Themes for 2009 – “High quality free Wordpress Themes have become harder and harder to find in the past year, with the influx of premium themes, more and more designers and developers are selling themes (and rightly so, they do amazing work). But, that aside, the quality is certainly there, and we are sure you will be impressed with this Wordpress theme compilation for 2009.”
- Getting the mean out of comments – A group of citizens meeting on the evening of May 20 in Knoxville over sandwiches and sweet tea might be end up influencing how news sites across the country view and manage comments.
- Cyberbullying: What the research is telling us… – “Delivered to the Year of the Child summit, this talk surveys the current research on cyberbullying and online harassment, pulling in Pew Internet data as well as the work of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, Internet Solutions for Kids and other academics and scholars researching this topic.”
Kurt's Tweets- @bfelice Hey, thanks so much for the heads-up on this. Great to see.
- Funny. SW airlines magazine bothers to mention that pacemakers are always authorized electronic devices. #fb
- A disgrace, St. Louis. People still litter? http://post.ly/OUsk
- Redemption for Lindsey Jacobellis in snowboardcross? Only click if you really wanna know. http://bit.ly/99OgbM
- West Countians: If you're in the market for a pancake supper tonight, there's one here: http://stmartinschurch.org.