Interesting stuff I saw online from Sep. 15 to Sep. 19
Here’s some of the stuff I thought was interesting while stomping through the Internet from Sep. 15 through Sep. 19:
- Comments on a religion blog - Michael Paulson's Articles of Faith Blog - I was most amused by the first comment, paraphrasing Jesus: "Trolls will always be with us." "A colleague of mine suggests that the web is self-correcting; one person posts a nasty comment about the Catholic Church, and another posts a comment rebutting the criticism. And there's an element of truth to that. But the tenor of that exchange is often ugly."
- Columbia Students Cover Presidential Forum via Twitter - Editors of the blog agreed that Twitter enhanced coverage of the forum. "Leading up to the events, our best up-to-the-minute coverage came from people seeing things online or on TV and texting them to their Twitter accounts, which is much faster than us going to our computers and blogging," said Heather Grossmann, one of the editors of the blog.
- LA Observed: Ex-Times reporters sue Zell - "The plaintiffs include several familiar bylines and at least one current Times star. A team has been looking into Zell's leveraged takeover of Tribune almost since he used employee money to get the company."
- Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey - I Want Media - From the St. Louis native and creator of Twitter. He's asked, "Some reports have valued Twitter at nearly $3 billion. Does that sound right?" What does he answer?
Interesting stuff I saw online from Aug. 19 to Sep. 5
Here’s some of the stuff I thought was interesting while stomping through the Internet from Aug. 19 through Sep. 5:
- Knight Foundation announces third year of the Knight News Challenge - The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has announced the >third year of its , which will give out up to $5 million for new ideas for 'digital experiments to transform community news and information exchange'.
- Tribune Interactive Assembles New Content Team - Saying it wanted to increase its search engine optimization and "help build more intriguing content" for Tribune Co. sites, Tribune Interactive (TI) named new appointments to a restructured content team.
- Michael Moore to release free documentary on Web | Technology | Reuters - "This is being done entirely as a gift to my fans," Moore said in a statement. And punishment to his foes?
- Montana Shield Law Protects Anonymous Commenters | Citizen Media Law Project - Favorable ruling for our sister paper: "Montana's shield law does not explicitly encompass online media, but it is hardly surprising that The Billings Gazette qualifies as a protected news organization. Less traditional online platforms like forums or ordinary blogs might not fit so easily within the protections offered by Montana's shield law. The more exciting aspect of the ruling is the court's willingness to equate online commenters with traditional journalistic 'sources.'"
- GoogleCreep: From News Aggregator to News Channel? - When GoogleNews provided live streaming coverage of the Republican convention this week, wasn’t that original content that competed directly for viewers who might have otherwise turned to TV news outlets? Or was that not considered competitive because it was offered in CSPAN style, sans reporters?
- The gatekeeper model is dead (or, "Etaoin Shrdlu: Götterdämmerung is both twilight and a dawn") - Yes, yes, yes! "Nowadays editors can stand at the gate if they want, but the fences are down and all the people are standing over yonder."
- Linking from Trib to Sun-Times? One-stop news…from a newspaper? - But to Meyerson's delight a third reader responded, "I love the fact that you refer to other publications…very classy…reminds me of 'Miracle on 42nd Street'!"