studying the media ecosystem
Earlier this week I stumbled into conversation with Catherine McMillan a Canadian women who maintains a blog called Small Dead Animals. She wrote back at one point:
“SDA is a hobby - the fact that it’s drawn over 6 million visits in 3 years, and some of the most loyal regular readers in the blogosphere (including many [...]
Among the occasional contributors to MiniMediaGuy are entries from Der Cuz, aka Deep Cuz, a person whose geography shall remain secret, whose gender is of the belching, beer-guzzling sort, and whose genetic material contains, as does mine, a healthy dose of the pasta-twirling, hand-waving Italian-American DNA. The image (left) of the 1984 film, “The Pope of Greenwich [...]
I had meant to continue yesterday’s blog about a report from Harvard suggesting that online newspaper growth is slowing. But then I read a comment by Mark Hamilton that pointed me to a perfectly good analysis of that very same report written by Alan (Newsosaur) Mutter.
I’ll excerpt from that posting later, but first the laughter.
In rooting around Mutter’s site I came on a prior entry in [...]
Meanwhile on the front lines in the news wars, beleaguered print journos must wonder whether or not time is on their side. Thus far conventional wisdom has held that readers are moving from the once-lucrative newspapers and magazines to the less profitable but fast growing online medium. Thus if the paid newsies can only hold on long enough the [...]
Surrender my byline? As a member of the working press I say, “Fat chance!”
But after reading ”Proposed: Death to Bylines“ by former Washington Post editor Craig Stoltz my inner cynic warmed to the idea that only “single-author blogs or opinion pieces” should be identified by name.
Think of it as a truth-in-advertising issue beginning with the definition of the news.
Mass media tend toward consensus. The bulk of the news is a stream of details and developments on [...]
A Poynter Institute commentary inspired me to revisit NowPublic.com, “the citizen journalism site that recently lined up $10.6 million in funding. “
In clicking through NowPublic, I came across a posting filed by a Jim Colela, a self-identified British freelancer living near Istanbul:
“Turkish authorities have blocked all access to Wordpress.com . . . it is completely unknown why . [...]
Poynter Institute commentator Butch Ward lookS at an experiment that will invite opinion leaders in Philadelphia to join a public discussion about how to make theirs ”The Next Great City.” The discussion is being run by Chris Satullo, a columnist for the Philadelphia Enquirer, working with the University of Pennsylvania’s Project on Civic Engagement.
In his posting Ward writes:
“(The public discourse) will culminate in [...]
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