Weekend reading
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Here is what I cast my eye over at the weekend:
- Five barriers to journalists using Twitter – Sarah Hartley has a great list of barriers – and rebuttals – to the twitter question. My personal fave is number 3. “I don’t have the time. Your competitors have found time.”
- The Public Editor – A Balancing Act on the Web – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com – The New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt ponders the best elements of digital whilst stressing that whether its print or the web, “the heart of it all is the scope, depth and authority of New York Times reporting”
- The All-Digital Newsroom of the Not-So-Distant Future – I missed this one when it came out but I enjoyed Steve Outing’s take on the changes in newsrooms. He’s “emphasized that the reporter/bloggers in this reinvented digital news organization will interact with readers and participate in social networks where they spread word of their work and collect followers or fans. “
- Reporting for New Media in Six Easy Steps! – I like some of the points in this slideshow. “Do your work , Show your work.” I’d add share your work but it’s a neat presentation
- I Don’t Read The Newspaper – Robert Courtemanche admits what many do but would never ‘fess up to. “I may be a heretic, but I still believe in the power of journalism. I just don’t believe in newspapers as a delivery model anymore. That was the 20th Century, we don’t live there anymore.”
- A typical day in an online-first newsroom « Save the Media – A nice round up of how digital has changed the day of a journalist in the newsroom. I don’t see a mention of RSS feeds in the list. Maybe it’s implied but it would save time.
- Google Chrome for Mac (First Screenshots) – Being a mac owner is always a bit of waiting game. Not sure if I would jump Firefox for this but, the other thing you can say about mac owners is our head is easily turned by the shiny new.
- Commandments of the (bad) webjournalist – The 10 commandments of bad web journalism.
- Are you enslaved by your mobile device? Take this test! van Elsas’s Weblog on new media & technologies and their effect on social behavior – I didn’t take Alexander’s test. Sadly, I knew the answer. But it’s fun.
- FIRST LOOK: PROTOTYPE FOR THE NEW NYTIMES.COM – Juan thinks that the NYTimes prototype article skimmer is dull. In the context of other newspapers and media sites I think it’s pretty brave and very usuable.
- QIT #6 News and music are incomparable | Joanna Geary – “the news industry doesn’t really believe its content has any value other than to provide structure around which to place advertising.” and despite it’s best efforts it will struggle to turn that thinking around
- Illustrative video – Fabian Mohr asks why there isn’t more illustrative video on websites
