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Why You Need Comments on Your News Paid Members Public
Any news organisation that’s serious about being accurate needs to read the tale of BBC woe [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/09/24/when-the-lack-of-comments-damages-your-news-brand/] Paul Bradshaw spins. Here’s the money quote: > Of course having comments on the story would have allowed this discussion to take place in public,
On News, Communities and Journalists Paid Members Public
More essential reading for Saturday morning (time for a second cuppa), this time about the relationship between news and online communities [http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/09/newspapers-get-the-kind-of-communities-they-deserve/] : > Our comments routinely point us in the direction of new angles for stories, and in many cases commenters have become sources
A Defined Online Identity Boosts Engagement? Paid Members Public
This cropped up in a post aboutthe latest improvements to Typepad [http://everything.typepad.com/blog/2009/09/movin-on-up-typepad-news-and-release-notes.html] : > Improved comment experience > [![Comment-form-icons-typepad]( "Comment-form-icons-typepad")](http://everything.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c82369e20120a5d7c8a1970c-pi) > Based on some impressive performance on the beta blogs, we have added a few
Using Disqus for Blog Comments Paid Members Public
From this post onwards, I’ve replaced the commenting system on this blog with the [Disqus Comments](http://disqus.com/comments/) system. Disqus is one of the breed of external comment providers that have become popular in the last year or so, that include Automattic’s [Intense Debate](http://intensedebate.
Some Good Reading About The Future of News Paid Members Public
Good stuff I’ve read recently, haven’t linked to yet, but don’t have much to add to right now: * The Nichepaper Manifesto [http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/07/the_nichepaper_manifesto.html] – an articulate and well argued guide to how niche publishing might looks going forwards. * Media
Links: The Community Conversation Paid Members Public
So, back in the office. First proper day back at work, and despite a few of last year’s niggle raising their heads again, I’m still pretty positive about the year ahead – and looking forward to some new challenges that are on the horizon. More on that when I
Web 2.0 Expo Berlin: Better Social Media Plumbing Paid Members Public
Flow apps:- [Snackr](http://snackr.net/) – flow app for Google Reader - [Twhirl](http://www.twhirl.org/) – flow app for Twitter, FriendFeed and others - [FriendFeed](http://www.friendfeed.com) and [Flickr](http://www.flickr.com) have just added flow feeds.Net result: huge fragmentation of existing blog communities
3 Posts About The Future of Blogs & Comments Paid Members Public
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the evolution of blogging, its interaction with social networking, and the role of content-based community on the web in recent weeks. These three posts really chimed with some of my conclusions: - Stephanie takes on[ two evolutions of blogging she really