Journalism
What happened to news in 2014
Om Malik [http://om.co/2014/12/31/what-happened-in-2014/]: > 2014 was the year online video became the norm. It was also the year news happened elsewhere than established media brands. Yup.
Kevin Sablan
Dumping the newspaper
Breaking up with newspapers [http://almightylink.ksablan.com/rebirth/why-i-left-newspapers/]: > I’ve found a platform that fulfills my news-reading needs. My Internet-powered cell phone has replaced you, and it’s time for us to go our separate ways. To be honest, newspaper, I’ve been using my new platform
Medium
Medium versus News
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/09/Medium.png] Medium is rejecting chronology as the key way it presents potential reading material [https://medium.com/about/e80cb20d3f03] to users: > Our goals are different: we want to give you great stuff to read. We have tens
apps
Why Tom Morris won't be buying your news app
Well, reason 9 of many [http://tommorris.org/posts/8070]: > Attempt to find the story you wanted to read using a layout and information architecture that’s completely different from the layout and information architecture of the website that you’ve grown familiar with, because some arsehole decided that
Blogging
Calling a blog a blog
Andy Boyle [http://www.andymboyle.com/2012/04/02/stop-calling-it-a-blog-please/] : > It’s time to stop bifurcating your content as blogs and news because they run on separate systems. It is all content, so why not call it that? Even if you have outside people writing posts on your website
history
10 years ago #1
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2011/09/twintowers-2061.html] I had a working lunch on [Wardour Street](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.51419,-0.13456&spn=1.0,1.0&q=51.51419,-0.13456 (Wardour%20Street)&t=h "Wardour Street"
Journalism
Tweeting: the new speed of news
Can you tweet faster than an earthquake travels? Twitter thinks so: Here’s Twitter traffic mentioning earthquakes in the 12 minutes after the quake: I wonder how many news outlets had information up on their site within 12 minutes?
comics
Beyond the inverted pyramid
The tyranny of the inverted pyramid in most journalists’ minds right now is one of my recurring bugbears. It’s a product of print, and of the working techniques needed to get words onto paper in a timely fashion. But people can’t seem to move beyond it in the
carnival of journalism
The path to more news you can use
It’s carnival of journalism time again [http://carnivalofjournalism.com/2011/02/08/were-back-at-it-carnival-of-journalism-jcarn/] , and boy have I struggled with this one. You see, the subject matter is increasing the sources of news. And, my first, second and third reactions were all the same: *Do we need more sources of
Journalism
A foghorn for lies on a giant scale
Journalists are often their own worst enemies.
Journalism
The Journalism Generation Gap
Great stuff: [http://stdout.be/2010/two-cultures-in-media-criticism/] > - The old school would wish the government intervenes to support quality journalism, whereas we’d rather win the support of our fellow citizens through Spot.Us and Kickstarter. > - The old school regularly reminds us that our readers are stupid,
apple
The Only iPhone 4 Post I Need Make
In the future, all news will be reported with unlikely CGI animation…