I spent the day at a conference on “Covering Politics in Cyberspace” put on by USC’s Annenberg School for Communication. Basically, the idea of the conference was to get a group of around twenty five journalists together to discuss how they will be covering the 2008 election cycle. The concept for first day (today) was to bring in experts on online politics and political bloggers to talk to reporters about what they should be looking for....
Continue ReadingThe “Are Republicans Behind Online?” conversation produced another handful of posts today. David All started things back up with a column in the Politico. Mike Turk weighed in and then weighed in again with the thinking behind shutting down the RNC’s Team Leader program (which I helped build). Patrick Ruffini put in his two cents as did James Joyner (who coincidentally I watched on a panel today in LA.)
I think this topic is pretty well surrounded but have one miniscule point to make....
Continue ReadingI just spent a couple hours working on a project in which I had to identify the location of a couple of hundred news websites. This task was tougher than it should have been.
While many of the sites I visited are pretty and slick, I had a hard time figuring out where the TV or radio stations and newspapers are located,...
Continue Reading“It’s a big-picture site, for big-picture thinkers” according to Managing Editor Christopher Jones and although I’ve not been guilty of any big-picture thinking lately, I do like a big shiny picture on a web site’s home page as much as the next adult A-D-D sufferer....
Continue ReadingWe've talked a good amount on this blog about the value of hyper-local and niche content in the media. Mark Glaser from PBS Mediashift had a great post a couple of days ago talking about the value and difficulty of getting locally-based sites maintained by citizen journalists off the ground. ...
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