Digital Journalism

"Here is a very rough look at how a storystreaming platform could be used to make sense of the confusing flood of information coming out of social media streams." - Kevin Sablan from Bookmarklet

"But as journalists rely more and more on user-generated content, there’s also risks. The content is hard to verify, the sources are often anonymous and when the material was shot is usually not clear. " - Kevin Sablan from Bookmarklet

I used Google to find pages that link to the 10 U.S. newspapers with the largest circulation. - Kevin Sablan from Bookmarklet

Intel's Dispute Finder lets you highlight text you think is false & report as disputed. Video uses #iranelection example. - Kevin Sablan from Bookmarklet

It's sad because it's largely true. - Kevin Sablan from Bookmarklet

"protests are happening by Internet and the Iranian government is not happy." - Kevin Sablan from Bookmarklet

"Tim Weber of the BBC thought the question of whether the internet was a friend or foe was a "false conflict". The BBC was embracing new platforms because people weren't using its traditional linear platforms like they did in the past." - Kevin Sablan from Bookmarklet

"Many are misusing Twitter to drive traffic to their site," said Byrne. "Just spitting out headlines and decks is counterproductive." [me: THANK YOU!] - Kevin Sablan from Bookmarklet

interesting! - Jacob

(new blog post) - Kevin Sablan from Bookmarklet

My new post just shows tweets from a few people who frequently share links to news about the news industry. - Kevin Sablan from Bookmarklet

Why I love this: It's a Sunday night, just a few reporters in the newsroom, but there's someone with the skill to add an alert to the OCRegister.com homepage about an earthquake, and, oh by the way, that also happens to be the same person with access to (and an identity on) the Register's very human Twitter presence, @OCReggie. - Ryan Sholin from Bookmarklet

My colleague's account of working a night reporter shift and working Twitter when an earthquake hit. - Kevin Sablan from Bookmarklet

"We have a great generational divide, not just about the delivery of news, but why journalism is important and how journalism can affect lives... If any of these events were left simply to the bloggers or to people who Twitter or the radio talk hosts of America, how informed would the world be if that were the case? We have to become evangelists for our own profession and our place in this country." - Kevin Sablan from Bookmarklet

Is this a sign that we've entered the "Era of Social Colonization" as described by Jeremiah Owyang and Forrester? - Kevin Sablan from Bookmarklet

lol - Pownce - Matthew DeVries

Yeah, that's a good one. I guess we could call it a visual representation of the how members fall off of the overcrowded social bandwagon all the time. - Kevin Sablan

Really, don't click, unless you really want to read another "embrace user-generated content" post. But look at that headline! Man, they got me. And I thought I was immune to linkbait. DARN! I should know better. - Kevin Sablan from Bookmarklet

"MediaNews execs: We'll no longer give away all our print content to web users" - Kevin Sablan from Bookmarklet

"A new essay in a journalism industry magazine contends that middle-aged newspaper columnists are alienating young readers by making fogeyish cultural references they don't understand" We need this for TV shows, too! - Kevin Sablan from Bookmarklet

A more thoughtful look at the issues around pay walls than many. - Adam Tinworth from Bookmarklet

"If they did the job they say they do, following the truth where ever it leads, we would have avoided a lot of problems." Assuming that's true, would it have staved off declining circulation and tanking ad industry? - Kevin Sablan from Bookmarklet

Possibly. The one thing I'm discovering as I talk to more friends from outside the journalism community, the more I discover how disenchanted people have become with journalists. This comment sums it up, I think: http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archive... - Adam Tinworth

Is Frank Rich's comment true? "Web advertising will never be profitable enough to support ambitious news gathering." Maybe not current advertising models, but can new models and/or formats be created that con support such efforts? - Kevin Sablan from Bookmarklet

Like so many these days, Rich is arguing against someone who doesn't exist. If someone (well, maybe other than Jarvis) said that online advertising (alone) was going to support ambitious news gathering, I missed the memo. There is amazing, productive, and certainly ambitious news gathering coming out of print/web hybrid models, nonprofit efforts, or indeed, some level of straight ahead... more... - Ryan Sholin

Great point, Ryan. No one seems to be saying "ads alone will save news gathering." Print-based news organizations that earn most of their revenue from ads are in dire need of portfolio diversification, and I think most of them realize that now.I agree with all that, and think that products that deliver better results can and should be developed for advertisers as well. More effective equals more value equals higher asking price equals greater revenue. - Kevin Sablan

Unfortunately, the article gives little information to make any kind of decision. Luckily, many of friendfeed folk have been following the many discussions. What say you ... "Are blogs, news aggregators like Google, and citizen journalists destroying traditional, in-depth investigative reporting?" - Kevin Sablan from Bookmarklet

James, did you see my article about using semantic technologies for story development and reader interaction? http://mediageeks.ning.com/profile... - John Cass

Oh, Jarvis. - Ryan Sholin from Bookmarklet