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NYT executive editor Bill Keller, on his educational three-week hiatus from print journalism. - Dave Earley

"The new model for news curation and selection, I feel, will be a balance of professional editing and collaborative news filtering." - Dave Earley

Julie Posetti talks to ABC local radio about #media140, journalism and social media - Dave Earley

TED talk by Rory Sutherland about the role of advertising in paid content - Dave Earley

Visualisation from last month of US newspapers' paid circulation, change in circulation, stock price crashes, newspaper advertising spend - Dave Earley

Mark Scott: "Part of this transformation internally is a view about our online content. Unlike other media organisations, we don’t need to bring audiences back to our home page so we can sell traffic to advertisers, to get the clicks to monetise. More than 8 million Australians are now spending increasing time each month on Facebook. And at the ABC, we are now creating widgets so people can take ABC content they like – content they helped pay for – and allow them to share it through their own social networks. They become our distributors." - Dave Earley

"Nielsen claim the number of people in Australia watching video online has risen from 25.2% in 2006 to 79.1% in 2009 so, with more and more people watching video online in Australia and interest growing at a rapid rate, why the lack of content in Australia?" - Dave Earley

"Nielsen claim the number of people in Australia watching video online has risen from 25.2% in 2006 to 79.1% in 2009 so, with more and more people watching video online in Australia and interest growing at a rapid rate, why the lack of content in Australia?" - Dave Earley

The ultimate list of third party and web-based Twitter clients and apps. I keep forgetting it, so a bookmarking is required. - Dave Earley

My point exactly: It's not like they're breaking into your home, because you're not trying to sell anything from your home. They're breaking into your shop, but instead of stealing anything, they're itemising the content you're selling, then going and advertising it for you... Link: "If you can't monetize being first and having all the contacts and the details, doesn't that suggest a problem with your own ways of trying to monetize, rather than with what your competitors are doing?" - Dave Earley

Krugman? - Jim Norris

"I'm objective, you're political." - Jay Rosen

"companies ought to ask an important follow-up question regarding their short-term and long-term marketing goals: What specific kinds of engagement would your brand really benefit from?" - Dave Earley

Reporter's Guide to Multimedia Profiency - 15 topics in multimedia journalism - Dave Earley

EveryBlock's open source code. - Dave Earley

Asking the question: What do we need to tell Australia's government to build our technology industry? The goal is to place Australia as a global innovation centre, with this paper hoping to form the beginning of dialogue between industry and government. - Dave Earley

"Before they jump into charging for content, news organizations must bypass the quality journalism argument and answer these five questions instead: 1. Will the content behind the pay wall be unique and essential to users? 2. What about the competition? 3.Is it even possible to put a lid on your content? 4. How many users are you likely to lose? 5. What is your plan for finding out what people in your community will pay for and providing it to them?" - Dave Earley

A bit of discussion at ReadWriteWeb about Chris Anderson's new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price - Dave Earley

[Social media, and using it to report, is neither owned by the journalism school nor the journalist. Everyone can learn how to report using social media, anyone can report using social media. Anyway, the 10 ways in the article are:] 1. Promoting Content 2. Interviewing 3. News Gathering and Research 4. Crowdsourcing and Building a Source List 5. Publishing with Social Tools 6. Blog and Website Integration 7. Building Community and Rich Content 8. Personal Brand 9. Ethics: Remember, You're Still a Journalist 10. Experiment, Experiment, Experiment - Dave Earley

Circle of life ... - Kate Foy

Congrats on your newborn. I'm sorry about your loss. I found out I was pregnant with my son a few months after we buried my last grandparent, also my grandmother who was my favorite relative. It was hard knowing she wasn't there. - Anika

Thanks Anna. - Dave Earley from email

Great quote from Anna Quindlen in her farewell column for Newsweek, on the hope of "what journalism ought to be", after reading submissions for the Livingston Awards. "The next time anyone insists the business won't survive I may bash him with one of these binders, which are heavy with hope for the future." - Dave Earley

There's lucrative opportunity to reach out to former newspaper advertisers and become a more trusted source of local news. "WJBK VP/General Manager Jeff Murri says subscribers number around 5,000, and the base is growing significantly every day. “It's an easy way for former newspaper readers to get their morning news. Clearly these people are looking for alternative sources of information.” As major markets such as Seattle and Denver have said goodbye to well-established dailies, and the likes of San Francisco and Boston ponder a future without papers [...] local television executives are studying what new prospects await them in a paper-free world. There's lucrative opportunity to reach out to former newspaper advertisers and, perhaps even more significant, there's a chance to become a more trusted source of local news." - Dave Earley

yes do that, it is nice and quiet here - we need you to wake me up - Gavin Costello

I should be using FriendFeed more....but the only time I get in here is when I get an email from them... - Dave Earley

QUOTE: "Social journalism ... is now an essential component of any news organization’s strategy. Citizen journalists post photos of fast-breaking events, and cover stories from a different angle than legacy news organizations, but it’s the premeditated watchdog or advocacy role that defines a social journalist. Another factor is the network effect: people using social media to communicate and collaboratively produce content. Editors are still important, but the pieces are shaped by crowd dynamics and the velocity of information." - Dave Earley

QUOTE: "Sure, it would be great if you could hire one single person who could do everything. We call that “computer jesus” — and you need to accept the fact that there really are not many people in the world who can walk on water." - Dave Earley

QUOTE: "I'm most drawn to the applications developer and hacker journalist roles -- probably because the former is most similar to my previous life as a software developer, and the latter because it sounds cool as hell. Other programmer-journalists would have different feelings about their ideal job. Database junkies, visualization geeks and HTML hackers all have a place in this profession." - Dave Earley

“The proposal was to create a newsroom: a group of developers-slash-journalists, or journalists-slash-developers, who would work on long-term, medium-term, short-term journalism—everything from elections to NFL penalties to kind of the stuff you see in the Word Train.” This team would “cut across all the desks,” providing a corrective to the maddening old system, in which each innovation required months for permissions and design. The new system elevated coders into full-fledged members of the Times—deputized to collaborate with reporters and editors, not merely to serve their needs." "...and suddenly you recognize what you’ve been soaking in: not a cheap imitation of a print newspaper but a vastly superior version of one. It may be the only happy story in journalism." - Dave Earley

Post by Tim Burrowes, inspired by thoughts from Jason Whittaker, with comments from PANPA CEO Mark Hollands. This thread is a must read :) "Until, suddenly, they weren’t monopolies any more. People could get their news - such that it was - elsewhere and do their advertising online. It wasn’t that the newspaper-finds-out-interesting-things, reader-buys-it, advertiser-advertises model was broken, it’s just that managements started trying to do the first bit on the cheap." - Dave Earley

"Google is the largest, most influential media brand in the world. Its contribution to expanding and harnessing the power of the internet, to exposing more people to more of the world, is immense. But its contribution to journalism is almost zilch." - Dave Earley

"Australian results of their 2008 Worldwide Mobile Data Service (MDS) Study [...] growth in the number of Australians using their mobile phone for a wider range of products and services. [...] 41% of respondents were interested in mobile banking, 44% were interested in the ability to pay for things with their mobile phone and 31% of respondents were interested in using community sites." - Dave Earley

"two thirds of [Australian] internet users looked at other people’s content on social networking sites during 2008 – this is according to Nielsen Online’s latest ‘Consumer Generated Media’ report. The report, aimed at providing an analysis of consumer generated media (CGM) in Australia, shows that CGM has become a mainstream activity for the majority of internet users. " - Dave Earley

Don't wait, just train yourself. "The funny thing about the new wave of journalism is that news organizations are requiring journalists to learn additional technical skills, but aren't making the necessary training readily available. In order to be or remain employed in this industry its essential to hunker down and learn some new skills." - Dave Earley