Tag: blogger
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Link Economy Challenges Mount as Economy Falters
Image via Wikipedia With the Web’s advertising engine stalling just as newspapers are under pressure, some publishers are second-guessing their liberal attitude toward free content. “A lot of news organizations are saying, ‘We’re not willing to accept the tiny fraction of a penny that we get from the page views that these links are sending…
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25 Things I Learned From SXSW | 2chicksblogging.com
It was a fantastic learning experience and I came away with some head-exploding resources and ideas. You can read about my experience at my blog, The Learned Fangirl, but here are 25 things that I came away with from the conference (based on the copious note taking that I did while there) I’ve been sharing…
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10 journalism rules you can break on blogs | Save the Media
Read the rules and see if you agree. There are a couple that I take issue with… So there’s a part of me that loves blogging because you’re allowed to break the journalism rules. In fact, I’d argue the best bloggers break them regularly because blogging isn’t a news story; it shouldn’t read like one;…
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Citizen Blogging Boosts Zimon into Local Politics
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Story from womensenews.org By WeNews correspondent, Jackie Bischof Jill Miller Zimon’s citizen journalism — which includes monitoring Rush Limbaugh’s recent outreach to female detractors–has spurred her to run for a city council seat in Pepper Pike, Ohio. “Any resident can help make our city better,” she says. via Citizen…
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Times Techie and Barbara Iverson Share a Vision of the Future of News
Nick Bilton, an editor in the New York Times research and development lab, was interviewed in Wired.com and he talked about things that seem so logical and reasonable, I loved it. Why not have an avatar send a copy of a personalized newspaper to my e-paper or even print it out in Starbucks? Jason Epstein,…
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Time Magazine List: 25 Best Blogs 2009 – TIME
Image by biverson via Flickr Talking Points Memo – 25 Best Blogs 2009 – TIME. Aren’t lists of the best and worst fun to read? Time will grab your interest with this feature. They diss slashdot, one of my perennial favs and give Huffpo more credit than I would, but obviously I spent time with…
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A glimpse of the future of journalism from two bloggers
Here are two very different posts from two very different blogs. Yet, each in its own way shows us how the future of journalism might or might not evolve. Both of the bloggers currently write from Texas, but in this case, I think the geographical information is not important. One blogger reveals his “heretical secret”…
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Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) launches a New Media Index tracking blogosphere
Image by biverson via Flickr About the New Media Index | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ). PEJ is launching the New Media Index as a companion to its weekly News Coverage Index. Blogs and other new media are an important part of creating today’s news information narrative and in shaping the way Americans interact…
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Army general “gets” blogging and uses it with troops
The general shrugs the interactions off as no big deal. “Fundamentally what I’m doing is not new. What I’m doing is communicating with my soldiers. What’s new is the medium in which we’re communicating.” via Blogging General Reaches Out to Troops, Blows Off Security Fears | Danger Room from Wired.com. According to Wired’s Danger Room,…
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Back to a blog
I’m on sabbatical and that means thinking and having time to try things out. As you may have noticed, I had switched from my blog format to using tumblr for “iverson’s currentbuzz.org” mainly because it is so quick and easy to post something with tumblr. I realized that while I was able to database and…
Barbara K Iverson 