Archive for the 'purpose' Category
CNN: “How important is saving America’s newspapers?”
0 Comments Published by annieo February 6th, 2009 in citizen journalism, future, journalism, newspapers, purpose, technology.CNN asked viewers to respond to: “How important is saving America’s newspapers?”
Here is my quick, obvious, response:
Today, newspapers are too big and too slow to survive.
The reporters, photographers, infographics specialists and editors with newspapers need to survive. They are experts in gathering essential news and conveying it effectively to the masses.
Most of these professional […]
Newspapers, TV, public radio set new bar for online Election coverage
0 Comments Published by annieo January 14th, 2008 in broadcast, fun, getting things done, gtd, infographics, interactive, internet, journalism, lists, news, newspapers, politics, productivity, purpose, radio, realife event, reporting, socialsoftware, television, trends, usability, user experience, video, virtual event, vote.Audio, video, interactive maps and charts, RSS feeds, automatic updates, candidate match-up quizzes, fun and engaging.
Network news and public radio websites may have the more visually-friendly election coverage, but along with newspapers all three entities are using the above devices/elements to cover the U.S. Presidential Election 2008.
From what I’ve observed so far, the one attribute […]
‘Why do we spoil secrets?’
0 Comments Published by annieo July 22nd, 2007 in journalism, purpose, reporting.Here’s a great story from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
“Why do we spoil secrets?”
The equally great artwork above is courtesy of the San Jose Mercury News.
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This story questions how individuals behave, yet it also brings up the question of how the media reports stories of the Harry Potter ilk. With such much instant information circulating these […]
Tweaking focus of this blog
0 Comments Published by annieo May 28th, 2007 in blogging, exchange ideas, learning, purpose.After a few months working on this blog,
it seems apparent that I would like to revise its focus my mission statement.
Just a bit.
This blog has always been about journalism and how this field is, and needs, to continue moving to the internet to maintain readership, at the minimum. Readership has become more important with the […]
Part 1: My opinion on the 2007 Webby Award nominees
1 Comment Published by annieo April 11th, 2007 in awards, purpose, trends.Looking over the long list of 2007 Webby Award categories, the first category I gravitate to is BEST NAVIGATION/STRUCTURE.
That’s what we all want from the internet, right?
A web site that doesn’t take much thinking to get around, get things accomplished, find the entertainment.
It’s also what helps to bring back readers.
Sure we want web sites that […]
purpose
0 Comments Published by admin March 14th, 2007 in censorship, ethics, exchange ideas, media, purpose.nine lives
they say curiosity killed the cat.
i’m seeking to defy that.
this journal is about:
• sharing legitimate, ethnic, factual and balanced journalism on journalism and its future;
• sharing issues that matter to me which I believe matter to you;
• experimenting with the latest interactive technologies online;
• sharing my own vision of how things work.
I want to […]
After reading my post from yesterday, you’re probably thinking:
“Tell me something I don’t know.”
O.K. I understand, but first I feel compelled to share why I wrote what I did.
In the December 2006 issue of Business 2.0 magazine,
Fred Wilson, Managing partner for Union Square Ventures, wrote the following about adding a blog to his company’s […]
there are a million reasons to blog.
to get attention is a big one. to keep in touch. two founding reasons.
i’ll get to the point: keeping a regularly-updated blog can draw people to return to your site, especially if you have something to offer them.
at first this idea feels insincere — yet if the blog has […]
