I want to touch on a subject that has opened a discussion around the building amongst online folks and photojournalists in the past few weeks.
About two weeks ago I approached the photography department to see about shooting local high school prom photos for online publication.
Mainly, I wanted photos of people standing next to each other [...]
Fake Steve Jobs was the funniest keynote at Web 2.0 this past week and his story also is a classic of an old media type embracing the new media type based on his boredom, humor and a creative drive. Here is a shortened video. Check it out. It’s worth it.
By the way, Fake Steve Jobs [...]
As I mentioned earlier, my colleagues Becky.com, Todd and Ted and I, attended the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco this past week.
We’re all from a local media company so the opinions and thought are all coming from that perspective. We blogged from the Expo continuously at WediaBuzz but I wanted to point out some [...]
I don’t think it’s a good idea to replicate content, so I am going to point to blog posts I make on WediaBuzz.com about the Web 2.0 Expo. WediaBuzz is the blog that my company’s Web Best Practices Group uses. Four members, including myself, are attending the expo this week.
Anyway, the first workshop I attended [...]
I’ve probably mentioned this before, but I’m not sold on the title Web 2.0. But I’m here in San Francisco for the Web 2.0 Expo which kicks offs today with a couple of three-hour workshop sessions. The full expo gets going tomorrow.
The reason I say I’m not a huge fan of the title Web 2.0 [...]
I met my friend Matt while in Ames. We both worked for The Tribune at the time. He nows lives in Corvallis, Oregon working at the Gazette Times. I’m going to see him and his wife next month, and can’t wait. He’s a journalist who gets it and he’s blogging about it theses day over [...]
My friend Tom wrote today that Not Content-Context is King, and I sort of agree with him.
I used to be one of those Web 2.0 junkies with a journalism background who thought content was king. I’ve since fell off that train, and rightly so.
Rather, I argue now that trust is king.
Here’s my reasoning, and don’t [...]
Back on the we media train for a day or so there are a couple of thoughts left from the Mid-American Press Institute workshop that are good to include here.
There was a lot of talk among newsroom mangers at the workshop, and even here at The Gazette, about what are priorities since more is being [...]
Scott Sines of the Commercial Appeal in Memphis could not disagree more with Mike Maness on the philosophy of change and innovation within a media company’s newsroom.
Both have spoken at a Mid-American Press Institute workshop in St. Louis. I wrote about Maness and what he had to say here. On the opposite side, Sines says [...]
Michael Maness, Gannett’s VP of innovation and design, spoke a the Mid-America Press Institute’s multimedia and design workshop in St. Louis Friday night and said the first thing media companies normally do is try to figure out how to change the culture.
Keynote Address: Mike Mannes, vice president, innovation and design, Gannett Co., Inc., will discuss [...]