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”Overall, USA Today deserves an ‘A’ for effort and for pushing ahead with innovation on its site, especially in its attempt to include readers in both feedback and in story generation.”

”This is exactly the direction USA Today needs to follow. However, it doesn’t go quite far enough. In addition to building these features, the media need to bridge their communities to the ones where we already spend our time.”

”I would have introduced the new features, but applied them to the existing layout and design. I think the 92% of readers with negative comments were reacting to the layout changes, not the feature enhancements.”

”Could it be that it’s really the social media revolutionaries who ‘don’t get it’ when they assume that what the people want is to rise up against the media autocracy and take control, when in fact what most people want is to get high quality informat

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”That’s not as easy an exercise in networked journalism as, say, comparing prices for drugs across the country, one of the early examples thrown out for NewAssignment, or comparing companies’ family policies. But they didn’t go for easy out of the g

”One observer called it ‘the Seinfeld of the internet … a website about nothing’.”

”What you start with is wrong. At least what we started with was. Fortunately, we planned on being wrong, and have revamped most aspects of what we built.”

”Traditionellt, säger Vinh, handlade det om narrativ design, om att berätta en historia. På webben handlar det i stället om design för konversation, om att föra en dialog med läsarna.”

”It’s a simple concept recently, one Jay dubbed “pro-am journalism.” Assignment Zero will use the crowd to do much of the traditional legwork needed to do go reporting /…/. The crowd will be assisted by professional editors.”

Deltagande journalistik i stor skala.

”Assignment Zero is an investigation into the open source Diaspora, which can be broadly labeled ‘crowdsourcing.’”

”One of the many things I left undone when I quit my job was a plan to start an announcement tool. I wanted a means for people to announce weddings, births, deaths, promotions, graduations, anything. This, after all, is the news that really counts in peop

”By generating a personalised, interactive web page for every advertiser, iAnnounce adds value to the notice, enabling the newspapers to increase their rates.”

”I founded NewAssignment.Net to spark innovation in the ‘open’ styles of reporting. The site we built is made for that purpose, but the innovation doesn’t have to talk place at our site.”

The Economist samlar innovativa idéer från läsarna.

”It goes without saying, in media and communications innovation has never been more important. The future hasn’t been invented yet – there are just some strong trends, useful platforms and some ideas which just might make.”

”Project Red Stripe team at the Economist: six people — from editorial, classified, marketing, data sales, technology — who have been given six months, $200,000, and the freedom to use any content from any Economist property to come up with something

”in general, companies are slow at doing anything other than normal business – and they are probably slow at doing that. It’s just that they have competition that is also slow so they get away with it.”

”The more you think about business as being a community service, the more successful you become.”

”Programming itself is becoming an important skill for publishers and authors, as it allows a new kind of storytelling, a new kind of integration of automated data into the services that publishers provide.”

”The steps he laid out for leaders of a community were: 1. Build a Good Foundation 2. Bootstrap 3. Let Go 4. Personalize”

”Knep 1: Ligg steget före. Knep 2: Posta material som du ändå producerar. Knep 3: Pitcha blogginlägg mot en kompis. Knep 4: Begränsa din tid och ta pauser. Knep 5: Låt mer krävande texter marinera. Knep 6: Håll ordning på dina bloggidéer. Knep 7

”People are online for discovery. It looks like its about things, but its not. They go to ‘places’, but really to find people. And below it all, they are involved with people to discover themselves.”

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Podkatalog.

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Podradio om relationer.

Ilana Donna Arazies videokolumn om den moderna storstadskvinnans liv och relationer.

”What research I see /…/ suggests they want to know about the lives of their neighbors. They ask such questions as, Why did they leave their country? How did they get here? What is it like for them to start over? In a way this explains their current wor

”From time to time, I’ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. /…/ This week I’ll look at podcasts.”

”The best Web services are two-way systems. They take content in, add something to it, and then send it back out. /…/ To date, we haven’t seen such a service for local information online. Outside.in will hopefully fill that void.”

Peter Lindberg diskuterar hur profilsidorna fungerar på Myspace, Flickr och Last fm.

”On the Web, we let strangers tell us who to trust, what to read, and where to go. Which means your good name can be worth real money. And reputation hacking can be big business.”

”TV Guide lets you drill down in any search by network, genre, length, and soon star. Click on an episode and you’ll go to the source and watch it there. That includes going to iTunes, where you can watch, buy, or subscribe.”

”Likt SvD’s Martin Jönssons spådomar kring heta communitynischer /…/ tror jag att vi kommer se fler mindre mötesplatser växa sig starka i olika nischer. Bland de snabbast växande ser vi idag moderelaterade communities som ett komplement till mode

”I wondered what it would take for an advertiser to actually reach me on my own terms. Rather than squawk at me, could they speak my language? Could they reach through to me in a welcome way? Here are some tips on how they might do that.”

”The experiments: 1. New Media Producer. 2. Clothing Label Crafter. 3. Micro Investor. 4. Publisher. 5. Community Curator.”

”But a huge social net that’s made up of millions of smaller social nets is likely to be even more useful than anything that we currrently have.” ”Open and distributed networks are the future of social networks.”

”Since I’m discussing innovation mostly in the context of newspaper companies, let’s break this down the way a journalist would: who, what, when, where, why and how.”

”Grannar.se /…/ har fått en ny delägare. Daniel Nordström, med bakgrund i marknadsföringsbolaget Tradedoubler, ska hjälpa upphovsmännen med att få in fler företag bland privatpersonerna på sajten.”

”1. Start a forum for love, not money. 2. Your forum exists by the grace of others. 4. Be honest. 7. Be visible. 10. Plan for success even if you don’t expect it.”

”Wikipedias mest editerade artiklar håller också högst kvalitet. Det rapporterar två forskare från HP Labs.” ”Mer olika användare ger alltså bättre artiklar, säger Nature News.”

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”That should about cover it. Snipping the wires on your iTunes library might not be a simple 1-2-3 process, but we wanted to be sure and cover as many bases and workflow quirks as possible.”

”Creating your own social network is a lot like hosting a fabulous party. Like all parties, it usually starts with being an interesting person and a love of meeting people.”

”Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.”

”Is this a media company? A software company? A service company? It’s something new. Old media ignores companies like this at its peril.”

”If you’re interested in the movement towards ‘crowdsourcing,’ ‘citizen journalism,’ or ‘user generated content’ by traditional media organizations such as newspapers and television news programs, you’ll find information about some of the major efforts

”A link to the corrections page appears prominently on the drop-down ‘ESPN’ tab on the site, and readers can easily submit a correction using a form on the page. /…/ ESPN is also entering every request for correction into a database, and logging every c

”Brian Storm, president of MediaStorm, shows news professionals how to use Final Cut Pro to take digital storytelling to a whole new level with rich media podcasting.”