J-LogJ-Log - Journalism News :: Media ViewsJ-Log is Dead, but there is Journalism Hope- December 19, 2005 J-Log is Dead, but there is Journalism Hope. I'm not going to be updating J-Log anymore. I'm going to leave all the old content up for now, though. Why am I doing this Well, J-Log has been fun, and I've built it up over the years, but the community hasn't really taken off. The software that runs it is a very heavily hacked version of a little known CMS. I could re-work the site here at mallasch.com with new software, but I thought it was time for a new domain, a new name, and a new direction...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/J-log/~3/76590470/article.php J-Log is getting a redesign- December 11, 2005 I just now decided. It will do it some good. Or, what about taking it even further and lifting the heart and soul (the content) out of J-Log and stuffing it into a fresh, clean folksonomyerrific Drupal install. Hmmm. I kinda like the sound of that, you know. The bad side is, I would lose all of the ground I've gained in the search engines over the years. Although mod_rewrite might be able to help with that.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/J-log/~3/76567162/article.php NY Times: Were blogospheric- December 10, 2005 CyberJournalist: New York Times memo on blogging - To: The Staff From: Jon Landman December 7, 2005 Were blogospheric. LOL. Whaa Seriously, though, the memo, which LA Observed got ahold of first, I think, isn't too bad. That is, it didn't sound so horrible that it would be a 'NY Times' type blog, with fact checking, editors, moderation, etc. And they admitted it was hard to pull the writers off of print but that they did it. And it was cocky (the memo) but not too much so. I'll be...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/J-log/~3/76593740/article.php Chicago Daily News Launches- December 10, 2005 Well, there you go. I found the Chicago Daily News, a new CitJ site started by an ex-Trib staffer, in my logs last week. I'd actually talked to Geoff months ago about it, although he was keeping it off the radar at that point. I told him I'd wait a little before announcing the site so he could throw some more content on, but Poynter beat me to it. So, now that the cat's out of the bag... (In related news, MFPstarted breaking news that isn't in the local paper (The Star Press) yet. I mean, I'm...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/J-log/~3/76639987/article.php Steve Outing on CitJ- December 6, 2005 Back from an internet-free (as in sans internet) vacation, Steve Outing has some thoughts on the recent BackFence piece. The conversation continues.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/J-log/~3/76639988/article.php Hey Tribune; Aren't layoffs a bitch- December 5, 2005 Heh. I probably shouldn't post this because some poor soul low on the ladder will get chewed for the Tribune-wide web woes, but it was kinda funny in a snarky blogtastic sort of way. From LAObserved.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/J-log/~3/76622118/article.php Paying for Moderation with Amazon Mechanical Turk- December 5, 2005 I've been messing around with Amazon' s Mechanical Turk web application. It's forming quite a little community around itself already. Very interesting. Anyway, the thought - couldn't AMT be used to pay for things citizen publisher's need on their websites (local content, filling calendars, moderation of comments, etc.)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/J-log/~3/76536175/article.php Free Press in India- December 4, 2005 Seema Mustafa at The Asian Age (India): Free Press - Mustafa says Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh needs to look to the U.S. for guidance on how to run the media. Specifically George W. Bush. I'm not so sure about that specifically, see, but a Free Press is important.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/J-log/~3/76545251/article.php Report Stirs Debate: News or Exploitation- December 4, 2005 Hal Boedeker at pop-up prone Orlando Sentinel: Report stirs debate: News or exploitation - I guess WFTV-Channel 9 anchor Martie Salt got all teared up on-air while listening to a recorded 911 call. Other local stations didn't run the call. You get the idea. Your thoughtshttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/J-log/~3/76511177/article.php Non-U.S. Citizen Journalism Story: Citizen Witnesses- December 4, 2005 Sify.com: Era of citizen journalists dawns - Nothing groundbreaking here (mostly a look at Scoopt), but it's interesting to see CitJ from a global perspective every now and again. The article says NUJ (the National Union of Journalists) in London says to called citizen journalists "citizen witnesses" or "witness contributors." Heh. Leave it to the brits to come up with something as stuffy as "witness contributor."http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/J-log/~3/76511180/article.php |