Furl http://www.furl.net/ http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.furl.net/member/macloo.rss Furl archive. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:52:13 GMT http://www.furl.net/item/11883389/forward http://www.furl.net/item/11883389 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:48:53 GMT newspapers LOS ANGELES — Is a local newspaper a business, or is it a sort of public trust? Do its owners have a right to run it the way they want, make the cuts they see necessary to make a profit, or do leaders of the local community have some right – or responsibility – to fight for what they see as the integrity of the paper and especially its local coverage? These issues are being played out in the most public way in the dispute now going on in Los Angeles over the fate of the Los Angeles Times. Two events this week helped to crystallize the issue. First, a group of 20 civic leaders in Los Angeles sent an open letter to the leadership of the Tribune Co., the Chicago-based owners of the Times, calling on Tribune either to invest more in the paper or to sell it. That was an unusual step. But what was even more unusual was what happened next. Second, the newspaper itself went public with its defiance of its corporate owners’ insistence on staff cutbacks. In a story in which the paper covered itself, the editor and publisher announced that they had been asked by the corporate higher-ups to make further cutbacks, and refused to do so. 4 http://www.furl.net/item/11883226/forward http://www.furl.net/item/11883226 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:38:04 GMT Journalism 5 http://www.furl.net/item/8349260/forward http://www.furl.net/item/8349260 Very basic but good for beginners - an introduction Wed, 03 May 2006 18:24:00 GMT Blogs What, then, is a blog? A “personal online journal” is the definition that most newspapers, including The Economist, offer when they need to be brief. That analogy is not wrong, but nor is it entirely right (conventional journals usually come in chronological order, whereas blogs are displayed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent entry on top). More importantly, this definition misses the main point about blogs. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/7829625/forward http://www.furl.net/item/7829625 Short list of links suitable for students to use to learn about blogs Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:45:25 GMT Blogs 5 http://www.furl.net/item/7715586/forward http://www.furl.net/item/7715586 Trying out Newsvine a month after its launch -- interesting, but I'm not sold yet. Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:02:08 GMT Journalism The premise is that a mix of rapidly posted wire stories and user-created news and opinion content can evolve into a useful information environment (or even an ecology) by way of integrated social networking tools ... 5 http://www.furl.net/item/7611615/forward http://www.furl.net/item/7611615 Part 4 of the OJR article Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:23:17 GMT Journalism Right now, we have on one side journalists who know how to tell a good story, and on the other IAs who know the new medium inside and out. Information architects charged with organizing corporate communication on a level never before attempted are fumbling toward the lessons that journalism learned long ago. And journalists trying to apply broadcast wisdom to a non-broadcast medium are stumbling over truisms of information architecture. 5 http://www.furl.net/item/7611447/forward http://www.furl.net/item/7611447 Part 2 of the same 2003 article on OJR by Rusty Foster Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:12:32 GMT Journalism " ... Then, bad things started to happen. The size and complexity and importance of the Web sites began to spiral out of control. Mutations started cropping up. Strange new organisms with names like interaction designer, usability engineer, customer experience analyst, and information architect began competing with the webmaster and each other for responsibilities and rewards." 5 http://www.furl.net/item/7611392/forward http://www.furl.net/item/7611392 Interview with Chris Mandra; sidebar to the main article by Rusty Foster Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:09:24 GMT Journalism The first step was about trying to hone in on what people expected us to be and what they didn't expect ... [Adaptive Path] talked to everyone in the team independently ... They ask things like, "How does audio get on the Web site," and they'll figure out what the workflow is. They take notes, and get a clearer picture of how people think things work, and how things actually do work, where people can streamline and work more efficiently. 5 http://www.furl.net/item/7611373/forward http://www.furl.net/item/7611373 Interview with Matt Jones, architect of the BBC News site; side bar to the main article Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:07:53 GMT Journalism We chose to take links out of the run of the story and place them in a "related links" block, and to show "neighboring" stories on the story page, we thought to make the browsing process more fluid. I did some dumb things too, like insisting that link text be black! We soon corrected that one! 5 http://www.furl.net/item/7611332/forward http://www.furl.net/item/7611332 Part 3 of the same article by Rusty Foster Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:04:35 GMT Journalism The point of most news stories is to collect a bunch of facts and present them in a clear narrative that people can understand. The craft of journalism has had long practice discovering which formats accomplish this and which don't. Or, as veteran Register hack Andrew Orlowski puts it, "News is pretty formulaic: every reporter chooses the context and once you've done that, structure follows." 5