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Kim Elmose : Journalist, blogger and currently blogeditor in the cold north, Denmark. Curious about citizen journalism, social media and interaction.Podcast Feeds
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Nov
28
If you want an insight in the New York Times Web Newsroom, here’s your chance. The editor, Fiona Spruill, answers questions this week.
Maybe there’s gold in her answers ?
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23
Some friends of mine, Jeppe Kabell and Thomas Madsen-Mygdal some months ago started their The Copenhagen Project - in an international perspective very interesting research project.
The two of them are among the most un-orthodox information-thinkers in Denmark at the moment - eager to tear down all conventional thinking about how to deliver information i.e. in traditional newspapers and electronic media - and focused on collaboration and sharing.
They’ve started their project to find out how to gather and organizing information - and share it - in a complex world. In their words:
Everyday the world is growing more complex, and we need systems and tools that can help us make sense of it all.
In their mission statement they write:
We will examine processes in the new ecosystem of information and aim to present realistic scenarios of how we can give rise to better understanding, reflection, sensemaking and global conversations in the complex reality of tomorrow.
They’re building a creative archive from their To-do list and they’re inviting others to join in.
Please do so - I think it’s exiting to see their findings.
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4
Free Burma
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Sep
25
Interesting: Microsoft heads for Facebook
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The rumour increases about Facebook. Apparently - Microsoft and Google are fighting over the popular and - now also in Europe - fastgrowing social network-service.
It’s about users and its about revenues from Ads in the future.
It seems that the big “old” netcompanies are on a buying-spree right now; Feedburner bought by Google, Flickr by Yahoo. Del.icio.us by Yahoo and so on …..
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18
Blog-to-print - more focused journalism
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Simon Dumenco at Advertising Age - at the blog Mediaworks - tells about his astonishment when he in the New York Times tech-section read an article who cut directly to crucial point: Sony’s CEO Howard Stringers “comical” inability to make the company deliver content online to its wide range of products.
It stunned Simon - and would certainly also have stunned me - because he’s no used to bizz-articles in NYT that’s right on target.
Traditionally they’re longer, more analytic and it takes time to get to the point, because all the documentation has to be delivered first.
But with the section Bits on Print Simon’s seen the future: Print-articles that started as blogposts with at more - as he says - “brisk, pithy briefs that originally broke, in slightly rougher blog form, online.”
He actually thinks of a future with a slim print edition with short focused articles - taken from blogs to print - and with tinyurls to longer articles online.
Yeah, that’s maybe a sellingpoint to editors and journalist: write shorter and more interesting articles if you start on your blog.
To focus on the benefits of blogs and blogging when it comes to journalism instead of - like here in Denmark, Scandinavia - to focus on the blogs as secondhand journalism, purely personal without journalism-virtues like balanced reporting , good research and artistic writing.
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