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Sometimes, asking a thought-provoking question is enough to get you on TV

Posted Tue, 12/01/2009 - 12:40

A poster for recruiting bloggers
It's dead easy to set up a blog, and if you commit to a niche, pretty simple to make a living doing it. Want to start? I'll help.
Are bloggers more trustworthy than journalists?Read more of this post.

NYT Publisher Compares Print Media to the Titanic

Posted Wed, 10/28/2009 - 09:12

Arthur Sulzberger
Arthur Sulzberger, publisher for the New York Times, compares print journalism to the Titanic, doomed because of the invention of the airplane 12 years earlier.
In an article at New York Magazine, the publisher of the New York Times compared print journalism to the Titanic.Read more of this post.

Five predictions regarding Fayetteville's newspaper merger

Posted Fri, 10/23/2009 - 09:26

There are two newspapers in my town, the Morning News and the Democrat-Gazette (aka the NWA Times). There's a merger though, and many are worried that the switch to a one-newspaper town will be a blow to our democratic process, but I think moving to a one newspaper town is actually going to be good for our community.Read more of this post.

Ten suggestions for my local papers

Posted Mon, 04/20/2009 - 13:14

Is this post a bit audacious? I suppose it is, but damn it, I like my newspapers and I want to see them do better. I'm concerned, because the Dem-Gazette laid off 60 in February, and the trend is sweeping the country. As a citizen who relies on the papers for my news, I want to see them adapt, not go under.Read more of this post.

Do the newspapers understand new media?

Posted Mon, 04/13/2009 - 21:41
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I'm not sure the newspapers understand new media. Their industries are failing because they refuse to leverage their position to crowdsource and use new technology - for profit. The papers command the respect and have the capital needed to take positions as leaders in multimedia journalism.Read more of this post.

25 improvements to citizen communications in Fayetteville with new media

Posted Wed, 04/08/2009 - 09:48

Image by Bill Moseley
So there's been a lot of talk around town about newspapers, Fayetteville, Facebook, and Twitter. I thought I'd chime in with a quick brainstorm of ways Fayetteville could improve citizen communications using new media.Read more of this post.

Good Faith Governing in the 21st Century

Posted Tue, 04/07/2009 - 10:41

A picture of a local business that has banned talking about Facebook.
Is social media valuable, or just useless chatter?
Governments (and the elected officials that operate them) have a duty to communicate with their entire constituency, or at least make a good faith effort. In the old days, that meant nailing a notice up in front of City Hall, and in modern times it has come to mean radio adverts and column inches.Read more of this post.

Fayetteville Forward got Twitterized

Posted Sun, 04/05/2009 - 14:04

Cut the crap: look at our cell phone pictures or read everything we had to say.
There was so much Twitter activity at Fayetteville Forward, one citizen said "It feels like I'm actually AT #fayfwd, " and John Nock, a local developer, even commented he was using Twitter to follow the activities. Around 10 people were using Twitter to post pictures and quick commentary on the summit as it unfolded. Personally, I found it appropriate that a community summit was being covered by community media.Read more of this post.

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