Kan medborgarjournalister skriva läsligt?

Hypergene MediaBlog: "Steve Outing has a piece that begins to address some of the more pesky problems of citizen media - credibility. With more and more questions being raised about Wikipedia's credibility, now is probably as good time as any to face the issue at large."

Sploggar parasiterar på bloggintresset

Newsweek/Technology:: "That's right - in addition to e-mail spam and instant messenger spam (spim), there's a new form of exploiting the Net's openness-splogs. 'It's due to the fact that readership of blogs has grown so much,' explains Jason Goldman, product manager of the Blogger division of Google."

Skriv som en bloggare!

DN/Medievärlden:: "De som bloggar anklagar medierna för att inte ha renlärigt utformade bloggar. Traditionella journalister har ofta varit direkt nedlåtande.

Nu tycker jag inte att det är givet att medierna ska göra exakt samma sak som bloggarna. Men vi borde dekonstruera bloggarna och se om det finns något i dem som vi kan fånga upp och använda oss av.

Skrivsättet är intressant. Man hoppar över bakgrund och inledning och skriver mer direkt och mer kortfattat. Sammanhanget kan läsaren få av tidigare inlägg i bloggen. Skrivsättet passar ofta bra när man vill följa ett pågående skeende med en lång rad artiklar.
En annan av poängerna är tipsen om läsning på annat håll. Något som inte alltid känns helt självklart i en traditionell tidning. En kolumn om medievärlden skulle man ju kunna skriva som en blogg, med tips om intressanta artiklar på nätet. "

Kommentarer:

"Avundsjuk, han är så avundsjuk "
"Precis så!"
"Dekonstruera bloggarna"
"Skriv som en bloggare!"

Betalnyhetssajter i mycket svag medvind

CNET News.com: "The New York Times says 135,000 people have subscribed to TimesSelect, its online offering which includes access to columnists and other fee-based daily content.
That would mean annual revenue of just under $7 million if each subscriber signed up for the annual rate. The New York Times Co.'s total revenue was over $3.3 billion in 2004, with expenses approaching $2.8 billion. Clearly, TimesSelect is far from a financial game-changer.
Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal, which has offered subscription-based online service for several years, claimed it had over 700,000 paying customers by the end of 2004. But it already had over a half million by the end of 2000. The recent growth rate of Journal online subscriptions doesn't bode well for TimesSelect growth beyond 2008. "

Nyhetstidningar på nätet äkar snabbare än nätanvändningen

CNET News.com: "Newspaper Web sites have grown 11 percent year over year to 39.3 million visitors. That increase surpasses the growth in number of total active Internet users, which grew 3 percent, according to data released Tuesday by research firm Nielsen/NetRatings.
Furthermore, almost one out of four U.S. Internet users reads online versions of newspapers, the study said."

SportTVjätte storsatsar på mobilen

ESPN the ring tone: In the zone on a cell phone | CNET News.com: "ESPN has crammed everything it has learned about television into the guts of a black Sanyo cell phone with red keys and a 2.1-inch screen that dishes out scores, highlights, news, trivia and fantasy content with depth and zippy clarity. In time, it will deliver full games shrunk to one-fifteenth or one-twentieth their usual TV size.
This is Mobile ESPN, an empire in a pocket, a digitally endowed companion with a tiny Dickie V. or a wee Chris Berman available at a button's push for those minutes and hours spent away from one's television.
'What's next, implants?' said Keith Olbermann, a former anchor of 'SportsCenter' who is now the host of MSNBC's weeknight 'Countdown' show. 'They were once bound by cable. It was a cable success. Now, they're detaching from cable. Just jam it in your pocket, and you're ESPN.' "

Kvalitet kan ge kassaklirr

DN/Medievärlden:: "En slutsats som Meyer och Porter delar är att trovärdighet borde vara en framgångsfaktor också på nätet där konkurrensen är ännu starkare än på papper. Också nyhetssajter måste hitta ett sätt att spela samma betydelsefulla roll i samhället som tidningarna har gjort.