AG on New Media

Perry Parks, in “The Online Revolution” from Making Important News Interesting, suggests that the newspaper audience is moving from print to online and that there are three different types of interaction between the traditional media and blogs. First, online news has moved journalism from a lecture to a conversation. Second, blogs act as the watchdogs of the watchdogs of democracy by critiquing the coverage of news organizations (Dan Rather’s retirement). Third, blogs can direct and control the news agenda (the Trent Lott story). He also discusses citizen journalism, or content creation by those in the community instead of those employed by a paper (YourHub.com of the Rocky Mountain News). Parks then presents a list of ways news organizations can make their online offerings more relevant.
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As you’ll quickly learn, Rafe Needleman is one of my favorite Web 2.0 Guru’s (it helps that I worked with him over the summer).

He posted the other day about Blish, a service that sells little bits of content. I like the thought that this is finally a way to get publishers to sell out-of-print stuff…

Via CNET’s Alpha Blog

Welcome Readers! (even if the only two are just Professors Castro and Booker ;)).

In keeping with my goal of using new media, I’ll attempt to add some kind of video/audio/image to each post, even if it’s only loosely related. So the media for this post will be a YouTube video of some super-impressive French DJs that go by the name Birdy Nam Nam. Their sounds are put together with four guys and a bunch of turntables. Cool.

Via Aurgasm.us