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Joho the Blog, 1/29/2005; 9:50:01 AM |
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| | Favorite phone call so far this morning. [Ring ring] Me: Hello. Her: Hello! Me: Hello! Her: How are you this morning? Me: I'm fine. Who is this, please? Her: It's your mother-in-law. Me: (Sputtering) Oh. Sorry! I didn't recognize your voice. How are you? Her: (Laughing) That's ok... Me: Wait, you're calling on my business line. Her: Is this John? Me: Nope. (laughing) Now you feel the fool! Her: (laughing) I'm sorry! Me: No problem. And give John my best.... | |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts Weather, 1/29/2005; 9:50:01 AM |
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| | Current Weather :: 13F Clear. 13F Clear | |
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EdCone.com, 1/29/2005; 9:50:01 AM |
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| | Jay Rosen: "Will the Greensboro Newspaper Open its Archive?"
Hoggard's already on the case.
The N&R's current archive system is terrible -- links rot and then you really have to hunt for a story in order to buy it. I hear they will be fixing that. And maybe they will do more... | 
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| | Is Greensboro's blog revolution over-hyped? In terms of dreams realized, sure. In terms of possibilities recognized, not at all.
Certainly we've gotten a lot of attention for what's going on at the daily paper and within the independent blog community. My newspaper column tomorrow touches on that subject.
Is Greensboro changing the face of journalism as we know it, and doing it yesterday? No. The real world doesn't work that way.
But what's happening here is interesting precisely because it is happening in the real world, where change is more conditional and the circumstances that allow it can be fragile.
A good-sized daily newspaper has announced that it will be making its website more open to the public -- a public square, they call it -- and soliciting input on how that might be done along the way. The paper is edited by a guy who blogs and blogs well, and it has introduced several blogs under its own rubric, and the guy running the program has been blogging under his own steam for about three years. And they are talking about doing things like incorporating independent bloggers on their site.
Yet the total number of readers is still small, and the community still self-referential. The world has not shifted on its axis. Maybe there will be moments when big leaps forward happen -- the marketing muscle of the N&R could help create such a moment -- or maybe this will unfold slowly until one day we look up and the future is here.
Something is trying to happen in Greensboro. If you compare the weblog scene here and now to the situation one year ago, the progress is phenomenal. But it's an experiment. The people behind it are sincere and committed. It could falter, at least as a business proposition, which would lead some to say it failed. It may succeed in ways that the mass market or at least current understanding does not recognize as success.
It is what it is. |
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Joho the Blog, 1/29/2005; 8:50:01 AM |
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| | Category guilt. In response to AKMA's confession, Dave writes about feeling guilty about not using categories: When he failed to use them a few times, he felt so guilty about it that he stopped using them entirely. Best of all, now those of us who do use tags can engage in Taggenfreude. (Sign of a meme catching on: Bad bad puns. Why? Because they're as easy as falling off a blog.)... | |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts Weather, 1/29/2005; 8:40:03 AM |
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| | Current Weather :: 10F Clear. 10F Clear | |
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Slate Magazine, 1/29/2005; 7:50:01 AM |
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| | Assembly Required. A summary of what's in the major U.S. newspapers. |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts Weather, 1/29/2005; 7:30:01 AM |
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| | Current Weather :: 9F Clear. 9F Clear | |
