http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/06/12/2862/ by Jeff Jarvis Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:31:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/06/12/2862/#comment-422960 River of Data is like an Activity Stream like River of News | djchuang.com Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:56:23 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/06/12/2862/#comment-422960 [...] hat to Todd Rhoades for coming up with the idea. This format isn’t new. It’s actually ancient. I just don’t know what it’s commonly [...] [...] hat to Todd Rhoades for coming up with the idea. This format isn’t new. It’s actually ancient. I just don’t know what it’s commonly [...]

]]> http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/06/12/2862/#comment-415130 A Better Way to Curate Sun, 30 May 2010 03:49:56 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/06/12/2862/#comment-415130 [...] Ancient river of news [...] [...] Ancient river of news [...]

]]> http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/06/12/2862/#comment-367779 A Charlie Beckett Interview Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:42:15 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/06/12/2862/#comment-367779 An interview with Charlie Beckett An interview with Charlie Beckett

]]> http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/06/12/2862/#comment-351273 andy carvin Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:51:27 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/06/12/2862/#comment-351273 And let's not forget <a href="http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2006/10/a_colonial_experimen.html" rel="nofollow">Publick Occurences</a>. Published in Boston in 1690, it was the first multi-page newspaper in the US. Granted, its lifespan was very brief, and the articles were extraordinarily biased, but one thing I find fascinating about it is how the publisher used page 4 of the paper. He left it intentionally blank. His logic was that there would be limited numbers of copies printed, and people would pass them along from one person to the next. By leaving a blank page, each person could jot down their own news and make their thoughts available to the next reader. Who knew that networked journalism literally began with the advent of US print journalism. And let’s not forget Publick Occurences. Published in Boston in 1690, it was the first multi-page newspaper in the US. Granted, its lifespan was very brief, and the articles were extraordinarily biased, but one thing I find fascinating about it is how the publisher used page 4 of the paper. He left it intentionally blank. His logic was that there would be limited numbers of copies printed, and people would pass them along from one person to the next. By leaving a blank page, each person could jot down their own news and make their thoughts available to the next reader. Who knew that networked journalism literally began with the advent of US print journalism.

]]> http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/06/12/2862/#comment-351262 Adam Hodgkin Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:19:01 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/06/12/2862/#comment-351262 But have you noticed the way newspapers are emulating the web? Their page layout is increasingly aspiring to look like a web page. The borrowing goes in both directions. This is what struck me when I flipped through the Guardian's 50 front pages. The big web-like changes started in about 96 (when the WWW first hit the mainstream) http://exacteditions.blogspot.com/2007/06/guardians-50000th-issue.html But have you noticed the way newspapers are emulating the web? Their page layout is increasingly aspiring to look like a web page. The borrowing goes in both directions. This is what struck me when I flipped through the Guardian’s 50 front pages. The big web-like changes started in about 96 (when the WWW first hit the mainstream)
http://exacteditions.blogspot.com/2007/06/guardians-50000th-issue.html

]]> http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/06/12/2862/#comment-351256 Charlie Beckett Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:36:37 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/06/12/2862/#comment-351256 Hi Jeff, I didn't actually say that RSS was a 'regression' - quite the opposite. I don't know anyone who would defend a century-old format over online journalism! As I wrote, I would choose the variety of RSS feeds over any newspaper. But what I concluded, however, was that newspapers have had a long time to get their format right for their audience. Now online news sites and blogs need to work even harder at finding the right reader and helping the reader find the right stories. cheers Charlie Hi Jeff,
I didn’t actually say that RSS was a ‘regression’ – quite the opposite. I don’t know anyone who would defend a century-old format over online journalism!
As I wrote, I would choose the variety of RSS feeds over any newspaper. But what I concluded, however, was that newspapers have had a long time to get their format right for their audience. Now online news sites and blogs need to work even harder at finding the right reader and helping the reader find the right stories.
cheers
Charlie

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