Comments on: Google’s killer crowdsourcing tool

By: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » What would you kill? Jocks?

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » What would you kill? Jocks? — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:03:31 +0000

[...] enough — and skilled at Excel enough — to compile results from my little survey that asked you what you’d kill from a newspaper’s budget. Keep in mind that it’s [...]

By: Newspaper content budgets - what would you cut?

Newspaper content budgets - what would you cut? — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:49:38 +0000

[...] laundry so I thought it would be interesting to do some analysis of the online survey Jeff Jarvis posted using Google [...]

By: Gene Koo

Gene Koo — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:40:24 +0000

I just wrote up a screed about opinion columnists being a now-unnecessary vestige of historical circumstance. No opinion columnist is doing anything the blogosphere isn’t doing better. See http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vvvv/2008/02/12/revision-bad-blogging-is-undermining-the-ny-times-credibility/

One of the sections that annoys me the most in the Boston Globe is the car reviews. Not only does the reviewer say very little of local relevance, but he comes off as kind of a smug, I-have-the-best-job-in-the-world attitude that reflects the reality that all he’s doing is promoting the dealer advertisements.

By: Brian Cubbison

Brian Cubbison — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:08:52 +0000

I think the forms app is a great idea, but it doesn’t yet work as well as advertised. The form within an e-mail doesn’t always work, and it’s inconsistent with some browsers and operating systems. I can’t wait to use it, though.

By: jbw

jbw — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:59:31 +0000

You have it all wrong. I would keep all those sections and drop all those sections. I would drop the national and international parts and keep the local parts. I want local reporting in my local paper, local sports, local business, local entertainment, editorials and opinion pieces about local issues. The national and international stuff should go, it’s done better online.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:50:03 +0000

There are other free or cheap questionnaire sites out there, like surveymonkey.com, which has more features. I have no affiliation; I just like to support the little guys.

By: Fergus Pitt

Fergus Pitt — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:58:34 +0000

It’s hard to divorce one’s personal responses (essentially “what I read”) from the sections I know attract advertisers.

For example, I couldn’t care less about the lifestyle section, but I really like the fact that advertisements in those sections fund investigative, national or political journalism.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:30:47 +0000

[...] 11, 2008 · No Comments Jeff Jarvis has a little test drive of Google’s new forms app. This could get interesting and is a no-brainer for media outlets [...]

By: Mike Lyons

Mike Lyons — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:18:45 +0000

Critics are in trouble. Makes sense.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:58:24 +0000

Haha, those who are advocating the elimination of copy editors probably haven’t spent much time in a newsroom. Or read raw copy.

Interesting responses, though.

By: Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:41:10 +0000

Dwight,
My fault.
I also should have set it up with radio buttons so I could compile the data. I was just doing a two-minute demo.

By: Dwight Silverman

Dwight Silverman — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:51:27 +0000

Interesting. Missing one big feature, though.

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