Comments on: After the high-school paper http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/03/08/after-the-high-school-paper/ by Jeff Jarvis Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:17:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Carlos Afonso http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/03/08/after-the-high-school-paper/#comment-372435 Carlos Afonso Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:40:18 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/03/08/after-the-high-school-paper/#comment-372435 Here in Portugal the last 2 week were ocupied by a small vídeo published on you tube about violence inside a school against a teacher. That one minute and half about a girl that was dispossed of her's mobil during class was taken by a fellow with his mobile at the same. This thing ended with those envolved being expeled from that school. (With their age they have to take lessons in another school). It was a local (very local) news that has spured an incredible amount of tv national news, print news and of course blogosphere atention. I'm not sure of whats best for this age in terms of technological means. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A7GH81euJw&feature=related Here in Portugal the last 2 week were ocupied by a small vídeo published on you tube about violence inside a school against a teacher. That one minute and half about a girl that was dispossed of her’s mobil during class was taken by a fellow with his mobile at the same. This thing ended with those envolved being expeled from that school. (With their age they have to take lessons in another school).

It was a local (very local) news that has spured an incredible amount of tv national news, print news and of course blogosphere atention.

I’m not sure of whats best for this age in terms of technological means.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A7GH81euJw&feature=related

]]> By: Anna Haynes http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/03/08/after-the-high-school-paper/#comment-370787 Anna Haynes Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:15:52 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/03/08/after-the-high-school-paper/#comment-370787 Re Fred Wilson's > "i think the same thing will happen with churches, synagogues, little leagues, and PTAs...and that is the raw material we’ve been waiting for to power the hyperlocal revolution." Amen to the latter. But there are problems with the former - these organizations are already publishing out their news, but they're doing it as PDFs, and they've paid someone a fair amt of money to design a static website for their group. Given these sunk costs and established workflow, what's the best way to get them to migrate to blogs? (alternatively, how/where do you tap into someone's existing workflow that culminates in a PDF, to yield the RSS feed you really want?) Re Fred Wilson’s
> “i think the same thing will happen with churches, synagogues, little leagues, and PTAs…and that is the raw material we’ve been waiting for to power the hyperlocal revolution.”

Amen to the latter. But there are problems with the former - these organizations are already publishing out their news, but they’re doing it as PDFs, and they’ve paid someone a fair amt of money to design a static website for their group.

Given these sunk costs and established workflow, what’s the best way to get them to migrate to blogs?

(alternatively, how/where do you tap into someone’s existing workflow that culminates in a PDF, to yield the RSS feed you really want?)

]]> By: fred wilson http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/03/08/after-the-high-school-paper/#comment-370779 fred wilson Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:10:27 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/03/08/after-the-high-school-paper/#comment-370779 my daughter is the editor of her school newspaper this coming year and her goal is to take the paper online via a blogging platform. i think the same thing will happen with churches, synagogues, little leagues, and PTAs. and that is the raw material we've been waiting for to power the hyperlocal revolution my daughter is the editor of her school newspaper this coming year and her goal is to take the paper online via a blogging platform. i think the same thing will happen with churches, synagogues, little leagues, and PTAs. and that is the raw material we’ve been waiting for to power the hyperlocal revolution

]]> By: Terry Heaton http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/03/08/after-the-high-school-paper/#comment-370764 Terry Heaton Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:04:09 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/03/08/after-the-high-school-paper/#comment-370764 You might be interested in this new effort by my client in Shreveport. It's still in development, but all of the schools are being given login/password combos to populate the site. It's a mixed bag. Most pretty, well, not-so-good, but there are jewels here, too. Kids are more hip to this than we might think. <a href="http://www.arklatexstudentnews.com" rel="nofollow">Arklatex Student News</a> You might be interested in this new effort by my client in Shreveport. It’s still in development, but all of the schools are being given login/password combos to populate the site. It’s a mixed bag. Most pretty, well, not-so-good, but there are jewels here, too. Kids are more hip to this than we might think.

Arklatex Student News

]]> By: Chris Judson http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/03/08/after-the-high-school-paper/#comment-370760 Chris Judson Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:33:03 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/03/08/after-the-high-school-paper/#comment-370760 I advise student publications at a No. Indiana high school and we've tried some work arounds in getting our staffers to create content through several tools (we do a lot of sandboxing). In it we've tried to keep both administrators and the school board aware of what we are doing and how we are doing our form of journalism. So far (knock knock) it's been fun and dynamic. Our major issue now is that our audience (the students) aren't aware of all the cool things one can do with the Web2.0 stuff (e.g. social bookmarking, live-blogging, Twitter, Utterz and the like). So, there is some hope out there and I concur with you that this is an untapped corps of young writers. I feel a bit blessed this year with an incredibly strong staff of writers and thinkers. Here's their website: http://jlab140.wordpress.com Peace, Chris I advise student publications at a No. Indiana high school and we’ve tried some work arounds in getting our staffers to create content through several tools (we do a lot of sandboxing). In it we’ve tried to keep both administrators and the school board aware of what we are doing and how we are doing our form of journalism. So far (knock knock) it’s been fun and dynamic. Our major issue now is that our audience (the students) aren’t aware of all the cool things one can do with the Web2.0 stuff (e.g. social bookmarking, live-blogging, Twitter, Utterz and the like).

So, there is some hope out there and I concur with you that this is an untapped corps of young writers. I feel a bit blessed this year with an incredibly strong staff of writers and thinkers.

Here’s their website: http://jlab140.wordpress.com
Peace,
Chris

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