jtm2008

When You Want to Have a Conversation, but Can't

The E-Media Tidbits blog asks....

clipped from www.poynter.org ...And then along comes Hermida with his BBC example. I'm not saying he's proving my point, or implying that there's anything wrong with the BBC's blog software. I'm just saying I'm often appalled at how limited and/or Byzantine news orgs' CMS tools are compared to Wordpress and other tools available to the general public. Just food for thought. This particular line of inquiry is especially timely since in just under two weeks I'll be attending NewsTools 2008, "a flexible, three-day convening that will offer journalists, technologists, entrepreneurs and funders a chance to explore ideas, form partnerships, develop projects, outline systems and businesses for sustaining 'journalism that matters.'" In preparation for this, I'd like to ask Tidbits readers: What bugs you about the tools you currently use to gather information, create news and information content, publish and share that content, and engage your communities? What tools or features would you like to have?

Joe Grimm Getting Ready for Journalism That Matters Conference

clipped from jobspage.typepad.com I'm excited. I will take most of the week to attend the Journalism that Matters conference in Silicon Valley to see what I can learn about my future, your future, the future of journalism. I signed up, hoping to get a look down the path we are all on. I wanted to know what might lie ahead for me as a journalist and as a news recruiter. The conference s attracting traditional journalists, new-media journalists, academics and digital innovators. I am looking forward to making some new friends and shifting my network a little further toward digital journalism. As I have talked with people, though, I have come to understand that this conference will only be as successful as I and my peers are able to put the karger mission ahead of our own. If we do that, I am sure, we will benefit from what Wayne Baker of the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business calls "the law of reciprocity."

Journalism's Ideals Meet Silicon Valley's Tools

clipped from www.cmswire.com Journalism's Ideals Meet Silicon Valley's Tools NewsTools2008 takes place April 30-May 3 at the yahoo! Conference Center in Sunnyvale, California If you’re a Drupal programmer, user-experience expert, social-network innovator, or web 2.0 entrepreneur, you’re invited! The topic of the event is “Technology and the New Ecology of News: How will technology innovation support journalism and participatory democracy?” It’s billed as an event in which journalism’s ideals will meet Silicon Valley’s tools in a three-day, conceptual mashup. Groovy. Hosted by the Journalism That Matters Collaborative, the Media Giraffe Project, the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and Yahoo! Inc., this three day event aims to describe and invent tools for sustaining “journalism that matters.”

Interview M.G. Siegler - How Has His Reporting Changed?

A quick interview with M.G. Siegler, a reporter from VentureBeat, on the tech-tools he uses that aid his reporting.

If you are curious about: Twitter, social news sites, Mixx, or the higher level conversation of whether or not these tools will ever translate to help reporters who cover beats outside of technology - check out this video.