Posted in what we're reading on Jul 29th, 2008
Journos Don’t Read Hard-Right Opinion Blogs; Hard-Right Bloggers Blame “Liberal Bias” | Media and Technology | AlterNet
While the right wing blogosphere opines, progressives mix in some facts with their analyses
(tags: buildtheecho bias)
New York Times Derek Gottfrid and NPR s Dan Jacobson Discuss APIs - Webmonkey
All the news that’s fit to share? How APIs are revolutionizing [...]
Posted in what we're reading on Jul 27th, 2008
Fox News On-Air Racism Challenged by Huge Petition Drive and Hot Rapper Nas | Media and Technology | AlterNet
(tags: buildtheecho infrastructure)
Posted in what we're reading on Jul 26th, 2008
The Commentocracy rises online - Daniel Libit - Politico.com
“Behold the Commentocracy, where big ideas and rough remarks sit shoulder to shoulder, altogether transforming the nature of the Web and of journalism.”
(tags: buildtheecho web_20 impact)
Mochila - The Media Marketplace : Company : About
The future of syndication?
(tags: buildtheecho business_models)
Posted in what we're reading on Jul 23rd, 2008
The Internet Is No Substitute for the Dying Newspaper Industry | Democracy and Elections | AlterNet
“We live under the happy illusion that we can transfer news-gathering to the Internet. …Nearly all reporting is done by newspapers and the wire services. Take that away and we have a huge black hole.”
(tags: buildtheecho death_of_journalism)
Anatomy of the [...]
Posted in advertising, business models, infrastructure, marketing on Jul 22nd, 2008
Two interesting posts at Advertising Age in the last 24 hours–both taking different angles on how to deal with the fracturing media and marketing markets. The first, looks at how media properties must create partnerships, specifically communication and marketing partnerships that have specific audience reach, that together can wrap and intersect across the collective [...]
Posted in what we're reading on Jul 22nd, 2008
Pew Research Center: The Changing Newsroom: Gains and Losses in Today’s Papers
More hyperlocal news, fewer pages, less foreign coverage…the gaps in the newspaper industry are creating new openings for progressive news projects.
(tags: buildtheecho death_of_journalism)
Wordle - BTE
Fun tag cloud of the BTE site
(tags: cool_maps)
PressThink: The People Formerly Known as the Audience
“The people formerly known as the [...]
Posted in what we're reading on Jul 19th, 2008
Daily Kos: State of the Nation
Interesting and somewhat bitter reflections on the evolution of Netroots Nation from DailyKos diarist Hunter. Have we done all of this, he wonders, just to get back to pre-Bush equilibrium?
(tags: buildtheecho impact web_20)
Posted in what we're reading on Jul 18th, 2008
Cracking Code Pink | Salon News
“It struck me how necessary pink tiaras were in the informational black hole that enables the inscrutable machinations of Washington to move forward without public scrutiny. A successful movement depends on a media that will grant it public legitimacy.”
(tags: buildtheecho impact)
CJR: Yglesias: Totally in the (Think) Tank
Interesting…Yglesias moves to CAP
(tags: [...]
Posted in what we're reading on Jul 15th, 2008
In House, Tweets Fly Over Web Plan - NYTimes.com
(tags: web_20 csm buildtheecho)
Progressives Have a Big Tent at the Dem Convention | Election 2008 | AlterNet
“a 9,000-square-foot, two-story, fully wired platform for alternative coverage and a stage for newsmakers….will be a counterpoint to the usual convention activities.”
(tags: buildtheecho election)
Posted in death of journalism, infrastructure, musings, progressive media on Jul 14th, 2008
Kurt Anderson has an interesting article on the Post-Russert Era at New York Magazine today. Some of the most salient paragraphs:
Until the mid-nineties, the pages and airtime available for reporting and explaining the news were scarce and precious, and middle-of-the-road high sobriety was the default mode for American journalism; to devote more than a [...]