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Just received the following from Roger Black in Plattsburgh:


Was on the front page of today's Press-Republican.

Recordnet | Blogs

Recently launched: Recordnet | Blogs

NOLA.com: Flood graphic

NOLA did a very compelling online graphic of the Katrina flooding sequence a couple of Sundays ago.

Book blogs

Santa Cruz: The Book Eater (Feed)
Cape Cod: Bookmarked (Feed)

Anyone else have book-related pages out there?

Santa Cruz UGC

From: Len LaBarth [mailto:llabarth@santacruzsentinel.com]
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 1:32 PM
To: spolay@ottaway.com
 

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/specialprojects/mountmadonna/index.html

 

Students at school here go to D.C. every two years as part of a government in action program. They meet with lawmakers, journalists, etc. This year they’re doing a blog, complete with fotos and audio files, archives. The blog entries are a little long, but that’s to be expected. Cool community stuff.

 

Len

 

Len La Barth

New Media Editor

Santa Cruz Sentinel

(831) 429-2411

(831) 429-9620 (FAX)

www.santacruzsentinel.com

 

More Seacoast UGC

FLOODING....How is it where you are? - SeacoastConnects Forums -- with photos in some of the posts.

Seacoast UGC

Seacoast Connects Photo Gallery: 2006 Portsmouth Junior Prom Photos

Graduations, anyone?

UGC in Pocono

Bear in Stroudsburg!

Nieman Reports: Newspaper Survival

I know what I'll be reading on the plane when I travel later this week: Nieman Reports: Newspapers' Survival.

Quick peak reveals this first headline atop Tim Porter's article:
If Newspapers Are to Rise Again
'Reinvent or die. It's that simple.'

Full report: PDF-friendly | HTML

Steve Outing » A magazine brings its editors out into the open

It's a familiar rant for Steve Outing: Allow newsrooms to become more transparent through blogging. His latest post on the subject highlights what's happening at Bike magazine.

FW: DailyCandy Dedicated E-mail - Call the Shots

I like this UGC idea. Turn the users into assignment editors.

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From: today@dailycandy.com [mailto:today@dailycandy.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:38 AM
To: spolay@ottaway.com
Subject: DailyCandy Dedicated E-mail - Call the Shots

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WSJ.com - The Perfect News Site, 2016

Pointed out by Romanesko today: WSJ.com - The Perfect News Site, 2016. No surprises, really, but a good read nonetheless.

Blogs: Good or Evil?

Washington Post's Howard Kurtz collects some wide-ranging thoughts (by others) on blogs in his column today:

Blogs: Good or Evil?

The column almost reads like a blog. Ironic, eh?

NYT's Talk to the Newsroom: Reader Questions and Answers

A little nytimes.com inside baseball as Deputy Managing Editor Jonathan Landman answers reader questions about the Web operation.

Speaking of podcasts....

Been discussing podcasts via e-mail with Dan Wheeler in Danbury, and as part of hunting around for some examples, I came across this article: Newspapers' nascent podcasting projects in perspective - Editors Weblog- Analysis.

One preoccupation of newspapers looking to include podcasting is how to produce them in a way to which readers can relate. Are readers merely interested in hearing the print journalist read his or her article or does it have to sound more professional to keep the reader coming back?

Of course, given that choice, it's the latter, right?

I submit, however, that the goal should really be to sound professional and off-the-cuff (authentic) at the same time. That's a challenge, but it's doable. The podcasts I enjoy the most sound as if they are not following a script, while also not injecting a lot of ums and ahs in between.

I'm a huge fan of The Splendid Table Kitchen Questions. It's basically the call-in portion of The Splendid Table, a public radio program produced by American Public Media (home of Marketplace and A Prairie Home Companion, among many others). The podcasts's real charm is that its completely unscripted (well, aside from the call screener), but always informative.

On the flip side, Celtic Music News podcast is outstanding for its musical content, but I cringe every time I listen to the host in between songs because he always seems lost and unsure of where he's going next.

Here's what some other newspapers are doing across the country. If you don't have iTunes or other software that can subscribe to podcasts, get thee to Juice, and give their free software a trial run.

Here's a list I collected for Dan:

Papers more our speed:

Pensacola News Journal: http://multimedia.pensacolanewsjournal.com/podcast/pod_pop.shtml

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=PODCAST

The Daily Journal (Kanakee County, Ill.): http://ww2.daily-journal.com/podcast/index.cfm

And the big boys:

SacBee: http://www.sacticket.com/music/story/13712786p-14555138c.html

NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/ref/multimedia/podcasts.html (I love the Music Popcast. And even the Most E-mailed Stories one is pretty good. It's about three minutes, and always has a quirky, creative spin on describing the stories.)

SFGate: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/indexn?blogid=5
Description of their intent: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/about?blogid=5

Philly.com: http://www.phillyfeed.com/

If you're really interested, I'll send a list of the music podcasts I listen to regularly.

Chronicle Podcasts : Helen Thomas' Washington

Helen Thomas podcasts! Who knew?

USA National Gas Temperature Map

Via today's Rocketboom: Timely mashup done by the folks at gasbuddy.com, which many, I'm sure, are already using as a contextual link for any gas price stories. The USA National Gas Temperature Map uses a color-coded map to show how gas prices differ across the country.

Green = cheapest. Red = most expensive. Right-click over your county -- or any other that interests you -- to see the average price. If you zoom in on the map, you can do the same for individual towns, too.

Personally, I'm driving to New Jersey for my next fillup. Luckily, I live one town over the state line.

Earth Day online event

From: Clyde Bentley [mailto:bentleycl@missouri.edu]
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 10:09 PM
To: New Media Federation
Subject: [feds-newmedia] Earth Day online event

Columbia, MO, celebrates Earth Day with a large street fair and festival.  For the second year, student editors of MyMissourian.com have staffed a booth at which they explain citizen journalism, hand out pamphlets directing folks to our Web site and copies of our 23,000-circulation citizen journalism print edition.

But the excitement really climbs when we offer the loan of a digital camera on the condition they come back with photos of the fair that we can immediately upload to the Web.

We are a low (make that no) budget operation, so we just put a few photos directly on the site and then link to a Flickr gallery that grows through the day.

And grow it did.  We ended the day with 100 user-generated photographs, plus a pile of e-mail addresses of folks who would like to continue contributing.

Take a look at http://mymissourian.com.  If you have questions about our project, drop me a line.

Clyde

--
Clyde H. Bentley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Missouri School of Journalism
3 Neff Hall
Columbia, MO 65211-1200
(573) 884-9688 BentleyCl@missouri.edu
http://www.missouri.edu/~bentleyc

SFGate: Populist news sites give readers what they want / New tools measure buzz, helping online editors decide if a story deserves better play

Calling your attention to this San Francisco Chronicle article from Monday: Populist news sites give readers what they want / New tools measure buzz, helping online editors decide if a story deserves better play

My pet-peeve rant: They didn't link the bleepin' Web sites in the fact box appended to the end of the article. For crying out loud!