Wow – comments seem to be a popular topic around the old Journo-blogosphere this week. It started with a radio piece on NPR: On the Media: Comments on Comments It got kick-started by Jeff Jarvis: Comments on comments on comments Kevin Anderson followed up with a post reviewing the whole thing: On the Media and […]
Spent most of the week migrating our multimedia (about 343 projects) from a home made Flash player we got via Zach Wise over to Castfire.com. Still a fair amount of work to do – the process involved downloading all of the media assets, renaming them, pulling all the metadata from a separate RSS feed, combining […]
Why Newspapers shouldn’t allow comments In which the writer pulls memorable comments from the NYT site such as this as proof of her thesis: “if he wasn’t a reporter for the new york times, would we be reading this?” “Monetizing your shameful past is disgusting. Haven’t you harmed your loved ones enough for one lifetime?” […]
The 2008 Readership Study from Northwestern University is out. For online managers – the news is not good: … 62 percent of respondents said they had never visited the local newspaper’s Website, and only 14 percent said they had visited between the last seven to 30 days, numbers that have improved only a little over […]