How newspapers can thrive on the World Wide Web

Commentary: An online journalism pioneer examines the state of the industry through the example of his hometown Florida newspapers.

By Robin Miller

Posted: 2007-07-24

Robin 'Roblimo' Miller is Editor in Chief for OSTG, owner of Slashdot, NewsForge, freshmeat, Linux.com, SourceForge.net, and the ecommerce site ThinkGeek.

I live in Bradenton, Florida, where we have two local newspapers, the Bradenton Herald and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Neither one has a very good website. Both are steadily losing print subscribers and advertisers, just like most newspapers around the country. Still, newspapers are usually the most recoginizable media brands in their communities, and should be able to translate that brand recognition into local online information dominance. Here's how they can do it.

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http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070724miller/

Seminar - ‘The Future of News’ - Professor Fred Fletcher (York University, Canada)

Life and Social Sciences

INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH LUNCHTIME SEMINARS 2007

Thurs 28 June 12:30 - 2 pm Swinburne Place West 226

Professor Fred Fletcher (York University, Canada)

‘The Future of News’

At each stage of their development, modern news media have altered the nature of the public sphere. From the coffee houses of the 18th century, through the emergence of daily newspapers, news services, the electronic media and the subsequent dominance of television, each has changed the character of the public discourse so necessary to modern liberal democracies. The latest development, which presents a rapidly moving target for researchers, is the online public sphere. The Internet has challenged the dominance of the traditional media, presented information in novel ways and raised questions about established definitions of news and the role of journalists and, above all, created a new public sphere. As with other new media, news on the Internet is taking on new forms, involving audiences in new ways (as both seekers for and providers of news and commentary), and is altering news consumption patterns. This paper explores these changes from the perspective of the audience. Drawing on recent survey data, including results from the World Internet Project, it examines patterns of news consumption and information seeking among different age groups and draws out implications for debates on the perceived credibility of traditional and online news and information sources.

All welcome

Communications Policy & Research Forum 2007

Date: Monday, 24 September 2007 to Tuesday, 25 September 2007




Venue: UTS, Guthrie Theatre
Cost: $450.00 per person.



 The Communications Policy & Research Forum 2007 will be held at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) on 24-25 September (Monday-Tuesday). Interest areas include ICT, digital media, telecommunications broadcasting, communications culture, Internet and e-commerce.




It is a research-oriented forum open to all viewpoints; a co-operative effort by policy and research centres. It is also a national meeting-place for researchers in all sectors. To see the papers and program from last year's Forum, please click here.
Please feel welcome to submit a proposal or abstract to be on the platform for this year's Forum. The closing date is 25 May. To download the 2007 call for papers and presentations, please click here.

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The Age Journalism Seminar 2007

Journalism Seminar 2007

The Age Journalism Seminar May 31, 5pm-7pm BMW Edge, Federation Square Melbourne
Much of what readers see in their daily copy of The Age is the result of considerable work. Producing a major daily paper requires rigour, determination and the skills of a diverse range of talented people.

If you would like to gain further insight into journalism and the challenges and responsibilities of covering news for The Age, join us at this year’s Journalism
Seminar. This year panel features Liz Minchin, environment reporter, journalist Miki Perkins, photographer Marina Oliphant and online editor, James Farmer.

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Illogic of Sense: The Gregory L. Ulmer Remix

Illogic of Sense: The Gregory L. Ulmer Remix



Illogic of Sense: The Gregory L. Ulmer Remix
Edited by Darren Tofts and Lisa Gye.
Design by Joel Swanson (hippocrit.com).

Contributors include Niall Lucy, Jon McKenzie, Linda Marie Walker, Craig Saper, Rowan Wilken, Marcel O'Gorman, Teri Hoskin, and Michael Jarrett, with an introduction by editors Tofts and Gye.

Mark Amerika's press release

"Illogic of Sense: The Gregory L. Ulmer Remix" is an exciting new ebook publication that employs theorist Gregory Ulmer's invocation to invent new forms of electronic writing. As the ebook's editors, Darren Tofts and Lisa Gye, write in their brilliant introduction, "Ulmer has been at the forefront of thinking about new cultural formations as the paradigm of literacy converges with digital culture." Ulmer's work has been central to contemporary thinking on the future of writing and his international presence as one of the leading figures in media arts discourse has influenced a multitude of disciplines from electronic literature and Internet art to critical theory, communications studies, and art history. The ebook features a diverse group of artists, theorists, and creative writers who develop new forms of hybridized "digital rhetoric." Their inventive and audacious experiments take advantage of recent developments in the field of new media studies, and as part of Alt-X's mission to participate in the creative commons provided by the Web, are available for free download.

Community News - Infoxchange Australia
Check Tuesday
Coles Group Community Grants Program
Contributor: Coles Group Community Fund.

Issue Crawler

The Govcom.org Foundation, Amsterdam, and its collaborators have developed a software tool that locates and visualizes networks on the Web. The Issue Crawler, at http://issuecrawler.net, is used by NGOs and other researchers to answer questions about specific networks and effective networking more generally. You also may do in-depth research with the software.This is an excellent tool - Axel Bruns has used it to map David Hicks related blogs for example.

Violet Diamond Haig

What a little beauty!
On March 14th at 2.55am Martine and Ian saw a baby girl come into the world!

Enabling an army of citizen journalists

Enabling an army of citizen journalists
Originally uploaded by stevegarfield.

Web 2.0 bibliography compiled by the A(o)ir list

Allen, C. Life With Alacrity. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from
http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/.

Beauvisage, T. Characterizing Users’ Paths Through the Web. Retrieved
February 22, 2007, from http://thomas.beauvisage.free.fr/pubs/
Beauvisage_These_ParcoursWeb.pdf.

blip.tv (beta). Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://blip.tv/.

Brake, D. Media @ LSE Group Weblog » Blog Archive » Dangerously
overstating the significance of Web 2.0. Retrieved February 22, 2007,
from http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2007/02/overstating-the-
significance-of-web-20.

Chang, H. (2004). Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific
Progress. Clarendon Press. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://
www.amazon.com/dp/0195171276.

Digital Ethnography. Retrieved February 23, 2007, from http://
mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/.

Fuller, M. (2003). Behind the Blip: Essays on the Culture of
Software. Autonomedia. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://
www.amazon.com/dp/1570271399.

Kleinrock, L. The Day the Infant Internet Uttered its First Words.
Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/LK/Inet/
1stmesg.html.

Kuhn, T.S. (1996). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
University Of Chicago Press. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://
www.amazon.com/dp/0226458083.

MacLeod, D. Kant take my iTunes off you | higher news |
EducationGuardian.co.uk. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://
education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,1972016,00.html.

Mackenzie, A. (2006). Cutting Code: Software And Sociality. Peter
Lang Pub Inc. Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0820478237.

McCloud, S. (1994). Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. Harper
Paperbacks. Retrieved February 23, 2007, from http://www.amazon.com/
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McLuhan, M., & Fiore, Q. (2005). The Medium is the Massage. Gingko
Press. Retrieved February 23, 2007, from http://www.amazon.com/dp/
1584230703.

McLuhan, M., & Powers, B.R. (1992). The Global Village:
Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century
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February 22, 2007, from http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195079108.

Mozilla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved February 23,
2007, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla.

Nielsen, J. Alertbox: Jakob Nielsen's Newsletter on Web Usability.
Retrieved February 23, 2007, from http://www.useit.com/alertbox/.

O'Reilly, T. What Is Web 2.0 - Design Patterns and Business Models
for the Next Generation of Software. Retrieved February 23, 2007,
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Flash! Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://www.videodl.org/.

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22, 2007, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE.

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http://dave.editthispage.com/historyOfFrontier.

Happy Birthday to the mobile

Mobile phone technology in Australia turns 20

Sounds of Australia

Australian Film Commission - NewsAndEvents - Media Releases 2007

National Film and Sound Archive establishes Sounds of Australia, the National Registry of Recorded Sound

The National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) today announced the establishment of Sounds of Australia, a public registry of significant recordings that all Australians can participate in the creation of, which will grow each year, celebrating Australia's unique culture and history through sound. Renowned musician, composer and Australian Film Commissioner Paul Grabowsky is Sounds of Australia's 2007 patron. "This is a very exciting initiative from the NFSA," said Mr Grabowsky. "It acknowledges the importance of recorded sound in shaping our identity. There's no doubt that sound has the power to evoke memories and emotions in a very personal way."

Extraordinary street art

A lovely illusion.

Performancing for Firefox

http://performancing.com/firefox

Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox

* Works with all major blog software
* Easy WYSIWYG Editing
* Trackback, Technorati and Del.icio.us support

Very cool add on - my whole blog is just one long test at the moment!

Some links on convergence

Darren Burden, the manager of online editorial development at Fairfax recently sent me these excellent links. One of the difficulties educators face is getting an insight into how changes in technologies are impacting on the ground in media organisations. We are often on the outside looking in. This makes it hard to ensure that our students get the very latest updates in what is happening. I'd love to see more integration between major media organisations and educational institutions. I think we have a lot that we could offer each other. In the meantime..
Editor's weblog
Darren's delicious convergence links

Testing sound

Testing to see how this blog handles sound - if at all!

Lavendula Lavender Farm

Lavendula Lavender Farm
Originally uploaded by lgye.

This is really a test post to see if the automated upload from Flickr is working. Getting your head around the integration of all of these different programs. I guess that's why people use services like MySpace..

AJ and Darren

AJ and Darren, originally uploaded by lgye.

I can dedicate this blog to the memory of my beautiful auntie June Bracchi who passed away last November. I really love this photo taken in a Turkish restaurant in Sydney Rd Brunswick with my partner Darren. She has such a look of sweet whimsy about her.

And another thing

Do I really need another place to write to? Maybe - we'll see how it goes. I read smoewhere that a new blog is created every .5 sec - so that's at least 5 since I wrote this..hmm