SacredFacts

links for 2009-07-31

• Anyone can write this crap (Phil Gyford’s website)
  WHy the web isnt a threat to serious journalism - only crap journalism.
  (tags: news journalism internet digital future futureofnews newspapers buisness)
• Microformats, hNews, the AP and The Animals...
  Steve Yelvington explains the whole AP tagging thing
  (tags: AP news USA internet digital future futureofnews newspapers journalism)

links for 2009-07-30

• manuel castells - the networked age - Demos
  (tags: castells networked internet future digital information)

links for 2009-07-28

• Twitter angst over "is it journalism"
  Duh. Does it matter? Doug Fisher on Melissa Hart's crie de couer
  (tags: twitter socialmedia internet deigital future futr)
• 5 trends that will reinvent news
  I agree with 1 - 4. But wonder if No 5 isnt a bit like those flying cars we all thought we'd have in the 1970s
  (tags: news journalism future futureofnews internet mobile digital business)
• Len Downie addresses class of 2009 - The Journalism School Columbia ...
  Why go into Journalism?
  (tags: downie washingtonpost Cjr journalism news USA)

links for 2009-07-27

• Climate Thoughts - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference ...
  visualisation of climate change ideas
  (tags: UN climatechange globalwarming science)
• Governments may limit internet
  WSJ piece on authoritarian governments and filtering of the web.
  (tags: IGF Icann internet digital future filtering)

links for 2009-07-26

• The News About the Internet - The New York Review of Books
  Needless to say, traditional news organizations continue to play a critical part in keeping the public informed. But can they adapt to the rapidly changing news environment? And who is going to pay for quality news and information in the future?
  (tags: news journalism USA internet digital future futureofnews massing)
• Build the Wall : CJR
  David SImon of The Wire and the Baltimore Sun says newspapers should just introduce pay walls online and take the reach hit.
  (tags: internet digital news journalism newspapers USA future futureofnews CJR davidsimon)

links for 2009-07-25

• Action to Disrupt the Monitoring System Used by the Iranian Regime « @shariatmadari
  NSN denies that the monitoring center sold to Iran can be used for monitoring or cencorship of the internet traffic, but it admits that the system has the capability to conduct voice monitoring of local calls on Iran’s fixed and mobile telephone network. (link 2)
  (tags: iran internet digital foi igf siemens nokia telephone monitoring filtering)
• China News: China Launches Arabic International TV Channel | China Digital Times (CDT)
  CCTV vice-president Zhang Changming said in a statement the channel “would serve as an important bridge to strengthen communication and understanding between China and the Arab countries.”
  (tags: china tv middleeast arabic publicdiplomacy global broadcasting)
• Is it journalism, does it matter?
  Paul Bradshaw's account and links to Aan Rsubridger at the Media Standards Trust on what's replacing journalism
  (tags: internet digital future futureofnews mediastandardstrust bradshaw rusbridger guardian mysociety)

links for 2009-07-24

• Insite | Google’s advanced operators for journalists
  Excellent presentation on getting more from Google searches...
  (tags: google search advanced journalists)

links for 2009-07-22

• Lokman Tsui on Global Voices and the Future of Journalism | Berkman Center
  the need to move beyond objectivity and towards "hospitality" in pursuing the potential of journalism in a networked world.
  (tags: berkman journalism future internet global globalvoices news digital futureofnews networked citizenjournalism objectivity hospitality)
• Jonathan Zittrain NYT Op-Ed: Lost in the Cloud
  Jonathan Z on internet security and risks of putting everything int he cloud....
  (tags: IGF governance berkman zittrain internet security digital future access NYT)
• The psychology of overconfidence : The New Yorker
  Malcolm Gladwell on overconfidence, the banks and crises
  (tags: gladwell newyorker finance business economics crisis)

links for 2009-07-21

• Scott Rosenberg: Newsies beat bloggers? Some ...
  Scott looks at academic research comparing News organisations and bloggers role in the news cycle.
  (tags: blogs news journalism digital future internet newscycle stanford cornell rosenberg)
• New study: Deep brand engagement correlates with financial performance
  Use of social media correlates with financial performance?
  (tags: socialmedia business performance)
• Joho the Blog » Transparency is the new objectivity
  David W explains why he sees transparency as the new currency of Trust
  (tags: weinberger objectivity journalism transparency)

Blue State lessons

Had a great talk to day by Joe Rospars of Blue State Digital about the lessons of the Obama campaign. He ran the new media elements (captured below by Edelman)

Social Media Lessons from the Obama Campaign

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The principles of Transparency, Authenticity, Relationship building and engagement could be applied across any project or business. They also produced this great video for the last week of the campaign when they feared supporters were too complacent and sure of winning to turn out: