links for 2009-07-09

• Blogs-on-Paper Idea Runs Out of Steam - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
  Not hilarious. It makes sense. Over 90% of Politico’s revenue comes from its print edition, even though it’s only distributed in D.C. The truth is, as the CFOs of both the NYTimes and WSJ will tell you, print advertising, on a CPM basis, generates 75x more revenue than Web ads. — Patricia
  (tags: blog newspaper print politico revenue-model)
• John Palfrey » Citizen Editors
  In the past several weeks, I’ve been playing with a new format that my friends at TopTenSources developed. We’ve seen the Citizen Journalist; this idea is the Citizen Editor. Several of us have been using a new bookmarklet-style tool that makes it very easy to tag a story when you’re reading it, provide a bit of analysis, and have it posted to a dedicated website on the topic. It’s in many ways what lots of bloggers do anyway. I remember Dave Winer showing me an aspect of Manila that renders a river of news and then lets you check off stories that you want to appear somewhere — dead simple and fun; this idea is in the same vein, only using different tools and with a different output.
  (tags: aggregators citizen-editors winer,dave news newspaper editor)
• Engage citizen editors
  Time was, newsrooms were instantly fact-checked by a handful of groups, sometimes with a political point of view, sometimes simply hobbyists and aficionados. Gun owners, railroad buffs, retired English teachers … we knew them fairly well.

  Today, the Internet has brought countless communities of interest together. Some of them blog and some of them chat among themselves. They can connect with each other — and with us — using only a few keystrokes and the “send” button.

  They are the citizen editors of our journalism.

  
  
  (tags: citizen-editors fact-checking newspapers editing)
  
  
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  United Breaks Guitars | Dave Carroll Music.com
  
  
  United has demonstrated they know how to keep their airline in the forefront of their customer’s minds and I wanted this project to expand upon that satirically. I’ve been done “being angry” for quite some time and, if anything, I should thank United. They’ve given me a creative outlet that has brought people together from around the world. We had a pile of laughs making the recording and the video while the images are spinning on how to make “United: Song 2” even better than the first. So, thanks United! If my guitar had to be smashed due to extreme negligence I’m glad it was you that did it. Now sit back and enjoy the show.
  
  
  (tags: unitedairlines sonsofmaxwell song airline music travel dont-piss-off-that-singer-songwriter)
  
  
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  News Innovators on the Frontline: MGoBlog.com | News Innovation
  
  
  The kind of people who are affected by The Ann Arbor News becoming annarbor.com are generally less hardcore about their sports coverage.

  But with the transition to the web, they are promising to link out a lot, so having more of a two-way relationship with the local news sites would help, probably just in terms of Google ranking and maybe some traffic. Right now I link to them and The Free Press fairly often, and I don’t think I’ve ever received a link from any of those sources. That seems a little unbalanced.

  
  
  (tags: michigan annarbor football umich mgoblog mgoblue back-atcha-buddy)
  
  
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  Chef of Ann Arbor restaurant to compete on show | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press
  
  
  Chef Eve Aronoff — chef-owner of eve restaurant in Ann Arbor’s Kerrytown district — will compete this fall on Bravo’s “Top Chef: Las Vegas,” the sixth season of the top-rated cable series, the network announced today.

  
  Aronoff, 40, was classically trained at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, but her contemporary cooking style is known for its bold, exotic flavors and eclectic international influences that range from Cuba and Africa to Vietnam. Her intimate restaurant, opened in 2003, features a seasonally changing menu, an outstanding wine list and a casually sophisticated ambience.

  
  
  (tags: aronoff,eve eve annarbor michigan food restaurant top-chef-las-vegas)
  
  
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  ~ Akoha - Come Play it Forward
  
  
  We’re very pleased to announce that we’ve completely sold-out of our initial print run of VIP Starter Decks. Many thanks to all our players for making the first edition of the VIP Starter Kit such a success.

  Based on feedback from the community we’ve taken this opportunity to improve the original VIP Starter Deck.

  Along with being much shinier and easier to read we’ve added more of your favourite missions (”Thanks Someone”, “Make Someone Smile” and “Give Someone a Surprise Gift” and removed a couple of missions that weren’t getting as much love (”Send Drinks to a Couple in Love” and “Give a Compact Florescent Bulb”).

  
  
  (tags: social startup pay-it-forward lunch montreal)
  
  
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  Michael Wolff on Politico | vanityfair.com
  
  
  Four old-media veterans may have solved the future of news with the Politico Web site, whose audience of six million obsessives and insiders consumes–and feeds–a real-time download of power data. The twist? Politico’s print version is what’s helped make it profitable.
  
  
  (tags: politics internet journalism newspaper hyper-fricking-local the-late-age-of-print)
  
  
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  The Death of Print | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
  
  
  Relying on an advertiser-supported business model is archaic, not to mention dangerous. If it is to survive, the print industry needs to revisit the era when they answered to the reader. When they fought to bring down crooked politicians instead of fighting to clutch onto advertisers. As we can all see now, the advertisers were never loyal companions anyway.
  
  
  (tags: journalism advertising print the-late-age-of-print newspapers adbusters)
  
  

Comments

[Ruth]

Citizen editors--isn't that essentially how wikipedia happens? So it's not really a new concept, although it might be a new title...