Archive for October 19th, 2007
The winners have just been announced at the Online News Association conference in Toronto, and the revamped USAToday.com won the Online Journalism Award for general excellence, large site. The judges “decided to honor a site that made a huge leap in the last year who made a commitment to put the readers at the center of the news, not just at the receiving end,” emcee Ruth Gersh said. DenverPost.com won general excellence for medium site, and the VenturaCountyStar won for small site (edging out my own KING5.com, shucks.) The WashingtonPost.com’s OnBeing project won a special OJA for innovation, and ABCNews.com’s Brian Ross won an award in the investigative journalism category for their Mark Foley story. Lots more winners here, and congrats everyone!
October 19th, 2007
I didn’t care for the title of the panel on which I sat, but don’t bite the hand that feeds you, eh? (Sorry - Canada.) As it was, ONA’s “Broadcast Strategies for the Web” provided ideas for all sites, whether they are “broadcast,” “print” or “other.” Emily Hanlon has a fine writeup on the ONA’s site. I will say that I thought the audience beat up too much on CNN.com’s Manuel Perez, who presented CNN’s I-Reporter concept. I thought we had gone through the “how do you know they’re real videos?”/”Is that really journalism?” argument four years ago. I suppose if you want to go to the trouble of staging your own bridge collapse on the day a bridge collapses, you may sneak something through. But why is it that journalists so often go to the worst case scenario when faced with a new breakthrough?
October 19th, 2007
Through testing, the AP has confirmed that Comcast “actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online.” AP calls it “the most drastic example yet of data discrimination by a U.S. Internet service provide” and “if widely applied by other ISPs, the technology Comcast is using would be a crippling blow to the BitTorrent, eDonkey and Gnutella file-sharing networks.”
It’s high time for a net neutrality law, don’t you think? (Thanks, Rob for the link!)
October 19th, 2007
It’s kind of unfair to have a panel on which Daniel Lyons, better known right now as “Fake Steve Jobs” is one of the panelists. Who do you think is going to draw all the attention? Friday morning, Lyons talked about what inspired him to fakeblog in the voice of Steve Jobs. Writes Raechal Leone:
“My idea was ‘What if the CEO really did a blog and then went off the rails?’”… Lyons said he knew the blog had caught on before that, though, when a friend at a software company, who didn’t know Lyons was Fake Steve, asked him if he read the blog and told him, “Fake Steve rocks!”
Fake Steve’s Book, “oPtion$: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, A Parody” comes out October 22nd.
October 19th, 2007
