Isn’t that what Joe Teevee wants? Mayhem on My Street?

How many ways can you write, “Elvis Is Dead”? This is why we are down to AP and Reuters for most outlets. If you see it in the paper, you see it on Yahoo! So?

The one thing I SHOULD have gotten sooner is this notion…

Why is MICROSOFT expected to buy YAHOO! when Microsoft’s online operations are bleeding worse than Yahoo’s??? How retarded, for lack of any better word, is this when Yahoo! should be buying MSN?

Also, when is Carl Icahn going to a nursing home so all he can mess up is the nurses’ schedules? I am sick of this doddering fool.

personally, i’m hoping livenewscameras has busted into its 4th page of stations… i’m heading over there right now.

thanks for the reminder, #15

(Scully, you can’t fly that thing! Land it now!)

this “quality” argument is dying a quick death with each passing catastrophe .

click tdc to see what kind of “footage” unskilled hands can shoot in the time it takes “the crew” to get to the parking lot.

A newsroom is important so the Managing Editor can have a place to smoke cigars and preach to the underlings, tell war stories and critique their work.

A flip video camera (I have one) in unskilled hands guarantees a new low in quality. You can get still frames from it that aren’t too bad, for documentation. And they can be improved if necessary. I recently informed our power company via email of a 25kwv box that was knock off its cement perch. I also looked through recent video for a potential rapist who assaulted a female jogger a couple days ago. Its real small and not noticeable. But there are better or cheaper cameras.

If someone needs good 3chip video with good sound in the Gainesville, FL area, contact lancecharles@gmail.com.

i, too, don’t know why more people don’t do this. as icing on the cake, give them tracksticks and then mash the data with a map to show that the reporters are out and about. (or, is that too big brother?)

What used to set Yahoo! apart in the internet space was their directory. For as long as I can remember, going back at least to the mid-90s, they advertised for minions to verify submitted links and to make certain that they were on-topic.

Each directory submission was manually verified, but for some reason, Yahoo! required their people to work in the valley and due to the difficulty of competitively paying and recruiting people in that location, eventually they switched to a “free submissions may get into the directory, but if you’d pay to underwrite the verification”, kind of policy.

I realize it’s not the same thing, but if one of the original internet companies stuck to the whole “you must be in a cubicle” philosophy, why would any other industry be any different?

A2: B, maybe because I heard such flak over Young Broadcasting/KRON doing this from Bay Area posters to Usenet that I figured Max Headroom was a FLUKE (and that didn’t run for long on ABC either).

A2B: Then again, my ABC station bumped American Bandstand mercilessly or preempted it and wasted Saturday mornings for most of my good teenage years so what do I know?

Why are you tv people pointing fingers at newspapers?

Everything TV folks do can be done from the field just as well.

One guy, hard drive, HDV Camera, deck, and laptop. Can’t find WiFi then use a EV-DO card.

I know it works…I do it.

i was watching mcclatchy earlier today and just now noticed ah belo got whooped at the end of the day.

one thing i found odd in reading about the number of employees papers have is that while they employ a huge number of people only a fraction are making news.

that would lead one to believe the dead tree version takes alot of hands to knock out and deliver.

there is a swift answer to that.

i have wondered this for a long time while i was managing technology for newsrooms. the quick answer was that the collaboration of working with other reporters helps with contacts, inside information, tips, leads, etc. while virtual community can make up for some that, real face time is still the most efficient when you prairie dog over the cube wall to get help to punch up the lede or get a source for another quote.

big media still own access and collaboration, resulting from brand equity and the associated trust among sources and readers/viewers.