I just now decided. It will do it some good. Or, what about taking it even further and lifting the heart and soul (the content) out of J-Log and stuffing it into a fresh, clean folksonomyerrific Drupal install. Hmmm. I kinda like the sound of that, you know. The bad side is, I would lose all of the ground I've gained in the search engines over the years. Although mod_rewrite might be able to help with that.
LOL. Whaa? ;) Seriously, though, the memo, which LA Observed got ahold of first, I think, isn't too bad. That is, it didn't sound so horrible that it would be a 'NY Times' type blog, with fact checking, editors, moderation, etc. And they admitted it was hard to pull the writers off of print but that they did it. And it was cocky (the memo) but not too much so. I'll be watching, Ms. Gray Lady. Maybe there's hope yet?
Well, there you go. I found the Chicago Daily News, a new CitJ site started by an ex-Trib staffer, in my logs last week. I'd actually talked to Geoff months ago about it, although he was keeping it off the radar at that point. I told him I'd wait a little before announcing the site so he could throw some more content on, but Poynter beat me to it. So, now that the cat's out of the bag... (In related news, MFPstarted breaking news that isn't in the local paper (The Star Press) yet. I mean, I'm certainly not doing it for the money or the fame, but it's tiring toiling in the trenches, scraping by financially. The good news, though, is that I really feel, as a journalist, that I'm reaching people in various communities across East Central Indiana. I just need to hang on a few more months.
Heh. I probably shouldn't post this because some poor soul low on the ladder will get chewed for the Tribune-wide web woes, but it was kinda funny in a snarky blogtastic sort of way. From LAObserved.
I've been messing around with Amazon' s Mechanical Turk web application. It's forming quite a little community around itself already. Very interesting. Anyway, the thought - couldn't AMT be used to pay for things citizen publisher's need on their websites (local content, filling calendars, moderation of comments, etc.)?
Hal Boedeker at pop-up prone Orlando Sentinel: Report stirs debate: News or exploitation? - I guess WFTV-Channel 9 anchor Martie Salt got all teared up on-air while listening to a recorded 911 call. Other local stations didn't run the call. You get the idea. Your thoughts?
Seema Mustafa at The Asian Age (India): Free Press - Mustafa says Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh needs to look to the U.S. for guidance on how to run the media. Specifically George W. Bush. I'm not so sure about that specifically, see, but a Free Press is important.
