Myself and a few other Washington state journalists — mostly competitors of mine — met on Twitter today and inadvertently organized a little team to aggregate coverage on the floods in Washington state. We're currently Twittering links under the hashtag #waflood and aggregating links (which some of us have pasted into widgets) using Publish2. (… Continue

[Cross-posting this in a few places, so forgive me if the formatting is a bit imperfect here.] For a couple years now, I've been working with editors, reporters, and commenters on news sites taking the following hypothesis as a given:

Commenters will be the most civil in the place that is the most public.

For example, I expected commenters on news stories, where more people could see their words, to be more civil than commenters on blog posts on a news site, whic… Continue

Camp VJ is coming to Orlando to deliver three full days of hands-on video journalism training. Camp Video Journalism is a hands-on and very practical three day video journalism workshop designed for reporters carrying video cameras. (The training is produced by Visual Edit… Continue

Read here for all the info. For college journalists looking to grab some new media gusto as they head out into the world.

This, I would rate as the most provocative design post (relating to a news site) of 2008. I read it on the 37signals.com blog (which incidentally is read and handled by people who know a lot about web design). Here's the contention: "... I still think that the Drudge Report is an aesthetic masterpiece even though I also consider it ugly. Can good design also be ugly? I think Drudge proves it can." ... Not surprisngly, the post has attracted 537 comments on the blog (last count), though I don't… Continue