I've been traveling since middle of last week, hence the posting drought. Some scattershots:
- Programming note: There has been some confusion among some new visitors to our blog. The Daily Peg blog is not our actual product. As the intro on the right hand rail of this page indicates, this is a marketing site; a beacon; a diary of developing what we're going to do. When we have a real product to show, you'll be the first to know.
- Lots of aggregation/convergence afoot: AP now publishes RSS feeds. And Topix is now the content provider for AOL Local. Aggregate or be unique. We intend to do both.
- Another new player in the Citizens' Journalism game: New West Network.
- Steve Outing defends Citizen Journalism and provides great advice for MSM players dipping their toes in the CJ pond. I met with a group of smart innovators in this realm this week and was reminded that the revolution won't really happen anywhere that the business-side isn't fully engaged. Jeff Jarvis gets that point, with Craigslist being the poster-child. So does Alan Mutter, who notes:
Our mightiest newspapers turn into fumbling klutzes when they write about the industry's drooping credibility, swooning circulation and eroding advertising share.
Inevitably and embarrassingly, they fail to address these problems with the rigor and intellectual honesty they typically train on topics that don't directly involve their economic self-interest. Coincidence? Perhaps.
- Evelyn Rodriguez: The conversations we aren't having and "Love attracts love" marketing theory.
- A thank-you to all those who have emailed to tell me about yesterday's DMN piece on blogs. I'll see it when I get home, since it's not available on their website.
- Why CRM is more important than CMS.
- The Greensboro N&R has a new byline: "Contributing Reader"
- Attention Jack MacDonald: Get a wi-fi connection and you could be our downtown bureau. Hint: Journalists tend to drink a bit.
- Peter Chernin's 10 Rules for Media Survival. Where are the rules for those who wish to thrive? (Or has that become moot?)
- Simon Waldman has a critique of Wikinews. His suggestions for its improvement read like they're ripped from the "differentiators" section of our business plan.
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