David Black

“People aren’t wasting any time trying to figure out how to monetize all those thousands of Facebook apps that have sprung up over the last couple of months. At least three advertising experiments have launched – the most promising, by far, is RockYou.”

“Which articles do you often refer back to? Which ones are you always forwarding to people or referring to in speeches and seminars? Which are the articles that changed your mind, shaped your thinking or simply summarised a complex issue?”

“Second, you have to design a way for there to be members in good standing. Have to design some way in which good works get recognized. The minimal way is, posts appear with identity. You can do more sophisticated things like having formal karma or “membe

“It’s tempting to think that people read your blog. Sadly, they don’t. They skim them. So always make your content skim-friendly. Write it with “skimmabilty” baked-in.”

“The gatekeeper has always been with us, it’s just that the job descriptions and qualifications have changed. It’s no longer crusty city desk editors and executive producers. It’s you and me.”

“Monitoring tools like Recent Changes and History were made available to let the community moderate. Requiring registration to edit made contributors more accountable… Most importantly — a clear goal for the collaboration was set.”

Homophily: “Organizations play a very powerful role in bringing together similar people and in creating homogenous views on a variety of topics.”

“For you to identify their complete region of interests, you necessarily have to show them things in and out of that region. The best way to make those connections is to mix it up.”

“So we figured we’d use this new found expertise for good and offer the newspaper industry some unsolicited advice on how to improve their websites. “

“Attention economics will reshape business economics. It is not just a question of re-thinking marketing, but re-conceiving business.”

“Attention is ultimately what counts – attention profiles have value only because our attention has so much value… [b]ecause it is so scarce or, more accurately, because its relative scarcity has been rapidly increasing. “

“On the Internet, everybody is a millenarian. Internet journalism, according to those who produce manifestos on its behalf, represents a world-historical development”

“Shane Richmond is asking for contributions to a list of classic blog posts on online journalism. For some reason my comments don’t seem to have gone through, so here’s my list of the essential reads for online journalists:”

“Use print to explain…Use multimedia to show… Use interactives to demonstrate and engage.”

“I’d like to toss out objectivity as a goal, however, and replace it with four other notions that may add up to the same thing. They are pillars of good journalism: thoroughness, accuracy, fairness and transparency.”

“carefully consider whether the content we’ve found online was ever intended to be seen by a wider audience and if any harm could be done by exposing it to that audience – and then, rather than seeking access, we link, quote and clearly disclaim”

“We have a phrase in TV that simple packages are clip- link-clip-link. I know it reduces the medium to its basic principle but you see the idea. An interview clip is then linked to the next bit of content by a bit of script. “

“One advantage of traveling to journalism workshops around the country is getting to hear great photojournalists talk about their work. We thought we’d collect some of their wisdom in one place as inspiration to their peers.”

G. Stuart Adam: “To journalists, editors, and teachers who want to understand the creative process and how it can work for them.”

“To help you learn some of these skills and start experimenting with online journalism, we’ve assembled a list of sites and programs that will help you quickly and easily begin using multimedia and the internet to advance your reporting”