MediaShift ::Traditional Media Ready to Elevate the Conversation Online – with Moderation | PBS What has changed in the last year is that major media companies are no longer arguing over whether they should have comments under stories or blogs; instead, the debate is about how they should moderate them and even highlight the best ones in eye-catchin (tags: audience moderation journalism blogging community socialmedia) TV child psychologist Byron warns

CoverItLive – Live Blogging 2.0 Does this take live blogging to the next level? (tags: blog blogging) The Downfall of HD-DVD (video) – Boing Boing Very amusing video taking liberties with history (tags: satire HD-DVD DVD video) Drop.io voice Set up your personal voicebank online – this oftens intriguing possibilities for breaking news reports from correspondents in the field, filed directly to the web. (tags: resources tools recording mp3) MediaShift

The world is shifting towards a model where everything is free – free software, free music, and, of course, free news. The question is what is the cost of free. How much are we prepared to pay for the privilege of “free”, asks the ReadWriteWeb: We are raising a generation of kids who do not want to pay monthly subscriptions for anything. Give me stuff for free and stick some

The music industry | From major to minor | Economist.com The value of music is shifting, from the music as a commodity to music as a service (tags: music downloads) BBC NEWS | Researchers plunder social networks Researchers, as well as journalists, tap Facebook as a source (tags: Facebook privacy research) Conversation Agent: New Media Influences Journalists Nearly 70 percent of all reporters check a blog list on a regular

InsideHigherEd.com reflects on a meeting of journalism school deans, editors and news executives on the role of journalism schools in an age of new media: Criticisms of journalism schools have ranged from questioning whether the institutions are necessary in the first place (since many journalists, and most senior ones, don’t have journalism degrees) to debating the merits of teaching practical skills versus theory and whether curriculums should emphasize broad knowledge

Adrian Monck hosts the Carnival of Journalism Actually it’s starting to feel more like a blog caravan than a blog carnival of journalism as bloggers hop on board (tags: journalism blogs) The Apple Product Cycle With Macworld happening this week, a little satire about Apple (tags: apple satire hype) The music industry | From major to minor | Economist.com The value of music is shifting, from the music as a

My J-school students take on blogging this week. It is one of the assignments in our core multiplatform journalism course, so they don’t really have a choice but to blog, at least for a few weeks. Some students are enthusiastic about being freed from the constraints of the traditional news pyramid. Others see it as another assignment and some, well, they don’t use blogs. This isn’t about teaching students how

Blogging in journalism is one of those topics that can provoke strong emotions. Usually critics of blogs are quick to proclaim that “blogging isn’t journalism!” This kind of debate is fruitless, as it confuses form with content. Blogs have developed to become a publishing platform, just like television or radio. The content may or may not be journalism. As with any platform, it has its own conventions which has developed

NewWest.net‘s founder, Jonathan Weber, makes a compelling argument about the longevity of print. At first, this seems odd, coming from one of the people behind the Rocky Mountain community news site. But like he says, revenues from print still outweigh those from online, and this is one of the reasons why NewWest.net is launching a print magazine. Yes, we can all agree that print is in a slow decline. But,

From the BBC Internet blog, which offers insights into how the corporation is changing for a digital world: 2008 will become the breakthrough year for the BBC’s interactive audience facing services. The biggest ticket item we are working on is a complete refresh of our backend infrastructure. While this is fairly boring stuff for the average consumer, without it, we cannot move things forward. It is true that the average