Andrew Sherry
About: What's a think tank guy doing at a Web 2.0 conference (again)? Ideas don't have impact without communications, and that means technology. Center for American Progress and CAP Action Fund sites include americanprogress.org, thinkprogress.org (three blogs), climateprogress.org, scienceprogress.org, campusprogress.org and miccheckradio.org
Blog Posts
NYT API HUH?
--The significance of the announcement last week that the New York Times plans to offer an open API by this summer probably passed most editors by li...
"Be the Tallest Dwarf"
--That was Chris Anderson's recommendation to anyone running a niche media site, cited in a TechCrunch blogpost that argued that old media companies ...
Don't Blame Craig
--That's the title of a Dave Morgan blog post that takes aim at the idea that Craigslist is responsible for the troubles in the US newspaper industry...
It's All Semantics
--Caught a few minutes of the Semantic Web session at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. So far, looks like database queries that produce mashu...
Google Publishing: Just Add Content
--Free is a great business model if you can afford it. Google's beta launch of a free ad server looks to me like another step toward becoming the Alp...
Reuters Covers Iraq
--This piece on five years of Iraq is good multimedia built on great journalism. Update: USA TODAY unveils an interactive database of the fallen. Exc...
Twitter as a Reporting Tool?
--When Twitter erupted early last year I described it as an annoying social chatter utility, eliciting an objection from my 20-something assistant th...
Josh Has News for You
--Just because early bloggers tended to wear pajamas and liberally wield flamethrowers, it doesn't mean blogs can't be used for good journalism. Want...
Beauty Queen Skins Muskrats
--Unfortunately, the Washington Post's photographer didn't get the money shot of pageant contestants Dakota Abbott (right) or Samantha Phillips skinn...
Storybuilding the Integrated Newsroom
--"Storybuilding." It's just the practice of posting short news items online, building them up during the day and producing a full-fledged story for ...
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