Posted on 06/28/2005 4:34:01 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Not surprisingly Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit gave a videoblogging demo, showing just how easy it is to add video reports to online content.
In an interesting development, Glaser also reported that Cox announced he is working with the Poynter Institute to offer up online classes for journalists and bloggers explaining blogging basics. The classes will be part of Poynter's NewsU and may include information to help bloggers understand liability issues. On my own blog several months ago I pointed out the great potential for such synergy.
Meanwhile newspapers continue to jump on the blogging bandwagon. Brian Gottstein, a former online columnist for the Roanoke Times, told AIM that he along with 6 other columnists were dismissed from the newspaper, which is focusing on a more "blog-driven" approach.
Gottstein said all the columnists who were cut were contract columnists and included "mainly the web-only commentators on life, religion and politics." The letter of dismissal, obtained by AIM states that "Interactivity and timeliness are the [sic] prevalent on the Internet today.
That's why you hear so much about blogs…We've decided we need more of that at Roanoke.com. To that end, we're planning to change our model toward an interactive, blog-driven approach and away from the more formal single column format." Indeed, the letter, penned by the Times online editor Jim Ellison goes so far as to predict that "We believe the day of the narrative, 1,000-word, expository column has largely run its course." The newspaper suggested the columnists could start up their own unaffiliated blogs and the paper would link to them, but they would no longer be paid by the newspaper.
(Excerpt) Read more at aim.org ...
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The pace of the decline of the ratmedia is increasing by the month. We are winning and we will win.
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