August 29th, 2008
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Great stuff.
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Word bubbles! Sweet.
Archive for August, 2008
August 28th, 2008
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Word bubbles! Sweet.
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Lotta reporters, not very much news.
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WaPo piece on the journalistic Twitterati.
August 27th, 2008
Who needs real TV? We have TPMtv.
I’m sick tonight, so I’m sitting at home coordinating with our staff in Manhattan over skype and periodically chatting on the phone with our video team from the floor of the convention. On the floor, our Video Editor Ben Craw is shooting footage of our Managing Editor doing interviews and analysis in the midst of the chaos. Using a Nokia N95 and Qik software, the video is streaming back to me live. If it’s good, I instant message it to our News Editor Justin to put it on the front page. At that point our Associate Editor takes the Qik video and uploads it to youtube to be motized.
It’s an experiment in progress, but it’s new media.
Earlier tonight, we livestreamed Hillary’s surprise appearance on the floor to official nominate Obama. It was quite a moment, have a look:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG_iAyfA4qQ]
August 27th, 2008
Raisin Brahms!
This ad for art in schools is downright hilarious.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u8-stngXKs]
GUTEN TAAAAG!
August 27th, 2008
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Micah gives us a nice shout out.
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A great interview w/ Ethan Zuckerman who is, as always, thoughtful and challenging about the opportunities and failures of global new media.
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Apparently liberal bloggers think the mainstream media (msm?) is unfair. Thanks Politico!
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Decent story. I'm quite skeptical of this as a model of success, especially because it's so ad hoc that you can't establish a beat or a profressional reputation. I'm all for experimentation though, so will be fun to watch.
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15,000 journolists going to Denver, more than 5 times the number if delegates. And their coverage isn't even particularly good.
What do they want to teach us?
August 26th, 2008
Redefining “political morning show.”
Ana Marie Cox, Glynnis MacNicol, and Rachel Sklar report from bed.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2CdhuVXUto]
This is what happens when you get too many media people together without any actual work to do.
August 25th, 2008
Coverage 2.0.
TPM friend Bill Scher interviews TPMCafe regular Steve Clemons while soon-to-be TPM staffer Al Shaw streams the video from his iPhone will his father Michael Shaw of the wonderful BAGnewsNotes snaps a photo.
Super meta.
Photo credit: Michael Shaw of BAGnewsNotes.
August 25th, 2008
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Nice rundown on the smart marketing of the text-the-veep campaign.
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Micah makes me feel better about not being there.
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SusanG could not be more right: WHY IS EVERYONE WASTING MONEY SENDING REPORTERS TO A STAGED EVENT!? Link to the people there, don't blow your budget on bullshit.
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Awesome picture of Phil.
August 22nd, 2008
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Some idiot thinks he's being very web 2.0ish. He's just being an idiot.
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The twitterati wait with quivering thumbs.
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Clever piece aggregating bios and profiles of Obama's top advisors.
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Ethan Zuckerman on homophily/polarization research. V. important.
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A map of social media. Kind of. Mostly just a colorful list of web 2.0 companies randomly clumped.
August 22nd, 2008
What would newspapers do without TPM?
Ripe for the Plucking
I get asked a lot about the relationship between old media and new media, on the editorial and publishing side. And my usual line is that I think the relationship is much more symbiotic and convergent then people often realize. But when folks ask what scrappy little outfits like TPM would do if the big papers with their cadres of reporters went under, I have wonder, what would big papers like the Washington Post do if TPM went under and they didn’t have our exclusives to steal and run as their own stories on A2 on the following day?
For today’s example see Kate Klonick’s Thursday exclusive at TPMMuckraker about the US Commission on Civil Rights hiring Bush administration minority voting suppression expert Hans von Spakovsky and the Post’s citation/credit-free retread in today’s paper.
–Josh Marshall