The New Media Diva

Over at rt.com: Folks using my pics without credit.

This may actually turn into an interesting conversation.

…really, really addictive.

Oh.

My.

Gosh.

Via Editor’s Webblog:

Over at Online Journalism Blog Paul Bradshaw has listed ten ways OJ has changed over the past ten years. Bradshaw gives props to conversations between site authors and visitors (a la Cluetrain Manifesto), amateurs and A/V tools and their relatively low prices.

Bradshaw also highlights the importance of RSS feeds (I couldn’t agree more with this):

RSS is one of the most underestimated innovations in journalism. At it’s most basic level it means journalists can subscribe to a range of RSS feeds in one RSS reader - and therefore not have to keep checking back to dozens of original websites for updates. But the more people play with the technology, the more is being achieved.

For one thing, RSS enables very specific consumption: readers can now subscribe to just one section of a newspaper - or even one writer. In the Sun’s case, they can subscribe to search results. In terms of production, RSS enables different bits of news to be aggregated: pick a source, any source, and mash it up into a single feed. It works for Google News, why shouldn’t it work again?

I know folks who don’t use RSS feeds. I don’t see how they can manage the web without them.

Latest post on my other site - New Hillary site: Folks are sneaky.

Grrr.

It’s late and I’m beat, so this will be quick. Stephanie Booth is planning a great sounding conference for freelance blogging consultants (or those aspiring to become one) and small internet industry-related business owners called Going Solo. Check out what she has to say. I’ll write more on this over the weekend (while I’m fixing my other site.)