" Returning at the end of the afternoon's work; Gathering the Herd" | Howard W. Marshall, via americaslibrary.gov
I’m really liking the link management feature from Publish2. I can collect links all week long with notes and then share my take on them in one post.
Hope you enjoy. Let me know your take in the comments.
Story structure for the Web | NewsLab
Jacqui Banaszynski suggests a “totem pole” structure to Web writing, giving each element a label, summary and link. Don’t like it? Not “storytelling” enough for you? Change your criteria, she says:
All good writing has to honor the purpose for which you are doing that writing.
Google developing a micropayment platform and pitching newspapers: “‘Open’ need not mean free”
Google, the savior of newspapers? Nah. But it couldn’t hurt either party to team up at the hub.
Of course, Google is in a prime place to serve up content and charge a fee for processing payment, delivering content, etc.It’ll be interesting to see if newspapers will get greedy. They might try if they still think they’re the big dogs in distribution. And they might.
And will Google extend this service to bloggers, too?
Yahoo Local debuts ‘Neighbors’: Yahoo drills down…
Meh. Perhaps combining local search with conversation on the Yahoo platform has promise, but I get the itchy feeling that it’s all just another social time-suck with limited practical application.
But I could be wrong.
Growthspur: Help for revenue-challenged journalists?
Interesting idea here to set up an ad selling and serving on behalf of journalists working out on their own.
It will be worth watching to see what the revenue share is, and I’m sure there’s an academic argument about whether this is enabling journalists to avoid dealing with the money problem, but it might offer more journalists (pro and am) the chance to grow those niche audiences and make a few bucks in the process.
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