Schnapszahl ...

*lol*

Via: RegretTheError + the journalism econoclast

"As the situation becomes increasingly dire for the newspaper industry, everyone's looking for a groundbreaking new business model to save the day. I'm sorry that the concept I've presented here isn't The Answer. But it is a part of the answer.

We know that reader/audience participation is the new way, and newspapers must embrace it much more so than they have. It's not just about serving the news needs of our community, but also in facilitating interaction and communication between members of the community and supporting their interests.

Your news Web site can help create micro-communities (sometimes temporary, based around a story; sometimes longer lasting) of community members and experts who share an interest or passion about a topic by using the techniques described here."

Steve Outing: Stop the Presses - Web Integration on a Grander Scale

Via: The News University Training Blog

Start soll Ende dieses Jahres sein, eine Vorschau-Seite wurde nun aufgeschaltet.

The Medpedia Project announced the formation of the world’s largest collaborative online encyclopedia of medicine called Medpedia. Physicians, medical schools, hospitals, health organizations and public health professionals are now volunteering to collaboratively build the most comprehensive medical clearinghouse in the world for information about health, medicine and the body. This free public site will officially launch at the end of 2008, and a preview site becomes available today at http://www.medpedia.com.

Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, the University of Michigan Medical School and dozens of health organizations around the world are contributing to The Medpedia Project in various ways.

Many organizations will contribute seed content free of copyright restrictions. Harvard Medical School will publish content to uneditable areas that members of their faculty have created as part of a medical school wide effort. Others organizations, such as University of Michigan Medical School will encourage members of their faculty to edit Medpedia as individuals.

Hier gehts zur vollständigen Pressemitteilung

Patrick Thornton im Gespräch mit Kent Fischer, Blogger für The Dallas Morning News:

"In just six months, he has become a successful beat blogger with thousands of page views each day and plenty of comments from dedicated users. Now he realizes that he must take his work to the next level to keep growing and innovating on the Web."

Audio interview with Kent Fischer about building a blog on steroids.
Via: beatblogging