Social TV Revenue Streams for Journalists By Polly Kreisman on Oct. 19, 2010 - 12:26 PM As many more journalists seek to create their own newsrooms, whether online or cross-platform, the keep-you-up-at-night question remains the same. Who is going to pay us? How do we sustain these ventures? (I have written here at L ...
Social TV A summary of the Block by Block summit By Polly Kreisman on Sep. 24, 2010 - 2:26 PM The Block by Block Conference in Chicago attracted over 100 local site owners, foundations, academics and others whose livelihoods and/or obsessions revolve around on-line local news operations and how to sustain them. Because ...
Social TV Speed dating for site owners at Block by Block By Polly Kreisman on Sep. 20, 2010 - 6:54 AM The Block by Block Conference (bxb) for hyperlocal news sites begins Thursday in Chicago, and already conference co-host Michele McLellan has an assignment for many of the 125 site-owners and others in attendance: “In the sp ...
Social TV Skip-ipedia, pt. 2 By Polly Kreisman on Sep. 1, 2010 - 6:24 AM As a follow-up to our Monday post on the limits of Wikipedia, please consider the following. This list is compiled by an historian in my area: Below is a list of about 50 articles that have been cataloged as having been deleted wi ...
Social TV Skip-ipedia By Polly Kreisman on Aug. 30, 2010 - 6:21 AM Arguably the most profound result of the growth of the internet, and by extension, that of on-line journalism, is our ability to immediately connect to any “whats” or “whos” that we seek. And more and more ...
Social TV Patch Dispatch By Polly Kreisman on Aug. 5, 2010 - 10:31 AM Today they are standing on every corner in one town outside New York City. They are blonde, female and clearly under 25. They wear bright green T-shirts and visors that say "Patch," and they hand out pens and stickers and leaflets ...