My fellow “citizen journalists,” blush with me. After reading 700+ placeblogs, Lisa Williams has our number!
That’s a quote, not from Lisa’s blog, but from her talk about her new project Placeblogger, last night at Harvard’s Berkman Thursday group. A few more favorite quotes, from my TextEdit jottings…. |
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- The (shy?) citizen journalists at GothamGazette.com are doing something Lisa says is great.
- “They pick a public document of the week each week and actually read it and talk about what it means.”
- How Lisa found the 700+ placeblogs she’s studied so far
- “It was very low tech. I kept typing placenames from the atlas into my browser–and every time I threw that net into the water, I came back with more fish!”
- Lisa’s good news for old-line newspapers about the zillion web-versions they’re creating:
- “I don’t understand why newspapers aren’t trying to make money from technology transfer programs like the ones that universities have. Newspapers around the country are building out tomorrow’s legacy technology today–and they’re not making any money on it because every newspaper is building its own one-off.”
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1 High tech, high Ada-Lovelace-quotient Lisa Williams // Mar 23, 2009 at 5:38 pm
[…] she then branched out to find others like herself and built Placeblogger, mixing high-tech with low-tech can-do in equal proportions. Now she and Susan Mernit are teaming up, so who knows what the future holds […]