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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

• Poynter Online – Centerpieces: “Ex-WaPo Editor Jim Brady to News Sites: Experiment More, Now”

  Interview with Jim Brady, ex-Washington-Post executive editor, about the state of newspapers today, online v. print, etc.

  tags: jim_brady, washington_post, newspapers

• Putting Parking into Reverse – InTransition – Annotated

  “Professor’s Theories Influence Cities to Reconsider Pervasive Free Parking” : on how free parking has distorted urban centers.

  tags: intransition, parking, cars, cities, urban_design, surface_parking_lots

• Green Cities, Brown Suburbs by Edward L. Glaeser, City Journal Winter 2009 – Annotated

  Ed Glaeser makes the point that cities are much greener than non-urban areas, all things considered. Your country or suburb carbon footprint is huge compared to your urban carbon footprint.

  tags: edward_glaeser, city_journal, urbanism, green_strategies, suburbs, cities

• The Online Experiments That Could Help Newspapers – BusinessWeek

  Business Week takes a look at how print media are going niche/ specialty/ local – and surviving/ making money. “The Bakersfield Californian is an anomaly in the newspaper business. While other papers are shutting their doors and filing for bankruptcy, it’s expanding. The reason is the paper’s 2005 launch of an online social network, called Bakotopia.com…”

  tags: businessweek, online_media, magazines, newspapers, business_model, outside.in, kachingle

• Bring on the techies: How Silicon Valley can help save newspapers | Media | guardian.co.uk

  A Silicon Valley CEO addresses the newspaper business model. While not written in response to David Carr’s NYT piece, it’s a great riposte and refutation of same. Favorite bit:
  QUOTE
  Companies in Silicon Valley depend on having a fast-paced culture of innovation where no ideas are bad ideas, all voices are heard, technology is embraced not feared, and you are irrelevant if you aren’t open to change. To achieve aggressive goals in competitive environments, teams have to work together without hidden agendas or obsessive attention to where in the chain of command a new idea originates.
  UNQUOTE
  I especially like the last clause in the last sentence. That “obsessive attention to where in the chain of command a new idea originate(d)” has dragged many a good idea into the Kingdom of the Cynical.

  tags: the_guardian, nathan_richardson, newspapers, business_model, media

• outside.in » Newspapers Should Leap, Not Stand

  Rebuttal by outside.in’s CEO to David Carr’s NYT wishful thinking piece on locking down content and throttling the aggregators.

  tags: outside.in, newspapers, business_model, aggregators

• The Media Equation – United, Newspapers May Stand – NYTimes.com

  This is the article everyone agrees is all wrong: David Carr argues that newspapers should lock the barn doors even though the horse has long left the stable…

  tags: nyt, david_carr, newspapers, business_model

• Hello, My Name Is Steve And I Have Hyperlocalbloggeritus

  Blog post by Steve Sherron on why and how to do hyperlocal blogging.
  QUOTE
  “…I am convinced that my best chance for success is going to be in my local market. I have discovered since I began this journey that local folks are starving for attention and publicity for their business or organization. Most do not understand SEO. Few have web sites. There is a gap and a need just waiting to be filled.”
  UNQUOTE
  Interesting tips on SEO etc.

  tags: hyper_local, blogging, media, newspapers, steve_sherron, hyperlocalblogger, how_to

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