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When do security journalists stop being journalists?
I‘d love to see the difference between a US Defence Dept Video News Release and the piece Frank Gardner presented tonight on the BBC 10. Go view it. The pay-off to his online copy notes: …until terrorists actually detonate a dirty bomb, the funding for coping for one [sic] is thin on the ground. Some…
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Advertising, content and discontinuity
I was just reading Vin Crosbie‘s latest post in which he repeats the line that newspaper circulation has been falling for 30 years. (Leo Bogart noted that it was 1971 when total US newspaper circulation dropped below total number of households.) Since the 1980s TV has been facing similar decline. Crosbie says it’s all about…
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Get Published!
Just caught up with a great piece in Wired on Gannett‘s crowdsourcing strategies. Here’s lesson number one from a woman on the sharp end at the Cincinnati Enquirer: Linda Parker has a memo for professional journalists: Contrary to the fear rippling through newsrooms, citizens don’t want your job. They don’t want to interview obscure officials…
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Off topic: Setting up GPS for the Blackberry 8800 (T-mobile)
Geek post coming up. Having just acquired the BlackBerry 8800 with GPS, I try it out. The GPS recognizes satellites, movement etc. but no bbmaps. I do a little internet hunting and the online consensus appears to be that my problem is with the TCP settings in Options/Advanced Options. My default APN is internet.com, with…