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Open Discussion: How to Crowd Source Weekly Fishing Reports

Open Discussion: How to Crowd Source Weekly Fishing Reports

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(Update: In thinking about this, I believe my fundemental problem is that while I’ve crowd sourced content generation, I am now at a point where I need to crowd source some of the content entry, formatting and editing tasks…) I’ve been editing the Fishwire Reports at Reel-Time.com since 1995.  The task has generally been hugely manual, requiring tons of my time, most of which has happened over the years between the hours of 4am and 9am on Friday mornings.  In…

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The Star Tribune Files Chapter 11

The Star Tribune Files Chapter 11

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Via Editor and Publisher…with a pointer from Hart Van Denburg. Less than two years after it was bought by a private equity group, the Star Tribune has filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 bankruptcy. But wait, there’s more… In December, Harte told employees the “survival of the company” was at stake and asked labor unions to agree to $20 million in cuts by mid-January. Without those cuts, Harte said the newspaper could face bankruptcy. The Star Tribune ranked as the…

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Old School Journalism

Old School Journalism

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Wow…absolutely hysterical… Via Suzeanne Yada on Twitter…her description is better than any I could come up with: A 1940s short film on journalism. Watch as men in fedoras call editors with visors and completely shaft women! 

Branded Community or Sponsoring Niche Communities

Branded Community or Sponsoring Niche Communities

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Paul Gillin posted on a topic that I’ve been mulling over for the past few days: Branded Communities.  I’ve said it in the past and I will say it again here and now: why would you buy a build a branded community when you can rent one instead? From Gillin’s post: Pssst… is intended to bring fans of General Mills products closer to the company by inviting them into a members-only space where they can receive inside information, get coupons…

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Newspaper Death Watch: Trib Goes to 11, NYT Mortgages the Farm

Newspaper Death Watch: Trib Goes to 11, NYT Mortgages the Farm

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Newspaper insiders for the most part weren’t all that surprised to see the  Tribune Company file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday.  The Trib has been in trouble for some time, and it hasn’t been helped by high profile fights of the past two years by owner Sam Zell, who purchased the company in April of 2007, which saw him take the company private.   Since then his fights with the leadership of the Los Angeles Times  have achieved near…

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Layoffs for for Book Publishers

Layoffs for for Book Publishers

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Layoffs at Random House, Simon & Schuster Random House, etc. layoff…Yahoo is attributing it to the economy, but I wonder how much is do to people not reading in paper as much. The economy has crashed down on an industry once believed immune from the worst — book publishing — with consolidation at Random House Inc., and layoffs at Simon & Schusterand Thomas Nelson Publishers. At Random House, the country’s largest general trade publisher, the man who helped give the world “The Da Vinci…

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The Tragedy of the Virtual Bookshelf

The Tragedy of the Virtual Bookshelf

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David Churbuck has found that which we are losing in this digital age.  It reminds me of the discussion I had with my 9 year old yesterday when she asked me if I’d read every book in my library.   I like the Kindle. Indeed I love it. But I can’t indulge my penchant for giving away books thanks to this selfish device. I can tell people to read “Moneyball” but I can’t back that up by emphasizing my desire…

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Newsosaur: Newspapers Consider Printless Days

Newsosaur: Newspapers Consider Printless Days

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No time to write today, but I picked this none-to-delectible tidbit up from Alan D. Mutter at Newsosaur while surfing during lunch and had to share: In one of the most startling of the potential initiatives, an amazing number of publishers of all sizes are giving serious consideration to eliminating print editions on certain days of the week, according to private conversations with operators who requested anonymity. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday editions, which typically carry the least amount of advertising, appear…

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PC Magazine To Kill Print Version

PC Magazine To Kill Print Version

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PC Magazine announced last week that their January issue would be the last issue they actually print, from then on, they’re a web-only publication. From The New York Times:   It is the latest of several magazine publishers to drop a print edition, as advertising plummets and the cost of printing a paper version rises. “The viability for us to continue to publish in print just isn’t there anymore,” Jason Young, chief executive of Ziff Davis, said in an interview….

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Drinking From the Fire Hose #2 – the China Syndrome

Drinking From the Fire Hose #2 – the China Syndrome

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One of the big complaints that the anti-Wordpress chorus croons is that the vaunted blogging platform doesn’t scale.  Certainly we’ve all seen sites brought low by the “Slashdot Effect” or the “Digg Effect” but my experience tells me that WordPress is getting a bad rap for poor server setup, poor plugin choice, etc. How do I know?  Well, one of the sites I work with last week experienced the “China Syndrome” or potentially “The Great Fire Hose”.  The site, TheTruthAboutCars.com…

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