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Looking for a Tony Robbins link for the post below Google threw up this TED video: “Why we do what we do, and how we can do it better” Sparky interaction with Al Gore when Al (in the audience) wants to blame his defeat in 2000 on the Supreme Court. Worth watching.

In the Art of the Start Guy Kawasaki emphasized the importance of crafting a mantra rather than a mission statement or business plan. A plan detailing what you intend to do may limit or even emasculate the enterprise. A mantra shifts the focus away from operational details towards values and principles. From the “what” to […]

I am not a big fan of Marshall McLuhan. I do not find his insights to be especially helpful. But that could be my lack of imagination rather than any fault of MM’s. After all Tom Wolfe and Woody Allen, two undoubted geniuses, insist that McLuhan was the “most important thinker since Freud”.
So what […]

From Editors weblog: “Y BYD (’The World’) will be the first ever daily newspaper in the Welsh language. It will be launched on 3 March 2008“. Encouraging news for anyone  who values the role of newspapers in defining, enriching and informing the communities they serve. 

NPPA’s Multimedia Immersion program wrapped up earlier this month with a panel discussion. One of the panelists was Andrew deVigal, multimedia editor for the New York Times:
“Success is not going to be measured by the number of hits or by the number of Web pages served. It’s going to be determined by the amount of […]

The National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee has issued a guide for Republican candidates stressing the importance of blogs and online video for victory in the 2008 election.

NEW YORK Eighteen Baltimore Sun photojournalists launched a byline strike today protesting Tribune Co.’s move to force reporters to become photographers and videographers as a way to cut costs, according to a press release sent to E&P today by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild. It will continue for three days.

Excellent summary of the World Editors Forum from the always insightful Rebecca McKinnon. The good news from Capetown:
“newspaper companies aren’t on the verge of death….whatever the format, people recognized that ultimately, newspapers’ survival will depend on journalism. Credible, accurate, and relevant journalism.”

A $10 shovel or a $20,000 work of art?
Well, it’s both. Back in 1916 Marcel Duchamp opened his first exhibition of readymades with a sign: “Who cares who made them, I chose them!”. The notion that discovering a product could be more profitable than making one, was a novel idea, and caused […]

A cunning plan. What could be more alluring on a videojournalism blog than an interview with Michael Rosenblum? I knew little about Michael - his own blog is long on enthusiasm, short on details - but felt that many others might be interested to learn more about the new Robespierre threatening to lead big […]

I bristle at the convention realtors have adopted of referring to the most profitable disposition of a piece of land as its “highest and best use”.
Likewise I find “the fifth rule of videojournalism” somewhat sinister. Essentially the rule states that All Good Journalism is Popular Journalism.

For some time now hyperlocal news has been touted as a panacea for the declining revenues and readership decimating regional newspapers and TV stations. By focusing on local issues, so the theory goes, journalists can avoid competing with online sources by providing niche audiences with pertinent news they cannot find elsewhere.
“There’s no official definition, but […]