June 15, 2004, 8:02 PM ET
Required reading from Barry Parr
Lately, Barry Parr has been kicking butt, taking names and spelling them correctly. His "Why can't a newspaper be more like a blog" series should be required reading for news-site managers, and his harsh critique of yesterday's FoxNews.com redesign is hilarious -- and deserved. (See also: Lost Remote's coverage.) Keep it comin', Barry.
June 15, 2004, 7:40 PM ET
New Media Journalism.com: A promising new resource
Spied in the Holovaty.com comments section: New Media Journalism.com, an inspiring collection of ideas, experiments and short essays about online journalism. Judging by the lack of Google mentions, it appears to have been started just a short time ago.
Particularly interesting are Fishbone, an experiment in dynamically embedding additional information within a news story, and iTunes and WebFeed Aggregators, a proposal to integrate iTunes-ish features with RSS in a news context. But, really, pretty much everything on the site is stimulating. Don't miss the short, topical idea snippets.
This is great stuff! Can't wait to read more.
