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“It insisted that I could not rewrite its content and publish it on my site, even with a credit in the first paragraph and a link back to the original source on its website,” Brown wrote. “A particularly amusing complaint, considering newspapers up and down the country have passed off re-writes as their own for years.”
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Columnists are based on annoying people. Community is often built by doing something positive, which means a whole shift in journalistic mind set. And moderation needs are much lower (and therefore cheaper…) “The more you piss people off, the more you have to moderate, the more you have to pay, and the quicker you fail.”
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All journalists have the same CMS – lots of small CMS chunks loosely joined, rather than one screen for all. We should build them Firefox addons that allow them to quickly access the data they need for their work. Build custom search engines, tailored for journalists’ needs.
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Here’s what it is: The hardest part of blogging that people don’t talk about is choosing not to blog. Even if you really need a break. Even if it makes you a better, more well-rounded, more insightful person to put it aside, even if it’s just for a tiny sliver of time in the grand scheme of things.
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Two-way communication and interaction can happen on social networks and or during a liveblog, for instance. The key to beatblogging is not, nor will it ever be, about having a blog, but rather it is all about user interaction. We like to call beatblogging Rolodex 2.0, because it’s a way to expand the number of sources a beat reporter has.
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