Detrich did it 79 times–just in 2007. Blade buries news; Murder. Because, ‘That is the way we do things around here’; Wikia goes About.com 2.0; Valuing reader’s time

You, Dr. Detrich, Are A Liar And A Cloner
Yea, my source was correct, it was much worse. This is just really sad. I’m also rather disappointed with the way The Blade handled it. (I just happened to be in Toledo to see how it was played in print.) The investigation was important, but they buried the story on B1 in a strip column, jumping the fabricated images inside (and only showing two new examples). If they really were as virtuous as they claim when they went on to do this investigation, they would have given it the space, time, depth and play it deserved. They didn’t treat this MAJOR ethical lapse half as important as when they investigated internally over an anonymous letter sent discrediting their Pulitzer nomination and alleged holding of story because of a writer’s and his family’s political ties. That was just over a contest. This is possibly YEARS of deceiving readers.

More on the debacle:
- What a Jackass
- Sportsshooter.com discussion
- Have We Learned Enough From Today’s Blade Report On Detrich?

Why simplicity is essential to web design
Journalists/editors/photographers need to think like web designers: “A simple website charges you less time. A complex website charges you more time. Time is your most precious resource.” See, look how awesome Angela is:

Thoughts that kill videos: “I’m bored” or “Nothing new”
“I expect a certain payback when I click on a video. If it doesn’t meet my expectations because it doesn’t show me or tell me enough, I feel jipped. I feel like I’ve wasted time…That makes me a little mad, because I regard time as my most precious resource.”

Wikia Launches Four New Mag-Sites…sort of
“Wikia announced the launch of three new magazine-style collaborations as part of its ‘open source magazine’ project.” Topics: Restaurants, food, fitness, mortgages. Kinda sounds like About.com 2.0 / social mediaized.

Project Red Stripe posts web innovation ideas submitted by the public
I’m very stoked they did this. “We’re now done sifting through and further developing the ideas sent in - and are about to make the decision on which of them we will take to market.”

That’s the way we do things here
“If the best your manager can do to justify his or her decisions, or lack thereof, is ‘because that’s the way we do things here,’ you owe it to the future of the newspaper industry to throw that person off the roof. Lure them up there with a memo scheduling, I don’t know, a meeting about the daily meeting schedule, then just chuck ‘em off. We’ll have our bloated newsroom bureaucracies sorted out in no time.” … I endorse this. And will help bail Mark out when it comes time.

Men like online video more than women?
“While there are about 97 million U.S. women online, compared to about 91 million men, only 66 percent of females reported watching videos online, compared to 78 percent for their male counterparts.”

Blueprint for Gannett’s future
Great video from the CICM, which includes info on: *Advice for students *Creating a new journalism mindset *Innovating and taking risks *Selling “audiences” rather than circulation numbers to advertisers *Non-traditional research methods used to learn about news consumers *Newsroom VS Information Center *Changes in newsroom culture

USAToday website traffic increases 21% since relaunch
“Since USAToday.com relaunched with a community ‘network journalism’ focus in March, traffic has increased 21% according to Nielsen/NetRatings, and the total number of registered users has tripled.”

Rolling Stone Says They’ll Launch Social Network
“There may be one problem, though. The Rolling Stone audience may be too old to get into the social networking scene. Feczko says only one person in her class actually admitted that they ever read the magazine.”

Editors’ Takes on EyeTrack07: Reinforcement and Some Surprises
Awesome! Love the podcasts, too. Still working my way through them.

Thoughts on Netflix “Watch Now”
On demand movies streaming online from Netflix. Your move, Mr. Blockbuster.

CBS creates video-sharing network
“CBS unveiled a video-distribution network Thursday that will allow users to share clips and full-length content for free.” NewsBreaker
Whoa… this is really rethinking news delivery. Although, I must admit, I didn’t have any time to read any of the stories but I am happy to report I’m in 10th place on the big board! [Via Fimoculous]

AP’s ‘asap’ Launches New Blog and Video Features “The Associated Press multimedia news service known as “asap” will launch”Far and Wide,” a new blog focused on the AP wire on Tuesday.”

Avoid the Vista badge, it means DRM inside
Avoid Vista at all costs. I touched it this weekend and still feel dirty. The Mac commericals are not exaggerating it’s ridonkulous security at all. It takes 3 clicks to move an icon.

360 degree photo tutorial
“Check out this nifty tutorial on how to create “3D” images and animations using nothing more than a camera, tripod and a homemade spinning plate.” … Now I just need to find a lazy susan.

Prank or harassment? Fake online profiles of principal continue to pop up on the web
“For high school principal Eric Trosch, the abuse just keeps coming. We reported earlier this week how Trosch, a Pennsylvania school administrator, became the target of fake MySpace profiles back in 2005, profiles that accused the man of everything from having sex with his students to rolling doobies in his spare time. The whole fiasco ended with one of the students suing Trosch in federal court after being placed in an alternative education program, and Trosch filing his own lawsuit this week against the students responsible.”

Watch Your Mouth On Yahoo! Answers Or They’ll Delete Your Email And Website
“He also participates in Yahoo! Answers. Sadly, Andrew said something on Yahoo! Answers that Yahoo! feels violated their TOS. The result? They deleted Andrew’s entire account, including his email, Flickr, and website hosting.”

How can newspapers solve the open comment dilemma?
“The medium allows for readers and journalists to engage in conversation, and to say we’re not going to take advantage of that doesn’t make a lot of sense to me,” says Brady. “I’d rather figure out a way to do it better than not to do it at all.”

A Report and a ‘Cookbook’ on Local Citizen Media Sites
“Also enabled by J-Lab and the Knight Foundation via their New Voices program is a new “cook book” sharing the experiences of the first year of community site Hartsville Today.”

Sorry Microsoft, Yahoo — Google Just Got Bigger
This is really, really big news. “Its acquisition today of Doubleclick, the biggest ad-serving player on the web, gives Google something it couldn’t build on its own — a significant presence in the online display-advertising market.”