Jim Dalrymple agrees with the aforelinked iMore report.
Remember kids, until Apple sends the invites, nothing’s official, no matter how certain things appear to be.
Category: Journalism
The Verge Changes Link Styles⇢
The tech news site is now using in-line and source links. Good for them.
via The Loop
University of Memphis Slashes School Paper Funding⇢
Jody Callahan at The Commercial Appeal:
Backers of the University of Memphis’s student newspaper, The Daily Helmsman, are alleging the publication suffered a sharp cut in funding because of its controversial coverage of the campus.
A seven-member committee voted this spring to slash funding for the Helmsman by a third. Whether that action violated the First Amendment as several allege may be a matter for the courts; the claim is rejected by U of M administrators.
Siracusa, On His Own Review⇢
John:
I consider the web version to be the canonical version. It has the best formatting and the most features. I believe that good writing for the web includes a lot of links. A web browser is the best place to inspect and follow those links.
If you haven’t sent this to Instapaper yet, something is wrong with you. In your brain.
On MacStories’ 10.8 Review⇢
Viticci and his team have published a 120 page, $7 PDF review of Mountain Lion. I was lucky enough to help them get it out the door, and I have to say, it’s pretty great.
The best part? The team is donating a third of the money to the American Cancer Society.
Which is freaking awesome.
On Separation⇢
Marco:
Large publications often try to maintain separation between ad sales and editorial staff. One-person publications don’t have such luxuries, especially when we sell some of our ads directly, but we can at least maintain internal standards of objectivity and separation of priorities.
Since publishing yesterday’s Adobe Revel sponsorship, I’ve had a number of readers make comments that suggest that I wouldn’t criticize Adobe, or that I couldn’t objectively discuss photo apps anymore, because of the sponsorship.
TBR Goes to Paid Model⇢
Ben Brooks:
All non-members of the site will have access to every post that members have access too, with one caveat: non-members won’t see those posts until seven days after I posted them.
Therefore, you can still enjoy this site, in full, without paying a dime or seeing a single ad — you just have to be OK with enjoying it seven days after members enjoy it.
I realize this isn’t ideal, but being as what I write is not time relevant, I feel that this is a decent tradeoff.
On Credibility and That Book I Wrote, Which People Linked To
Anthony Kay, writing about my e-book Bartending:
Again, 10 bucks give or take isn’t going to break the bank, but when compared to other established tech blog authors like Patrick Rhone or Michael Lopp it’s a high price to pay for something so brief. But again I figured, it’s written by someone who was “on the inside” so it must be really good even if it is exceptionally brief, especially with all the glowing reviews it received, right?
How CNN and Fox Got the Obamacare Ruling Wrong⇢
Tom Goldstein takes a look at how two of the biggest journalism machines on the planet reported a huge legal story exactly wrong.
via kottke.org
On Paying Writers⇢
Aaron Mahnke, on the Read & Trust blog:
Read & Trust exists to bring together some of the best online writers around and make it easy for readers to experience and follow them, without wasting time through trial and error. These writers cover a wide range of topics, from politics to tech, and travel to…well…even writing itself. And they’re damn good at what they do.
If you aren’t a paying member of Read & trust, it’s time to change that.
More on Linking⇢
Marco:
If you’re truly providing value, you should have the confidence to send your audience away, knowing that they’ll come back to you. If that’s not the case, don’t bother publishing.
Stop Not Linking⇢
Matthew Panzarino:
The practice of dancing around attributing sources by either not linking them or by linking them only in a special ‘sources’ area tucked away at the bottom of a post drives me nuts.
Before I switched to DF-style linked lists, I always strived to put my source as high in my story as possible. I hope the change makes my sources even more obvious.