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Re: Interviews: phone, email — which is best?

Bryan Murley — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:44:12 -0000

I've come to appreciate instant messaging as a "bridge" between e-mail and phoners - and both sides can have a transcript of the "conversation." It takes a little getting used to so you don't step on each others' comments, and can take a while, but a sensible compromise, overall.

Re: Guns and Presidents

Bryan Murley — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:12:19 -0000

"The social cost of political assassination is much smaller as politicians are replaceable."

I sure hope this guy mentioned Archduke Ferdinand. Small costs indeed.

And he's an idiot if he doesn't think the assassination of the first black president in U.S. history wouldn't cause enormous psychological and social damage to the U.S. People riot over sports championships, fer pete's sake.

Re: What We Are Not Embarrassed Of

Bryan Murley — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:22:43 -0000

Ayn Rand's philosophy can be usefully summed up as: individual liberty is the only thing that matters.

No, Ayn Rand's philosophy can be usefully summed up as: I got mine, F**k you.

Re: No need to e-mail the Indy; the conversation will go on

Bryan Murley — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:16:02 -0000

Not only did Luther invite interactivity, the whole point of the reformation doctrine of the priesthood of all believers was that individual believers did not need a priest to stand between them and God. That there should be direct interaction between believer and deity. This is something akin to what's happening in the new media universe that I call the Mediahood of all receivers. I presented a paper about this in 2005. Link to a pdf here.

Re: The conservatism of journalism students

Bryan Murley — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:22:10 -0000

I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago as well here.

Re: The conservatism of journalism students

Bryan Murley — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 16:47:17 -0000

In that statement you have all you need to know about why students arent equiped to work online. All I need to do now is find out who peddles that bulls**t line to them and lock them in a box and perhaps we can all move on.

LOL. That comment made my day, Andy.

Re: One site, two issues in online journalism

Bryan Murley — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:30:39 -0000

Certainly, part of this is the fact that the journalist in question is having to act as a self-employed entrepreneur, which is much more involved - time-wise - than showing up for work and being a journalist.

My hat's off to the folks like this gent who are trying to make it work.

Re: Note to journalism schools: give us new heroes

Bryan Murley — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:00:27 -0000

David Cohn will be speaking at our CMA session in New York this March. Good thing we booked him before he became a "hero." :-)

Re: The Death of Public Relations. Will social media kill the beast?

Bryan Murley — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:41:35 -0000

Thought-provoking article. I am sick of the term "social media" however (just as I grew sick of "new media" and "convergence" before it). Isn't all "media" social in some way? When something is published, isn't part of the DNA of its existence the desire that it spread across some sort of social system?

Re: Quote of the Day: Clueless edition

Bryan Murley — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:14:36 -0000

Cry me a river. The financial services industries have shed thousands of jobs (BoA is expected to let go of 42,000 total). I'm *positive* there are some highly talented, highly skilled, qualified people in those laid off who would be more than willing to work for $500,000/year.

High pay does not necessarily equal most capable in any industry. Sometimes it's not what you know, but who you know. :-)

And I don't think it's a "gotcha" quote either. He is clueless if he used the term "draconian" to talk about $500,000/year pay to a reporter.

Re: An ultimate(?) online journalism list

Bryan Murley — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:52:52 -0000

Yeah, Twitter kind of slipped in at the last minute. I also think there are ways to organize the list differently - thinking social vs. multimedia vs. engagement or something.

Re: 2008/02/21/screencasting-video-tutorials/

Bryan Murley — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:28:01 -0000

You also missed (or ignored) Snapz Pro (Mac Only), which is $70 from ambrosia software.

Re: A little discussion on "Corporate Transparency"…

Bryan Murley — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 15:33:58 -0000

Well, I suppose I'll be the one to speak up for Gen X. You may be confusing us with the Baby Boomers. I know quite a few 30-40 year olds who fit the description of your Gen Y. We were the first generation to experience cable, the real video game revolution (go Atari!) and the beginning of the personal computer revolution as well.

The same things about "traditional companies" and our relationship to them were said when I was coming out of school. I do think the impetus to change is more evident today than it was, if only because the Internet is much more advanced than it was in 1990.

Re: Social media success story nets iTunes $20

Bryan Murley — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:47:38 -0000

More importantly, the band makes money, since iTunes gives most of the sale to the producers. And since they're an indie label, less corporate overhead!

Re: Mapping in online journalism

Bryan Murley — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:37:30 -0000

Be sure and let us know when you get that story on the web, and I'll link it. To be honest, I got the tip about the BSU map from the Atlas folks, who are able to track who's using the application. Otherwise, I'd be totally in the dark. :-)

Re: Another word for blog

Bryan Murley — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:16:01 -0000

"Blog" is hardly a buzzword, despite what your friend in the online department says, unless a word that's been around for at least six years to describe a way of easily publishing information to the Internet qualifies as a "buzzword." And he's far from original in the arguments he's making - despite the fact that they've been constantly demolished by thoughtful "bloggers" for several years - including journalists. indeed, I see these arguments trotted out by every tired journalist/curmudgeon who wants to distance him/herself from the unwashed masses of people creating their own content.

It's sad, really, that someone who works in the online world is so disdainful of a significant portion of what makes it vibrant - 14-year-olds and all.

Re: Another word for blog

Bryan Murley — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:44:48 -0000

OMG! That makes it even more tragic! I've seen that attitude among young print reporters, but didn't know it exists among online types as well. Wow.

Re: Newspaper Summaries

Bryan Murley — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:14:29 -0000

You are required to read *the entire* New York Times AND Gainesville Sun every day!?!? Ouch. Granted, only about 45 percent of it is actually editorial, and only about 40 percent of that has any real value, but still...

Re: Blog Niche Exploration (part the second)

Bryan Murley — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:55:25 -0000

Do you write about how to blog?

Heh. One of the first things a blogger learns to do is write about blogging. :-) I call it navel-gazing (meta-blogging, in academese), and if you peruse the archives of even the most ancient of bloggers (Instapundit, for example), you'll find plenty of thoughts about blogging.

For those with interests in social policy, navel-gazing is frequently followed by the "is blogging journalism?" debate.

Re: How do I edit video?

Bryan Murley — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:33:13 -0000

You have the right idea. I wouldn't just watch online video though. I'd also watch good documentary video, and listen to This American Life, for instance. They now have a TV show. I wonder what it's going to be like, since I don't subscribe to Showtime.

Re: Media Innovators: Just for fun

Bryan Murley — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:58:07 -0000

Added. Our first student submission. I think it's fun to hear which music people choose for their paloozahead.

Re: Moving online journalism to Linux: Top 5 programs

Bryan Murley — Fri, 11 May 2007 19:07:52 -0000

Megan, have you seen this news:

Ubuntu Studio.

Re: How does The Independent Florida Alligator score?

Bryan Murley — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:35:02 -0000

Congrats, Megan, both on the forethought at the Alligator and your new gig as New Media Managing Editor. I'm sure you'll get the other checkboxes figured out soon. :-) (hint: the writing for the web one seems to give everyone fits)

Re: Another checklist: Not so great

Bryan Murley — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 22:52:50 -0000

Hmmm, I haven't seen that checklist yet, but it's a good one. The print/web publishing issue is going to be a big one for everyone in college media, especially, over the next couple of years, IMHO.

Re: Don’t call me Mister

Bryan Murley — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:28:09 -0000

Wow, what chutzpah! I'd rather you called me "mr." or "ms." than mispelled my first name (which happens all too often, unfortunately).

That said, I don't think you'll have a problem getting an internship.

Re: J-school curriculum

Bryan Murley — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:22:09 -0000

The multimedia course should be required of *every* journalism student.

Re: Independent Study: Data

Bryan Murley — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:11:06 -0000

The Pew studies are a great resource for data that you can repurpose. I used one of their internet studies in my Ph.D. statistics class. Good luck. It'll be interesting to see what you come up with.

Re: Project updates

Bryan Murley — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:55:09 -0000

Have you tried installing MAMP? It's supposedly really easy to install a MySQL-Apache-PHP configuration on a Mac. Not sure if that will solve your problem or not. I installed MySQL a while back to try out Drupal and it didn't present too many problems.

Good luck.

Re: College media needs CMS options

Bryan Murley — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:33:11 -0000

Daniel is even submitting an application for the Knight News Challenge!

I don't mean to discourage him, but UCLA won a knight grant to develop an open-source college CMS last year. It's supposed to be tested on their site this year.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, the issue isn't really the CMS, it's the maintenance and hosting. There is a group of people grappling with this issue on the adviser side right now, too.

Re: We Are the Media, This Is the Media

Bryan Murley — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:57:17 -0000

I listened to that OTM podcast over the weekend and thought it was the biggest piece of navel-gazing I've heard in a long time. Who cares? And who cares what Jarvis thinks about it?

Re: Note the NRA’s tactics — does the tech industry have someone looking out for us?

Bryan Murley — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:46:20 -0000

Interesting Idea, Robert. A couple of reasons spring to mind. One, mentioned above, is that the NRA is basically a one-issue effort.

Another, more important, is that it claims to represent something deeply embedded in American history - and it has an original amendment to back that claim up. (I'll lay aside whether their arguments stack up or not for someone else to wage war over) That gives them tremendous clout with lots of *ordinary people.* I'm not talking about "Valley ordinary," but blue-collar ordinary, like my step-dad, the Vietnam vet union electrician who rarely ever uses a computer (or, if you prefer, banana pudding ordinary).

As much as the tech industry wants to have the clout of the NRA as a lobbying organization, they don't have that connection to regular folk yet. You're representing an industry. The NRA purports to be representing a part of the fabric of American life.

Of course, I find it hard to believe any lobbying effort could get the entire tech industry to agree enough to become that powerful.

Re: AppleTV: Xbox without the “X?”

Bryan Murley — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:04:36 -0000

1080 won’t do any good? You guys need to come to CES and get educated and see what the difference is. I can tell the difference. It’s why most of us with HD sets watch so much Discovery channel.

How many people really have HD sets? There's a huge market right now for flat-screen low-definition tv sets. Go to the best buy or Wal-Mart where real people shop and see how many different models there are for less than $300 (27-inch and higher). TV stations aren't required to go fully digital for another two years. Do you know how many people are gladly going to pay $400 for a 30-inch tv vs. $800 or up for a 15-inch HDTV?

And the reason most with HD watch discovery channel is *not* because of the resolution, but because of the nature of the audience. Don't equate correlation with causation.

CES is fairy tale land for tech geeks, but there's a wal-mart reality that apple is going to be appealing to as well.

Re: How Google Stole Control Over Content Distribution By Stealing Links

Bryan Murley — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:55:33 -0000

"The key to Google’s monopoly control"

It's not a monopoly ... yet.

And I am uncomfortable with the word "stole." Google didn't "steal" anything. They provided something news media weren't providing.

and I don't see providing "easier" access as "control of distribution" either, but that's a minor point.

Re: Murdoch Leads Press Gazette's "New Media" 50; (Yes, #22 Is Someone We Know Well)

Bryan Murley — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:53:30 -0000

From a newspaper standpoint, I'd have to say Adrian Holovaty, Rob Curley and James Brady, all at the Washington Post, and Steve Yelvington of Morris Communications.

Re: Interview: Tom Curley, CEO, Associated Press; Portals, Local Content -- 'The Mother of all Battles'

Bryan Murley — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:42:21 -0000

Curley says ... "-- Proper use of AP content: ”If you want our content, we expect to be paid for it … this nonsense that you can just take the first paragraph or use the picture small doesn’t really fly with us. People die trying to take those pictures.”

While some people are saying "Curley doesn't mean (bloggers) when he says this," that's not at all apparent from his statements. He also seems to gloss over the whole topic of "Fair Use," which - last I checked - was still a section in the U.S. Copyright code.

On the one hand, he's saying content should be floating all over the place, but on the other, he says everyone should pay them for their content. Well, it's really difficult to have it both ways.

Re: Industry Moves: WPNI CEO Caroline Little Resigns; WaPo Online Editorial Now Reports To Weymouth

Bryan Murley — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:07:28 -0000

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On the editorial side, Jim Brady and Rob Curley will report to Katharine Weymouth, CEO of the recently created media group that includes the newspapers and online.
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Apparently, Curley is leaving soon to join the Las Vegas Sun. His "team's" departure was announced yesterday on WaPo.com.