Comments on: Making information available and useful online and why newspapers aren’t very good at it. http://www.lectroid.net/2008/06/09/making-information-available-and-useful-online-and-why-newspapers-arent-very-good-at-it/ Would you like some cheese with your whine? Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:01:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: lectroid.net » Blog Archive » Local beat blog, how I’d do it. http://www.lectroid.net/2008/06/09/making-information-available-and-useful-online-and-why-newspapers-arent-very-good-at-it/#comment-296 lectroid.net » Blog Archive » Local beat blog, how I’d do it. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:44:50 +0000 http://www.lectroid.net/?p=300#comment-296 [...] Then you want what I call “robot driven news”. Live updating police and fire info, ideally off feeds from the county Sheriff’s office and the various area fire agencies if possible, like sactraffic.org does. Now you have breaking news on the site without lifting a finger. Arrest logs as well. Though they are somewhat seedy to me, they get huge numbers of readers. All this is just data and with data the idea is to make it universally accessible and useful. [...] [...] Then you want what I call “robot driven news”. Live updating police and fire info, ideally off feeds from the county Sheriff’s office and the various area fire agencies if possible, like sactraffic.org does. Now you have breaking news on the site without lifting a finger. Arrest logs as well. Though they are somewhat seedy to me, they get huge numbers of readers. All this is just data and with data the idea is to make it universally accessible and useful. [...]

]]> By: Colin http://www.lectroid.net/2008/06/09/making-information-available-and-useful-online-and-why-newspapers-arent-very-good-at-it/#comment-245 Colin Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:16:24 +0000 http://www.lectroid.net/?p=300#comment-245 Agreed. This argument is one of the reasons that Spotcrime.com exists. Agreed. This argument is one of the reasons that Spotcrime.com exists.

]]> By: Brad King http://www.lectroid.net/2008/06/09/making-information-available-and-useful-online-and-why-newspapers-arent-very-good-at-it/#comment-244 Brad King Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:28:02 +0000 http://www.lectroid.net/?p=300#comment-244 You're right when you say that the Web and print are radically different. It's why they don't eat other other (metaphorically speaking). The sooner news folks realize that it's not about replicating what you do in print, the better they will be. And counter-intuitively, once they embrace the Web for what it does, they will realize that it actually allows them to get back to doing what they love: reporting. You’re right when you say that the Web and print are radically different. It’s why they don’t eat other other (metaphorically speaking).

The sooner news folks realize that it’s not about replicating what you do in print, the better they will be. And counter-intuitively, once they embrace the Web for what it does, they will realize that it actually allows them to get back to doing what they love: reporting.

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