I recently followed a Twitter link (and I’m sorry, but I can’t remember the source) to a video made by the CoPress group about creating “the web-centric newsroom”:

The Web-centric newsroom from CoPress on Vimeo.

Point one is elementary: of course people search the web for story ideas. Point two, to post online fast to compete: well, that’s a fine and good idea. But point three- web-first workflow, is the main focus of the video, and it encourages us to post online first and move that content to print.

This is all well and good as a theory, but there’s some serious problems for most of us in implementing any real kind of web-to-print workflow. Let’s take a look at the problems with this kind of approach.

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(This has been cross-posted on Tomorrow’s News, Tomorrow’s Journalists, where the August topic was a discussion on why the blog ring has been quiet over the summer months.)

So, I’ve been quiet on Twitter, quiet on Facebook, and quiet on blogging. So, it seems, has everyone else I follow in the student media. This isn’t a “I’m sorry, I’ve been trying to think of things to post” message: you’ll get no such response from me. I haven’t posted because recently I’ve had no value to add to those who subscribe to my various messages, and if there’s one thing every post should contain, it’s value for the listener.

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The media frenzy following the death of Michael Jackson has been discussed in depth, and done to death, elsewhere. I planned to completely ignore the topic, but today, @suzzaneyada posted a link via Twitter to an interesting post on the LA Times website, asking what would have happened had TMZ been wrong. Did TMZ and others really know, or did they just roll the dice? I know I didn’t accept the fact until the PA report confirmed the facts.

I don’t really want to weigh in on the tired topic of the troubled artist, but from a media perspective, I think the question is important.

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I haven’t posted in a while due to my university finals, and I’m slowly re-immersing myself in media.

One of the most interesting things I’ve read this week is the creation of a localised version of the Creative Commons licence which is custom-built for the nuances of Irish copyright law. The above links to Eoin O’Dell’s excellent cearta.ie blog, but the actual project is the child of UCC staff Darius Whelan and Louise Crowley.

It’s great to see these types of initiatives. Irish law is different to that of the USA, where many of these projects originate, and to those of us lacking a law degree, it’s these little things that make our lives easier.

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