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In his article, “The History of Online Journalism,” David Carlson traces the roots of digital news from Britain’s “teletext” system of the 1970s through the dawn of Yahoo!, AOL and the rest. What were some of the keys to success for those technologies that survived? Did Carlson leave out any key developments?

Much has happened in the field since 2003 when the article was first published. If you were to continue the history from 2003-2008, what would be the highlights? How do you see online journalism changing in the future?

This article is posted on Blackboard. Post your thoughts here as a comment and aim to play off the ideas of those who post before you.

Since we were talking about the Huffington Post the other day, I thought I would share this New York Times article about it.

Citizen Huff

Re: our discussion of the reopening of Boing Boing’s comment system…

One of my favoritest blogs, O’Reilly Radar, just posted several links on online community moderation, including Boing Boing’s moderation guidelines.

Link

Welcome to the class blog for Techniques: Interactive Storytelling (Medill, Edit 405-0). This blog will serve as a forum for reading discussions and a repository for links related to the class. This is your class blog - feel free to post material your classmates may find useful or interesting. To your right, you will find links to news blogs created by former TIS students. Once the new student blogs are up and running, we will archive the former blogs and link to the new blogs here.

Here’s an excellent five-part guide for promoting your blog from Darren Rowse of ProBlogger. In his week-long series of posts, Darren covers guest posting, networking, advertising, social media and viral content. Thanks, Rich for passing it along.

Harvard Business School professor John Deighton says that consumers are approaching privacy from the wrong angle. Instead of focusing solely on efforts to protect their identity, they should consider their identity a commodity they can sell to companies for better services based on their individual buying habits and preferences. A company that pays for your information will be more inclined to treat your information with care, Deighton reasons, because they’ve established a relationship with you. What do you think of this idea? How might it work in practice? Would you sell your identity in exchange for better services? Do you already?

In these chapters, Edward Samuels reviews the history of copyright in the U.S. How do recent developments in copyright law affect the way you handle audio, video and photos in your work as a journalist? Where do you think things are heading in the near future, toward greater protection for copyright owners or greater freedom for consumers?

There’s an interesting article in the New York Times today about anonymous comments on blog posts and online forums.

So I wrote an article that was in this week’s Time Out on micro-celebrity. And it just fit to our class so perfectly that I decided to be totally indulgent and post it.

Almost Famous: They’re not on the paparazzi’s radar, but these Chicagoans have inspired a cult following

with stars in her eyes

Maude

This article in the Reader reminded me of our discussion last week:

Movies: Undead in the Information Age

- Brenna