Applications: Blogging By The Numbers We will review this.

Poynter Online - Dusty Lessons for a Digital World We return to basics, but still we need to think like the viwer/user who is looking at the story on a phone, PDA, as well as from newsprint.

While the basics of crisp writing are still key, note this statement

This formula was ideal for hard breaking news stories; other solutions were deployed for features and in-depth background pieces.

where we realize that there is more to the story than the precise, comforting basics he is referring to, such as links, images, tie-ins to create context. This writer is going digital but still thinking print. We can learn from what he says, but we have to think about the big picture.

Monitoring Traffic If we incorporate an interactive travel feature into our currently vaguely idealized news site, we can "drive" more eyeballs there...

Wired News: Blogging for Bucks Is this your future? Who would like to work from home, and take two steps from bed to get to work? What did Ali have to know, experience, and do in order to be making $60,000/year as an online journalist? We will be talking about this when class starts up...

Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News CoverageA traveler's nightmare, an online publisher's problem....

Wired News: Mozilla Wants to Rumble With IE New and better browsers mean new ideas for those online publications.

International Moblogging Conference Moblogging already has its own conference. Can you tell me what a moblog is? Shall we try and organize a moblog event in the Fall?

Wireless in the polar reaches extends polar bear cam.

Lillian Williams sends us this invitation:

The Association for Women Journalists is sponsoring a picnic-style membership party at 6 p.m., Thursday, July 24, at the Chicago Sun-Times. This is one of AWJ's most popular events each year. I always look forward to it!

Join us for hamburgers, veggie burgers, hotdogs, potato salad, beer,wine and pop. Just $5 for members, and $15 for non-members.

The event promises to be a fun party where you'll have a chance to network, as well as relax. Invite your friends to join the festivities too.

Details:
6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Chicago Sun-Times, 7th Floor Atrium overlooking the Chicago River.
401 N. Wabash Avenue
$5 for members, $15 for non-members

An RSVP is required for this event. Please RSVP at 312-344-7687, or
Send your name and the names of guests to rsvp@awjchicago.org.
Put "summer party rsvp" in the subject line of your email.

Here is something on deck collapses from a Rockford television station.Consider how an interactive piece showing a deck and how it connects to a structure would add value to the story. Otherwise, it is just like a re-hash and since it doesn't show the video, it is less than the TV package. Too bad. They probably could have even linked to something like the Home Depot sitethough there would be issues of whether this is an ad, or whether Home depot would be charged for the link...just thinking...