The Daily Dot - 10,000 Words http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words Where Journalism and Technology Meet Copyright 2013 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:51:16 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 The Daily Dot Aims To Be The Internet’s Community Newspaper Let’s face it: the Internet can be a big, scary place, so it makes sense that people seek digital communities where they can congregate with like-minded users to discuss the stuff they care about. Online communities like Reddit and Tumblr frequently develop their own lingo, inside jokes and topics du jour, but these “insidery” snippets often stay confined to the communities from which they sprout. Until now, that is. A new online venture, The Daily Dot, is seeking to bring a voice and platform to the stories for and about online communities.

“The Daily Dot gives a voice to the Web’s communities,” reads the site’s About page. “We report on the most important and relevant topics from within, applying tried-and-true principles drawn from community journalism to the growing cultures of the Internet, and allow our audience to read the Dot across multiple platforms, where they live, online.”

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New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

]]> Jessica Roy http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/the-daily-dot-aims-to-be-the-internets-community-newspaper_b6298#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/the-daily-dot-aims-to-be-the-internets-community-newspaper_b6298 http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/?p=6298 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:22:36 +0000 Fifteen Journalism-Related Panels for SXSW Interactive 2012 SXSW Interactive 2012Earlier this week, the colossal film, interactive, and music festival known as SXSW announced the opening of the 2012 SXSW PanelPicker, a community-driven voting portal that allows people to vote on panels which they wish to see at the upcoming conference. The PanelPicker votes and comments comprise 30% of the decision-making process for any given programming slot, with the SXSW Staff and SXSW Advisory Board accounting for 30% and 40% respectively. Voting is open from now until 11:59pm CT on Friday, September 2, 2011.

For those of you who may not be familiar with SXSW, here’s a brief video from SXSW that gives an overview of the conference:

While there are three distinct portions of the conference, SXSW Interactive offers the most diverse group of topics, especially for journalists. Currently, there are over 50 journalism-related panels up for voting in the PanelPicker. I’ve culled through them all, and here are fifteen which I think would be great for journalists of all kinds. Each panel description also includes a link to vote for the panel on the PanelPicker (voting does require registering for a free PanelPicker account).

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New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

]]> Maurice Cherry http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/fifteen-journalism-related-panels-for-sxsw-interactive-2012_b6119#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/fifteen-journalism-related-panels-for-sxsw-interactive-2012_b6119 http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/?p=6119 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:27:32 +0000