NewsTools2008 session notes collection page
Wednesday Events starting at 4:15 p.m.
- Value Network of Journalism
- Disruption and Reinvention
Thursday, May 1 – Possibilities Day: Explore/design ideas/projects
9:30 a.m. sessions
Use the links below to click to reports of Thursday breakout sessions at NewsTools2008.
- Who is going to pay us? — Richard Anderson — TK
- A conversation about conversations — Jon Garfunkel
- How to serve and market to lower-income people — Maurreen Skowran
- Building the audience: What if they gave a blog and nobody came? — Kate Fox — TK
- How would you improve twitter four citizen journalism? — Russell Okamoto — TK
- Building, transforming through rich, digital, personal storytelling tools — Michelle Ferrier — TK
- RSS, CPM: Please explain all the jargon — Dan Gillmor
11 a.m. sessions
- What is breakthrough journalism? — Linda Fantin
- What can hundreds of writers/readers achieve? — Andrius Kulikauskas — TK
- Using a wiki for journalist collaboration — Sheldon Rampton — TK
- What is community response to unpaid, user-generated content? — Josh Wolf — TK
- ReelChanges.org public demo — Hal Plotkin — TK
- Tools, practices of collaboration for community online/off — brainstorming — Kaliya Hamlin — TK
- Which tools are getting in your way? — Amy Gahran — TK
- How to mobile student populations for amazing journalism — Mike Melillo — TK
- Can EBAY serve as a model to solicit donations for quality public-interest journalism? — John Boyer — TK
Luncheon discussion: Dailyme.com
- Eduardo Hauser explains DailyMe.com — TK
1:30 p.m. sessions
- What are best practices for online video? — Wayne McPhail — TK
- News Discovery: Visual Experiments, gaming, etc. — Josh Schwartzman — TK
- Evolution of the information architect — Dawn Buie
- How to find funding — Jose Zamora — TK
- Collaborating with classsroom students for next-generation journalism — Marty Steffens — TK
- Audio hacks for podcasters and broadcasters — Jon Gordon — TK
- E-books: When? How? — Jesse McDougall — TK
- Collaboration: Journalism startups and funding models — Len Witt — TK
- What tools do journalists need to tell important stories? — Ellyn Angelotti — TK
- The grey areas of one-man-band journalism — Melissa Korn — TK
- New tools for conversation and engagement — Topix — TK
3:00 p.m. sessions
- What training do journalists need? — Ellyn Angelotti
- How do we leverage/share tech infrastructure? — Mike Melillo — TK
- Partnership with public broadcast — Mark Furst — TK
4:30 p.m. — Thursday afternoon wrapup session
- Designing a think tank for public-interest information — Geneva Overholser
- Open ID/VRM/iCards — Cool stuff for identity — Kaliya Hamlin — TK
- How are tech tools changing how we think/communicate and definie what it means to be human? — Michelle Ferriere — TK
- CMS for newspaper to web production — Dawn Buie — TK
Download MP3 audio of most of the Thursday afternoon wrapup circle at NewsTools2008-Yahoo on May 1, 2008. The last few minutes were lost because the recorder battery went dead. (Duration: 34 minutes, 48 seconds / File Size:16.71 MB)
7:00 p.m. — VillageSoup.com presentation — Richard Anderson
Friday, May 2 – Design-Build Day: What’s your Next Step?
8:30 a.m. — Sunlight Labs
9:00 a.m. — NewsTrust
10 a.m. — Agenda Setting (AUDIO)
- Listen to a stream, or download an MP3 podcast of the Friday morning agenda-setting session at NewsTools2008. (Duration:32 minutes, 23 seconds / File Size:15.54 MB)
10:30 a.m. sessions, all TK
- Imagine no advertising — Michael Stoll
- How to create a shared network of video conversations — Wayne MacPhail
- Building community media news bureaus that provide targeted in-depth video reporting — Josh Wolf
- Patchwood identity-creating digital personas for transparency — Michelle Ferrier
- Getting 100 journalists employed — nationally and globally — Len Witt
- Building a federation of community journalism platforms and movements — Jose, Mark, Benjamim, Mike Melillo
- The People Speak film project — Tom Stites and Melissa
- Newstrust: Making news literacy tools better — Fabrice Florin, David Cohn, Kaizar Campwala
- Turning infotainment on its head — Teri Gray
- Story Network design/build — Rod Chatham
1:30 p.m. sessions
- Non-profit building blocks and open-source technology — Josh White — TK
- Reporting on methadone deaths — Maurreen Skowran — Cancelled due to lack of interest.
- How can we help new-media teams quickly resolve their most common legal concerns — Pat Reilly — TK
- How to stop genocide in black America? — Andrius K. — TK
- Drupal Day: Low-budget portal and civic-data mashups — Benjamin Melancon/Drupal Team — TK
- What’s next for JTM? — Peggy Holman, Stephen Silha, Bill Densmore
- How can courageous truth-telling journalism help us move from Empire to genuine community? — Carol Brouillet
- Free self-sustaining access to web and emerging tech. for remote global communities — Lynn Fitch — TK
- Web 101: Standards and open source — how it works and impacts society; journalistic possibilities — Kaliya Hamlin — TK
3:00 p.m. sessions, all TK
- Bringing it home: Cit-J’s and mainstream together — Beth Lawton/David Cohn
- OneBlue.TV: How to use new tech to launch and sustain a global site for intercultural dialog — John Boyer
- Missing Voices: Ensuring diversity of voices in a multimedia world — Teresa Puente
- Mass communication for collaboration — A fully open network/PWGD.org — Benjamin Melancon
- Drupal Day: Archive and mobile video, Google news/Mechanics and policy — Kierna /Mark B/Drupal Team
- Napster: Cradle of the Revolution? — David Rubinson
- Conference communication: How to harness the energy between events and have it build beyond the same people — Persephone Miel
- Faceted information design — Jon Garfunkel
4:30 p.m. — Closing “What’s Next” Session (AUDIO)
- Listen to streaming audio of Friday’s end-of-day wrap-up session at NewsTools 2008 at Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., or download the MP3 podcast. (Duration:1 hour, 2 minutes, 59 seconds / File Size:30.23 MB)
Saturday, May 3, Bringing it on Home
Purpose: Provide the time and space to:
- Take the NewsTools2008 design/build work further
- Share concept/design/build results with others
- Connect with more regional working journalists
Continental breakfast and networking 9:30 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
(from left): Gorney, Overholser, Talbot, Miel, Aguilar
KEYNOTE: Sustaining journalism: A status report
Read a summary or listen to streaming audio or download an MP3 podcast of Saturday morning’s keynote panel.
Journalism That Matters — What’s next?
Read notes of a roundtable discussion about the next projects and events planned by the Journalism That Matters collaborative.
Project work continues 10:30 a.m.- 3:00 p.m.
- Those NewsTools2008 participants who still have work to do on their concept/design/build projects from Thursday and Friday can resume their work at the Domain Hotel. This projects, initiatives and seedling companies can continue hacking.
Lunch will be available for from 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. There will also be snacks, coffee, tea and juices available mid-morning and mid-afternoon.
Snacks and networking 3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Briefings and the next steps 3:30 p.m.- 4:30 p.m.
- At day’s end, participants will all gather for final briefings and next-step announcements from the NewsTools2008 project workers.
In addition to the NewsTools2008 audience, a larger journalist audience will be involved. Today represents a joining of two rivers involving both journalists and technologists. In parallel to the closing day of NewsTools2008…
- The [Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) opens a one-day JOURNOTECH EXPO and seminar.
In the morning, individuals, groups, organizations and companies will “expose” their info-tech ideas to interested NewsTools2008 participants and to SPJ one-day attendees.