The best from the “good reads” on my online news reading list

Last week I put together a highlight package of links and blogs for the new boss of the Post’s online department, Kevin Dale. It’s worth sharing, and so I give it to you.

Hey Kevin,

Here are two articles most worth reading:

• A fundamental way newspaper sites need to change
• Holovaty’s article from a year ago in XML mag is pretty decent too

And here are links to the blogs in my “must-read” category on my feed reader:

• Matt McAlister
• The most-popular links on delicious tagged “journalism”
• Ryan Sholin
• Mark Potts
• CAR reporter for the Houston Chron
• Steve Yelvington
• Will Sullivan (the Journerdism guy, you’ve prob already heard of him)
• Bokardo: these guys had a good run of posts last year, though they’ve slacked off in quality recently

Clay Shirky’s links on del.icio.us are sometimes interesting too

And if you’re interested in the online news-types I follow on twitter, this is my online news-oriented / professional-joe twitter account

I’ve kept a library of online news-related links for four years — this is the category of links I call “Good Reads” for online journalism there.

I know there are 151 links in there, so here are the highlights (in cases where the title of the post wasn’t obvious in the URL, I pasted it after):

1. www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/essays/archives/000501.php ( “How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Relinquish Control” )
2. www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2006/05/26/59/media-needs-to-reflect-attention-not-collect-attention/
3. publishing2.com/2008/08/07/how-newsrooms-throw-away-value-by-not-linking-to-sources-on-the-web/
4. bokardo.com/archives/activity-centered-design/
5. www.howardowens.com/2008/not-all-information-needs-to-be-crafted-into-a-story/
6. www.useit.com/alertbox/bounce-rates.html
7. www.slate.com/id/2193552/ ( “How we read” )
8. www.doshdosh.com/how-to-build-a-better-content-model-for-your-site/
9. www.wmhartnett.com/2008/05/19/lets-not-forget-what-was-killing-us-before-the-internet/
10. www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2008/nt-2008-03-31-tv-advertising.htm ( “Finding is the new advertising: Traditional advertising is broken because it charges us time, when time is becoming our most valuable resource. ” )
11. newsosaur.blogspot.com/2008/03/think-big-act-small.html
12. The big lie about free
13. www.pbs.org/idealab/2008/02/databases-as-entry-points-to-investigative-stories005.html
14. Why Building The Geographic Web Is Hard, and Why It’s Worth Doing
15. When local newspapers aren’t local
16. www.howardowens.com/2008/looking-ahead-local-will-be-the-big-media-winner/
17. www.thepomoblog.com/archive/the-incomparable-umair-haque/
18. ryansholin.com/2007/04/24/a-few-long-tail-basics-for-newspapers/
19. The programmer as journalist: a Q&A with Adrian Holovaty
20. www.readwriteweb.com/archives/attention_economy_overview.php
21. www.howardowens.com/2006/great-essay-about-online-communities/
22. www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2005/nt-2005-08-15-simplicity.htm ( “Simplicity is hard work” )
23. sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/11/understanding_l.html ( “Understanding Local Max” )

I just remembered one more — this guy is the smartest read I’ve seen when it comes to the online economy and publishing: Umair Haque.  Umair mostly publishes on his Harvard blog here, but he used to write on BubbleGeneration, here.

You can have these links (well, links in the same vein) delivered: Get these links delivered via twitter here, or subscribe to this online journalism link feed (low-frequency, 3-5 posts a week) via rss / web feeds here.

Also, if you have an article or two you’d like on the list, post it in the comments below.

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