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ZiddlyWiki is a hack/adaptation of TiddlyWiki thrown together by TimMorgan. It provides ServerSide storage of the wiki (tiddler) content by combining the power of TiddlyWiki with [[Zope]].

Tim is the hacker behind ZiddlyWiki and some other [[neat projects|http://timmorgan.org/wiki/Projects]] (some are even original). Find out more at http://timmorgan.org.\n\nEmail: [first name]@timmorgan.org

ZiddlyWiki saves its changes in real-time, after each tiddler edit.\n\nIf you want to reuse this site, you can GetYourOwn.

To upgrade your ZW folder, perform the following steps:\n# ''Rename'' your existing ZiddlyWiki folder to something else.\n# ''Cut'' your existing //tiddlers// folder.\n# ImportZiddlyWiki.\n# ''Delete'' the //tiddlers// folder from your newly imported ZW folder.\n# ''Paste''.\n\nNow you can delete your old ZW folder you renamed in step 1.

The SnapshotNumber is the number representing the snapshot of ZW you downloaded. Take the following number for instance:\n\n<<ziddlySnapshot>>\n\nThis number communicates one thing: when the snapshot was made. It breaks down like this:\n\nYEAR.MONTH.DAY.HOUR+MINUTE\n\nOnly the last digit of YEAR is used, so the first part will be "5" until the end of 2005; then it will become "6". HOUR and MINUTE are combined to form a four-digit number representing the time.\n\nI'd like to point out that //every time you download ZW, you're going to get a different snapshot number//. That doesn't mean anything has changed in ZiddlyWorld. The ChangeLog will be your friend and help you to know when your snapshot of ZW has reached its expiration date.

Start of blogging in philippines\nhttp://blogged.the-protagonist.net/2005/03/21/tracing-back-the-philippines-blog-histor/\n\n\nhttp://cyber.law.harvard.edu:8080/webcred/wp-content/CONFREPORT2.htm\n\nhttp://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050825lafontaine/\nhttp://www.ojr.org/ojr/wiki/Writing/8/\n\nBlogging is a great community journalism tool – this is the reason why I have been pushing for Sun.Star to go blogging since May 2004. \n\n\n\n\nhttp://www.ojr.org/ojr/wiki/Writing/8/\nBeyond 'blogs': Can we create a new vocabulary for online journalism?\n\nhttp://susanmernit.blogspot.com/\n\nhttp://www.ojr.org/ojr/blog/archive.cfm?start=600\nFrom the Interactive Media Conference: Blogging vs. Journalism\n\nhttp://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/041112kramer/\nJournos and Bloggers: Can Both Survive?\n\nhttp://blogs.salon.com/0000014/stories/2004/11/05/notesForBloggerconJournalismSession.html\nNotes for Bloggercon Journalism Session\n\n

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http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/002868.php

+ News as conversation\n+ Readers (collective) know more than I do (Gilmor and this other chap in Nieman reports)\n+ Idea of "audience" changing because the so-called audience can now talk back through blog or through their own blog\n+ cost of entry to media lowered by availability of blog tools and services .. group can now launch own online publication that can take on sections of mainstream media\n+ compare emergence of blog tools to entry of desktop publishing software\n+ read interview of Corante guy on how it is not on the medium - on how it is mainstream media's disconnect from readers .. blogs made this very evident because of feedback loop.\n+ allow community papers to strengthen ties with the community it serves\n+ allows community papers to be part of the conversation without dominating conversation\n

http://migs.paraz.com/w/archives/2005/11/23/cutecrowd-a-mmsweb-app/

IT’S hard not to be pessimistic on the future of newspaper. Circulation figures are flat if not declining. Advertising, the lifeblood of the industry, is also down.\n\nGoldman Sachs said in a report that in terms of revenue growth, this year would be the worst year for the US newspaper industry since the recession early in the decade. The report also said “that meaningful growth in 2006 is ‘very unlikely.’”\n\nThis bleak advertising environment has forced Goldman Sachs to lower its growth forecast for next year to 3.5 percent from 4 percent.\n\nNewspapers, according to Publicis Groupe chief innovation officer Rishad Tobaccowala, are at a tipping point “in which online media will start to take more readership and more ad dollars.” He said newspapers “are in the worst situation of all news media for growth as ‘the least visually engaging and least youth oriented’ medium.”\n\nOnline journalism is crucial in helping save print media. \n\nThe Goldman Sachs report said “the bright spot continues to be online newspaper revenues, which are projected to grow an impressive 25 percent in 2006.” Earnings from online news operations, however, represent only 5 percent of newspaper revenues.\n\nIn a keynote speech during last week’s Online News Association (ONA) conference, New York Times chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said that it is important for their paper to find business revenue models that will allow it to “to continue to support its 1,200 journalists and $200 million annual budget.”\n\nOnline news operations turned in profits only recently and these revenues are not enough to support traditional newsrooms. \n\nInformation, Sulzberger said, “does not yearn to be free.”\n\nBut Philip Meyer, author of Precision Journalism and The Vanishing Newspaper, said newspapers can’t expect “monopoly profits” because they are no longer monopolies.\n\n“Newspapers' problem today is that they are trying to maintain monopoly pricing when they no longer have the monopoly. You can't blame them for trying. By milking their assets, they can keep the revenue that the present owners, public or private, have built into their expectations -- for a while. And while quality pays, we cannot be certain that adding new quality to the old business model will be enough to save it. Quality should start looking for another home,” Meyer writes in a guest commentary at GradeTheNews.org.\n\nMeyer, the Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of North Carolina, said newspaper household penetration peaked in the 1920s at 130% or 130 newspapers sold for every 100 households. Now, Meyer, said penetration is less than 50% and still falling.\n\nMeyer said newspapers “adapted to the decline and became better than ever at making money. First, they consolidated, shaking down to one per market in all but the largest metro areas. That gave them monopoly pricing power.”\n\nMeyer said: “Now an even bigger technology change is upon us: electronic delivery of news and advertising direct to the home.” He said electronic delivery of news eliminates the main variable costs of newspaper: newsprint, ink and transportation.\n\nStill, there are a lot of great things in journalism to look forward to, much of it online.\n\nImpact\n\nThe biggest impact of online media in journalism is that it lowered what Meyer called as “entry costs” to publishing. Before online media, people needed a lot of money to become publishers. They needed to buy costly printing equipment and hire a lot of people to run the operations.\n\nWith the Internet, a company can just decide to put out an online publication if it doesn’t have the funds to support a newspaper or magazine. Companies can also publish Web magazines to cover niche topics previously ignored by mainstream media because of its small audience.\n\nWith the lower entry costs, the Internet widened the media choices of consumers. \n\nOnline journalism has allowed the building of audience from what can be said as “The Long Tail” of media, as press relations consultant Steve Rubel puts it.\n\nThe Long Tail is the colloquial term describing the graph of a Pareto distribution-distributions where “a high-frequency or high-amplitude population is followed by a low-frequency or low-amplitude population which gradually ‘tails off.’”\n\nThe Long Tail was used to describe how low-volume and low-demand products collectively comprise a huge market. This was used, for example, to describe how Amazon makes a lot of money from its ability to sell almost anything because of the lowered inventory costs.\n\nThe lowered cost of publication allows newspapers to go beyond its generalist character. Newspapers do not devote too much coverage on niche issues or esoteric topics because the size of the audience does not justify the costs of printing these stories. Online, however, publications can easily spin off news web sites to cover specific topics or issues.\n\nMedill School of Journalism professor Rich Gordon, in an article in Online Journalism Review, said that in the “over 200-plus years of U.S. history, the norm has been a multitude of media choices” and that the mass media era of the past century was an anomaly.\n\nGordon says the explosion of media choices is good for consumers but bad for companies that thrived in the mass-media culture. He said “assuming that the future of journalism hinges on the fate of the big media companies would be a mistake.”\n\nThe Internet has allowed news publications to expand its audience beyond geographical boundaries. Suddenly, a newspaper with a website no longer serves just the city it is based in. It can now serve a global audience.\n\nFor a community newspaper like Sun.Star Cebu, the website edition of the newspaper has allowed it to reach the diaspora of Cebuanos working overseas. The website reconnects these overseas Cebuanos to their community back home. The website not only expands the readership but also the potential advertising market as well.\n\nThe Internet also allows media to build a community from its pool of readers. Online journalism offers tools that allow two-way interaction between a publication and its readers, whether through web forums or blogs.\n\n\nFuture\n\nMany have said that today is the best time to start an online publication. Not only is it relatively easy and cheap to start one, network ad services also offers publishers ways to earn from their sites.\n\nServices like Google Ads, Yahoo Publishers network, Chitika e-mini malls make it possible for small web publications to get paying ads without having a marketing department or dealing with advertisers.\n\nBecause of these two developments, I think that in the coming years, we would be seeing more independent and smaller online publications doing well. \n\nThe large mainstream media newsroom is in danger of being extinct unless, as Sulzberger said, a business model can be found to support it. \n\nIf electronic paper, however, is introduced before these large media companies crumble\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n * Coming out of the recession, Internet advertising is booming -- and traditional media companies are taking notice. If you're in the media business and you want to grow, you have to make an investment in original online content. That's why the New York Times Co. bought About.com, why Dow Jones bought Marketwatch.com and why Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. bought Myspace.com.\n\n * In some categories -- sports, technology and business -- it's already possible to generate sufficient online advertising revenue to pay journalists to create original content. That's because these are categories with established bases of advertisers who want to reach the audiences interested in that specific kind of content.\n\n * To support the costs of creating other types of journalism, ad-targeting technologies are beginning to offer promise. Online publishers have touted the Web's targeting capabilities since the first banner ads were deployed in 1994. But the ingredients for effective ad targeting are only just now coming together: demographic targeting linked to user registration, contextual targeting built on keywords (e.g., Google AdSense), and behavioral targeting technology that delivers ads based on types of pages visited previously.\n\n * Individual journalists are using the Web successfully to market themselves, build their audience and even finance their journalism. Consider Dan Washburn's "Shanghai Diaries" blog. Washburn is a former newspaper journalist who covers China as a freelancer and is working on a book. With no book contract yet, he solicits donations via PayPal. In doing so, he's taking a cue from Chris Allbritton, a freelancer whose blog readers ponied up $15,000 in 2003 so he could cover the Iraq war. Allbritton is now based in Iraq and being paid by several media outlets.\n\n * Capital is flowing to entrepreneurs who launch journalism ventures. Jason Calacanis' network of niche blogs, Weblogs Inc., was just snapped up by AOL for a reported price of $25 million. Journalists who launched Backfence.com, envisioned as a network of "citizen journalism" sites covering towns and neighborhoods, just got $3 million from investors to expand their business. These developments demonstrate that journalists with an entrepreneurial bent may be able to build their own media companies.\n\n * Yahoo!, which became one of the Internet's most successful content destinations while creating little or no original journalism, is changing its approach. In the past few months, the company hired multimedia journalist Kevin Sites, commissioned regular columns from high-profile columnists for Yahoo! Finance, and launched an online adventure travel channel featuring original video. If any of these initiatives prove successful, Yahoo! won't be the only site making investments in original content on the Web.\n\nOnline journalism can serve public interest\n\nTaken together, these indicators suggest that there's going to be money available to support original Internet journalism and employ the journalists who create it. But it's less clear that Internet-based media can fulfill the public service role that newspapers, network TV and local stations -- with their deep pockets, experienced journalists and large audiences -- have played during the mass-media era. But I remain optimistic that Internet journalism will be a force for constructive change in our society. \n\nMy optimism stems, in part, from my faith that an open, accessible publishing medium should be good for a democratic society. If someone had told me 15 or 20 years ago that we would have a medium that allowed anyone to publish anything they wanted, and that through that medium just about anyone could read it, I am sure I would have celebrated such a development as positive for democracy.\n\nMy faith in the Internet is not blind. I recognize that a solo blogger with no journalism training is not likely to do the kind of investigative reporting that our finest newspapers do. But the Internet has at least three capabilities that can help make online journalism an influential force.\n\nFirst, the openness of the Internet enables people with something to say to find an audience, even if they are not backed by a major media company. Original voices have emerged: Joshua Marshall, Xeni Jardin, Glenn Reynolds, Ana Marie Cox. And we've seen that bloggers can focus the attention of the public -- and mainstream journalists -- on stories that might otherwise have been undercovered. Think, for instance, of the bloggers who made an issue of Sen. Trent Lott's comments that seemed to praise fellow Sen. Strom Thurmond's support of segregation in the 1940s.\n\nSecond, the Internet's "viral" characteristics -- its foundation technology of hypertext linking and users' ability to share information easily via e-mail -- can help lead people to discover great journalism they would have missed. Even if financial pressures lead traditional media companies to shrink and to do less original journalism, the good work that is done can be spread widely via person-to-person communication.\n\nAnd third, RSS feeds and feed-reading software offer the potential for solving one of journalism's fundamental problems: that any story reaches only a fraction of the people who would have found it relevant if only they knew it existed. Feed readers are still very primitive, but I can certainly imagine one that sorts and prioritizes my RSS feeds based on criteria including where I live, what industry I work in, what sources I most trust and what content other people like me have found interesting. The idea of a digital "Daily Me" has been floating around since the 1970s; RSS feeds are the technology that might allow this idea to become reality. RSS also shows promise as a revenue engine based on ad targeting.\n\nAnd technology continues to march forward, creating new devices that can act as conduits for journalism. A world where TVs can download Internet content or where mobile phones and iPods can access online video is a place where citizens have many more ways to access great journalism.\n\nWho will be the pioneers?\nWe are only a decade into the Internet era; this medium is still in its infancy. But if I'm right about the direction Internet journalism is headed, some group of journalists working today -- or perhaps still enrolled in school -- will be recognized as the pioneers in the field.\n\nSome of them are probably working in traditional newsrooms today, just as many of the journalists who invented TV news started off working for newspapers and wire services.\n\nIf you watched a newscast in the early TV era, you saw a guy sitting behind a desk, reading a newspaper or wire service story. As their medium matured, talented journalists figured out a whole new narrative vocabulary, inventing perhaps the most powerful medium ever for journalistic storytelling.\n\nWhen the history of media is written, who will be recognized as the inventors of interactive journalism? Who will be the Cronkite of this new field? We can't yet know, but I'm sure some will come out of newsrooms and journalism schools. Others will come from the worlds of theater, screenwriting, animation, photography, computer science and game development.\n\nWhat they will have in common: an urge to create, to discover, to share what they know and, just maybe, to change the world. What could be more exciting than to create something -- a story, a photo, a video, a sound recording -- and make it available to anyone who might be interested?\n\nI find myself thinking these days about Edward R. Murrow, the subject of a movie that's currently in theaters. The hallmark of his career was unflinching journalism, whether delivered on the radio from war-torn London or on TV from the fields where he produced the "Harvest of Shame" investigative report on the plight of migrant workers.\n\nMurrow got his start in radio but moved over to TV when he saw its power. If he were alive today, I think he'd be captivated by new technologies and excited by their potential to get important stories out to the public. He'd certainly recognize the decline in audience that CBS News has seen in the past few years, but he'd be interested in new ways to deliver great journalism to the maximum number of people.\n\nCan you imagine "Harvest of Shame" on a video iPod?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSources: \n\nMediaDaily News. '05 Proving To Be Worst Newspaper Year Since Recession\nhttp://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=35690\n\nNewspapers can't maintain monopoly profits because they've lost their monopolies\nhttp://www.gradethenews.org/commentaries/meyer.htm\n

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Paper templates\nhttp://www.paperzone.com/taxonomy/term/5\n\nPaul McCartney is dead\nhttp://digilander.libero.it/jamespaul/fc1.html\n\nhow to change the theme again?\n

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