What Is Happening to News – The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism, Jack Fuller, University of Chicago, 2010
Written by a Pulitzer prize winning editor and publisher. Hardcover, 200 pages.
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What Is Happening to News
Thursday, August 26th, 2010The Yahoo! Style Guide
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
The Yahoo! Style Guide – The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World, Chris Barr, St Martin’s, 2010
Writers of web content will find this book useful. 500 pages.
Online News Fundamentals
Monday, August 16th, 2010Online News Fundamentals – An Introduction to Journalism on CBCNews.ca, Blair Shewchuk, CBC, 2009
Web publishers and journalists will find this book useful, as it contains an excellent style guide. It was intended for CBC’s staff, and does not seem to be available at CBC’s online store, but I am glad that a copy got acquired by the OPL. Canadian taxpayers, who are paying CBC’s expenses, might be more satisfied after reading this. 300 pages.
How Wikipedia Works
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
How Wikipedia Works – And How You Can Be A Part of It, Phoebe Ayers, No Starch, 2008
If you contribute articles to Wikipedia you will want to read this. 500 pages.
Content Strategy
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Content Strategy for the Web / Kristina Halvorson, New Riders, 2010
This book is for people in charge of larger web sites.
Audit your current content. Analyze your ecosystems. Plan a strategy. Plan a work flow. Write content. Set up the tools and channels for delivery. Measure the results. Maintain the site. This slim (150 pages) book is well written.
Wikipedia : the missing manual
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Wikipedia : the missing manual / John Broughton, O’Reilly, 2008
Here is a book for Wikipedia authors, and for anyone who is generating content for a web site. Hmm, most of us do that now and then!