{"id":1680,"date":"2006-11-13T22:30:39","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T03:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2006-11-13T22:54:28","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T03:54:28","slug":"amongst-the-online-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/amongst-the-online-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Amongst the Online Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Chapel Hill&#8217;s best kept secret, <a href=\"ttp:\/\/www.chowhound.com\/topics\/show\/137265?user_name=&#038;query=bbq+joint+chapel+hill\">the Barbecue Joint<\/a>, with <a href=\"http:\/\/edcone.com\">Ed Cone<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exileonjonesstreet.com\/about\/\">Kirk Ross<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.blogads.com\/comments\/P805_0_1_0\/\">Henry Copeland<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dangillmor.com\/\">Dan Gillmor<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Henry talked about deciding to be a financial journalist in Budapest thinking that with his understanding of finance that the journalism part would be a snap. Turned out to be tougher and he in the end did commit journalism but started companies that eventually led to <a href=\"http:\/\/BlogAds.com\">BlogAds.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lots of dissection of community sites and community news projects. What makes them? What makes a company work? Visionaries aren&#8217;t the ones who see the work through often. The programmer who is great at swift prototypes and proof of concept designs isn&#8217;t usually a very good production programmer or the one who turns out the final polished product. Likewise the production programmer who is great at seeing bugs and straightening out code usually can&#8217;t get the sloppy but needed prototype out. Are community thinkers like that? If so who are the production people in community &#8212; Ruby?<\/p>\n<p>A number of still secret projects hinted at and even delineated. Great talk and in what seems to be an oxymoron &#8212; great <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brussels_sprout\">brussel sprouts<\/a>! I can&#8217;t believe I wrote that but it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Chapel Hill&#8217;s best kept secret, the Barbecue Joint, with Ed Cone, Kirk Ross, Henry Copeland and Dan Gillmor. Henry talked about deciding to be a financial journalist in Budapest thinking that with his understanding of finance that the journalism part would be a snap. Turned out to be tougher and he in the end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-virtual-communities","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}