Taken directly from a column by Chris Peck in the Commercial Appeal:
News will be generated by the people who are chosen, not the chosen people.
News will be more a conversation about making sense of the world, less of a sermon from on high.
News will rely on the [...]

We have been working on search engine optimization on our sites for the past few weeks - and I just stumbled upon this interesting blog entry from Chris Vannoy (Newspapers and the search game) who works for a paper outside of New York City. They happen to use the same content management system as the [...]

Well, we almost got our online Forums fixed today, but not quite. A planned upgrade of our content management system (Saxotech) was scheduled yesterday, postponed, then started this afternoon.
This afternoon as in Friday at 1pm prior to a 3-day holiday weekend. Any project managers or engineers out there will be laughing already.
So, the upgrade almost [...]

A good read if you are interested in the state of newspapers and what they (we) are doing to keep and compete for readers:
American Journalism Review: Remaking the Front Page

Wow - since no one is going to get past the title, except our science/tech writer Dave Brooks, just a short update on some changes to the blogs today.
For those who notice such things - the URLs for our blogs changed today - just slightly.
For instance this blog now lives at: http://blogs.nashuatelegraph.com/web_notes
Instead of : http://blogs.nashuatelegraph.com/index.php?blogId=1
Not [...]

Much like the breaking news from Chevy Chase on Saturday Night Live in 1975, the Telegraph Web site found itself repeating itself Saturday morning.

Due to a problem with our hosting provider, Saxotech, Friday’s top stories continued to appear for much of the day on Saturday, despite our best efforts.
Here is the note we received from [...]

Another new feature on the Web site today - AP video news: AP Video @ The Telegraph
We have had access to this service for a few months, but have been reluctant to promote it due to potential compatibility issues with many web browsers.
AP Video is a major collaboration with Microsoft, which provides the video [...]

An interesting article in The Editor’s Weblog, (no not Nick’s Editor’s Blog a different Editor!) concerning the pressures involved in online journalism.
"If it’s so easy to get things wrong when they’re done quickly, is it worth risking posting information before it is confirmed?…If their journalists increasingly function in this way without the proper factchecking and [...]

We are having a fairly busy (but thankfully dry) day at the paper
today - but I could not let our first Google Maps mashup pass without
comment:
Area Road Closures
A mashup is simply the combination of a Google Map with another source of data - in this case flooded roads.
Mashups are getting a lot of attention lately, [...]

Jupiter research released a new report this week: The New Demographics of Online News Competing with Portals for Younger Audiences. It costs $750 to read it, so I will not be - but the Poynter Institute sums it up here.
The highlight for a community newspaper is that while big portals (Yahoo, AOL, Google etc.) do [...]

Google released another interesting tool out of beta the other day: Google Trends. I am sure it has some serious applications, but most of the talk has been along the lines of Aim Fight, e.g - matching two terms for fun to see which wins.
So not to be left out:
Red Sox v.s. Yankees

Nashua NH v.s. [...]

Regular visitors to the site may have noticed the Telegraph reader forums have been largely missing for the past few months.Unfortunately, that has been on purpose, though we have not been happy about it.Basically, we upgraded the forum software back in March, and wereimmediately disappointed with the results. However, the upgrade waspart of some larger [...]

As sources of news (according to a BBC/Reuters/Media Center poll) we trust:
Local newspapers: 81%
National TV: 75%
Radio: 73%
Blogs: 25%
So - does that mean that a newspaper blog is trusted by 106%?

Just fixed the RSS feeds on the right rail - so the title of the feed shows up correctly. Having some fun learning a bit off PHP, but really more fun figuring out how much ’stuff’ I can fit onto these pages.As part of the RSS fix - was playing with the Del.icio.usfeed - and [...]

Here is a copy of the note we sent to The Telegraph staff announcing the official launch today:
I am pleased to announce the launch of our first three Telegraph blogs this afternoon:http://blogs.nashuatelegraph.com
The Pop Diner - a popular culture, stream-of-Tivo-consciousness commentary by the Features desk.
The Editor’s Blog - Nick takes on media transparency issues and [...]