Morning Post: Twenty-nine Questions for Old Media

Twenty-nine Questions for Old Media (as it ponders the internets in 2007)

1. Do you look at your readers or do you look at your numbers?
2. Do you still use words like “chatter,” “gossip” and “noise” in stories about online conversations?
3. Are your readers a community?
4. Why not?
5. How do you quote from blogs?
6. Do you link to past stories or features within stories?
7. How much do you filter your readers’ responses?
8. How do you quote from something on You Tube or a podcast?
9. How long will it be before most newspapers link to other newspapers’ stories on their sites?
10. How long will it be before most newspapers link to blogs and other non-traditional media?
11. Do you still think in terms of a news cycle?
12. Are online polls a valid measure?
13. How do you inform people of how they can respond or get involved?
14. Does the discussion continue after the story is filed?
15. How long has the industry really had “centuries-old standards?”
16. Do items appear on the Net before or after they appear in print?
17. Do items appear in print but not on the Net and vice versa?
18. Do you use feeds and tags?
19. Is it easy to find what’s new on your site?
20. Is it easy to find something old on your site?
21. Have you ever heard of moving pictures?
22. Have you ever heard of talking moving pictures?
23. Is there a map I can look at?
24. What does that song/bird/war/wind/neighbor sound like?
25. Where’s the online edition for my neighborhood?
26. Are your readers allowed to be journalists?
27. Are your journalists allowed to be citizens?
28. Do you think you or anyone else has the answer?
29. Anyone at the paper remember type made from molten lead?