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4-Minute Roundup: The Rising Buzz of Location Services at SXSW
This episode of 4MR is brought to you by the Knight Digital Media Center, providing a spectrum of training for the 21st century journalist. Find out more at KDMC's website. It's also underwritten by GoDaddy, helping you set up your own website in a snap with domain name registration, web...
NPR, SiriusXM Internships Steeped in Multimedia, Social Media
When you think about internships at media companies, you probably picture people fetching coffee, running errands, or worse. But some internships have taken a different tack, setting up specialized blogs, Twitter feeds and Facebook pages for their interns to help them understand new technology and spread the word about their...
9 Tools to Help Live-Stream Your Newsroom
"We'd like to write blog posts, but don't have time." That's the oft-heard lament in newsrooms. More and more traditional journalists recognize the benefits of blogging and social media, but many just can't figure out how to add them to their existing workload. I have a solution that seems to work...
Witness Creates Sophisticated Evaluation Tools for Video Impact
Last month, Jessica Clark and I explored how various Public Media 2.0 projects are measuring their level of success in informing and engaging publics. We found that many public media organizations are struggling to measure impact -- and some are relying only on traditional indicators of reach, as opposed to...
Public Media Twitter Chat Aims to Foster Collaboration
Public media workers and aficionados have a new routine: Every Monday at 8 p.m. Eastern Time, they log on to Twitter for Public Media Chat, which is using the #pubmedia hashtag. The chat, which started about a month ago, is the result of a discussion between a group of public...
Turkish Reporters Unite to Protest YouTube Ban
The Turkish courts banned YouTube in May 2008, and now a new protest campaign launched by the editorial team of the Milliyet newspaper is drawing attention to how long the country has been prevented from using the website. The initiative, which was was launched on February 19, is not the...
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BuzzMachine
Here are my notes for my talk to the TEDxNYed gathering this past weekend. I used the opportunity of a TED event to question the TED format, especially in relation to education, where — as in media — we must move past the one-way lecture to collaboration. I feared I’d...
My first bit of advice to pissed-off Cablevision customers in New York — who’ve just lost WABC right before the Oscars — I do recommend that you switch to Verizon Fios. You won’t get it in time. It’s not perfect. But for me, it has been a helluva lot better...
Here’s audio of an appearance on The Takeaway on public radio this morning about the American Cancer Society’s new prostate (PSA) screening guidelines, telling doctors to discuss the test and its implications first — the moral equivalent of the breast-cancer-screening shift of a few months ago. I disagree. As the...
Buffett on “terrible journalism”
Warren Buffett — owner of one newspaper and director of another — complains in his letter to shareholders (PDF) about his quote being mangled and misused by sound-bite journalism: Last year we saw, in one instance, how sound-bite reporting can go wrong. Among the 12,830 words in the annual letter was...
I am in Tampa waiting to fly back home to New Jersey and, thanks to the snowicane but rather than sitting in the usual information vacuum to which airlines subject us, I am watching as Continental shows us the status of the flights that were supposed to bring our jet...
Friend Michael Rosenblum forwarded word that the Star-Ledger in New Jersey was just nominated for seven local Emmys for its video work. Bravo for my old friends there and for Rosenblum, who trained them . I remember when my old colleague Jim Willse, then editor of the Ledger, told me he...
CJR
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Audit Notes: Google "Grandeur," Toxic Pet, Stop the Presses?
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The Globe knew about that Scott Brown lawsuit—and passed...
The Lehman Scandal Breaks Wide Open
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If Democrats do not contribute to the Greg Marx Retirement Fund, midterms will be costly
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Doug Fisher's Blogs
The blog of the Convergence Newsletter at the University of South Carolina Journalism School...
PJ's Cottage - Catering and Restaurant
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A Web log by and for journalism school students - and those thinking of j-school - written by University of South Carolina students....
Community Journalism Interest Group
Dedicated to the advancement of journalists working in smaller newsrooms where the challenges and opportunities often are far different than in larger communities. An interest group of AEJMC....
Media Matters for America - Research Items
Quick Fact: Perino falsely claims health care benefits would take years to start
On March 12, Fox News contributor Dana Perino falsely claimed that people would "not see benefits for four to five years after" the health care reform bill passes. In fact, numerous benefits contained in the Senate bill would become available in the first year after the bill is enacted.Perino falsely...
Glenn Beck has repeatedly attacked the concept of social justice and churches that promote it, asserting that it is "code language for Marxism" and warning that "when you see those words, run." In fact, numerous churches and religious faiths, as well as prominent religious scholars, espouse social justice, including the...
Doocy falsely suggests Byrd opposes reconciliation to finalize health care reform
Fox & Friends' Steve Doocy falsely suggested that Sen. Robert Byrd opposed using reconciliation to pass health care reform, citing comments Byrd made in 2001. However, Byrd recently defended use of reconciliation to complete passage of health care reform legislation already passed by both the...
Applesauce redux: Doocy endorses "treat them like dogs" health care reform fix
Less than two weeks after Rush Limbaugh proposed eating "applesauce" as a solution for not being able to afford dentures due to lack of health insurance, Fox's Steve Doocy endorsed a veterinarian's idea to "fix" health care by "treat[ing] people like dogs." Limbaugh has also cited...
Upping the double standard: Fox now asking if it's "time for Speaker Pelosi to go"
Despite presenting no evidence that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was personally aware of concerns regarding former-Rep. Eric Massa's behavior months before those claims were made public, Fox & Friends hosted a panel on March 12 to discuss whether it's "time for Speaker Pelosi to go." But Fox news figures defended...
Glenn Beck has repeatedly attacked popular music as "propaganda" that is helping to advance a progressive agenda and undermine America. Fox example, Beck warned that Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" is "about a progressive utopia" and that the Beatles' "Revolution" "spell[s] it all out"...
Ackerman Gruber Images - A Visual Duet
Ackerman Gruber Images – Our New Home
Ackerman Gruber Images is the start of something new and exciting for Jenn and I. There’s a level of excitement in starting something new. New expectations and new dreams. In grad school, our friends called us the Grubermans (Gruber+Ackerman=Gruberman). Today, a few years out of grad school, we finally decided to take...
Photographers – The hardest part is starting something.
If you haven’t noticed my blog has taken a backseat to living life. I hate resolutions. I’d rather just act and do what needs to be done. So with that in mind I’ve made a point of making this a year of tangibles. Savoring human interaction, basking in afternoon light, watching the...
I hope you find yourself on the nice list this year and Santa and Rudolph make a visit to your rooftop. Happy Holidays and thanks again for joining me for another year. Further Reading:Hello Married Life (4)On Assignment: The Bahamas (1)Stephen King: On Writing (or in our case photography) (1)Why are you...
A Few Principles To Help With Your Photography
These principles might help in guiding your work. I know they gave me something to think about especially the few below. Read the rest of the principles here at 10 Principles That Might Make Your Work Better or May Make It Worse A few of the principles to get you thinking: 2. Consistent...
I’ve been a huge fan of Twyla Tharp and her use of project boxes for things she’s working on. Here’s a brief primer on the idea from Twyla if you’re not familiar with it: The Project Box. Everyone has his or her own organizational system. I start every dance with a...
Keep this in mind the next time you’re pricing your work. Legend has it that Pablo Picasso was sketching in the park when a bold woman approached him. “It’s you — Picasso, the great artist! Oh, you must sketch my portrait! I insist.” So Picasso agreed to sketch her. After studying her for...
NPR Topics: Media
The New Republic: Rahm Emanuel's Media
With the relatively low profile Rahm Emanuel keeps in articles written about his work in the Obama administration Noam Scheiber wonders just how much influence Emanuel has in the media...
Video Games Hit Former NCAA Stars' Sore Spot
Ed O'Bannon and Sam Keller are involved in two class-action lawsuits against the NCAA and Electronic Arts Sports, so they're trying to make their pain palpable — to the point that it's measurable in dollars....
The 119 Words You Can't Say On The Radio
Tribune Company CEO Randy Michaels has banned 119 "newsspeak" words and phrases from crossing the lips of anchors and reporters at WGN-AM. Wait Wait's Ian Chillag tries to use all the newly banned words in one sentence....
Producer Admits Trying To Shake Down Letterman
Robert "Joe" Halderman pleads guilty to attempted grand larceny in trying to shake down David Letterman over sexual affairs. Halderman's lawyers initially said he was just offering to sell Letterman a thinly veiled screenplay about the comedian's life....
Afghan Officials Balk At Live TV Coverage Of Attacks
Hours of live domestic coverage of Taliban attacks and their aftermath is a new trend in Afghan journalism. But last week, officials announced they were banning any future live coverage of attacks in Kabul. While an agreement has been reached to modify that policy, it's unclear what will happen to...
Italy Convicts Google Execs To Protect Privacy
Europeans are debating the overall reach of the Internet into their lives. An Italian court recently convicted three Google executives for privacy violations after a clip was posted on Google Video showing a disabled student being bullied by classmates in Turin. The ruling highlights a deep trans-Atlantic cultural gap: Americans...
Strange Attractor
Strange Attractor has now permanently moved to charman-anderson.com. Please pop over there to to read and comment on the full version of this post. Thank you! Scorecard ‘09: UK’s Top Regional Papers Have Lost Half A Billion In Sales | paidContent:UK Kevin: Robert Andrews writes: "Total annual revenue at just five...
Strange Attractor has now permanently moved to charman-anderson.com. Please pop over there to to read and comment on the full version of this post. Thank you! From the Ada Lovelace Day blog… There are just two weeks to go until Ada Lovelace Day 2010, and we still have a fair...
Strange Attractor has now permanently moved to charman-anderson.com. Please pop over there to to read and comment on the full version of this post. Thank you! Google’s Hal Varian to newspapers at FTC confab: “Experiment, experiment, experiment!” » Nieman Journalism Lab Kevin: This is a great summary of Google's economist-in-chief, Hal...
Strange Attractor has now permanently moved to charman-anderson.com. Please pop over there to to read and comment on the full version of this post. Thank you! Zooming the news: Is Seadragon a new news interface? » Nieman Journalism Lab Kevin: Joshua Benton has a great blog post on new possibilities in...
Strange Attractor has now permanently moved to charman-anderson.com. Please pop over there to to read and comment on the full version of this post. Thank you! The Public Editor – Journalistic Shoplifting – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com Kevin: The New York Times Public Editor, Clark Hoyt, looks into instances of plagiarism by...
Strange Attractor has now permanently moved to charman-anderson.com. Please pop over there to to read and comment on the full version of this post. Thank you! Newspapers Lose Another Web Guru Kevin: Rusty Coats is a giant in terms of digital and US newpapers, and he has steered digital strategy at...
Here Comes Everybody
Continuing the pattern of readers adding value to books, not just consuming them, My Mind On Books has posted a webliography of Here Comes Everybody, pulling together links from the book with links of more general relevance. "Webibliography" links for......
Great Suw Charman-Anderson piece on pigheadedness
Suw has a great post on social software, failure, and success over at Strange Attractor. She was riffing on something from the cognitive surplus talk -- "The normal case of social software is still failure; most of these experiments don't......
Jay Rosen on Citizen Journalism and Obama's "bitter" comment
Jay Rosen, a founder of OffTheBus, has written a great piece on how Obama's "bitter" comments got picked up by a citizen journalist, Mayhill Fowler, a 61 year old Obama donor who was at the West Coast fundraiser and heard......
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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
(This is a lightly edited transcription of a speech I gave at the Web 2.0 conference, April 23, 2008.) I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian......
Britannica Blog launched a series of posts today on Newspapers and the Net. The seed essay in this case is a passage from Nick Carr's The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google about how the economics of......
Publishing 2.0
High-End Brand Publishers Need to Sell Scalable Premium Ad Solutions, Not Commodity Ad Space
Newspaper online advertising has not benefited greatly from the recent upswing in online ad spending, according to the New York Times and most of the recent newspaper company quarterly results. This is no surprise because most newspaper websites sell SPACE for commodity advertising — display ads and classifieds — and...
Content Doesn’t Matter Without the Package
In response to the launch of Google’s Fast Flip, I observed that Google is correctly focused on creating a new user interface for news, when most media companies are not. A lot of people responded that Fast Flip is not an innovative or effective UI for news — which may...
What Google Understands About the Future of News and Publishing That Publishers Do Not
Google knows a lot about the future of news — more than many publishers. It’s evident in Google’s new product, Fast Flip, which allows news consumers to “flip” through news stories. What’s striking about Fast Flip is that Google is innovating precisely where publishers used to lead innovation. Fast Flip is...
The Briefing: Start at Y Combinator, finish at EveryBlock
It was a busy Monday morning in two corners of the hacker journalist community: EveryBlock is acquired by MSNBC, and Y Combinator announces a “request for startups” to address that whole “future of journalism” question hanging out there in the open air. Want to catch up? Start here: Msnbc.com acquires local news Web...
What I Read Today: Facebook Buys FriendFeed Edition
Why Facebook Wants FriendFeed GigaOm | August 10, 2009 Scott Karp says: Om Malik calls it “the problem of plenty.” Facebook is trying to solve it by acquiring FriendFeed. Will news orgs compete? Facebook Takes FriendFeed To Take On Twitter TechCrunch | August 10, 2009 Scott Karp says: M&A, as always, is driven by startups...
The Briefing: Who’s going to save your URL shortener from extinction?
Yesterday, URL shortener tr.im announced that they’re shutting down. Why? What do you need to know about it? What’s going to happen as bit.ly swoops in to the (attempted) rescue? Are we too dependent on services like tr.im to tie the social Web together? Ten links to answer your questions: tr.im R.I.P. tr.im |...
MediaShift Idea Lab
Freedom Fone Promotes Information for All in Africa
Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) strategies are viewed in many contemporary business circles as the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. BoP refers to the 2.6 billion people who live below the $2 a day breadline and many business strategists argue that if targeted correctly, these consumers...
Top 5 Lessons from the Failure of The Zonie Report
Last week, I wrote a blog post on The Zonie Report (TZR), my Arizona news blog, that I was temporarily shuttering it to spend more time working on CityCircles, a Knight Foundation News Challenge project. Since most of you probably haven't heard of TZR, here's a quick recap of my post:...
Hacks and Hackers: A New Community for Technojournalists, Journotechnologists
Last June, at the annual Center for Future Civic Media Conference, I got to talking with Aron Pilhofer (an old friend, leader of the New York Times news applications team and a Knight News Challenge winner for the DocumentCloud project) about the growing number of people who are now doing...
Printcasting Adds Partners in Philadelphia, Puerto Rico and Perú
Do niche print magazines still have a role to play in the digital age? Media outlets in five different cities around the world are using the Printcasting publishing network to try and answer this question.We've added three partners in two weeks. They are:La República, one of the leading newspapers in...
How Virtual Street Corners Fits with History of Art-Telecom Projects
Below is a guest post from George Fifield, director and founder of Boston Cyberarts Inc., an organization that is a fiscal sponsor of Virtual Street Corners. He and I are working closely together on the project, and here he helps contextualize Virtual Street Corners from a curator's perspective. Fifield is a...
I attended an Ashoka conference in New Delhi yesterday on rural innovation and farming. There were so many new things I realized about agriculture's deep rooted connections with our culture and society and economy that I decided to immediately write about it before the memories weaken. Plus I watched Avatar...
Innovation in College Media
Curated links for March 9, 2010
A few things that have popped up in my RSS feeds lately that might be of interest: Research Dramatizes Changing Practices\: The ever-inciteful Paul Gillin links to some interesting research about how social media is being used extensively by journalists in their reporting (even Wikipedia!). Lots of other substance in the...
YouTube auto-captioning for video
Several people have asked in the past about transcriptions/closed-captioning for video. It's a pain in the butt, but YouTube has just rolled out a promising new time-saving feature called auto-captioning. Like any machine-generated transcription, some words get garbled. But if you have a video that has good audio from an interview...
I came across this story from the Boston Globe about an MIT student whos inventing a new type of wheelchair that is more usable in less wheelchair-accessible areas. The story itself is inspiring, the interactive graphic is interesting, but the video really tells the story of how it works, and...
Here are a few links to some "meta" discussion specifically about blogging - blogs about blogs - that I've come across recently. And all were recommended by one blogger. They contain some excellent advice and tips if you are interested in the topic, or looking for ways to improve your own...
Tagging & subcategories: organizing online content
A major problem with any news site is the search engine. If users have troubles locating a specific story that isn’t a few clicks away, chances are they won't revisit your site. So what’s the best way to please your visitors who want to find that story that never appeared on...
E-Media Tidbits
Danish Magazine Publishes Collaboratively Using Google Wave
One of the big questions in online journalism is how to engage users. A small Danish experiment on Google Wave may provide some hints.In the last 10 years, we have learned that subtle changes in format on the Web can create vastly different products and user habits. Although they're both...
Msnbc.com Uses Slide Show for In-Depth Narrative Story
Like most investigative reporters, the culmination of Bill Dedman's reporting is generally an article or a package of articles. As he worked on his latest project, he collected images and documents that helped tell the story of a wealthy, elderly heiress who owns several expansive homes but doesn't appear to...
Can Informal, Explanatory Videos Increase Engagement on News Sites?
When I look up a word on Merriam-Webster OnLine, I'm usually in a hurry. But I've stumbled across something that could get me to stick around longer.A few months ago, I noticed a video player labeled "Ask the Editor" in the top right corner of the site. It seemed interesting,...
Gearing Up to Build an iPad App? Consider a Mobile Web App First
The iPad is being heralded as both a savior and enslaver for newspapers. It may finally provide the kind of futuristic, multimedia newspaper experience so often depicted in sci-fi. Unfortunately, playing with Apple carries heavy restrictions on what code can be used to build native applications, a significant revenue split,...
News Orgs Challenged in Covering Live Events Like Health Care Summit with Immediacy and Depth
A Flickr image of a dual-screen setup at a Superbowl party this year shows the game on the big screen and a second screen for the Twitter conversation. The headline: "This is the future."Now, let's look at the present: online media coverage of President Obama's health care summit last week....
'Hybrid' Models the Rage Among Execs at paidContent Conference
If there's one thing media bigwigs agreed on in hours of discussion at the paidContent conference in New York on Friday, it's that to make a profit from media you shouldn't ask whether or not to charge for it. Instead you should ask when to charge and when not to,...
News after Newspapers
Google’s Hal Varian to newspapers at FTC confab: “Experiment, experiment, experiment!"
Google’s economist-in-chief, Hal Varian, was the keynote speaker this morning at the Federal Trade Commission’s second round of hearings on the future of journalism. (The study is entitled “How will journalism survive the internet age?” Round 1 was held in December; transcripts and other material are linked here — scroll...
iPad strategies for publishers
This is a white paper based on and expanded from my earlier post on the same topic, prepared for the Digital Publishing Alliance meeting at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri on March 7-9, 2010 iPad is not a linear, incremental development. It’s not a simple...
As a followup to my report on fourth-quarter 2009 earnings reports from most of the major public newspaper firms, we now have earnings releases from E. W. Scripps, A. H. Belo, the Washington Post Co....
The iPad business model for news: Strategies publishers must embrace
There’s been a lot of hand-wringing in the journosphere about what newspapers ought to be doing vis-a-vis the iPad. If publishers adopt their usual defensive stance and take a slow approach, they’ll miss the iPad boat. Or the iPad rocketship, as the...
When revenue is still seriously down, but profits are up, is that good news? The U.S newspaper companies that have reported fourth quarter 2009 results so far would have you believe it is. But based...
Singleton's next chapter: Can he steer MediaNews to a digital future?
In August 2006, as part of a deal that netted MediaNews Group the Contra Costa Times, San Jose Mercury News, and the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the Hearst Corporation agreed to make a $300 million equity investment in MediaNews. At that point, the peak of MediaNews’ company’s expansion and with...
Media Matters for America - Limbaugh Wire
Rush Ridicules Pelosi's Accurate Comments On Benefits Of Health Care Reform
By Todd Gregory Rush kicked off his show citing reports that some members of the media in Greece had walked off the job to join protests over government austerity measures and linked this to his previous discussion about China's order that journalists be trained in communist theory. Limbaugh then briefly read from a report on states delaying...
In Denial: Limbaugh Claims CBO Is "Lying" That Health Care Bill Will Reduce Deficit
By Tom Allison Rush echoes Fox, distorts corrections bill proposal Rush kicked off today's show distorting reports that Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) is proposing a rule to advance health care reform by passing a corrections bill to adopt changes to the Senate bill. In fact, throughout today's show, Rush distorted the proposal,...
Rush Lays Out GOP's Objective to "Defeat Health Care"
By Zachary Pleat At the beginning of his show today, Rush repeated his charge that the Democratic Party is a gulag. He then expressed delight at the continuing problems of retired Rep. Eric Massa and mentioned that Rahm Emanuel was a big topic on David Letterman's show last night. Rush moved on...
By Tom Allison Rush's warning: Anyone who embraces Massa "is in for big trouble" Rush kicked off the today's show reading from an Associated Press story, demanding to be told how a new provision on employer-provided health insurance could be added through budget reconciliation. Rush moved on to complaining that the media...
Limbaugh Promises To "Leav[e] The Country" If His Health Care Distortions Come True
By Zachary Pleat Rush compares health care reform to the Ides of March: "How fitting an analogy" Kicking off his show, Rush said that President Obama's health care speech in Pennsylvania today had "even more lies" in it and that the entire crowd must have been union supporters because the applause was...
Limbaugh In The Oscar Spirit: Health Care Reform Is "The Terminator," And "Sauron Getting The Ring"
By Christine Schwen Rush launched today's Open Line Friday edition of The Rush Limbaugh Show with an old-man-style tirade about the number of switches in his office. No word yet about those kids who won't get off his lawn. Then he launched the "good news" of the February unemployment numbers, saying they would...
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Tribune company attempts to ban "newsspeak"
Randy Michaels, chief executive of US media company Tribune, which owns the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, has banned 119 words and phrases from the troubled media company's talk radio station WGN-AM.He is attracting flak from bloggers in the US, including Robert Feder, but it seems an admirable exercise...
China orders journalists to retrain in communist theory
China wants to crack down on press freedom and introduce a new training system that requires journalists to train in Marxist and communist theories of news.Li Dongdong, deputy director of the General Administration of Press andPublication, told the South China Morning Post that some mainland reporters were giving Chinese journalism...
Who designs for the designers?
Design Week magazine has had a redesign, led by its art director, Sam Freeman. Delicate operation, that. As the magCulture blog notes, if you're a design mag, "your audience always think they know better". There are good galleries of pages at both of my links – but as one of...
More regional newspaper awards cancelled
Press Gazette has confirmation from the Newspaper Society that it isn't doing its Circulation, Editorial and Promotions awards this year – despite the cancellation of the Regional Press Awards. So regional media are going to be missing a day out on the commercial side, as well as editorial. They also...
After the story is over and the journalist moves on, what about those left behind?
A new charity, Journalism Without Borders, has been set up to help the people who find themselves written about but still suffering after the reporters have moved on.The charity's website says: "The idea for journalismwithoutborders.com has grown from the frustration many journalists experience in being asked to cover certain stories...
Variety axes veteran film critic
Hollywood trade paper Variety lays off Todd McCarthy, theatre critic and about six other editorial staffA day after the Oscars, the LA Times reports that Variety magazine has laid off its veteran film critic, Todd McCarthy. The paper's senior film critic, Derek Elley, and theatre critic, David Rooney, are also...
CyberJournalist.net
The latest Pew Internet & American Life Project report, “Understanding the Participatory News Consumer,” examines how Americans are increasingly using their social networks and social networking technology to filter, assess, and react to news. News consumption is a socially-engaging and socially-driven activity, especially online. The public is clearly part of the news process now. Participation comes...
Rob Glaser: Superphones are the future of media
RealNetworks Chairman Rob Glaser thinks that the future of media is in information consumed on “superphones” on the go. In this world he sees five big opportunities: People want digital persistence: They have an expectation that their content will be available everywhere at any point in time. People want universal access to content...
Google: “Online news is…a labor time activity”
Hal Varian, Chief Economist for Google, says, “online news reading is predominately a labor time activity while offline news reading is primarily a leisure time activity. One of the big challenges facing the news industry is increasing involvement with the news during leisure hours, when readers have more time to...
Shorty Awards given for best Twitterers
The second annual “Shorty Awards” were announced Wednesday night honoring the best producers of “short real-time content” on Twitter. Winners included Haitian radio host Carel Pedre, who used Twitter to inform the world about the recent earthquake, and Janis Krum, the ferry passenger who uploaded a picture on...
Seth Meyers jokes about social media
Saturday Night Live’s Seth Meyers shared some great social media zingers on Tuesday night in NYC at a special private event hosted by social marketing company Buddy Media. Some of the best one-liners included: “Magazines are what people used to advertise in.” (via zetgem) “Social media is how a 12 year...
Chart Porn is a cool collection of interesting charts, tables, maps, and interactive data toys — with a focus on economics and graphic design – as the site says, “data visualizations you just gotta love.”...
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Online separation? Newspapers have been there and done that
I was reading Alan Mutter's spot-on Andreessen’s not-so-hot idea for publishers and once again ran across some comments of the "newspapers need to set up separate online operations and give them freedom" variety. Here's the problem: It's been done, over and over. It's being done right now. It's happening in ways...
Why blog and comment spam isn't going away
Every one of us who opens up a website to public conversation faces a daily annoyance: blog and comment spammers. Cleaning up after them becomes a morning ritual. Google, a mix of scammers and legitimate businesses, and global economic inequities all play a role in creating a system that guarantees...
Continuing the participatory revolution
For years I've been pushing the idea of participatory journalism. If you've been thinking this is just theory, some more data has emerged that ought to get your attention: "According to Web measurement firm Compete Inc., Facebook has passed search-engine giant Google to become the top source for traffic to major...
Review: 'Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery'
Let's start with a confession: I don't like JavaScript. I don't like object notation and I don't like programming languages where whitespace (line enders) is significant. I cut my teeth on C, and I am suspicious of any deviation from its spartan truth. I also don't trust power windows and...
Life is change, and we've had some great people change their lives by leaving Morris DigitalWorks to take on new challenges in the Web consulting and development world. We're sad to see them go, but excited when they wind up working on cool projects like Whitehouse.gov. So we're looking to grow...
Blows against the empire: iPad, Chrome, HTML5 and Android
It hasn't been a good month for Microsoft. First Google with its Nexus One, then Apple with its iPad, have highlighted how its empire is in risk of falling, replaced by a new mobile world in which Microsoft is irrelevant. Most revolutions fail because the revolutionaries can't stay united. This one...