Thursday, April 10th, 2008
My friend Jason emailed this story to me with this introduction: No Kidding. The piece examined how editors and reporters viewed their online communities, and as you might expect, the readers didn't exactly agree with the crafty journalists. There are two basic findings: editors don't want anonymous message ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Web 2.0 (I hate that name) is all the rage these days. Everyone is rushing out to build their blogs, their vlogs, the Tweetlogs, lifestreams and Tumblogs, but there's been on very important component that's missing: organization. Parsing information from the never-ending fire hit-and-miss at best. I have RSS ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
The New York Times and Google created a mashup tool that allows The Times' reporters to geo-locate their news on Google Earth. This idea is very cool, so I want to make sure this post doesn't come off as pooping on the innovation, particularly since I don't think news ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
The Internet Advertising Bureau has a series of studies on its site that track the local ad market throughout the last few years. There's loads of information, but the one fact that stood out: the local online advertising economy was expected to sustain local papers and television stations. By ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Jacqui Cheng, who I tried to stalk in Chicago and SXSW along with the rest of Ars Technica staff, has written a piece about changing attitudes with online advertising. The premise: people are aware that they are being tracked, they get annoyed when that tracking leads to poorly targeted ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Well, I took a day off to attend the Cincinnati Reds Opening Day (loss) Celebration. Now we're back to news about journalism. A VC firm has funded a news aggregation service for journalists. The company, Publish2, is the latest in a series of human-search oriented websites that remove technology ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
This sent along from Chris Graves at The Cincinnati Enquirer. There's a new website launching that will cover global news. Of course, it's funny that they don't list the URL -- but I guess that's just an oversight.
A group of veteran foreign correspondents, including The Boston Globe's Charles M. Sennott ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
This panel will look at the closing gap between gossip and news as inspired by the social media, where information shoots around the Internet at the speed of Twitter. This should be interesting, as I have one friend on the panel (Heather Gold), Twitter founder Evan Williams and Valleywag managing ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
There's been a smattering of talk at SXSW about mobile devices, but I suspect that next year we'll be hearing much more. The reason: when mobile computing gets geo-location chips -- as most companies believe will happen next year -- suddenly the flow of information gets very interesting.
When phones track ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Imagine if you had a journalist, connected to lots of really important people in their field...particularly people who blogged, Facebooked, MySpaced...or whatever.
Even better, what if you found the people who did those things even if they weren't the most prominent people. You just found passionate people and collected them in ...
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