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July 1
Newsknitter News Knitter converts information gathered from the daily political news into clothing. Live news feed from the Internet that is broadcasted within 24 hours or a particular period is analyzed, filtered and converted into a unique visual pattern for a knitted sweater. The system consists of two different types of software: whereas one receives the content from live feeds the other converts it into visual patterns, and a fully computerized flat knitting machine produces the final output. Each product, sweater of News Knitter is an evidence/result of a specific day or period.

Newsknitter

News Knitter converts information gathered from the daily political news into clothing. Live news feed from the Internet that is broadcasted within 24 hours or a particular period is analyzed, filtered and converted into a unique visual pattern for a knitted sweater. The system consists of two different types of software: whereas one receives the content from live feeds the other converts it into visual patterns, and a fully computerized flat knitting machine produces the final output. Each product, sweater of News Knitter is an evidence/result of a specific day or period.

June 9

Long a leader in creating and publishing original and stylized video journalism, the Washington Post is educating a large number of print journalists in how to use video cameras. Some 185 staffers have been trained, according to Chet Rhodes, Assistant Managing Editor for News Video at the washingtonpost.com Canoncam Further, the paper is providing low cost Canon HF 100 video cameras to several of its staff photographers. (via Beet.TV: The Washington Post Has Trained 185 Staffers in Videography….Ballmer Tells Post Editors Print will be Gone in 10 Years

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June 5
“ Here’s an idea for newspaper website homepages — just a search box and a list of blogs. Seriously. Instead of putting all the web-native content and publishing in the blog ghetto, like NYTimes.com does, why not make that the WHOLE site? (I mean seriously, having a blog section on the website is like having a section in the paper for 14 column inch stories.) via Scott Karp, Publishing 2.0
June 1
New York Times Embraces Link Journalism - Publishing 2.0

The New York Times has certainly embraced blogging, but it was striking to see in this post from The Lede just how much they’ve embraced link journalism
May 21
“ To the degree we’re only trying to protect existing business, we’re toast,” he said. “All we’re doing there is staving off the inevitable. We’ll be dinosaurs sentencing ourselves to extinction. News Corp. president + COO Peter Chernin
May 20
“ Newspapers, Mr. Abrams said, have had a tendency to respond to competitive threats with bluster, followed by half measures. The industry has been crippled by an “appalling” aversion to aggressively implementing new ideas. “I look at it as a creative batting average, where if you have 100 ideas and 70 fail, you’re in the hall of fame,” he said. “Historically, newspapers have been too scared to bat.

Lee Abrams, Tribune Co. VP Innovation

via Ad Age 
May 2
Recession? Not in the Advertising Business

The advertising business (of all things!) is actually benefiting from the painful spectacle of the traditional media landscape fragmenting into shards. The internet is continuing to oust broadcast TV, print and radio from their once-secure position as the automatic repository for ad dollars, and the complex environment that’s been rattling the advertising and media industries could actually function as an economic buoy during these hard times.
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“ This is something that people in the media world don’t understand. Media in the 20th century was run as a single race—consumption. How much can we produce? How much can you consume? Can we produce more and you’ll consume more? And the answer to that question has generally been yes. But media is actually a triathlon, it ‘s three different events. People like to consume, but they also like to produce, and they like to share. from a speech by Clay Shirky
April 28
Cloud Computing. Available at Amazon.com Today

Key in your Amazon ID and password and behold: a data center’s worth of computing power carved into megabyte-sized chunks and wired straight to your desktop.
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The birth of open source advertising: Please spread the word

A colleague of mine at Columbia College asked me about an article he recently read claiming that the Obama campaign was the first organization to perfect the use of “open source advertising.” more @ advertising for peanuts …