July 2008
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June 2008
3 posts
WatchLong 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...
“Here’s an idea for newspaper website homepages — just a search box and a list of...”
– via Scott Karp, Publishing 2.0
New York Times Embraces Link Journalism -... →
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 2008
4 posts
“To the degree we’re only trying to protect existing business, we’re...”
– News Corp. president + COO Peter Chernin
“Newspapers, Mr. Abrams said, have had a tendency to respond to competitive...”
– Lee Abrams, Tribune Co. VP Innovation via Ad Age
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...
“This is something that people in the media world don’t understand. Media...”
– from a speech by Clay Shirky
April 2008
26 posts
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.
The birth of open source advertising: Please... →
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 …
Seven Habits of Highly Connected People by Stephen... →
How We Use Twitter for Journalism - ReadWriteWeb →
(via bijan)
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Is Keyword Search About To Hit Its Breaking Point? →
As the Web swells with more and more data, the predominant way of sifting through all of that data—keyword search—will one day break down in its ability to deliver the exact information we want at our fingertips.
“I’d like to know what the Internet is going to look like in 2050. Thinking...”
– from an Esquire interview with Vint Cerf
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll...”
– Howard Aiken quoted by Paul Graham in “Why There Aren’t More Googles” (via fred-wilson) (via didyouevernotice)
“The Internet is decomposing into a vast array of micro-services that we, the end...”
– excerpt from a post by venture capitalist Fred Wilson
video of Rupert Murdoch's speech at Georgetown... →
Welcome to the 'Syndicated Video Economy' →
Recent developments in the broadband video marketplace are pointing to an emerging and significant trend: the early formation of what I would term the “syndicated video economy.” In other words, I’m seeing more and more industry participants’ strategies — in both media and technology — start from the proposition that the broadband video industry will only...
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Microsoft Threatens to Go Hostile on Yahoo →
Microsoft says Yahoo has three weeks to negotiate a decent deal, after which time Microsoft is going to get medieval on its ass.
WatchClay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, on the Colbert Report
“Journalism is not dependent on newspapers for its survival. It existed from the...”
– from an Editors Weblog interview with Abdul Hamid Ahmad, Editor-in-Chief of Gulf News, based in Dubai.
“And the rise of continuous partial attention means that information is starting...”
– from a post by Bobbie Johnson , technology correspondent at the Guardian
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Google to lay off 300 at DoubleClick →
Google is laying off about 300 employees in its newly acquired DoubleClick ad business, according to a source familiar with the matter … Also Google says it is splitting up Doubleclick’s Performics business unit into two - search marketing and affiliate marketing - and will sell off the search marketing part.
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Vodafone CEO: The mobile Internet is here →
If Apple’s iPhone has taught the industry anything, it’s that people do want to access the Internet on their phones. And they want it to have the same look and feel that they’re used to on their PCs at home.
““We have one certainty: we can never be sure where the industry will end...”
– quotes from a Rupert Murdoch speech at Georgetown University, live-blogged by FishbowlDC
“Founded in 2005, YouTube now accounts for a third of all video viewed on the...”
– YouTube ‘rape victim’ arrested - web - Technology - smh.com.au
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Blogonomics: 'I Don't Know What My Salary Is' →
Jeff Bercovici has already picked up on the mini-tantrum thrown this morning by Valleywag’s Jordan Golson. Valleywag, of course, is part of Gawker Media, which pays its writers on the basis of how many pageviews they get. But that “pageview rate,” or PVR, gets reset every quarter. Jordan doesn’t know what the new quarter’s rate will be, which means he doesn’t...
Watchpromo for BBC iPlayer video service from the Core77 Design Blog
The newspaper industry has experienced the worst... →
Dire situation! Papers dump movie critics →
“Hi **** and ****
I have had 3 agencies phone me in the last hour to say that...”
– So who fell hook, line and sinker for the above then? :):)
March 2008
11 posts
Google Docs works offline now →
TED | Talks | James Nachtwey: →
I was lucky enough not only to see James present in Sydney but then to host 2, 1 hour one on one sessions with him afterwards. A very cool experience and a very cool, but slightly scary guy.
Shareaholic - The browser add-on extension to... →
As a VERY lazy person, I like this tool a lot.
randomonium: superamit: Steve Jobs on Why...
WatchAstronomer Clifford Stoll talks at TED 2006 about all sorts of things but mostly learning.