Newspapers have a significant opportunity to enhance their coverage. It’s called context, and it’s information that helps readers make better decisions and observations about the news and their community. The internet makes it possible to dynamically build context for the news that newspaper-dot-coms publish, which can make news matter more.
Much of news aims at the […]
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It’s cute that the Post wrote a story about its new ‘hyperlocal’ effort (
In Push for Local Readers, Post Unleashes LoudounExtra.com). But, in an article clouded by links on a page cluttered with them, nowhere is there a link to the site-in-mention, LoudounExtra.com.
Now I’m not saying everybody oughta be perfect. But, with one of the […]
Here’s a list of handy ideas newspapers are using or could use to save that all-important dough. I pulled these from personal experience and observation.
Got elevators? If your newsroom isn’t on the first floor, odds are you’re taking an elevator to get to it. Every second spent in the elevator is a second not […]
Backfence, the hyperlocal startup that couldn’t, is closing its doors. Some newspapers continue testing the interactive online-community waters. What’s the big picture here? “Action.” The action-oriented internet. One thing the internet does well is make previously difficult actions much easier. Newspaper-dot-coms haven’t quite clued into this, which is why articles are still the primary way […]
These are the links from my reading list that got the most clicks in June (along with any notes I wrote on the link, or sometimes a quote from the linked article).
The Elements of Interactivity: lines and relationships: “Nineteenth-century mathematicians discovered to their discomfort that as the conceptual machinery of mathematics became more precise, it […]