Archive for the 'Features' Category

Filters / Information

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Thought: There’s information, and there are filters for that information. Online newspapers have focused on what new information they ought to publish online — it’s worth a harder look at what new filters can be created (like this or this).
On a tangent, yesterday I pitched three categories for the information we’re displaying on the Denver […]

May’s most-popular links: Social social social social porn porn porn blog blog community

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

These are the links from my reading list that got the most clicks in May (along with any notes I wrote on the link, or sometimes a quote from the linked article) … there’s a four-way tie for the fifth slot, so all are included.

A billionaire’s guide to stopping “theft” of your online newspaper content… […]

April’s most popular links: making local work, late-night dumps, innovation quick, slow descents, and daily papers vs. weeklies

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

These are the links from my reading list that got the most clicks in April (along with any notes I wrote on the link, or sometimes a quote from the linked article):

Turns out it’s tough to make local work on the Web: “Whoever can get this thing right—there’s a lot of money there,” says Josh […]

March’s most-popular links: Hair, maps, windows apps, web stats and charging for online news

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

These are the links that got the most clicks in March (along with any notes I wrote on the link, or sometimes a quote from the linked article):

Lifehacker Code: Texter (Windows): “Text substitution app Texter saves you countless keystrokes by replacing abbreviations with commonly used phrases you define.”
How the world really shapes up: Maps […]

Question: How have online publishers innovated with local community?

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

Each time I see that last question I wrote I dislike it more. Out with bad ideas, in with new ones (and give the new ones a couple weeks until they’re allowed to be called bad).
This question aims at the idea that newspapers are in a unique place online. No other legacy medium publishes so […]

February 2007’s Most-Popular links

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Heh, meant to do this a while ago… if you read Joe Think by RSS then you probably don’t know about the online news reading list I keep up. I use Furl.net for it, and one of the cool parts about Furl is it tells you how many clicks each link gets (side note: Google […]

Question: What’s the lowest-hanging fruit for local news sites?

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

There’s plenty of work to be done on the local web. There’s a lot of potential in local / hyperlocal news. What’s the lowest-hanging fruit on the local news site? (Sure, this depends on the situation / market / tv-radio-newspaper angle, but there are plenty that are way too applicable to all)
Here’s one I see… […]

Question: What do you wish your local online news source provided

Monday, November 20th, 2006

So, this is one of the conversation-building projects on this blog: The Open-Ended Question. While it may be optimistic to hope for much response here, being a new blog that’s not even read by my parents (yet), the wonder of blogs is that you can answer this question a month or a year from […]

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