First, an announcement from the Department of Holiday Offerings: Happy Thanksgiving to you, you U.S.-living internet reader. For you other-country folk, well, no turkey.
Yesterday Flickr announced Flickr Places — new indexes for what looks like just about every place / city / town / state / province / country (but not neighborhood, yet — […]
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 […]
We’re talking about progress on the internet? The product newspapers offer up online these days could barely be described as marginally better than the product three years ago. Steve Outing gives newspapers a B-, which is generous enough to keep newspaper-dot-coms thinking maybe if they do blogs better and new video each day then they’ll […]
Steve Yelvington, a big name in the online journalism world, wrote last week about many programmers’ unnecessary desire to reinvent the wheel with every new gig. Near the end of his post he writes (emphasis added):
Vernor Vinge’s notion of the “programmer archaeologist” really is about discovering what’s already out there, and placing it into valuable […]