It’s Sunday, and talking heads say maybe it’s time for papers to panic… one quote that struck me from that article was the Charlotte copy editor who said “We are all just kind of stuck in that old model and we haven’t figured out how to get out of it yet.”
Advice is cheap, and man […]
For valentine’s day, for love, and for the lack thereof.
Valentine’s Day: Before the 14th
Got plans for Valentine’s Day? ( No, and I’m not making any / No, not yet / Yes / Yes! / I don’t know / I don’t care )
How many Valentine’s Day cards are you writing? ( 0 / 1 / 2 […]
I started writing this post Monday, and in the meantime Adrian Holovaty’s Everyblock site launched, which is all about answering the “where” part of information.
It’s funny — I was talking with my coworker Doug today about how newspapers forgot to ask how the “Who / What / Why / Where / How” questions change when […]
These a a few local internet / hyperlocal web app ideas that have been stuck in my head:
How The Locals Fared: I went to Portland in December for the holidays, and I was leafing through the sports section of the Oregonian when I ran across a column of agate titled “How The Locals Fared.” In […]
Online news organizations have plenty of opportunities to launch new products that build on their information, build on their community, or launch distinct information. Many of these products will be useful … not all of them will be successful. For newspaper-dot-coms not sure where to start, I recommend building an app on top of a […]
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 — […]
Hey, you never know, the World Series could come to your town next.
World Series: Before ticket sales start
What’s the most you would pay for a single World Series ticket? ( I wouldn’t / $50 / $100 / $250 / $500 / $1,000 / $2,000 / $5,000 / More than that / I don’t know / […]
First off I’m giving a shout-out to Foamee, the site that helps you keep track of beers that you owe people. It’s not grand, it’s not big, it’s not going to change the world — it’s just small and it’s fun.
There are two sites worth thinking about that do local and do small well: SignalMap […]
Laura Carlson is a familiar name in my inbox. I’ve been reading the Web Design Update for at least five years, and Laura’s the one that puts that email together every week. She works for the Information Technology Systems and Services at University of Minnesota Duluth. The email keeps me up with what’s going on […]
Google announced this week it would allow people mentioned in news articles to address misquotes and add information to those articles. I wouldn’t call this a shot across the bow of newspapers, because Google’s been firing at local papers for a while. This would probably affect mid- and large-market newspapers the most (according to […]