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 […]
KillTheCliche.com fell into my rss reader today (via delicious’ most-popular journalism-tagged links). It’s an idea I wanted to do myself, but, well, in the war of ideas many fall victim to Mr. Not-Enough-Time’s axe.
Anyway, Kill The Cliche measures cliches in articles from The Boston Globe, New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Financial Times […]
I read another baby-boomer hand-wring piece about the way newspapers used to be on the San Francisco Chronicle’s website tonight. It got me up enough to register for the site, click the activation link in the email and write a comment.
This is what the lady wrote:
Sure, the Internet is a wonderful place to be. […]
Last November I mentioned Foamee, the ‘Twitter Piggyback’ web site / service that allows you to keep track of beers you owe people.
Well, there’s another Twitter Piggybacker (hat tip to Adam Howell for the term and the link), this one with a local information bent: Commuter Feed. To quote,
Commuter Feed is a free service that […]
Ken Otterbourg, managing editor of the Winston-Salem Journal (where I was working before I came to Denver), has a tale of an awesome photo of the lunar eclipse that a reader submitted:
A reader submitted that photo, which looks great. But, when the photo editor was readying it for print, well, the image told a different […]
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 […]
December, December, December 2007. This is what people were clicking on off my reading list from December.
F*cking programming: “Granted access to billions of lines of code and the awesome power of Google’s search technology, I did what any rational, thinking programmer would do: I typed in some profanity and hit enter.”
Paid Content on the Web […]
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 — […]