Archive for the 'Participants' Category

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 […]

9 things I hope newspapers figure out about the internet in 2007

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

This list is aimed at online newspapers and the newsrooms that love them.

“Local” means it matters. Take advantage of it.
Newspapers harness and print tons of information. Do more with it.
There’s an amazing amount of information available in the community. It’s time to harness it, and then reward the community for participating.
If you’re not interacting with […]

Prediction 2007: Newspapers will have to open up

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Number 5 on a list of predictions from a iA, a multinational information architecture firm (and makers of this interesting 2007 interweb map): Newspapers will have to open up.
This is what they write:
What we experienced in 2006 was just a first round in wild independent journalism. The newspaper will learn to integrate their readers and […]

What happens when industries are slow to adopt the internet?

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Newspaper-dot-coms aren’t living up to the promise of the internet. Yeah, and I don’t live up to plenty of my promises either. Big whoop — but, big difference. Unlike me, there’s a newspaper in every city, a newspaper that most residents of its community can name. It’s a commonly-known product, and the longer the lag […]

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