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 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 […]
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 […]
Backfence, the hyperlocal startup that couldn’t, is closing its doors. Some newspapers continue testing the interactive online-community waters. What’s the big picture here? “Action.” The action-oriented internet. One thing the internet does well is make previously difficult actions much easier. Newspaper-dot-coms haven’t quite clued into this, which is why articles are still the primary way […]
The title is misleading: an article is never enough. There are plenty of fun and useful things to be done with information now that we’ve got the internet, and displaying a bunch of paragraphs and maybe a photo or two is quite meager.
There’s been some talk on the web about the failings of the article […]
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 […]
Daylife.com is a new news aggregator … big whoop, right? Well, there’s something worth looking at here, and it’s how they organize their information. Instead of a bunch of lists of stories on their top stories index, they publish:
A quote from some newsmaker,
A photo-thumbnail index of the top people in the news,
A photo-thumbnail index of […]