Written by amedeo on October 31st, 2007
1. Information gatherer
New, original information consistently wins attention. This is the person making the phone calls, attending the meetings, digging through the records and translating data into a story.
2. Information networker
An information networker reformats information (including performing additional reporting) in order to make it relevant and acceptable to audiences on social networking sites (here [...]
Written by amedeo on October 30th, 2007
A remixed quote of a quote from Jeff Huber, Google’s vice pres. of engineering (via TechCrunch):
What we see is applications customer attention fundamentally changing. Just like the model for content changed from monolithic news sites trying to trap customer attention, now applications are attention is going to be feeds and containers.
A lot that you have [...]
Written by amedeo on October 27th, 2007
The more social networking sites that spring up, and the more that sites enable contributions from their audiences (news outlets accepting comments, for example), the more I wonder how to publish a successful network instead of a single site.
The challenges/solutions to creating a network publication, which I define as your content published on sites hosted [...]
Written by amedeo on October 25th, 2007
Mogulus, still in beta, enables folks to stream, mix and add polish to live, networked (meaning multiple people with Web cams can simultaneously contribute) video reports that pull in content from the Web or local resources.
Why this matters beyond being a cool gizmo to turn everyone into a networked anchor/producer:
Mogulus treats the Web (or, at [...]
Written by amedeo on October 24th, 2007
Click2Map, though it costs a bit to get the more advanced features, may end my hunt for the perfect map-making service (here’s my test map).
Yes, personalized Google maps are free, but can they do all of
this:
RSS feed of updates to map. Oh, my. My. Drool. What we have here are the beginnings of a mlog [...]
Written by amedeo on October 23rd, 2007
OrlandoSentinel.com’s “The Write Stuff” blog covered the space shuttle launch with an approach built for the Web: rapidly released, highly focused, simply presented micro-content that builds complexity and a fuller story over time.
In a world without limited resources, it would have been great to:
Have the videos broken into smaller, shorter pieces that could be [...]
Written by amedeo on October 23rd, 2007
My hopes for hyper-focused news and information sites took a beating when I read the lament of an independent filmmaker on The Long Tail. Here’s a quote:
I create and produce “paddlesports” content. Canoes and kayaks. … My reality as a content creator and producer is that it is basically not possible for anyone in [...]
Written by amedeo on October 21st, 2007
BugMeNot efficiently bypasses the registration process that, quite mysteriously (I can’t recall giving legitimate, useful info during a registration process), some new sites still require in order to view their content (via makeuseof).
Once again, your customers are in control of their Web experience. Try to force them into behaviors that are convenient to you and [...]
Written by amedeo on October 20th, 2007
NoteStar, enables teachers (and why not journalists) to lead information acquisition, verification and generation around topics of their choice.
If it seems too simplified, check out Wetpaint, a wiki creation service. Here’s a video tutorial on using it from Common Craft.
I’ve mentioned this before, but why not set up a public account with one of [...]
Written by amedeo on October 19th, 2007
The question is what to do with those TubeMogul analytics. How do you monetize? YouTube seems to prohibit the inclusion of ads in your videos. Partnerships? Will there be a YouTube News, the video version of Google News, or will Google News start pulling in video snippets?
Speaking of partnerships, here’s what happens when you [...]
