Written by amedeo on December 19th, 2007
Hazy, fumbling vision of the future #9,321:
A single journalism organization covering many topics in a general fashion splits into many smaller journalism organizations, each specializing in a single topic and covering it in depth.
Information holders in positions of power receive interview requests not from tens of general journalism organization but from hundreds or thousands serving small, highly [...]
Written by amedeo on December 14th, 2007
TwitterMail turns e-mail into your Twitter command center.
But when will it allow me to e-mail posts to all of the micro-blogging services by working with HelloTxt.com?
I’m extremely/incredibly/moreandmoreadverbs happy to say I landed a Web producer job with the International Herald Tribune. I can’t wait to get to work…in Hong Kong!
Written by amedeo on December 14th, 2007
If any of you have some coding chops, I challenge you to create a journalism-inspired Web app with AppJet. Let me know of your creation and I’ll link to it. Here’s a note-taking program in AppJet’s list.
Services like these incline me to think that it’s not just content that will be remixed on the Web, [...]
Written by amedeo on December 13th, 2007
Jonathan Harris executes more amazing work with his latest creation, The Whale Hunt, a Flash documentary about the Inupiat Eskimos’ 1,000-year-old tradition of whale hunting.
The inventive interface, functioning like an emotional EKG, displays 3,214 photographs taken over 7 days in ways that allows you to identify and explore mini-narratives within the overarching narrative of the [...]
Written by amedeo on December 12th, 2007
Edgeio, which enabled purchases for individual pieces of content at the point of interaction with the content, and which I wrote about, is shutting down.
It’s worth pointing out, though it’s perhaps obvious, that relying upon the myriad, flitting, unproven and delicate (does that capture a butterfly?) micro-monetization services is not wise. This sentence should have [...]
Written by amedeo on December 11th, 2007
Sign up for Persai, a “news aggregator specific to your interests” that will “find new content relevant to that interest and recommend it to you. Recommendations are based entirely on content; other users’ feedback has no bearing.”
Read Persai blog post explaining the service.
See Persai tracking Facebook news; see Persai tracking Apple news.
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As machines [...]
Written by amedeo on December 11th, 2007
A lazy man’s work: the MoFuse mobile version of newsroomnext.
Go ahead, make your own (after you get up from that nap) at MoFuse.
Pay $6 a month and you keep the ad revenue.
I know I’ve read about a million other Web site services doing the same thing, but I can’t recall…wait, let me check my Google [...]
Written by amedeo on December 5th, 2007
Though I enjoyed Bill Richards’ vision of a profitable e-paper newspaper (via E-media Tidbits), the deeper issue was not discussed: flesh-eating extraterrestrials.
Let me explain.
If a newspaper’s content is compelling or useful enough, people will buy it no matter what format it comes in.
Making a digital viewing experience more comfortable by putting a newspaper on a [...]
Written by amedeo on December 4th, 2007
Problem: You have a usable interview but the talking head threatens you with boredom.
Solution: Find your b-roll on YouTube using iDesktop.tv, which adds an amazing interface on top of YouTube’s content. Look in the lower left-hand corner. See that down arrow? Click on it. Then choose what format you want your b-roll in. Import to [...]
