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 November 29th, 2007
With some creative use of your Web cam, Seesmic might provide another means of quick info updates from breaking-news scenes. Webware reviewed it.
Here’s a part of the service’s description that indicates the Web is becoming your Web site, my favorite song:
Users can link their Seesmic account to a Twitter account, if they have one, and [...]
Written by amedeo on November 26th, 2007
The challenge for librarians (from PVLD Director’s Blog found via Everything is Miscellaneous):
A fundamental shortcoming of the library catalog is that it doesn’t (and as currently designed can’t) know the why for any given search.
The folks at Bibliocommons understand this dilemma and are finding real, practical ways to harness social networking concepts to transform the [...]
Written by amedeo on November 23rd, 2007
Information experience micro-culture is my somewhat academic attempt to create a term encapsulating the rituals, behaviors, expectations and experiences involving humans and our interactions with information, which includes the concept of story, one way of many (and one of my favorite ways) to organize data.
Why this is important: To make long-term, effective decisions about serving [...]
Written by amedeo on November 20th, 2007
Google grabs a patent for producing printed publications from Web content [via Dan Blank, Online Journalism Blog and TechCrunch].
This puts a damper on the idea that journalism organizations could chase after a Web tool allowing customers to assemble news and information into custom books that could be printed, much like many recipe sites allow brave [...]
Written by amedeo on November 20th, 2007
Seamus McCauley (Virtual Economics) offers a perspective on consumer/user-generated content through the lens of a book, This Other Eden, by Ben Elton. Here’s an excerpt of an excerpt from the book that McCauley pulled:
“The public always had the technology to get involved with the action if it wanted to. Right back to the Greeks. All [...]
Written by amedeo on November 12th, 2007
This Dow Jones gizmo, “an application programming interface that allows financial institutions to integrate real-time news and data into their automated trading systems,” is a handy conceptual map: Get relevant news to people whenever they broach a decision about how to spend their time, money, attention or any other measure of a resource.
Maybe this would [...]
Written by amedeo on November 9th, 2007
In the comments following this Portfolio story about Facebook’s new ad platform (is it legal?), SmartGuyStocks makes this statement:
But Wall Street and Silicon Valley get carried away thinking that every time you get eyeballs it’s worth zillions — not if people are averse to ads during certain activities. We are still in [...]
Written by amedeo on November 6th, 2007
Watch the gorilla on influx insights or click on “read the rest of this entry” at the bottom of this post.
Ah-ha:
1. Your content will be remixed whether you like it or not. Do you want to be involved or not?
2. Enabling remixing (for example, by providing software tools, supplying raw footage and data, teaching media [...]
Written by amedeo on November 1st, 2007
Choices: 2007, 2006, 2004, 2002 or 2001.
Answer is here, but read the article’s excerpts below and, after evaluating how far the media industry has come, see if you can guess:
Figuring out the right way to send the right message to the right person at the right time is difficult work. It is also [...]
