Written by amedeo on April 17th, 2008
I. Social: You are what you know and remember, and what others know and remember about you.
Forming groups of like interest / coordinate connections
Being in the know / personal topic guidance
Creating self-identity / ascribe values to information choices
Forming opinions / critiquing service
Sharing information (conversation, e-mail, clippings, recordings, etc.) to [...]
Written by amedeo on January 25th, 2008
EveryBlock, from ChicagoCrime.org’s Adrian Holovaty and crew, fishes local info ponds and databases to create a new standard for the required depth of neighborhood news/information aggregation providers.
Why I like it
Making raw data made much more accessible is good journalism.
It finds and beautifully displays info from government reports (good source material for deeper stories), an aspect [...]
Written by amedeo on January 21st, 2008
Rather than having 50 million sacks into which you must stuff your data (from personal information to media and more), DataPortability wants the framework for one big sack that brave Web travelers can carry with them wherever they digitally go.
If/once such a structure takes hold on a mass scale, figuring out how to make money [...]
Written by amedeo on January 7th, 2008
Founded by veterans of the mobile industry, MizPee provides user reviews and locations of toilets (news you can use) in numerous cities.
Once you’ve settled upon your spot, you can use the same site to browse product deals (let’s call it consumer news) in the area.
MizPee is one of several inventions of YoJo Mobile, which describes [...]
Written by amedeo on November 21st, 2007
Creating embeddable, audio versions of stories with Web-based software
A drama in 5 acts
1. Read Emily Chang’s mention of vozMe.
2. Play with vozMe and plug in some Shakespeare.
3. Use Emily Chang to track down a free way to host an MP3 on an external site and play it with an embeddable player.
4. Use BoomMP3 to [...]
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 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 5th, 2007
Does Attributor mean news organizations can build value with their content no matter where it ends up on the Web?
A screenshot of Attributor finding your content on another site:
This post’s path: New York Times > Editors Weblog > Newsroomnext.
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 17th, 2007
Hubbuzz helps people find apartments and understand the character of neighborhoods they’re evaluating during a move.
If Hubbuzz wanted to work with news providers, it would be a good spot to publish hyper-local news because:
Its users would be interested in neighborhood news that helps them make a moving decision.
It would benefit Hubbuzz by giving its users [...]
