Will Ping break Apple’s Reality Distortion Field?
Dave Winer says Apple is ill-experienced at listening to customer wants or needs. I don’t think they ever have, and it’s starting to show.
On pandas, lobsters and apps that rock both.
Adam Rifkin argues that Google looks at solving every problem with search while Facebook and Twitter are cleaning up the social realm. He’s probably right, but today it’s easier than ever before to have a toolbox full of all the best stuff and to whip out the right app for what I need right now.
With quality information, everything else falls into place
Give ‘em what they want. And what they want is solid information.
App is the new Web. Yeah, but whose app?
The notion of information wanting to be free changes depending on how you define “free.” Free as in “no cost,” or free as in “no boundaries?”
The end of publishing? Not exactly…
Think it’s all over for publishing? Not if you look at it in the right perspective. Here’s a great video that helps.
An iPad strategy is only as good as the information flow
Calls for community newspapers to have a strategy for the iPad are misguided — unless they’re really suggesting a whole new way of gathering and presenting information.
Attention as a resource
What are readers who ask for full RSS feeds really telling you? John Gruber says it’s that they want to pay more attention to you and share you with their friends.
Revamp: Making home improvement easier
Introducing Revamp, a targeted niche product designed to teach contractors how to use the social Web to their benefit and create a deeper relationship with newspaper advertising customers.
Got multiple calendars in print? Make a go-and-do column instead.
Sometimes making a connection with a networked, busy reader involves simply tweaking the process of news to fit a modern lifestyle: those with a “If news is important it’ll find me” kind of approach.
Video: So now you’ve overthrown the tyranny of reporters. Now what?
Watch me at IgniteCorvallis II talking about some ideas for local news and why I think the best time to be a journalist is right now.
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