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.
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.
Associated Press DRM gets there the hard way. Wherever ‘there’ is.
Have you seen AP’s new “protective format” for tracking and charging for links? I most certainly don’t understand how this is supposed to work. For that, have a look at Steve Yelvington’s excellent post. But the convoluted diagram does remind me of other ‘inventions’:
Maybe a little market research would do Apple some good
Steve Jobs says Apple doesn’t do market research. If that isn’t bull it’s foolish.
Adding value to print by letting online be its own animal
Why not make the Web operation into one big beatblog about the mid-Willamette Valley and break away from duplicating print and online?
A promise to update with new initiatives
I’ve been a little slow about posting here, for a variety of reasons (mostly that we bought a house that has required a significant amount of work — and so when I don’t have a paintbrush or wrench in my hand, we’re asleep). But after Carlos Virgen mentioned some new initiatives in Walla Walla, I [...]
Taking lessons from Internet ubiquity and radio
Chris O’Brien has a great report on the steps NPR has taken to be leaders — not just in radio, but journalism itself — and how that has translated into a culture of innovation in the organization. Among some fascinating stats (26.4 million weekly listeners, 38 foreign bureaus, $1.5 million in digital storytelling training) O’Brien [...]
NewsInnovation Portland resources
We’re right on top of NewsInnovation Portland and I’m really looking forward to meeting some great folks, forming new partnerships and coming up with some great plans for moving forward with news — not as an industry necessarily, but as journalists and consumers. At any rate, we’re all but sold out (1 ticket remains at [...]
Launch a blog and plug a really cool event
I’ve been tweaking this blog for a little while and it’s not quite there, but I really wanted to get out there and talk about BarCamp NewsInnovation-Portland this weekend. If you haven’t heard, it’s a chance to get a group of technologists, programmers, web developers, designers, hackers and information architects together with journalists, entrepreneurs, students, [...]
Excellent flood coverage at CR Gazette
Shame on me for reading it first somewhere else, but my eyes were glued to Web coverage of Iowa flooding by the Cedar Rapids Gazette. My friend Jason Kristufek heads up the paper’s Web efforts, and he’s been doing them proud. From a map-enabled display of stories as they were breaking (sorry, no link) early [...]
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