Lots of people have made this point, but Matthew Hurst has pictures to show us how it works. At his blog Data Mining, Hurst uses the posts about — and links to posts about — the Reuters photo of smoke columns above Beirut to show how a story gains prominence in the networked information economy. [...]
How did they do it? Hartsville, South Carolina, is a small town in the southeastern United States, with a local newspaper (The Messenger) that is published just two days a week. In 2005, Doug Fisher at the University of South Carolina got a New Voices grant to work with The Messenger and the community to [...]
Am I the only person who thinks this does not make sense? (Read the background here and hear it here, via RealPlayer, if you have it: Today, BBC Radio 4, Aug. 25.) Fewer people are buying your product. So what should you do? Apparently, some are saying you should raise the price. I suppose the [...]
The International Herald Tribune slung some ink at Netvibes a couple of days ago, a week after the startup got a $15 million cash infusion. IHT reports that the site claims to have 5 million users registered. I’m always curious about a new site that promises to help me manage news feeds and other information [...]
From Mermigas on Media, Aug. 22: The jury is still out on whether any of these publishing scions, including Tribune Co., Dow Jones, the New York Times, E.W. Scripps, and Gannett, can make a successful transition into an electronic information age with their editorial legacies intact. … Scripps is succeeding where Tribune is stumbling. Scripps [...]
Sometimes I get very excited when I find a new Web site that I expect to be useful to me for a long time. That happened yesterday when I came across Flashstreamworks. (1) They have a free FLV player that you can download and use, as is. That means that if you have some FLV [...]
Sometimes a simple infographic tells the whole story. With absolutely no need for animation. In this case, the graphic that ran in the print newspaper was perfectly good for use with the story online. Journalism organizations need to encourage their graphics department and their online producers to think about this, to think graphically for every [...]