January 2010
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The obligatory iPad-publishing roundup
Everyone is arguing over whether the iPad will save newspapers and magazines. Below are some interesting stories on this topic. My take? First of all, we haven’t yet seen how newspapers or magazines will revamp their content and advertising strategies specifically for this device. Will the new experience appear in a browser? An app? A weird enhanced file format I don’t even know about?...
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Books and piracy: Are publishers the new record...
I was lucky to attend a morning session of the Digital Book World conference this morning, and I caught a very eloquent and compelling speech by Brian Napack, the president of Macmillan publishers. A pretty rousing call to action for book publishers to get off their asses and combat piracy.
But I wonder: the record labels have had very limited success fighting pirates, so why would book...
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“Why comedians have turned on Jay Leno and joined #teamconan. Great essay:...”
– WSJ
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Flickr is the greatest community art project ever
I’m enthralled with the murals of the Mission. Recently a fancy, heavy, expensive coffee table book came out that collected all the murals into a single volume. But since I was feeling a little inspired today, I went to Flickr and searched for “Mission, Murals, San Francisco”. This slide show depicts the results of that search. Flickr is a living, breathing, evolving work of...
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A much-needed upgrade to Google realtime search →
In times of breaking news or crisis (think Haiti), Google’s realtime search is very valuable. Its interface streams updates without page refreshes and there’s no need to install a plugin or app as many Twitter clients require. Plus, this search tool comprises Tweets and webpage updates, which is very helpful for tracking what’s going on across the ENTIRE Web from users, bloggers...
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The imaginary wall between new and old media
I just read Steve Buttry’s brief treatise on a much-needed transformation in journalism, specifically on the idea of C3: Complete Community Connection. Basically, he advocates (as does Jeff Jarvis) that newspapers need to reinvent themselves as vehicles for improving and reflecting their communities. They cannot see themselves as publisher’s of one-day throw-away content. It’s...
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WatchNYC Resistor is a Brooklyn based group of “hackers for good” who take apart and rebuild everything from high tech hardware to knit goods and paper. Founded by a group of friends who wanted a place to tinker with electronics and meet like-minded nerds, NYCResistor has blossomed into one of the country’s most influential hacker spaces, and created a small DIY empire.
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“Google Docs Ratchets Up Flexibility With Files http://bit.ly/6Lbr5R”
– gigaom
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WatchHehe, love this quote from Howard Mittman, publisher of Wired: “As the publisher of a magazine, I’m not necessarily in a few years going to be competing with magazines; I’ll be competing with broadcasters, with newspapers, with websites…”. The future is here, Howard! They are your competitors today!
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The death of corporate websites: Top 10 ways they... →
I enthusiastically endorse this post by @simonmainwaring. Not like anyone’s scrambling for my endorsements, but hey, it can’t hurt!
What do brands need to do to succeed? Conversation, listening, caring, and committing to a set of values that consumers can respect. Do they need these things to survive? No, I was about to write that, but I’m not sure it’s true. But really,...
Michael Kinsley and the length of newspaper...
People are abandoning print newspapers because the articles are too long. That’s what journalist Michael Kinsley says in The Atlantic. Here is his opening paragraph: “One reason seekers of news are abandoning print newspapers for the Internet has nothing directly to do with technology. It’s that newspaper articles are too long. On the Internet, news articles get to the point.” It might be more...
The annotated world and hyperlocal via @jeffjarvis
Sent to you via Google Reader The annotated world Tweet: A view of our annotated world: Hyperlocal is what’s around me and how I search that There are eight million stories in the naked city and soon every one of them will be available on your phone through visual, aural, and geographic search and augmented reality in our newly annotated world. Every address, every building, every business has a...
