Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.
Check out the redesigned Placeblogger a 2007 Knight News Challenge winner.
The aggregation-by-location niche seems to be blowing up lately, especially as startups try to hitch their maps to the iPhone’s wagon, but Placeblogger feels like real live humans are writing blog posts in real live places. I like that.
via the Knight Foundation Blog.
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Happy Election Day-After!
I’m still up to my neck in post-election analytics, gathering stats and data from hundreds of news sites I work with to do a little postmortem on what worked, who learned some new tricks, and what the readers thought of it.
One of the things we put together here at GateHouse for Election Day [...]
Guy Kawasaki and his friends at Alltop have been building a series of cute little aggregators a la popurls that are full of headlines from a set of hand-picked blogs submitted by people who pay attention to Guy and friends in places like Twitter.
Myself included.
And so, you’ll find Invisible Inkling listed now at both socialmedia.alltop.com [...]
Three years and two days ago, I got Scobleized.
The highlight of Robert’s informal talk was when he plugged his tablet into the projector in a packed room at the SJSU/MLK library and showed us his aggregator.
It was Bloglines at the time, not that it mattered.
I was blown away by the amount of information — and [...]
David Weinberger describes the unbundling of media in clear terms:
“I’ve been saying for a while, and I think in Everything Is Miscellaneous, that the new front page is distributed across our day and our network. Much of it comes through our inbox. It consists of people we know and people we don’t know recommending items [...]