Once in a while, I take a look through some of the links I’ve been saving, sharing, and publishing in the sidebar of my blog, Twitter, and a few other places, and try to scrape the pixelly cream off the top to immortalize (until the links break, anyway) a little bit of the Web, hung [...]
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Carnival of Journalism: Five positive predictions for new media in 2009
December 21, 2008
For this month’s Carnival of Journalism, Dave Cohn is asking for positive (if possible) predictions for the new media world of 2009.
How about 5?
Mobile video streaming goes mainstream: Probably tied to disaster/breaking news reporting from non-professionals, a la 9/11 blogs, the YouTube tsunami of 2004, Flickr bombings of 2005, and the livetweeted siege of #Mumbai [...]
Next Newspaper
February 26, 2008
Funny thing about the newspaper business.
If you’re interested in innovation, you find yourself constantly trying to demonstrate the present to people with their feet (and desks, workflow, and hierarchy) planted firmly in the past.
And while The Future of Newspapers mostly gets ink for being bleak, the future of news does not blink, or miss a [...]
The word Kindle makes me think of burning books
November 18, 2007
All branding aside, the oncoming launch of Amazon’s e-paper device essentially begins the practical discussion about e-paper in earnest.
Books are a neat trick, but I’m pretty exclusively thinking in terms of the future of newspapers here.
Things to pay attention to:
EVDO: This device has ubiquitous Internet access when in cell range. That’s good. [...]
Why I love the Internet
May 20, 2007
Because shortly before our daughter arrived, I ordered a webcam from Amazon. It was here when we got back from the hospital, and it took about 15 minutes of setup to start streaming video via Skype to four grandparents spread across North and South America.
The only hard part? Not scratching myself wrong in the [...]