Scott Karp (yes, he’s my boss over at the office) is more fascinated than I am about Google’s new FastFlip, but he’s wisely focusing on the fact that it’s an experiment with a new user experience for online news, and not implying that it’s something poised to Save Journalism.
Scott’s latest post on the topic argues [...]
All about unbundled-media
Repackaging the unbundled
September 17, 2009
Carnival of Journalism: Are we asking the right questions about online revenue models?
January 19, 2009
As is my habit, I’m running behind on my Carnival of Journalism post this month, set to the timely and tuneful whistles and bangs of talk about whether a newspaper’s online revenue could support the newsroom, how long the newspaper of record will keep the press running, and what a major metro in a failed [...]
Newspapers: Vanishing faster than you think
September 29, 2008
Philip Meyer, author of The Vanishing Newspaper, in AJR:
“The town crier’s audience was limited to the number of people who could be assembled within the range of an unamplified human voice. Printing changed everything. It made the size of the audience theoretically limitless and, by the creation of multiple records, enabled more reliable preservation of [...]
10 blogs your newspaper needs to rip off
March 12, 2008
I’m making a short list of frequently updated news blogs published by mainstream news organizations that post breaking news and link out to other sources.
If you run a newspaper.com and you don’t have a blog like this to put together links and short updates, ask yourself why not.
These are all great examples of blogs that [...]
Alltop is Popurls for everything
March 10, 2008
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 [...]