Ryan Sholin

Tag: unbundled media

  • I don’t care what journalists are reading; I care what they’re writing

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    Scott Karp and friends (and those are some pretty smart friends) are up to something interesting, but I sure as heck can’t tell what it is based on a rambling post at the new publish2.com. It sounds like something that’s supposed to clean up all the doubling and overlapping of social networks the media blogger…

  • Why shoot newspaper video?

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    Have I been over this ground before? Not sure. I think I’ve thrown around some adoption steps for newspaper video, and I’ve spouted all the necessary YMMV caveats for news organizations of varying resources. But here’s the deal: Not so far in the future, you’ll be sitting in a conference room trying to show a…

  • Meta notes: Where to find my microchunks

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    If you get the feeling I haven’t been writing here as much lately, you’re right. But I’m still out here, reading everything I can get my hands on and throwing up links left and right.  They’re just not always where you’re expecting them, eh? So then, if the meager postings to Delicious you find on…

  • Find yourself a nice comfortable niche and sell it like blueberry pancakes

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    Did ya catch that headline? Don’t sell it like hotcakes, sell it like blueberry pancakes. Be specific. Let’s put that another way: Don’t be an international news service that decides it wants to appeal to the demographic of roughly 18-30. Sell to a niche, not a demographic. Local moms are a niche; Women are a…

  • Hope for mobile news

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    I’ve gotta admit, when it comes to the question of newspapers adopting new delivery systems, I’m usually the one wagging my finger and saying “You better…” But John Duncan over at The Inksniffer has a far more hopeful approach when it comes to the prospects for cutting deals with cell phone carriers and getting headlines…

  • Will the real online news business model please stand up?

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    Terry Heaton’s take on the Yahoo/Amigos deal and other attempts to make up for lost print revenue with online advertising dollars turns on this point: “…the essential problem for all local media companies is their insistence in the belief that a model of scarcity online will generate the kinds of revenue needed to offset losses…

  • Newspapering in an Unbundled World – Steve Outing

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    Can I just get Steve Outing’s E & P columns posted straight to our newsroom bulletin board? Best takeaways here: Get Flickr, YouTube, MySpace accounts for your paper and post to them often. Newspapering in an Unbundled World – Steve Outing

  • BusinessWeek RSS Generator

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    This is awesome. It automagically creates an RSS feed for the search term you choose. I’m now subscribed to everything my old friend Roben Farzad writes for BusinessWeek. Shouldn’t every publication have one of these? The Annotated NYT had some of thi BusinessWeek RSS Generator

  • Don’t get wrapped up in the ‘so-called pajama media’

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    In this wide-ranging interview with Bryan Murley of Innovation in College Media, Gatehouse Media’s Howard Owens points out what I battle through in conversations with both journalism school faculty and students over and over again: ICM: Which leads a little bit into my next question … The online media universe has been changing dramatically over…

  • Exclusive: Inside The Venice Project, Built On Mozilla – NewTeeVee

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    Keep an eye on TVP – this is going to be a disruptive television-show-sharing technology – Kazaa for TV, to be exact. And a lot faster than BitTorrent, I presume. Legal issues? They’re working on it… Exclusive: Inside The Venice Project, Built On Mozilla – NewTeeVee