Here’s the problem with most news: it isn’t. It’s olds. It happened hours ago, or last night, or yesterday, or last month, or before whenever the deadline was in the news organization’s current “news cycle”. It’s not now.
So sayeth Doc Searls inspired by Dave Winer’s news feed experiments.
Here are Winer’s New York Times keyword index [...]
Here’s a grab bag of miscellaneous media news:
The Association of Public Television Stations (APTS) is joining the Open Mobile Video Coalition, taking the group from 281 stations to 422 stations, the coalition said last month.
The association promotes the use of broadcaster’s ATSC system for mobile video. The new members join Belo, Fox Television Stations, Gannett [...]
USAToday’s Social Network Experiment May Not Be Paying Off, says TechCrunch.
When USAToday relaunched its site in March as a social network around news, I and others thought it was big news.
They integrated Pluck’s new Social Media Suite, a group of social networking products that a number of high profile news sites have adopted. Overnight, [...]
Newspaper chain Gannett, has launched free local mobile news sites to complement its newspaper websites. The service spans across some 84 daily newspapers and 19 broadcast station websites, including USA Today.
Users can access Gannett’s mobile news sites by simply adding an ‘m’ before the newspaper’s regular URL (ie: http://m.tennessean.com or http://m.usatoday.com/) or by texting [...]
Right here, right now, there is no other place I want to be,
Right here, right now, watching the world wake up from history.
– Jesus Jones (audio)
The NY Times has an update on e-Books today. The International Digital Publishing Forum, a trade group for sellers of electronic books, estimates that retail sales of e-books grew to [...]
OpenAds is one of the most interesting open source projects/companies on the planet, says C/Net.
It’s an open source ad server. Like Doubleclick without the lock-in or fees. In other words, open source. 100% GPLv2. I guess it should be no surprise that the world’s most popular ad server, powering Web [...]
Here’s great idea from Design On Deadline.
The news window measures 14″ by 11″, which is the approximately screen dimensions of a standard 17″ monitor. A mini Mac drives it. Just about any computer can run a slideshow.
With AppleScript, Scott Walker, Assistant managing editor, The Birmingham News trained it to get the daily news.
Spectra-txt, [...]
The 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winners were announced today. The Portland, Oregonian, won a 2007 Pulitzer for The Kim Family Saga, for breaking news.
Kenneth Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling and Rick Loomis of the Los Angeles Times got one for their reports on the world’s distressed oceans. Here are List of winners with citations (pdf).
DailyWireless has More [...]
Szell!… Szell!… Szell!
– Marathon Man
Sam Zell is going to lose billions on newspapers and the Washington Post has no idea what they’re talking about, says Jason Calacanis.
Witness this quote [in the Washington Post]:
“If all of the newspapers in America did not allow Google to steal their content, how profitable would Google be?” Zell said during [...]
How does DailyWireless keep up with wireless news and trends? It’s no mystery. We use the same newsreaders, search engines and blog news trackers that everyone else does.
One key advantage — we read LOTS of trade publications.
We LOVE trade publications. DailyWireless subscribes to more than a dozen. We also spend hours reading [...]
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