The men’s soccer team lost to Argentina, the women’s soccer team lost to the U.S., the beach volleyball team lost to Dalhausser and Rogers. And that was just the beginning. Brazilians are so upset with the performance of their teams at the Olympics that they hacked the Brazilian Olympic Committee’s Web site, forcing the organization […]
As news industry conferences go, this is the good one. The right-brainers who attend SND’s annual designfest have managed to make newspapers and websites around the world more interesting and accessible, even as their left-brainer publishers screwed up a coupla good mediums. Somehow, the creative class has remained enthusiastic about the future. SND is sharing […]
It took a thousand years to build a 4,000 mile wall to keep the foreigners out of China. Its taken just a few days for the World Wide Web to teach the Chinese to count. The We Media movement has thoroughly exposed the confusion, dare we say cheating, by the Chinese to qualify a world […]
The Transportation Security Administration, those dashing functionaries at airport security, starts implementing “checkpoint-friendly” bag policies this week that will allow notebook computers through those scary x-ray machines without being removed from their case. But to qualify as “checkpoint-friendly,” a bag must have a designated notebook-only section that unfolds to lie flat on the X-ray machine […]
Congratulations to Jonathan Dube, formerly of MSNBC and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., and newly named VP of ABCNews.com. Dube is also president of the Online News Association, an organization for journalists working in online media, and publisher of CyberJournalist.net.
Aggregation of news headlines and user ratings is so commonplace it’s hardly worth a second thought. Except, that is, if you’re interested in the business of news, or in improving the way we experience and act on news. Common as they are, headlines remain the bedrock of online news, so we see a continual flow […]
The Huffington Post rolls into Chicago tomorrow to save journalism from the Terrible Tribune Co. Arianna says she’s got a great blog post from actor John Cusack, an ode to Chicago that a fact-checking local reporter found to have “more errors than the 2006 Cubs.” Tribune innovation chief Lee Abrams not only sees the Chicago […]
What’s the purpose of journalism, media, art – or communication of any sort? Your goal may be to build a business, or to prevent one from crumbling. Both are tough and worthy goals. But are they a purpose? Here’s a purpose: help an anorexic woman tell her friends about her disease; or raise $500,000 for […]
Mark the date: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at the National Press Club in Washington. The Knight-Batten Symposium and Awards for Innovations in Journalism provide a glimpse into projects that use new technologies to engage citizens in public life. Some may emerge as models for news and journalism into the future. The four finalists: Ushahid.com: Citizen […]
Reporter: If you could’ve found out what Rosebud meant, I bet that would’ve explained everything. Other reporter: No, I don’t think so; no. Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn’t get, or something he lost. With the curse of memory, a current […]
So I finally set up a Facebook account. Thirty-four friends so far! Not a bad start, eh? Only 830,125 to catch Michael Phelps. I have him at a disadvantage. His Facebook page broke today with 7,600 pending requests. I’ll be his friend, but I won’t beg.
Just when you or your favorite school teacher thought there was no way in hell the English language could survive the abomination of text message shorthand, aka textese, a British linguist has thrown a bucket of cold water on the world’s SMS malcontents. David Crystal writes in his new book, Txtng: the Gr8 Db8, that […]
Adrian Holovaty is the news industry’s favorite techie, even as he develops a kind of news that is changing the newspaper game. EveryBlock, his latest project funded with a $1.1 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, enables citizens to create a profile of their own neighborhood by utilizing […]
Whose photo is it? Boston.com runs a Getty Images picture from the Beijing Olympics on its The Big Picture. Pass it on. Update: WSJ’s photo blog, which went hiding following the flap, has been renamed Photo Journal and can be found with difficulty. Director of Photography Jack Van Antwerp Director of Photography offered an explanation, […]
The academy for journalists in St. Pete plans to unveil its redesign, nine months in the making, later this week. Cleaner, yet still busy, the site changes to more horizontal navigation and provides access to Romenesko from all pages. It looks like Poynter has also added personalization tools. Online director Bill Mitchell describes the changes […]