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 […]