Month: April 2007

  • Forget televised, the revolution is already on video

    Not convinced news video is really big right now instead of sometime from now? If Google buying YouTube wasn’t enough to convince you the audience is there, Andy Plesser has the tipping point in some internal CNN stats: CNN online video clips of news surrounding the Virginia Tech shootings totaled 11.4 million views on Monday,…

  • Just for “A Little Good News”

    After a week of tragedy at Virginia Tech, it would be nice to have a world like the lyrics of the country song, “A Little Good News:” There’s a local paper rolled up in a rubber band One more sad story’s one more than I can stand Just once how I’d like to see the…

  • Newspapers catching the “viral craze du jour”

    The Newspaper Association of America’s girl in the know, Beth Lawton, has done a look at newspapers with a presence on Twitter. Just a handful of newspapers are using Twitter, including knoxnews.com. I have a list of the ones I know about. Lawton has a good overview of Twitter, some of the Web applications being…