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Gee, you think a network effect would work on the Internet
My reading of this is Jay Smith believes in the network effect and sees that as one of the remaining opportunities for newspapers. Below is an excerpt from an email from retired Cox Newspapers chief executive Jay Smith to former Rocky Mountain News Editor John Temple that Temple posted with permission on his blog. While…
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Local video content sharing continuing to spread
Pooling video resources among competing TV stations has come to Dallas. Barry Shlachter of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram takes a look a month into local video sharing in that market Participating are Fox’s KDFW, NBC’s KXAS and Tribune Co.’s KDAF. (KDFW and KXAS also agreed in January to share a helicopter.) “Three or four years…
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Multimedia with soul
Lido Vizzutti takes a look at an Ohio University student journalism project, Soul of Athens. Pretty good stuff. The “about” page describes the project as: Soul of Athens is an innovative online publication that studies the contrasts of this Appalachian county through a collection of timeless stories and multimedia presentations. The project gives voice to…