Journalism, Technology, History

Got any video of Mark Cuban before he was famous?

Like I said before, Mavs owner Mark Cuban would make an interesting newspaper owner. The link above deals with the advertising/revenue model for newspapers. On Saturday, he delves into newsgathering, the newsroom and RSS feeds.

Stirring the Pot

We launched a real nice cooking video feature today. Online Editor Jigsha Desai did the heavy lifting and it stars food editor Mary Constantine. Take a look. What, no samples? Tags: food cooking video

NewTeeVee

Om Malik’s new blog NewTeeVee will be must reading. I’ve already discovered “praying mantis girl” and Kent Nichols’ Ask a Ninja. Maybe, NewTeeVee will discover the Randoms, whose weekly video features are gems on KnoxNews.com. They rock – every week....

Magazine Web sites lack 2.0 goodness

A Washington, DC, PR firm has done a study that finds that newspapers do better than magazines in terms of new fangled web functionality.

Hooking up shoppers and sellers

Scripps-owned Shopzilla is in the news in a New York Times piece on a trio of upstarts who hope to challenge the current big players in comparison shopping sites (Shopzilla, Shopping.com and PriceGrabber). The article boils down to a business...

Watch the game film and learn ....

The news about newspapers is so bad that now the industry looks like the fish wrapper for what not to do. Pat Coyle, director of Database Marketing & E Commerce for the Indianapolis Colts, suggests the NFL learn from the...

Mark Cuban says put this play in ...

The never-without-an-opinion Dallas Mavs owner Mark Cuban has some insightful ideas on how newspapers could strengthen their position of “owning the sale and delivery of advertising in your market.”

Out back in the garage, we have a little ...

Howard Owens is on target in a post on “Video killed the television star” on video strategies for online newspapers. If innovation and disruption come from small startups (or startup-like operations) who come out of nowhere with a product that...
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