Cell Journalist, the vendor for our photo/video sharing site, launched a free iPhone app to upload photos into im.knoxnews.com. It started showing up in the App store of iTunes on Sunday. Learn more.
There’s been a lot written about the lessons of President-elect Barack Obama’s “Triple O” Internet campaign for marketers, but little on lessons for media and journalists. But that’s about to change because the Carnival of Journalism is rolling into November...
Industry execs convene to discuss crisis. Some suggestions offered to the attendees: Act like an entrepreneur; stop thinking first about why a new approach won’t work. Create a portfolio of initiatives; recognize that some will fail and kill those quickly....
Thursday was the college signing ceremony for our son, Mark, at his high school. We experimented a bit using a new Nokia N96 cellphone to stream video to Qik. Worked well except it’s hard to shoot video, take photos with...
The above is the short version of the Michael Rosenblum speech to the Society of Editors. The speech has deservedly created a lot of viral buzz and blogging and if you’re just stumbling upon what he said, listen to the...
From conglomerates to internet ventures, executives should be planning now on a decline of up to 40% in advertising spending during this cycle. Instead they’re sleepwalking into economic extinction–even those lean online ventures which were supposed to take up the...
Kara Swisher at WSJ’s BoomTown has a new HD Flip video camera.
“The more Flips we have; the more fun we have.”
Spot.Us - Community Funded Reporting Intro from Digidave on Vimeo. Dave Cohn has officially launched Spot.Us, a Knight News Challenge project in “community-funded journalism.” It’s sort of a Kiva.org for journalism. One of the buzzwords being used around the effort...
Annette Moser-Wellman at Northwestern University recently did a telphone interview with me on my thoughts about a local news organization’s roles and, uh, the underwear problem. She writes: So whether it’s news, information or someone else’s news and information, serving...
Former N.C. Gov. Jim Hunt is being mentioned among a handful of others as a possible education secretary in the Obama administration. He would be a good choice.