Journalism, Technology, History

Seven ways to get lucky with innovation

This month’s host to the vagabond Carnival of Journalism, Will Sullivan, posed a theme for our musings: What are small, incremental steps one can make to fuel change in their media organization?   (Yes, we’d all like to swing in...

Still looking for our best shots

“I think they’re still trying to do a big mistake and that is imitate old time TV … We haven’t got to the point where we are reinventing TV and video.” – Jeff Jarvis (via Beet.TV)

The transformation continues ...

It doesn’t take a Cray Jaguar supercomputer to figure out journalism is changing, but we used one anyway. OK, I know I look like an idiot, but these are the things we do these days to add value to our...

New study finds reading blogs doesn't make journalists stupid

In fact, there’s evidence, at least among journalists that blog, that journalists are getting story ideas and spotting trends from “that one.” That is among the more interesting data that is beginning to come out of Paul Bradshaw’s analysis of...

The currency markets of news

In a Friday post, Dan Conover writes about “10 reasons why newspapers won’t reinvent news.” It’s an interesting list, but I found more provocative his answer in the comments to the question of what can be done: Newspaper companies should...

Flip HD

Coming: An HD Flip camera by Christmas. It’ll be interesting to see how the Flip camera  folks keep their easy of use and low price point in an HD model.

The "newspaper effect" at eBay

Chris O’Brien: They had a legacy business (auctions) that once made them dominant, but was now falling out of favor among consumers. Despite the obvious warning signs, executives repeatedly refused to fundamentally re-examine their core business model. They made a...

Seismic activity and volcanic eruptions

The Innovator’s Dilemma for newspapers is that while they must radically adapt to the changing media landscape and the economic realities of an economic downturn, a sizable number of loyal print readers aren’t ready to turn the page with them....

Psst ... Mahalo has been getting interesting

Mahalo, which launched as a beta site at the first of the year, was derided as no match for Google’s algorithms with its “human search engine.” (Click on image to see a larger version of the screen shot.) Turns out,...
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