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...
“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
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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...
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...
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...
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.
Fortunately, the Web 2.0 Bust isn’t technically a financial market bust in the way the dot.com bust was, or the way the stock market is. The 2001-02 dot.com bust was a classic market collapse in which widows and orphans lost...
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...
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....
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,...