“News is the stuff we put around the advertising.”—Quoted by so many people in news and advertising no one remembers who said it first
Yesterday a group of journalists of varying experience and expertise got together to do something about advertising. That’s right: News people were proposing ideas for making money.
The one-day sprint, Revenue 2.0, took [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Making Money, Mobile
Tagged: #rev2oh site, advertising, David Kordalski, Kristen Novak, Matt Mansfield, Patrick Cooper, rev2oh, revenue, Revenue 2.0, SND
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- March 22, 2009 – 11:09 pm
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- By Chrys
As news organizations, watchdogs and voters prepare for the Super Bowl of politics, it seemed like a good idea to survey what will be online for Nov. 4.
Some sites will start their coverage early. Already, the massive, all-volunteer Twitter Vote Report has been logging and mapping voting problems and good experiences.
Most complaints so far have [...]
Categories: Data + Graphics, General Journalism, Maps, Mobile, Photojournalism, Social Media, video
Tagged: election, election08, interactives, photos
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- November 3, 2008 – 11:52 pm
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- By Chrys
Starting Friday, journalists and researchers from all over will gather at Georgia Tech for Journalism 3G: The Future of Technology in the Field.
Though there hasn’t yet been a lot of discussion on the group’s CrowdVine site, a look at the member list shows a wide swath of interesting minds and movers who are pushing online [...]
Categories: Data + Graphics, General Journalism, Mobile, Social Media, Tips & Tools
Tagged: conferences, innovation, netJ, technology
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- February 20, 2008 – 11:14 pm
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- By Chrys
Ryan Sholin at Invisible Inked is looking for bright spots that redefine news.
He’s started a list that shows some creative Web executions. Several commenters have added sites of their own. For example:
Beatblogging.org, which launched during last year’s Networked Journalism Summit at NYU. A group of reporters and bloggers use it to incorporate community into [...]
Categories: Data + Graphics, General Journalism, Maps, Mobile
Tagged: innovation
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- February 20, 2008 – 12:51 am
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- By Chrys
Mobile is the next big thing for news organizations, but not everyone has the time or manpower needed to create a site that looks good and works on all, or at least most, phones.
Google to the rescue.
DownloadSquad points out that anyone with an RSS feed can create a link for Google Reader’s mobile site by [...]
Categories: Mobile, Tips & Tools
Tagged: google, yahoo
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- February 3, 2008 – 4:11 pm
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- By Chrys
The Times Online has a new ad campaign touting its revamped mobile site.
I pointed my cell phone browser to www.timesmobile.mobi, but so far I’m not impressed. It’s just one clickable banner ad at the top plus a list of links and linked headlines and a few fingernail-sized photos. (Ooo. “Fingernails.” Perhaps I’m coining a new [...]
Categories: Mobile
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- December 13, 2007 – 11:18 am
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- By Chrys
Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter announced it has partnered with Nokia to launch the world’s first newspaper phone.
The device, known as DN-Mobilen, is a Nokia 6120 classic 3G running the Symbian OS. Subscribers pay $31 a month for a calling plan and unlimited access to the newspaper’s website.
Though Europe is ahead of the U.S. in cell [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Mobile
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- December 12, 2007 – 3:22 pm
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- By Chrys
Dev.mobi offers free downloadable chapters of graphic designer Cameron Moll’s new book, Mobile Web Design.
If you’re developing a mobile strategy, this might be worth checking out.
Curious about Cameron’s work? Read his four-part series on mobile web design from 2005.
Categories: Mobile
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- November 29, 2007 – 12:16 am
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- By Chrys