Posted in media, tagged innovation, media on June 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A lot is being said about the recent news of Rob Curley leaving Washington Post Interactive and heading to Las Vegas after what appears to be an experiment in local news and information that, to date, has failed.
For an industry already full of depressing headlines, this one probably hurts the media industry ego the most [...]
Posted in media, tagged coders, innovation, journalism, media on June 3, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve been out of the game for a while, but starting to get back in the saddle. To help get me started again here are some interesting links I’ve read in the past few days that are worth sharing.
Here’s the latest from Lee and Sachi LeFever at CommonCraft, who explain social media in plain English.
Here [...]
Posted in media, tagged change, fired, innovation on May 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Will Sullivan wrote a post giving several pieces of advice to new journalism graduates and one stuck with me that I think is also equally important to those who currently work in the media industry.
The one that hit home is this: You should really be trying to get fired. That’s right. You should be pushing [...]
Posted in media, tagged innovation, jason, media, medici on May 21, 2008 | No Comments »
I recently visited some friends in Oregon and had to stop at the famous Powell’s Bookstore in Portland. While I was there, I came across this book called “The Jasons: The Secret History of Science’s Postwar Elite” by Ann Finkbeiner and, of course, had to pick it up and buy it just on the name [...]
Posted in Web 2.0, tagged innovation on May 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
On Wikipedia, chronocentrism is defined as the belief that a certain state of humanity is superior to all previous and/or future times.
At the Web 2.0 Expo recently, Scott Berkun, an author, teacher and public speaker on creative thinking and innovation, defined chronocentrism as being prone to focus on the present and overstating the value of [...]
Posted in innovation, tagged change, innovation, media on April 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m in a struggle and I think I have found a quote that sums it up. It comes from a recent post by Yoni Greenbaum on his Editor On The Verge blog.
. . our newsrooms and online operations are being overtly influenced by dinosaurs who are content with seeing their employer struggle and fail and [...]
Posted in innovation, tagged community, innovation on February 12, 2008 | No Comments »
I can’t resist writing about this. Recently I have been checking out the web site of this company, Hornall Anderson.
A blog post on the company’s web site by Laura Jakobsen just hit me today. This company hires people who definitely “get it.”
Jakobsen writes about the infamous wedding dance video where a couple dances to a [...]
Posted in media, tagged innovation, media, newspapers, online on February 11, 2008 | No Comments »
A new standard may have been set when it comes to the time it takes to implement an innovative idea in the online journalism world.
Scott Karp has a post, The Pace of Innovation in Journalism, at Publishing 2.0 that argues that time is now 48 hours.
On the web, with cost of technology so low (or, [...]
Posted in media, tagged CMS, Drupal, innovation, new media on February 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It turns out there is a blog about newspapers using the Drupal content management platform. I’d really like to do a project on the platform and I am wondering if anyone out there has any advice on that to get me started.
On that same topic, Steve Yelvington wrote a post about a guy in Belgium [...]
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