Studying the intersection of journalism, interactive communications and public discourse
The following is an examination of mobile products offered by two traditional news organizations. The New York Times Mobile The New York Times is the benchmark for news media organizations in terms of depth of content, audience reach, and elegance of design. The newspaper’s mobile products are no different. The Times’ mobile site drew 500,000 page …
Mobile news is versatile, immediate and portable, and if formatted and designed properly, can be just compelling as a news web site or a printed newspaper. The audience for mobile news is mainly a new audience. It is not the same people who prefer traditional print news. Individuals who subscribe to print products are shrinking …
Podcasting is gaining ground as a viable information delivery channel for news organizations. Back in 2004, when podcasting first hit the personal technology scene, most traditional news organizations foundered with the new technology. Some either put too much effort into producing and distributing podcasts with less than profitable results, while others chose to ignore the …
Handheld devices have become useful tools for mobile computing. With the expansion of wireless Internet availability, people increasingly want to be able to browse the web from their handhelds. But on most cell phones, the small screens are unable to convey the richness of web content. That is, until the iPhone. The iPhone is a …
My job as an online editor at a traditional newspaper company involves a lot of convincing…that is, convincing print journalists to rework their content so it is not just “on the web” but “of the web.” Same can be said of designing content for mobile media. Content should be tweaked to take advantage of the unique constraints and …
Yes, I text. My friends. My family. I text privately when talking is inappropriate. I text when I don’t feel like having a long conversation. I once dated this guy who preferred to communicate a lot by text. The relationship didn’t last very long because, in part, the communication remained really shallow. How much can you really say in …
Just before the end of 2005, programmers Chad Hurley and Steve Chen launched a simple, social website that allowed anyone with an Internet connection to upload video clips and share them. Within a matter of months, YouTube.com had become a phenomenon–recognized as one of the fastest-growing websites in the world. Some 100 million video clips …
“The invention of the Weblog has shoved journalism into a reformation, perhaps a revolution,” wrote Joseph Rago, an assistant editorial features editor at the Wall Street Journal[1]. The majority of blogs on the Internet are simply personal web sites — sites that exist because blogging software is free, readily available, and automates much of the …
A powerful new model has emerged within the economics of e-commerce, observed Chris Anderson in his 2004 Wired magazine article, “The Long Tail.” [1] Today’s consumers have highly-individualized tastes that include more than just mainstream fare. With the help of foresighted, all-inclusive online retailers, people are getting what they want: offbeat movie rentals from Netflix, …