Los Angeles Times Editor James E. O’Shea message to its 940 journalists: begin viewing latimes.com as the paper’s primary vehicle for delivering news. He is staging a massive reorganization of their editorial focus and structure, with the following elements: Create the new position of ‘editor for innovation.’ Launch an “Internet 101” course to teach reporters,… Continue reading Newspapers: News & Revenue Moving Online
Newspapers: News & Revenue Moving Online
Los Angeles Times Editor James E. O’Shea message to its 940 journalists: begin viewing latimes.com as the paper’s primary vehicle for delivering news. He is staging a massive reorganization of their editorial focus and structure, with the following elements: Create the new position of ‘editor for innovation.’ Launch an “Internet 101” course to teach reporters,… Continue reading Newspapers: News & Revenue Moving Online
Death to “Social Media,” Pt. 2
People really seem to be down on the word “social.” Earlier this week, I referred to Steve Rubel’s thoughts on the word misrepresents content creators, and now Scott Karp shares his hatred for the word, with an amazing title for a blog post: Demented And Sad, But Social.
The Case for Newspaper Wiki’s
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, explores the issue of using wiki’s on newspaper websites. He proposes they be used as: “…focal point and support mechanism for communities to post news that would not normally be covered by the paper.” When talking about failed efforts in the past, he makes two notes: Cultivate a community of… Continue reading The Case for Newspaper Wiki’s
Online Identities: Zombies on the Web.
Jitendra Gupta and Richard MacManus have an interested piece on Read/Write Web where they look at “throwaway identities” online. The core of the issue is how people create accounts or identities online, and then change them. Sometimes, this is intentional – such as using an email address for subscriptions, so you don’t get spam in… Continue reading Online Identities: Zombies on the Web.
Death to “Social Media”
Steve Rubel declares the phrases “social media,” “user generated content” and “consumer generated media.” as obsolete. While I would not bet on any less usage of these phrases in 2007, his reasoning is interesting. For creators of “consumer generated content”: “It’s like we’re a separate entity from the rest of the so-called “mainstream” journalists, filmmakers,… Continue reading Death to “Social Media”
A Focus on User Experience
David Pogue of the New York Times looks at the redesign effort behind the upcoming release of Microsoft Office. I thought it was interesting how Microsoft took the rare step (for any company) to truly rethink the purpose of the program suite, and look at its usage from a users perspective, instead of a features… Continue reading A Focus on User Experience
Books Go Online, Thanks to Google
Google is looking to reshape the book industry: “Google and some of the world’s top publishers are working on plans that they hope could do for books what Apple’s iPod has done for music.” The proposed system would “allow readers to download entire books to their computers in a format that they could read on… Continue reading Books Go Online, Thanks to Google
Magazine Wars
Several articles this week on how Time magazine and other publications are fairing. Comparing ad pages from 2005 to 2006: Time Inc.: Down 4.8% Hearst Corporation: Down 0.7% Hachette Filipacchi: Down 7.1% Meredith Corporation: Down 1.4% Specifics for various titles from these companies can be found at MediaDailyNews. The New York Times looks at Time’s… Continue reading Magazine Wars
The Power of Influencers Online
An interesting article on developing a dialogue with influencers online. “Influencers [are] active, engaged members of local communities. They’ve always existed—opinion makers and opinion leaders. What’s different now? Today they have a much bigger bullhorn available to them—it’s called the Web. Where they once talked to 100 people in a month, they can now reach… Continue reading The Power of Influencers Online