Will Wright, the creator of videogame sensations SimCity and the Sims is slowly working on his next game: Spore. You can check out this amazing video that gives you a tour of Spore. Basically, you create life from a single spore, as it evolves into a galaxy. He recently presented at the South by Southwest… Continue reading Truly Interactive Journalism
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The State of News Media
The Project for Excellence in Journalism has released their new 160,000 word report: The State of the News Media 2007. A huge amount of data here. One excerpt regarding magazines: “The year 2007 could prove pivotal to the magazine industry and news magazines specifically. After a series of down years, there is no projected upturn… Continue reading The State of News Media
Writing for the Web: Increasing Engagement
Online Journalism Review shares some interesting findings on writing for the web: “What if you could engage users in a story for about half the time, yet have them remember about 34 percent more of the content? That’s exactly what one test showed. Spending less than two hours rewriting and reformatting a story about New… Continue reading Writing for the Web: Increasing Engagement
When Your Sources Go Directly to Your Audience
Doc Searls looks at how the web has changed journalism. “The Net is a giant zero. It puts everybody zero distance from everybody and everything else. And it supports publishing and broadcasting at costs that round to zero as well. “It is essential for the mainstream media to understand that the larger information ecosystem is… Continue reading When Your Sources Go Directly to Your Audience
Investigative Journalism vs. Blogging
Jeremiah Owyang muses on his experience at a recent journalism meet-up at Stanford: “I was blogging in real time, and some guests found that it was interesting that we were publishing in real time, while some of them were working on issues for their July publications. I was also asked about the editorial process and… Continue reading Investigative Journalism vs. Blogging
Social Media the Key to Traditional Media’s Future
Barry Parr, an analyst for JupiterResearch, notes how social media can drive an audience to traditional media: “Bill Grueskin of WSJ.com shared an interesting anecdote about how Digg made a two-year-old column one of the most-read stories on a particular day. Interestingly, WSJ.com is getting tremendous lift from promoting their videos to bloggers. We’re all… Continue reading Social Media the Key to Traditional Media’s Future
When the Music Stops for Newspapers
The Financial Times takes a look at whether the “traditional” model of the newspaper industry is sustainable. “If you look very fundamentally at what is happening to the business, it is really a perfect negative storm, in the sense of loss of readership, loss of classified ads, and ultimately loss of display ads.” A great… Continue reading When the Music Stops for Newspapers
Rethinking Headlines: How SEO is Changing the Balance of Media
As journalists, bloggers, and content producers for the web carefully construct their headlines in order to attract traffic from search engines, CNET reports on the success that they have seen. The reason for the change? “Pithy, witty and provocative headlines–the pride of many an editor–are often useless and even counterproductive in getting the Web page… Continue reading Rethinking Headlines: How SEO is Changing the Balance of Media
Can Bloggers Compete with Established News Sources?
Robert Scoble started off a bit of a debate online when he lashed out at some prominent blogs for not linking to his content, and to other bloggers on the web. “It’s interesting how everyone links to the New York Times, who of course doesn’t link to blogs, but very few bloggers will link to… Continue reading Can Bloggers Compete with Established News Sources?
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