News of the Week 5/27/08

Blogging 2.0: When You No Longer Own the ConversationChanges have "caused serious strain for those living in Blogging 1.0, as they’ve seen their page views fluctuate, and as comments moved to third party sites, be they RSS readers, social networks, Twitter, FriendFeed and others. Those who have embraced the new noise of Twitter and FriendFeed,… Continue reading News of the Week 5/27/08

News of the Week 5/16/08

Five Steps to Encourage Readers to Blog on Your Website "A few moments of advance thought can help determine whether a new blogging tool will enable a vibrant community, or open yet another empty forum." Confessions of an Online Journalism Tool "There are a multitude of free (or cheap), powerful tools available to the online… Continue reading News of the Week 5/16/08

News of the Week 5/10/08

Annals of Innovation: In the Air "Insight could be orchestrated: that was the lesson. If someone who knew how to make a filter had a conversation with someone who knew a lot about cancer and with someone who read the medical literature like a physicist, then maybe you could come up with a treatment." How… Continue reading News of the Week 5/10/08

News of the Week 5/2/08

How Nokia Users Drive Innovation "You’ve heard of user-generated content? Sports Tracker is an example of how Nokia has begun experimenting with user-generated innovation. "People were misusing the application in creative ways." Reluctantly, a Daily Stops Its Presses, Living Online "With print revenue down and online revenue growing, newspaper executives are anticipating the day when… Continue reading News of the Week 5/2/08

News of the Week 4/18/08

Is the Mobile Web Dead? Some Mobile Entrepreneurs Say Yes "Former Yahoo! Mobile evangelist turned startup entrepreneur Russell Beattie announced today that he’s calling it quits for his company Mowser because the market for mobile browsing is taking a fast turn for the worse." How Social Networking Could Kill Web Search as We Know It… Continue reading News of the Week 4/18/08

News of the Week 4/14/08

Murdoch: Technology Driving Vast Changes in Media "Media mogul Rupert Murdoch warned that “technology will continue to destroy all of the old ways and old assumptions, especially in the media." How to Target the Right Social Media Sites "What too many bloggers overlook is that Digg and StumbleUpon are just two of the hundreds of… Continue reading News of the Week 4/14/08

News of the Week 4/6/08

Traditional media team with niche sites to nab ad dollars "Looking to snare a larger share of Internet ad dollars, traditional media companies are launching "vertical ad networks" in which they sell ad bundles of space on their sites and on independent sites with complementary content." Passion fuels entrepreneurial journalism "The biggest challenge facing the… Continue reading News of the Week 4/6/08

News of the Week 3/30/08

The News Business: Out of Print "The death and life of the American newspaper." Finding Political News Online, the Young Pass It On "…habits suggest that younger readers find themselves going straight to the source, bypassing the context and analysis that seasoned journalists provide." The Buzz on the Campaign Bus: Pinched, Press Steps Off "There… Continue reading News of the Week 3/30/08

News of the Week 3/21/08

A Radically Different World for Print Media“This isn’t a “transition period” for newspapers. It’s a whole new game… Print revenue is not likely to ever grow again. Digital revenue, at least, has no known ceiling.” From Assembly Line to Network at the Post “Newspapers cling to an assembly-line model for news production even though computers… Continue reading News of the Week 3/21/08