new media
Semantic plugin for WordPress – wp-RDFa
I spent the better part of 2009 working on, learning about and architecting media information systems. There are a lot of cool semantic web tools on the market. Some are quite pricey – some are free. When I saw this plugin, it sparked my interest. It’s called wp-RDFa and has a slug: wp-RDFa brings the semantic [...]
Baseball, radio broadcasts and newspapers
Image via Wikipedia Baseball The other night there was a program on PBS talking about some of baseball’s history. The show focused on the early 1900′s through the 1920′s. Prior to the 20′s, almost all the attendees at baseball games were men. Image by The Rocketeer via Flickr Radio This all changed on August 5th, [...]
2 Big Myths that are Killing Newspapers
From a post I found over at SimsBlog with some really good thoughts: …is how journalists “spent nearly a century denying responsibility and involvement in business decisions”. … The result of this siloed newsroom is that a large chunk of the organization has no real understanding of how the business works. That is a very [...]
Pepsi kicks Super Bowl and goes social
Image via Wikipedia When I first read this – I did at least one double take. Say what – like when was the last time Pepsi told the Super Bowl – “we’ll pass, but thanks” “will bypass the big game for the first time in 23 years” PBT Consulting Well – will this be a [...]
Zuckerberg wants to publish all your little secrets.
Image via CrunchBase Read Write Web has a great post on Facebook and Zuckberg: Zuckerberg spent 60 seconds talking about Facebook’s privacy policies. His statements were of major importance for the world’s largest social network – and his arguments in favor of an about-face on privacy deserve close scrutiny. Wow, I know the “younger generations” [...]
Classified by any other name
Along with keeping the day-to-day rolling in webdev this week, my task is to test out a couple of web classified apps. We’re looking to test drive two methods – one called geodesic and then drop a couple of WordPress themes too. The hard part will be figuring out how much is “enough” to get [...]
The million dollar idea
It’s funny, the newspaper I work for is trying hard – but spinning its tires a lot. We’ve gone from build a “super blog” network, to atomizing all content into a distribution engine to looking for the “million dollar idea”. It’s crazy, but it is possible to make a million with a blog. Here is [...]
Why paywalls won't help most big newspapers
Image by Joriel “Joz” Jimenez via Flickr The paywall discussion is in full force at my job (Gazette Communications) and my buddy and I were discussing the idea of adding a paywall to our electronic edition yesterday at lunch. Funny – as the exact same thing we were talking about was pointed to in this [...]
The new divide: Walled v. open
Image via Wikipedia I have not been paying a lot of attention to Jeff Jarvis lately – but his recent post hit home. Maybe it was the friendly objection via a co-workers tweet to my re-tweet, but either way – this is a good read. Here are a few of the better quotes IMO: The [...]
i = Future Of Newspapers = Think, Know, Understand, and Feel – /Message
Interesting concept: The paper’s team worked with media consultancy Innovation to come up with a new way to organise the product. “Our feeling was,” said Figueiredo, who came on board at an early stage, moving from Diário Económico, “that people were not concerned about traditional sections any more. i = Future Of Newspapers = Think, [...]
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