May
25
Setting up some long weekend reading for all my American readers. We Canadians will have make do with the usual two.
- Facebook Platform Could Be A Google-Like Market-Driven Growth Engine. Scott Karp with some great thoughts on the new Facebook Platform. Newspapers need to pay attention because this is your competition or collaborator, too, and perhaps in time in more profound ways than Google may be.
- Adelante con Corante: or why newspaper people should spend this weekend fishing. Inksniffer is fast emerging as one of my daily must-reads. This post digging into why newspapers need to change their speed of change is a good example of why.
- Because paper is scarce. And so is time. Doc Searls has written in praise of the print newspaper and in support of the value it may be able to charge for. Mathew Ingram disagrees.
- Questions about production for reporter video. Angela Grant has some ideas about how newspapers can structure themselves to deal with video.
- Are You a Micro Media Mogul Or a Media Maker? And there’s a middle way, too, as Jim Long reports.
- Visual literacy in multimedia journalism. A great post from Mindy McAdams that I intend to outright steal for part of my online journalism class this fall.
- Tiny US paper drives multimedia changes. Some aggressive ideas from a small-town newspaper, including “the Star Car, a rebranded version of the WiFi-enabled, fully-kitted-out, mobile internet reporting vehicle pioneered by NewsGear at the NewsPlex newsroom planning organisation.”
- Prediction: Newspapers Will Rule the Video World. Dorian Benkoll at Rebuilding Media passes on some predictions. This is a hard one to call: the increasingly-aware TV stations have the expertise; the newspapers have the significantly larger newsgathering staffs. I’m not ready to put my money on any “winner” of the video news-telling space.
- New version of Soundslides to add pan/zoom, thumbnail menus and more. Joe Weiss’s amazing program is getting more features and generating lots of buzz in the mediasphere.
- The business we’re in. This is almost a week old, but Neil McIntosh’s piece shouldn’t be forgotten, as he argues newspapers really need to reconsider the fundamentals.
