Sep
13
From the ‘net (third item updated on Friday):
- Pattison Group sells interest in 24 Hours. A business story of local interest: the local part-owner of the most successful of what were once three Vancouver freesheets has shed its interests, leaving 24 Hours with a single owner. No financial detail released.
- E-paper with Photonic Ink. A Canadian company is claiming a breakthrough in better colour reproduction on digital “paper.” Editors Weblog, where I found this item, is doing the best job of the media bloggers of staying on top of developments in an area that has great promise for newspapers in the nearish-future.
- The bad and the ugly of Northwest newspaper Web sites. A Crosscut look at Pacific Northwest newspaper web efforts with some not-so-encouraging news. And while it says the overview includes Canada, there’s only a bref tiptoe over the border. UPDATE: Tacoma editor blasts “uninformed critique” of news websites.
- Video journalism’s special forces. “Videojournalism is technique not technology.” More of the developing manifesto from David Dunkley Gyimah.
- Revver Pays $1 Million to Independent Video Content Producers. One of the first video-sharing sites to also share revenue releases the results from the past 12 months.
- Google: Welcome to Privacy 2.0. Google Street View, which hasn’t come to Canada yet, may be illegal here, according to our federal privacy commissioner. Given that the technlogy is based on extensive photo-taking on public streets, is there a hidden concern here for journalists and journalism? And, as Mathew Ingram asks, where does the privacy line get drawn?
