Dec
17
In between bouts of Christmas shopping, I’ve had time for these:
- Idea #1: Advertise Change. An interesting idea from David Vogt, presented in the Tyee: use the various electronic billboards scattered about the city to host citizen journalism. Part of a series of New Ideas for the New Year.
- 2008 : The year of newspaper outsourcing. Year-end brings a ton of predictions, including this one that outsourcing will be big as newspapers struggle to cope with costs.
- A Few Thoughts On Google Knol. Google’s run at Wikipedia as a high-ranking source (in terms of search) for online knowledge is interesting. I wonder why newspapers aren’t playing in this space, attempting to become the one-stop source for local in-depth knowledge of all sorts?
- Subway riders delight? ‘Polymer Vision: Rollable e-paper is finally on the roll’. On the heels of Amazon’s Kindle, word of a new e-reader (originally promised for 2007). Like Kindle, still somewhat primitive but, I think, a strong indication of what’s coming.
- What’s new at Newsvine since MSNBC. What’s interesting here is a list of things coming to Newsvine in 2008, including journalism awards, a Newsvine assignment desk, video and writer outreach programs.
- Online ad sellers out-local the locals. Projections that newspapers will lose their dominance as the leading local ad sellers and some thoughts about that from Alan Mutter. When it comes to all that’s been happening with newspapering over the past half-dozen years, I’m sure there are hundreds of execs out there wishing for some of that no-news-is-good-news stuff, because just about all of the news has been scary.
