May
26
Some weekend reading for those of you who aren’t out beaching and barbecuing.
- Cool uses of Google Maps. Cyberjournalist.net published a nice round-up of some of the uses media is finding for Google map mashups in 2005 and the list has kept growing ever since through the comments. Two lessons here for newspaper folk: how Google maps tell stories and the fact that some stories never end.
- Talking media. Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo has an eight-minute interview video with a new media two-fer: Jay Rosen and Yochai Benkler, back-to-back. Via Len Witt.
- SATCo and How Facebook Folds Time. Darren Barefoot takes a deep look at Facebook — which he says he really didn’t want to like — and suggests it may be the perfect place to capture institutional memory. Thought-provoking idea.
- What is the lesson of Wallstrip for newspapers? Kevin Anderson at Strange Attractor takes on the idea of speed of innovation among newspapers and writes about the need for newspapers to think and act.
- The next big thing isn’t here, but it may be very, very close. Paul Conley doesn’t think the opening up of Facebook to a world of widgets is the next big thing for B2B publishing, but he says it points to what it might be. And publishers, he writes, aren’t ready for whatever that may be.
- Expert Eye: The new vids on the block. A report on how British newspapers are using video, done in video, of course. This isn’t just details: the presentation is by the inimitable Ian Reeves, so the entertainment value is high, too.
