Archive for February, 2008

Date: February 29th, 2008
Cate: Internet/Technology/Gadgets

Making Lists for My Digital: New Tools

I am a list maker. On the flight last night I made a list of 19 things to try and accomplish today.

I am pretty confident I got this habit from my mother. She used to constantly make lists, especially at night, to guide her through the next day.

I don’t have a great phone, and I’m reminded of that every time I see people using Qik or even just going on the internet with their mobiles, but I am looking into Kwiry – a text-messaging service that can also act as a list-maker (note taker?) for me when I don’t have a pen and paper. I believe it can also work in collaboration with Jott – which is becoming a popular text-to-voice application.

Also looking into VuVox which was one of the cooler tools I got exposed to at WeMedia this week. Similar to ClipMarks (which I use regularly) but with a different look and feel.

Date: February 28th, 2008
Cate: Travel

WeMedia Updates…. sorta

I don’t dare try to recap WeMedia today.

I did have two live blog posts: One for the Ifocus blog on “The Power of the Media to Change the World” and the other on NewsTrust.net’s blog about meta-data and the future of search.

I still have a gripe with journalism conferences. This is “WeMedia” but I want to see “WeConference” – or what I call CopyCamp. I’ve been to enough of these now to know that it’s the same conversation with overlapping social networks of the same people.

I understand and appreciate the idea: Get a bunch of smart people together to network and new business relationships happen – but I don’t understand why local newsrooms can’t take that same philosophy and apply it to journalism: Get a bunch of smart people in your community together to network and new relationships happen to bolster your journalism.

Once there was FooCamp – and then it became a distributed event with BarCamp.
Right now there is WeMedia and I hope it will become……

That aside: This has been a stimulating event.

Date: February 27th, 2008
Cate: Uncategorized

At WeMedia

Today and tomorrow I’ll be at WeMedia. Updates will come via Twitter.

Other posts I’ve come across on it:

WeMedia 08/Miami: Power On!


WeMedia: Print is Dead

 

Date: February 25th, 2008
Cate: Advertising/Business
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“Free” and Future Business Models of Journalism

Below is a good recap of Chris Anderson’s new essay on the future of business online. It’s something I’ve been thinking about as well.

I picture a micro-funding model, where content is paid by small donations from lots of people. These afford a journalist the ability to investigate issues important to the collective: Think Digg meets eBay for journalists.

With the issue of money aside – advertising isn’t needed and the content itself is licensed under the Creative Commons and given away for free. It’s similar to Leonard Witt’s Representative Journalism or Michale Stoll’s Public Press.

Pro-Publica is not the future of journalisms business model – that’s just the future of one rich-ass family’s endowment. Journalism belongs to the people.

clipped from thefutureofnews.com

How can news outlets make money while giving news away free?  â??Long Tailâ? author provides a glimpse.
2/25/08

Chris Anderson is not the author of â??Freakonomics,â? but you could say his upcoming book is about â??freeconomics.â?  According to Advertising Age, his next book after his tech bestseller â??The Long Tailâ? will be about how to make money by giving stuff away free on the web.  Many are now trying to do just that with varying degrees of success, including Yahoo!â??s email, Googleâ??s search, Wikipedia, Craigslist, and various video and music downloading sites. 

In an interview, Anderson describes three different business models for â??freeâ?: 1) the â??razor/razorbladeâ? model in which something that costs real money is given away, while cross-subsidized by another sale (e.g. razor/razorblade, printers/cartridges, TV programming/advertising);

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Date: February 25th, 2008
Cate: Uncategorized
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If We Aren’t Reading Them: 10 New Uses for Newspapers

The list is below – click into the article to find the explanation of how newspaper can work to do any of these nifty-handy things.

Hey: I love journalism, but I myself stopped reading print paper about a year ago.
clipped from www.realsimple.com

10 New Uses for Newspaper

â??Newspaper, by design, is a very absorbent product, because it has to absorb ink. But that also means it is equipped to absorb all sorts of moisture, including moisture and the resulting odors found in shoes, in vegetable drawers, and elsewhere,â? says Chris Morrissey, vice president of marketing for Sun Chemical, in Northlake, Illinois, the worldâ??s largest printing-ink manufacturer.

1. Deodorize food containers.

2. Ripen tomatoes.

3. Pack delicate items.

4. Wipe away tough streaks on glass.

5. Preserve antique glass.

6. Dry shoes.

7. Wrap gifts.

8. Create a home for
slushy snow boots.

9. Prepare a garden.

10. Keep the refrigerator vegetable drawer dry and free of smells.

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