One of the sites I often suggest people check out when looking for free multimedia editing tools is Jumpcut. No more. Today, Yahoo announced it is pulling the plug on the free online video editing service Jumpcut. Strangely, visitors aren’t immediately notified of this on the jumpcut.com homepage. Yes, things change quickly in the era […]
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March 23rd, 2009
NPR: guiding light for big media houses
Big media houses should be paying attention to National Public Radio and the momentum it has right now. And I’m not talking about the non-profit, pledge-drive business model that gets tossed around as a possible panacea for newspapers’ revenue woes. I’m talking about audience growth. According to this profile in Fast Company, NPR’s audience grew 95.6% […]
March 16th, 2009
Web site wish list? Here’s a start
I’m in New York this week attending the College Media Advisers convention which brings together advisers and college journalists in the name of doing better journalism on campus. Yes, I feel very old. Yesterday I spoke on a panel about building a web site with open source technologies. I’ve been doing some consulting in this […]
February 20th, 2009
Unigo bringing serious disruption to print
Remember those thick, printed college guides that helped you prioritize your college search? They’re about to go the way of the Yellow Pages. Walt Mossberg profiled a web site called Unigo, which I first heard about last year. It uses “people-powered media” to provide an unflinching look at what college life is really like on […]
February 6th, 2009
News sites should use this
“Customer service doesn’t have to suck.” That’s the tagline for a web site/service/company called Get Satisfaction and it’s a great way to bring transparency to the customer service game. Any company with customers and any web site with readers should be using something like this. Yes, it’s basically a message board on steroids. But it […]
January 30th, 2009
I would pay for Twitter
We pay for value. So I’ve come to the realization that I would pay for Twitter. I wouldn’t pay for Facebook, LinkedIn, FriendFeed or any of the Ning groups I belong to (and I’ve never been a MySpace guy). But I would pay a few dollars a month to continue using Twitter. All these venture-funded social […]
January 24th, 2009
Hard work isn’t enough: It’s time to pay attention
Keeping up – or catching up – with the tools, concepts and skills of the digital age takes a lot of hard work. Or is it simply a matter of attention? The work ethic that powered the Industrial Revolution is giving way to an attention ethic in the Information Age, according to a recent piece […]
January 22nd, 2009
A new role for journalism organizations
Labels are limiting. Especially when it comes to professions undergoing massive change. A few days earlier at a different bar in Seattle, members of the Society of Professional Journalists held a similar gathering. And a month ago, a local independent journalism entrepreneur hosted a more formal gathering for a group think/discussion on the topic of […]
January 19th, 2009
My favorite iPhone apps
The iPhone has changed the way I access information and communicate with other people. It has also changed the assumptions I have about what an electronic gadget can do and how I think information will consumed – and published – in the future. But it can also be a ton of fun. And since I […]
January 15th, 2009
History of journalism about to repeat itself
Today, a history lesson from some research I’ve been doing for my new book, because if you want to see the road ahead, take a look at the road behind. More than 100 years ago, the newspaper industry was dealing with technological change on a scale comparable to today. In the 1890s, telephone service revolutionized […]
