From The Guardian
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eaofEoCzqU&hl=en&fs=1] Speaking yesterday at the Society of Editors Conference in Bristol, England, I was interviewed by Jemima Kiss, their digital correspondent. Using a $129 ‘flip’ camera, she shot and uploaded it almost immediately. Sure beats the time and expense...
Read moreBrussels – March 4-5th, 2009
Come on in… We are here in the Rosenblum Institute in Brussels to firm up the agenda for DNA2009. We have moved the conference to the Plaza Hotel in downtown Brussels, which has a nice, old world feel to...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy Santa Barbara
It is hard to believe that four days have gone by so quickly. But the results were great, and everyone learned a lot. There are now forty new certified Travel Channel Academy Journalists, and as VP Sue Norton explained...
Read moreThe BBC, Hyperlocal News and VJs
The following comes to me from Alan Morrison in New Zealand – a very loyal correspondent. In 2005 we built 5 hyperlocal news nodes for the BBC in and around Birmingham, England as a test pilot. Each node was...
Read moreAvon Calling
Back to basics… Today’s NY Times ran a very interesting article about Joel Moss Levison, a 28-year old college drop out who has made more than $200,000 in prizes entering his own online digital commericals in contests. As the...
Read moreWhat Is A Newspaper?
All the news that’s fit to print…. or other stuff also? In 1452 when Johannes Gutenberg first laid paper on inked movable type, he printed a bible. He printed a bible because that was the only kind of book...
Read moreMy Day With Jeff Jarvis…
…and a lot of other people… I am sure we can find some way to work together…. Yesterday, I spent the entire day with Jeff Jarvis and about 200 of his closest friends. It was the second annual New...
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