Archive for August 19th, 2007
Belo is in the middle of a multi-market rollout of HSGameTime.com, a national high school sports site with local ties to each of its TV and newspaper properties. Beyond the stuff you’d expect, the site features a social network for both parents and teens, as well as the capability for users to host their own blogs and upload video and photos. Much more later, but in the meantime, check out the Dallas version of HSGameTime, one of the first to launch. (Full disclosure: I work for KING5.com, which is a Belo property.)
August 19th, 2007
I’ve replaced the “blogroll” on Lost Remote with a RSS feed mashup from those same sites. It spits out a stream of stories and blog posts updated every fifteen minutes. The most recent 15 stories appear in the right column, and click “Wire” in the nav to visit a full page of the latest 50. It’s still a little glitchy, and I’ll be tweaking it over the next few days.
August 19th, 2007
Lost Remote’s Michael Gay told us about Hearst-Argyle’s new High School Playbook initiative earlier this week. Now Little Lost Robot’s JL Watkins has the inside scoop on what’s going on at the ground floor level. His station, WYFF, is training a “small army” of sideline reporters - to take video of games - then edit and upload the material to HSPB. Smart.
August 19th, 2007
BuzzMachine’s Jeff Jarvis has a must-read take on a new Harvard report that concludes newspapers (and, I would say by some extension all local news outlets) are heavily threatened by the Internet - and that national brands have more muscle in the future than the local folks. He breaks down the report’s assumptions and conclusions - then looks at what outlets need to do to stay in the game: aggregate, syndicate, use the “old” platform to promote the new — and most importantly… produce good journalism. Read it.
August 19th, 2007
