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Disruption: Are we more worried than the consumers?
“Disruption was never disruptive to the customers.” – Clayton Christensen Maybe we’ve been looking at this all wrong. Tons of virtual ink has been spilled on how the technology is disrupting us. But Christensen has a great point; people aren’t generally sitting around saying “the way we buy and consume products is too disruptive.” As [...]
Shelly Palmer: Innovate or “sunset” your company
You don’t get a more energetic speaker than Shelly Palmer. Yeah, he’s president of Shelly Palmer Media. But he also does a ton of other stuff, including television, books, satellite radio, business development, Emmy Awards… I would list more, but it’s starting to depress me. All of which means the man knows his stuff. And [...]
Why the integrated online mobile strategy is a must
If your plans don’t include mobile, then your plans are not finished.” -Wendy Clark, SVP, Integrated Marketing, Coca Cola Greg Stuart, author of “What Sticks” and CEO of the Mobile Marketing Association hopes you understand one message: “Mobile is the missing link for marketers.” Stuart spoke Thursday morning at the Borrell Associates Local Online Advertising [...]
New York Times social strategy: the numbers
Cory hinted at this story in the briefs below, and now we’re fleshing it out a bit because it’s so interesting. The website for the The New York Times, like so many other sites, continues to see the majority of its traffic (50-60%) going directly to the front page. But an ever-increasing number of views [...]
How incorrect reports of Giffords’ death spread on Twitter
Updated: While the story of the Tucson shootings spread, early reports were mixed and often conflicting. This is often the case in a breaking and developing event. However, incorrect reports that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had died spread across the Twittersphere, sparked by tweets by NPR News, Reuters and CNN — some of which were subsequently [...]
Pew: Christine O’Donnell received most news coverage
Christine O’Donnell, the failed Republican candidate for Senate from Delaware, certainly captured the attention of the media. The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism studied news coverage in the 2010 news cycle. It found that O’Donnell was tops in coverage – garnering almost twice the coverage of the California Republican candidate for governor [...]
3-D mania continues, this time with a newspaper
For reasons that continue to elude your faithful editor, 3-D has taken on a new life. It appears TV and movies are trying anything to hold on to viewership. And now, a newspaper is going 3-D. It’s Japan’s Nikkan Sports Shimbun, and the 3-D run was limited to a run of 5,000 copies, all sold [...]
Don’t engage people on Twitter, paper tells staff
A week ago, the Washington Post published a guest opinion column in the wake of the Rutgers suicide that implied that being gay is a result of mental health issues. The article sparked some controversy, and a staffer responded to a gay rights group via Twitter, defending the Post’s decision to publish the column: That [...]
New York Post’s iPad edition requires payments
Beating the New York Times to the punch, the New York Post is out with a paid-subscription iPad app. You pay $1.99 for the app (which seems silly – they should give away the app for free) which then gives you three choices of subscriptions: $6.99 for a month; $39.99 for six months; or $74.99 [...]
NYT iPad app has paper’s full content
The New York Times has had an app for the iPad called “Editor’s Choice.” You get some of the stories from the paper for free — but not all. The Times has decided to open the wall and put all its content into its new iPad app for free. At least for now. It’s our [...]
Win some badges on Philly.com
Through a partnership with a company called Badgeville, Philly.com will roll out a rewards program next week that includes Foursquare-like badges and trophies (for the record, not the ones on the right). Users will get one point for visiting the site, one point for reading an article, and one point for commenting, reports Nieman Lab. [...]
Seattle Times to offer portfolio of paid apps
A couple months ago, the Seattle Times dipped its toes in the paid content waters with the debut of a $2.99 iPhone app for University of Washington Huskies football fans. “We’re pleased with the progress,” said Heidi de Laubenfels, Deputy Managing Editor at the Times. “The app reached 20 percent of our total predicted sales [...]
Boston Globe and Boston University partner on local news
The Boston Globe’s effort to cover communities in the region just got a whole lot of help, thanks to students at Boston University. The Globe’s portal, Boston.com has online local sections called “Your Town,” and BU students will now write for the sections.
According to the press release, Tom Fiedler, the dean of the BU College of Communications sees the project as a win-win. “This program offers benefits for both community residents, who gain from increased news and information about their neighborhoods, and our students, who learn journalism by doing it under the guidance of our faculty and Globe editors,” Mr. Fiedler said. Press release after the jump.
Las Vegas Sun rolls out hyperlocal features
The Las Vegas Sun has launched an extensive hyperlocal section that features drag-and-drop widgets for just about everything, well, under the sun. Among the widgets are the things you might expect: neighborhood news, events, restaurant reviews and high school sports. But it also includes a searchable crime map, a real estate map (that includes foreclosures), [...]
Globe publishes student investigation into candidate
Students taking a course in investigative journalism at Boston’s Northeastern University have had their work published in the Boston Globe, and it’s a great piece of journalism that calls into question the ethics of a candidate for state auditor. The piece investigated candidate Suzanne Bump and it involved her claim of two primary residences, and [...]
Boston Globe ‘dual site’ strategy is flawed
The Boston Globe announcement that it will charge people to read its newspaper online, but will still allow free access to its portal at Boston.com is a surprise to me. In case you missed it, the Globe (owned by the the New York Times Co. ) has decided to launch this strategy in the second [...]
NC’s Star News expands local site, adding social & data
The Wilmington, NC newspaper Star News is greatly expanding the local offerings on its MyBackyardNC.com site. The site (which, I will add, looks nothing like the newspaper site – so good for them) has a lot going for it. The main page is a searchable database that enables users to get relevant information by zip [...]
IB strives to be more social, expand beyond TV
Internet Broadcasting, which powers a large network of local TV websites, announced a partnership today with a company called CoreMedia that provides a cloud-based content management system (CMS). What’s interesting about the deal is IB, which has long offered its own CMS, is now bringing in some help. “Internet Broadcasting is still very much in [...]
