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Mark: Do you see "apps" as a fad for news consumption? Seems like browser based version optimized for the platform could be as good in most cases if people can get over "there's an app for that."
-- jack lail
Commented Mar 25, 2011 on The Instant iPad App at Recovering Journalist
The Instant iPad App
For publishers, iPad apps are all the rage these days. Everybody's developing whizbang apps to take advantage of Apple's popular tablet—even though, when you get right down to it, most of the apps aren't huge improvements over the publications' existing Web sites, which are just a touch away on ...
The SEC Policy is outrageous both from fan and reporter standpoints.
Commented Aug 17, 2009 on Corporations Want To Own Our Experiences And Our Culture at /Message
Corporations Want To Own Our Experiences And Our Culture
It's fairly Orwellian. Sports leagues want to prohibit fans from taking pictures or videos of the games, since the want to own all media representation of the events. So, they prohibit fans from taking any recording devices -- including cell phones -- into the events: [via Social Media Banned fro...
I couldn't agree more about the paywall. Riffing off your post's title, newspapers in particular move like schools of fish. As Murdoch and the NYT move toward paywalls, others will follow their folly.
Commented Aug 9, 2009 on What’s A Fish Without A Bicycle? at /Message
What’s A Fish Without A Bicycle?
Michael Sokolove does a masterly job of pulling together all the journalistic angst of old school newspaper people when confronted with the bleak prospects of big city newspapers going under. It's part wake, part crackpot economics, some recriminations about media companies moving to slow, a few ...
A lot of good ideas drown in No. 4. Great list, Dave!
Commented Oct 18, 2008 on Real world tips for changing newsroom culture at DigiDave | Communication is Key
Real world tips for changing newsroom culture
I don't have much extra bandwidth these days. But what I do have - I'm giving to the re-emergence of the Journalism Blog Carnival - back after a summer hiatus. Background: A bunch of us journalism bloggers got together and decided to do monthly posts on a specific topic that the host chooses. T...
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