What news as a conversation looks like
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Here’s a compilation of some outstanding Sept 11 multimedia packages commemorating the 10th anniversary of that day. Ten years.
USA Today | How 9/11 changed America
TIME | Beyond 9/11
AP | Ten years later, an impact on the world
Guardian | The 9/11 decade
Architect’s Newspaper | Making meaning
Washington Post | Age of 9/11
New York Times | The Reckoning
HBO | Portraits of resiliance
“Only imbeciles never change their minds”
- French saying. From a CreativeMornings talk by journalist Anna Rascouët-Paz on curiosity, hosted by Typekit.
Source: creativemornings.com
Mirror mirror on the wall, which tie should I wear to rule ‘em all?
This is crazy shit! Woot woot NYT R&D!
Source: niemanlab.org
Pound-for-pound, Pandora ads now worth more than radio
From Gigaom: Internet radio company Pandora reported the financial results for its first three months as a public company Thursday. The Oakland, Calif.-based company confirmed that while it still has a long way to grow before it reaches the listener levels of terrestrial radio, its ads are now just as valuable as traditional stations.
Source: gigaom.com
On the one hand the entry cost of advertising on tablets is tiny but the budget still needs to come from somewhere. At present, many clients just don’t have well-defined mobile marketing budgets.
Tom Wilkinson, head of press partnerships and innovation at Mindshare UK, who was quoted in a great analysis on how newspapers are monetizing tablets.
Source: mediaweek.co.uk
Love this piece from the NYT about Steve Job’s legacy at Apple.
Source: The New York Times
The lesson the world should take from Apple is that a company needs to become multi-dimensional. It needs to mix the core business with the disruptive innovation. It needs to combine the intellectual with the artistic. It needs to maintain within it the rational and the lunatic.
Havard Business Review’s Steve Jobs’s Ultimate Lesson for Companies
Source: blogs.hbr.org
NPR is experimenting with something called “Serendipity Day,” wherein everyone on the technology side abandons their day jobs to work on…whatever they want. Bugs that need squashing, scratches that need itching — the ideas that never get to the top of a to-do list. The managers step back, available only if the workers need anything. (I need a designer, I need a room, I need a bagel.) The only rule: In the end, you have to share your work.
Source: niemanlab.org
On Wednesday, he put his newest idea to work: a double-decker arrangement that almost looks as if his camera is wearing another camera as a hat. On assignment to cover the arrival of Roger Clemens at a federal courthouse in Washington, Mr. Mills mounted his video camera atop his still camera. The video footage is peppered with the sound of the still camera’s shutter. But the results look good.
Source: The New York Times
I believe that a combination of print and digital subscriptions can work for many if not all media companies today. But if major publishers are seriously prepared to blow up their primary revenue stream — print advertising — and slap together a giveaway tablet in order to save money on ink, God help them.
Tim Carmody, in his WIRED.com article, Media Death March: Please, Tribune Co., Don’t Do This, on the Tribune Co.’s plans to develop its own tablet.
Source: Wired
ST.com spots a new design. Love the social media integration and explainers in “The Big Story.” Wished Through The Lens was given better play.
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