* Updated *
I’ve also written about Best Buy setting its catalogue content free at the iCrossing Connect blog…
Jeff Jarvis has an excellent post headed APIs: The New Distribution about The Guardian’s decision to distribute everything online.
If you’re even slightly non-technical you may not know what an API is. Basically it’s a way of letting [...]
Tag Archive: news
API and they know it: Guardian distributes *everything* online
Innovation in news: Al-Jazeera Labs
Fascinating to see how Arabic and English news service Al Jazeera is approaching the innovation imperative with its Al Jazeera Labs project.
In the first couple of months of this year the company has rolled out many deals and pilots in interesting areas, according to a great report on Journalism.co.uk. I’m especially intrigued by things like [...]
Edge of a riot: Social media, balance and truth in the news
When I was a student in 1994 I was on the front cover of The Indpendent the morning after a riot outside the Houses of Parliament.
The image was of a grimacing, dreadlocked fellow’s grimacing face lunging over the line of police shields.
(No, that wasn’t me…)
The picture spoke a thousand words. It told the whole story. [...]
People’s News: social media and newsgathering in 2008
The staff of NowPublic, the “particpatory news network” as it describes itself, has picked a list of the top 10 stories from 2008 in which social media played a role.
2008’s Top 10 Moments in User-Generated News
1. Mumbai attacks
2. Natural disasters: Emergency info
3. SF Olympic torch relay protests
4. Obama and “Bittergate”
5. Protests at [...]
Un-filtered news: Twitter, the BBC and Mumbai
Media Guardian carries a timely analysis of some of the discussion of Twitter informing, in some cases becoming part of, the coverage of the terrorist attrocities in Mumbai.
It picks up on a blog post by Steve Herman, editor of the BBC News website:
As for the Twitter messages we were monitoring, most did not add a [...]
Techmeme turns up the human in its news aggregator mix
Aggregators were my first love, when it comes to news and social media – I’ve always been infatuated with the idea of Digg, lover of Techmeme and I basically see most of the world through my personal aggregator, the ever flexible and accesible Google Reader.
So it’s nice to see some fervent discussion among bloggers about [...]
Tag Archive: news
API and they know it: Guardian distributes *everything* online
* Updated *
I’ve also written about Best Buy setting its catalogue content free at the iCrossing Connect blog…
Jeff Jarvis has an excellent post headed APIs: The New Distribution about The Guardian’s decision to distribute everything online.
If you’re even slightly non-technical you may not know what an API is. Basically it’s a way of letting [...]
Innovation in news: Al-Jazeera Labs
Fascinating to see how Arabic and English news service Al Jazeera is approaching the innovation imperative with its Al Jazeera Labs project.
In the first couple of months of this year the company has rolled out many deals and pilots in interesting areas, according to a great report on Journalism.co.uk. I’m especially intrigued by things like [...]
Edge of a riot: Social media, balance and truth in the news
When I was a student in 1994 I was on the front cover of The Indpendent the morning after a riot outside the Houses of Parliament.
The image was of a grimacing, dreadlocked fellow’s grimacing face lunging over the line of police shields.
(No, that wasn’t me…)
The picture spoke a thousand words. It told the whole story. [...]
People’s News: social media and newsgathering in 2008
The staff of NowPublic, the “particpatory news network” as it describes itself, has picked a list of the top 10 stories from 2008 in which social media played a role.
2008’s Top 10 Moments in User-Generated News
1. Mumbai attacks
2. Natural disasters: Emergency info
3. SF Olympic torch relay protests
4. Obama and “Bittergate”
5. Protests at [...]
Un-filtered news: Twitter, the BBC and Mumbai
Media Guardian carries a timely analysis of some of the discussion of Twitter informing, in some cases becoming part of, the coverage of the terrorist attrocities in Mumbai.
It picks up on a blog post by Steve Herman, editor of the BBC News website:
As for the Twitter messages we were monitoring, most did not add a [...]
Techmeme turns up the human in its news aggregator mix
Aggregators were my first love, when it comes to news and social media – I’ve always been infatuated with the idea of Digg, lover of Techmeme and I basically see most of the world through my personal aggregator, the ever flexible and accesible Google Reader.
So it’s nice to see some fervent discussion among bloggers about [...]