In honour of the iPad finally going on sale in New Zealand soon, and in anticipation of the NZ news apps we expect to see soon after, here’s a link to Josh Benton’s review of a few news iPad apps, which is worth a look. Here’s an excerpt: Just about every news website created in [...]
Saturday, July 3, 2010
I came across this via a link on Twitter (can’t remember who, sorry) and thought I’d post it for my students.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Axel Springer in Germany likes Google and wants to build a one-click option for readers to pay for news: Instead of separate pay walls around individual newspaper Web sites, Mr. [Christoph] Keese [Springer’s head of public affairs] wants publishers and Internet companies to work together to create a “one-click marketplace solution” for their online content. [...]
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
I was at the National Digital Forum conference in Wellington earlier this week mingling with people involved in digitising and curating New Zealand’s cultural heritage material – people from museums, galleries, archives, libraries. I was struck by a few commonalities between the cultural heritage sector (known as GLAM – Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) and the [...]
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Twitter turns on its Geolocation API From RWW this week came a post about Twitter turning on its Geolocation API, which means Twitter users can choose whether to indicate where they are when they tweet. RWW imagines some interesting apps being built around this function. They suggest, for example, an app that tracks who are [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
I meant to point to this ages ago but somehow it got buried in ‘Drafts’ and time marched on. Earlier this year the Guardian in the UK turned heads when it used crowdsourcing to sift through mountains of documentation about MPs’ expenses and expense claims. The story, about questionable expense claims made by MPs, was [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Catching up on some reading this weekend I read Rod Drury’s blogpost on xero.com (online accounting software company) about why Twitter matters for business. He does a good job I think of explaining the value of Twitter for anyone running a company. He starts by showing how Twitter has grown over the past couple of [...]
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
This is nice way to lose a few minutes. It’s an embeddable widget that calculates current social media usage – the brainchild of a former BBC staffer Gary Hayes, who is now “director of LAMP in Sydney, Australia, CCO of MUVEDesign (a virtual world & game development company) and Consultant in Social & Transmedia to [...]
Friday, August 28, 2009
The fruits of, ahem, quality research time spent on YouTube. From 1981: “Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to read the day’s newspaper. Well, it’s not as far-fetched as it may seem.” “It takes over two hours to receive the entire text of the newspaper over [...]
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Nice series of posts by Martin Belam looking at what happens to users who click on a ‘share this’ button at the bottom of a news story. When I recently wrote a series of articles on how major publishers are using social media bookmarking tools to drive traffic, I mentioned that ‘share this‘ buttons had [...]
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