Tag Archives: innovation
A few notes on innovation
I’ve just enjoyed reading The Medici Effect after picking it up on impulse a week or so ago. Frans Johansson’s 2006 book looks at how innovation is enhanced when people from different disciplines come together to tackle problems. He calls it the intersection. When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines or cultures, you [...]
Posted in Innovation, Journalism Also tagged Amabile, Bob Sutton, deadlines, Harvard, ideas, Innovators Dilemma, JK Rowling, Journalism, Medici Effect, nat torkington, Picasso, stanford, startups, TED, webstock 3 Comments
Why the advice to ‘stop listening to newspaper people’ rings true for me
This quote leapt out at me from a GigaOm post by Mathew Ingram last week: Stop listening to newspaper people. We have had nearly 15 years to figure out the Web and as an industry we newspaper people are no good at it. No good at it at all. Want to get good at it? Then [...]
Got a digital news project that needs funding?
Got a great idea for an open-source, digital, local news project? Need some money? It’s not too late to apply for this year’s Knight News Challenge in the US. The deadline for entries has been extended until December 15 and Knight does sometimes fund projects outside the US. They are looking for projects that: Use [...]
Who pays for investigative journalism?
The Huffington Post recently announced a US$1.75million fund to support investigative journalism in the US.
Posted in Business Models, Journalism, Newspapers Also tagged endowments, investigative journalism 10 Comments
‘Everything is a remix’ and other thoughts on innovation