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 [...]
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
This gave me a little kick of happiness. It’s a list of cloud-based services Telegraph Media Group in London is using, and it appears to be a longer list than when I was there (three+ years ago). I remember a time when external hosting was rather out of favour. The following is from the GigaOm [...]
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
I’m breaking my own rule. Until recently I’d sworn off subscribing to magazines because too often they pile up in a corner unread and mock me. But I’ve decided to subscribe to Lapham’s Quarterly. Partly because it’s a quarterly and I reckon I can handle four issues a year. Partly because the magazine’s sturdy enough [...]
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
There are a few interesting numbers in this slide presentation on internet trends made at a marketing conference in New York by Morgan Stanley’s Mary Meeker. (Links to a pdf download.) She points to big growth in mobile and the iPad being one of the fastest growing ‘new consumer computing devices’ ever. This one caught [...]
Saturday, May 29, 2010
A conversation this week got my brain fizzing again about news. (Nice to fizz rather than funk). The conversation ranged through what is perceived to be wrong with the news business, what’s right about it, what impact it’s having on society, what journalism graduates need to know, who journalists need to be. The usual stuff. [...]
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 [...]
Monday, November 9, 2009
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 [...]
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
More than 2 billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s app store for iPhones and iTouch devices, Apple announced yesterday. There are now more than 85,000 apps available to the more than 50 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide and over 125,000 developers in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program. Today, iPhone and iPod touch customers [...]
Friday, May 22, 2009
A couple of nice points here from Emily Bell's lecture to University College Falmouth. Emily is director of digital content at Guardian News and Media.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Thinking out loud for a presentation I’m working on… News has traditionally come in boxes. The newspaper comes in a box whose dimensions are defined by number of pages, available space for stories once the ads are sold and how much time there is to work on it before the printing deadline. The radio bulletin [...]
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