Tag Archives: technology

Technology is huge. Why only one page a week?

By Julie Starr | Published: September 21, 2009
The daily news business gives us an odd, distorted view of the world doesn’t it? In New Zealand, for example, you could be forgiven for thinking there’s little in the way of technological development going on, given that the main daily newspapers devote a pathetic one page a week to the subject, if that. A [...]
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Is any part of News unaffected by the internet?

By Julie Starr | Published: March 2, 2009
Is it just me, or is every aspect of the news business profoundly affected by the internet and related technology?
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New technology’s good, so’s old technology

By Julie Starr | Published: January 18, 2009
An xkcd comic strip. It's the little things in life that are so good.
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Newspapers have always adapted to technology

By Julie Starr | Published: January 15, 2009
Jack Shafer has a nice piece on Slate looking at how news companies have adapted to technology over the years. Referring to Pablo J. Boczkowski's 2004 book, Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers, Jack notes how newspapers in the US were quick to buy up radio licences when radio started making a splash, dabbled in news by fax and something called Videotex. Then came the doomed proprietary online news systems.
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All the gear, no idea (but it’s probably just as well)

By Julie Starr | Published: May 12, 2008
I should be ashamed. Here's me with a laptop, digital sound recorder and a phone and camera that take perfectly good pictures and video. And what did I manage to record and post from the conference I've just been to? Nothing. Then again, there are good reasons for that, and bad.
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