The Evolving Newsroom

How YouTube thinks about copyright

‘Distinctions between TV, radio & web will go’

Via RWW come some thoughts on what’s ahead from Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Five years from now the internet will be dominated by Chinese-language content. Today’s teenagers are the model of how the web will work in five years – they jump from app to app to app seamlessly. Five years is a factor of [...]

Chat Roulette: an introduction

chat roulette from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.

Video ads and price points

This is a bit of a lazyweb post because it’s Sunday and this is in my brain right now and I know I won’t have time to research it. I have a couple of questions about ads at the beginning of video clips on news websites, and price points for DVDs and online TV. It’s [...]

Bring it on: wireless electricity

Simon Willison on Guardian crowdsourcing

WashPo trials a visual commenting system

Patrick Thornton has reviewed the Washington Post’s new visual ‘WebCom’ commenting system on Poynter online. It’s not being used site-wide, only on “Flash-based video features such as onBeing and Scene In.” [Steven] King [the site's editor of innovations] said the site will start using WebCom on other videos later this year. There are no plans [...]

Jeff Howe on writing Crowdsourcing

Jeff Howe on the role of incentives in crowdsourcing from Nieman Journalism Lab on Vimeo.

BBC: Adam Curtis’ ‘Century of Self’

"Adam Curtis' acclaimed series examines the rise of the all-consuming self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty."

The Telegraph’s integrated newsroom

The Telegraph talks about its integrated web-and-print newsroom.