29 September 2014

28 September 2014

Why We Sit Back and Let Apps Do Our Chores - NYTimes.com

How do newspapers react to this?

The Google Formula for Success - NYTimes.com

Stuff to be learned, I guess.

25 September 2014

24 September 2014

Paton Prepares His Newspapers for a World Without Print - NYTimes.com

Well, circumstances often change, don't they?

Messaging app seeks to bring voices back to phones

Imagine the newspaper applications - hot off the presses.

Obama's coffee cup salute draw criticism - CNN.com

Calculate all of the time and attention, including these keystrokes, devoted to this silly story.

23 September 2014

Flooding Risk From Climate Change, Country by Country - NYTimes.com

A fabulous example of what a newspaper can do.

Hotels Use Online Reviews as Blueprint for Renovations - NYTimes.com

Newspapers ought to be the traffic cops for much of this.

21 September 2014

The New York Times Give an Education Subscription

My observation:

Note the fine print - nonrefundable and cannot redeem if already a subscriber. Otherwise, what a wonderful way to leave something of value to someone going through school. For those least able to afford it, I wonder how this would work for community colleges and other similar training programs.

Carrboro to offer free social enterprise series | The Herald-Sun

Newspapers ought to be offering these courses!

20 September 2014

The Daily Tar Heel :: Opinion: Extending rural internet access must be a priority

Let's get more examples of how people would use this to their advantage beyond the cat videos.

Thinking Twice on Alibaba - NYTimes.com

I would worry about this one.

19 September 2014

‘Daring: My Passages,’ by Gail Sheehy - NYTimes.com

Do we have people like this in the next generation?

Alibaba, With Its I.P.O., Mints Millionaires and Risk-Takers - NYTimes.com

This may produce a big change in global thinking.

18 September 2014

Une carte de visite connectée - Vie pratique - Télématin - France 2

Interconnection ought to be a newspaper job, too!

17 September 2014

CD-Loving Japan Resists Move to Online Music - NYTimes.com

Somewhat true for printed newspapers there as well.

15 September 2014

NPR Adds to Live Shows, With Almost 24 Planned - NYTimes.com

Newspapers were sound asleep at this switch!

14 September 2014

13 September 2014

Out of Print - The New Yorker

"Philip Meyer, in his book “The Vanishing Newspaper” (2004), predicts that the final copy of the final newspaper will appear on somebody’s doorstep one day in 2043. "

We should be so lucky.


11 September 2014

Villes intelligentes : vous êtes datapolis ou participolis ?

What are newspapers doing about this?

Chuck Todd Begins as Host of NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ - NYTimes.com

It still is amazing to think a goatee is at the same level as intelligence. Think of a newspaper reporter who ever had his goatee noted on the front page of a section of the NYT? I cannot.

Qatar’s Support of Islamists Alienates Allies Near and Far - NYTimes.com

How to separate all this from Al Jazeera? Must be a lot of nervous people there.

Twitter Testing Buy Button as E-Commerce Plans Take Shape - Bloomberg

That's what it's all about. Newspapers long ago missed the chance to give us a push button for newspaper advertising.

With Videos of Killings, ISIS Hones Social Media as a Weapon - NYTimes.com

The world is now full of people who in another era would be called newspaper publishers.

06 September 2014

Florida Polytechnic Library Goes Book-Free : NPR

What could newspapers learn?

05 September 2014

Court Decides Yelp Can Change Ratings - NYTimes.com

This is an impossible situation with Yelp holding out the opportunity to misbehave badly.

04 September 2014

Here, Ansel! Sit, Avedon! - NYTimes.com

Are newspapers using them?

03 September 2014

40 Years After 'Working,' A View From The Driver's Seat : NPR

Newspapers can only dream of being half as good as he was.

Last GRAHAM to leave Washington Post

One set of lights really is getting turned off by this.

02 September 2014

Charles Bowden, a Writer on the Edge - NYTimes.com

Are we making people like this anymore?

Study: Social media users shy away from opinions

This merits a careful review.

ABC’s Bet on David Muir of ‘World News Tonight’ - NYTimes.com

Such a star-centered medium. Not reporters, these are all performers.

The New History Wars - NYTimes.com

Newspapers need to send troops into this battle.

Elections 2014: Make Your Own Senate Forecast - NYTimes.com

This is great - what newspapers ought to be doing.

01 September 2014