29 December 2014

24 December 2014

CNN: Sony Is Putting The Interview on YouTube 

Won't we see a lot more of this?

Google to start publishing song lyrics online | Music | The Guardian

A great opportunity for newspapers to add value.

NKorea Outage a Case Study in Online Uncertainties - ABC News

Are we looking carefully enough at this?

BBC News - E-books 'damage sleep and health,' doctors warn

Printed newspapers don't tend to do that!

19 December 2014

BBC News - Whodunnit? The Mystery of the Sony Pictures Hack

This could so easily have been a newspaper company on the eve of a big story.

17 December 2014

16 December 2014

new york times retail locations - Google Search

I wanted to buy a single copy of the NYT today in Chapel Hill, NC. How in the world is one supposed to determine where they may be sold?

Trying to Swim in a Sea of Social Media Invective - NYTimes.com

I don't see newspapers doing all that they could to help on this.

11 December 2014

Katherine Allen - EContent Magazine

She has interesting things to say.

The Future of the News Is You - EContent Magazine

I'd like to think some more about this.

10 December 2014

Disney and Koch Industries Had Luxembourg Tax Deals, Journalists’ Group Says - NYTimes.com

I am not familiar with the group of reporters at the source of this story.

07 December 2014

Los Angeles Times

I have long argued that newspapers ought to do so much more of this kind of simple work product-oriented communicating with customers.

Coming Home: Military Families Cope with Change . PBS Parents | PBS

It is nice to see the story-telling aspect of this.

03 December 2014

Targeting Customers on Mobile During Holiday Shopping Season - NYTimes.com

I wonder if there is free wi-fi at Walmart stores?

Hacked vs. Hackers: Game On - NYTimes.com

Are newspapers doing enough on all ftonts?

To Gain the Upper Hand, Amazon Disrupts Itself - NYTimes.com

Newspapers are not doing much disrupting.

01 December 2014

The Art of the Amateur Online Review - NYTimes.com

Surely in the eye of the beholder.

Raleigh Area Shopping, Sales, Coupons | Find&Save

Not sure of the value of this.

African Books for Western Eyes - NYTimes.com

How about African newspapers?

Social Media Data on Human Behavior May Not Be Accurate: Experts : PERSONAL TECH : Tech Times

This strikes me as a really important reminder. The next time some talking head on television says that something has "gone viral", best to remember what that may mean and likely does not.

28 November 2014

Riche comme un pigiste

Fascinating from several angles.

26 November 2014

Aereo Concedes Defeat and Files for Bankruptcy - NYTimes.com

Lots of reflection opportunities by newspapers.

25 November 2014

UNHATE. NEWS

Quite unusual.

24 November 2014

11 November 2014

Webinterpret | Boost your international sales on Amazon and Ebay

Any newspapers involved? The company is based in Sophia Antipolis near Nice.

Télématin - 11/11/2014 - News et vidéos en replay - Télématin - France 2

Mention here of a site - Missoin 14-18 but not sure which one - doing a great job of posting excerpts of French letters from the front during the Grande Guerre 1914-18. Good model for similar uses in covering other history.

Facebook Makes Its News Feed a Little Less Frustrating - NYTimes.com

News continues to perplex in this context.

07 November 2014

Meager Returns for the Democrats’ Biggest Donor - NYTimes.com

What an amazing waste. Why are we so bad at this?

Facebook will be mostly video in 5 years, Zuckerberg says | PCWorld

I understand the value of video in many situations; what I don't get is why so many people prefer it to the exclusion of all other content. It just seems really weird and even in this world, extraordinarily counter intuitive.

Amazon Is Testing Taxis for Deliveries - WSJ - WSJ

Newspapers long ago should have cornered all of this.

04 November 2014

LinkedIn: Workers of the world, log in | The Economist

Newspapers ought to be able to make so much more of this.

03 November 2014

Journalism, Independent and Not - NYTimes.com

Worthy of a lot of thought.

31 October 2014

30 October 2014

Cable television: News you can lose | The Economist

What can newspapers take from this?

Facebook user growth may be slowing too - MarketWatch

Maybe it will evolve into what it should have been - a simple highly effective way to keep in touch with friends and family and to approach others.

28 October 2014

Usage Stalls for Twitter; Shares Drop - NYTimes.com

I never got it, try as I did on a few occasions.

25 October 2014

The future of Wikipedia: WikiPeaks? | The Economist

I am not sure newspapers have focused enough on this.

22 October 2014

Google debuts Inbox, a new way to stay on top of email

This looks to have of high value potential.

21 October 2014

Writing: Talking sense | The Economist

Seems really useful.

17 October 2014

16 October 2014

Google Profit Will Depend on Wringing More From Mobile Ads - NYTimes.com

Newspapers would have been such a natural for mobile dominance. What could be historically more mobile?

14 October 2014

'Letters Of Note' Finds Lessons In Candid Correspondence : NPR

Newspapers ought to be on top of this.

13 October 2014

Offen: Putting down my foot | The Herald-Sun

I enjoy his writing very much! Why don't we see more of this?

Deadline

Could be a great story.

06 October 2014

Facebook to Ease Policies on Using Real Names for Accounts - NYTimes.com

While this is freaky, the bigger problem is changing the policy. We really become a community of idiots without our names.

03 October 2014

At Crossroads, CNN Seeks to Reassert Itself - NYTimes.com

I sense only the tiniest amount of progress while much of what they do is caught between sensation and superficiality.

02 October 2014

A real problem

Every time I get one of these subscribe promotions from almost any newspaper, it is obvious that they were created by people who have only one role in life - to sell newspaper subscriptions - and not by someone who really wants to form a bond with prospective subscribers. How do I know this? What's missing below? The answer is even a single word telling the potential customer the value she/he would receive by subscribing. This is NOT a matter of a price barrier; it is a creative barrier of the newspaper's own making.

The IRL Social Clubs - NYTimes.com

Newspapers ought to be leading "IRL" events!

01 October 2014

A Media Blast From the Past | Here & Now

I still think the wikinewspaper idea still has merit - so that newspaper stories continue to evolve and do not die upon "publication".

As PayPal Spins Off, Apple Pay Signals New Era at Cash Register - NYTimes.com

Newspapers ought to have been at the heart of this from the beginning.

Piers Morgan Will Write for The Daily Mail - NYTimes.com

Interesting newspaper evolution on several fronts.

Ello, le petit réseau social qui fait la leçon à Facebook

Newspapers still have not figured out how to cope with Facebook and likely not with this.

As PayPal Spins Off, Apple Pay Signals New Era at Cash Register - NYTimes.com

Newspapers never figured out a way to be a part of this.

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

31 August 2014

The Daily Tar Heel :: Column: Come work at The Daily Tar Heel

If I were a student, I'd be standing in line for this!

​An Iraqi émigré's new life in America - CBS News

We ought to be able to do so much better than this.

ISIS Displaying a Deft Command of Varied Media - NYTimes.com

All the more reason that newspapers need to be all over this story in a critical manner.

30 August 2014

End the Tyranny of 24/7 Email - NYTimes.com

How could newspapers help?

28 August 2014

TIME’s Answers Issue - TIME

A role for newspapers?

Mobile Sales Lift Alibaba Profit Nearly Threefold, Ahead of I.P.O. - NYTimes.com

The world is so global and the perspective so narrow.

The Future Could Work, if We Let It - NYTimes.com

Newspapers could be such a big part of this.

Presse : vers un monde sans papier ?

The future as we will see it.

London 'Times' Goes Retro With Stereo Typing : NPR

Who would have thought but sure makes sense!

26 August 2014

Amazon to Buy Twitch for $970 Million | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

This pushes me beyond the edge of understanding why.

TV Listings - New York Times

This functionality is a great example of how useful newspapers can be to customers with just a little effort!

Vendeur à l’ère digitale: un métier en voie de disparition? (1/5)

Newspapers laid their foundations among retailers.

24 August 2014

Ukraine Today: Ukraine's first international TV news network offering independent news, views and insights.

Will this be a net positive? With restrictions on Russian channels simultaneously, it's all pretty questionable.

23 August 2014

In the Sharing Economy, Workers Find Both Freedom and Uncertainty - NYTimes.com

How are newspapers dealing with this externally for their customers and internally for their workforces?

Giving Email a Holiday - NYTimes.com

Still a great opportunity area for newspapers.

Marketers Are Sizing Up the Millennials - NYTimes.com

What a tough job for newspapers.

Marketers Are Sizing Up the Millennials - NYTimes.com

What a tough job for newspapers.

J'aime mon ciné

"Votre cinéma : au coeur de votre ville, au coeur de votre vie"

Seems to me that this ought to apply fully to newspapers, too!

NPR - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There is a lot of good information here that one would have a hard time finding on the NPR site.

20 August 2014

Condé Nast to Sell Fairchild Fashion Media for $100 Million - NYTimes.com

Note reference to S.I. NEWHOUSE having "stepped back from his role at the company".

Bienvenue chez Drone Nice

Note partnership of some sort with Nice Matin.

Your letters, Aug. 20 | Letters | ChapelHillNews.com

What a nice letter about the newspaper carrier!

Can Writing Be Taught? - NYTimes.com

What can newspapers do to help?

Delivery Start-Ups Are Back Like It’s 1999 - NYTimes.com

Where newspapers ought to have been.

Inequality and Web Search Trends - NYTimes.com

This is a great example of why The New York Times is unique. Bravo!

Google is searching for new users: your children - Telegraph

Google's version of Newspapers in Education?

Reprogramming Government: A Conversation With Mikey Dickerson - NYTimes.com

It's interesting that this seems to include the ways in which we connect to our government.

For Its New Shows, Amazon Adds Art to Its Data - NYTimes.com

What are newspaper doing to promote creativity?

Where We Came From, State by State - NYTimes.com

What an effective representation!

BBC News - Should holiday email be deleted?

Curious solution to a problem.

12 August 2014

(1) BuzzFeed

If this site is the future, Katie, bar the doors!

Walk in a Mall, Receive a Mobile Coupon - NYTimes.com

How about offering a newspaper with the coupon?

Web.com Customer Support - Call 1-800-438-7483 | Web.com

The television commercial I saw this morning offered a free set up on Facebook for a business and included in the offer something like - we'll even add some posts to get everyone talking about your page. I think that amounts to advertised consumer deception. The company ought to be embarrassed and probably doesn't give a white about the issue.

10 August 2014

‘Candid Camera’ to return | GulfNews.com

Fascinating to see where this story pops up!

Vérifier vos achats

No comment under 20 words?



"Titre & 19 plus de mots requis"


Aiming to Be the Netflix of Books - NYTimes.com

More for newspapers to learn.

Google and Barnes & Noble Unite to Take On Amazon - NYTimes.com

Newspapers missed such a huge opportunity.

Gannett, Owner of USA Today, to Split Its Print and Broadcast Businesses - NYTimes.com

I wonder what Al NEUHARTH would have thought of this.

04 August 2014

03 August 2014

How Facebook Sold You Krill Oil - NYTimes.com

What an illuminating piece.

Facebook’s Gateway Drug - NYTimes.com

Sure makes one think!

02 August 2014

29 July 2014

28 July 2014

27 July 2014

BuzzFeed Politics Writer Is Fired Over Plagiarism - NYTimes.com

I guess the good news is that at least someone is paying attention.

22 July 2014

While Amazon Dreams Of Drones And Phones, Google Attacks With Trucks And Bucks

Long ago, we thought newspapers could do this so well.

20 July 2014

14 July 2014

USA Today Goes Viral - NYTimes.com

Hmm. Like the flu?

05 July 2014

An Online Shift in China Muffles an Open Forum - NYTimes.com

Newspapers could have been at the center of all this, but they blew it.

01 July 2014

Facebook Study Sparks Ethical Questions - WSJ

Lots of source for concern.

27 June 2014

When Tabloids Take the Low Road - NYTimes.com

That's one way to look at it.

24 June 2014

Pub - Castorama - Chambre Orange - YouTube

I thought this an especially creative commercial - addressing consumers at a point where many, especially parents, have a real need. The idea of painting a child's room a favorite color as a surprise gift is pretty appealing, I must say.

23 June 2014

Les Echos se mettent au « mobile first »

Is this going to stick?

21 June 2014

20 June 2014

Mozilla to Develop Comments Platform for New York Times and Washington Post - NYTimes.com

It's good to see cooperation between them on something like this, but let's hope changing times and markets does not less the rivalry!

TLDR - On The Media

May be some good stuff here.

15 June 2014

France Etats-Unis - Comité de Nice

I was only vaguely aware of this.

Life made easier through mail delivery service in Rio slums on Vimeo

I saw this covered last week on Telematin on French television.

12 June 2014

The Era of Cloud Computing - NYTimes.com

How many newspapers floating up there?

10 June 2014

08 June 2014

Google Now Update Can Trigger Alarm When You're Near Your Transit Stop | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

Probably with an ad for a business when you get off the transport.

07 June 2014

D-Day Landing Sites Then and Now: Normandy Beaches in 1944 and 70 Years Later

These are pretty amazing. The BBC mentioned this or another yesterday. There seem to be several. I would like to do more.

06 June 2014

Réservation de séjour en ligne : la fronde des hôteliers - Le journal de 20h - Replay

Newspapers could have seized this territory - better connecting their reading customers with their advertising customers. Why would anyone really want an intermediary?

05 June 2014

Internet : ces .paris et .art qui poussent le .com au placard

What will this change for newspapers?

Announcing NYT Opinion - NYTimes.com

On verra, as we say.

03 June 2014

Google est-il l’ami des entreprises ?

Now, that is a good question.

02 June 2014

Google spending $1bn on internet in developing world - Telegraph

How much is the newspaper business spending and for what?

25 May 2014

Faking Cultural Literacy - NYTimes.com

Crucially important for newspapers.

19 May 2014

Mayor Tells Tabloids to Apologize to His Wife Over Motherhood Coverage - NYTimes.com

Little comment is needed on this; the papers crossed the line.

Robert F. Erburu, Led Times Mirror Co., Dies at 83 - NYTimes.com

For better or worse, he probably had a bigger impact on newspapers generally than this suggests.

16 May 2014

15 May 2014

Why Unbundling Cable Would Not Save You Money - NYTimes.com

Newspapers can do so much to sort this out for us.

Paid Post - Thomson Reuters

Such a problem!

06 May 2014

Amazon Makes Online Shopping Even Easier : NPR

The last time a newspaper offered something of equal value?

05 May 2014

Outside Spending Enters Arena of Judicial Races - NYTimes.com

How about an analysis of the court decision?

03 May 2014

30 April 2014

28 April 2014

The War on Truth in Ukraine - NYTimes.com

The role of newspapers.

27 April 2014

Dear Editor - On The Media

Pretty interesting - and a Brown professor as well!

26 April 2014

The Media Has a Woman Problem - NYTimes.com

Has been, is, and likely always will be, a huge newspaper opportunity (to get it right).

perma.cc

Are newspapers participating?

The Future of Longform Publishing | Brookings Institution

I am glad someone is doing this.

(1) FB Newswire

Worth checking again.

22 April 2014

New York Police Reach Out on Twitter but Receive a Slap in the Face - NYTimes.com

Newspapers have such resources waiting to be tapped.

21 April 2014

20 April 2014

Friends, and Influence, for Sale Online - NYTimes.com - NYTimes.com

How does accurate information get through this smog?

Facebook's Existential Crisis - NYTimes.com - NYTimes.com

How could newspapers capitalize on this?

17 April 2014

Facebook wants to help you meet friends offline - Computerworld

Surely a place where newspapers could play a big role.

16 April 2014

Russia Is Quick to Bend Truth About Ukraine - NYTimes.com

It seems to me that Russia, and Russians, missed a huge opportunity to establish a strong and vibrant free press following the fall of the Soviet Union. I suppose historians may tell us one day why.

14 April 2014

Local News, Off College Presses - NYTimes.com

Certainly true here in Chapel Hill.

08 April 2014

10 Courses With a Twist - NYTimes.com

And what are newspapers doing in response?

05 April 2014

Facebook Customizes Gender With 50 Different Choices - NYTimes.com

It makes me want to dump the whole thing.

04 April 2014

New Web Addresses Provide Alternatives To Crowded Domains : NPR

Mentioned here is the owner of .menu. I wonder if there is a .newspaper and if anyone is using it yet.

03 April 2014

Editor & Publisher ®

Smart move by Google.

In the Light: Exposure to Morning Sun Might Make you Thinner

I love the nostalgic reference to newspapers!

02 April 2014

Amazon unveils video-streaming set-top box - latimes.com

The newspaper answer to all of this?

Times Premier - Times Insider - NYTimes.com

The value proposition does not look good enough for this.