Save the Media

Tweet Some short-takes of interesting stuff from around the blogosphere: Then & Now: Scooping the News has started a useful series. Each week the site is evaluating five newspapers with circulations of more than 100,000 on how much their Web sites have innovated since five years ago. I think it’s an important exercise because as [...]

Tweet A colleague and friend, Darren Sanefski, has started a new design blog, called Blogging Gestalt Design, and he was asking for some advice on how to get started, what to do on his blog, how to get it noticed. I thought I’d answer him in the form of a blog post because his questions [...]

Tweet If you’ve been on Twitter or pretty much anywhere online in the recent past , you’ve learned that Twitter has been playing a key role in allowing news about the contentious presidential election in Iran to be spread throughout the world. What’s notable is many doing the reporting are regular folks, not journalists, and [...]

Tweet Time for some short-takes, thoughtful ideas from across the blogosphere: Media companies of the future: Chris Brogan, a new media marketing consultant, came up with his idea of what the next media company would look like, starting from scratch. I like his ideas, especially: Everything is modular and linkable. Everything is fluid. Meaning, if I [...]

Tweet First,  a personal note. Sorry, I haven’t been blogging for a while. I’ve been quite ill, with a suspected case of swine flu. (I say “suspected” because at least in my community, doctors are only giving the “swine flu” test to hospitalized patients, which, thankfully, I was not.) I am starting to feel better now. [...]

Tweet In my last post, I suggested the idea of hyperinterest — basically topic pages on newspaper Web sites that would aggregate and curate the best of the Web for readers. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this idea, and — in part prompted by your insightful comments — I’ve added some flesh [...]

Tweet Imagine a news Web site that’s a portal to everything people used to read in newspapers plus a bunch of things that newspapers were never able to provide. A cool idea, I think, but first it requires newspapers to embrace two provocative ideas: The mass audience is dead. The product of newspaper Web sites [...]