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Plays real Good for Free

Posted in Newspapers on May 8, 2007 | Comments Off

The Washington Post conducted an interesting experiment on content, context and attention.
They hired violin virtuoso Joshua Bell to play six classical pieces. For 43 minutes he and his Stradivarius played in Washington’s L’Enfant Plaza Station during morning rush hour.
The resulting story – delivered in text and multi-media video, with streaming audio of the complete performance (which I’m listening to [...]

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The New Student Newspaper

Posted in Newspapers on May 7, 2007 | Comments Off

An amazing piece of work by Robin Kim, Editor and Chief - Class of 2010.
All I can say is Wow.

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A Webby Paper

Posted in Newspapers on April 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I’m a bit of an anachronism. I subscribe to three newspapers, two national papers (one Canadian and one U.S.) and my local city paper – so I’m always interested in the changes the papers make to keep themselves relevant.
On Saturday the Globe and Mail announced that it’s Monday edition would be the start of the [...]

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Citizen Journalism

Posted in Media, Newspapers, Radio, Social Software, Television on April 16, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Over at the P2P Foundation (a resource for trends and technologies related to participatory culture) there is a great video of Ethan Zuckerman discussing citizen Journalism and Global Voices a Citizen Journalism project he co-founded. While at LunchoverIP, Bruno Giussani talks about the three ingredients for the future of Journalism. (Originally published in KnightForum)
Zuckerman talks [...]

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The Bell Ringers Work

Posted in Media, Newspapers, Social Software on April 3, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Like a lot of people I’ve been fascinated by the opportunities that social media afford traditional media. Heck – two years ago I was pitching a social media platform for radio stations, that at the time neither the stations nor investors understood as necessary for their business.
Now comes the news that Topix is adding citizen journalism to its [...]

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