“This spring CBS listened to a noisy group of Webheads who demanded the return of “Jericho”, a show that real world viewers didn’t like but which supposedly had a huge online fan base. But when CBS revived the show, fans didn’t show up to watch it on TV.”
“To find the biggest concentration of digitally savvy consumers, you have to head to Texas, it turns out. Austin, to be exact. And the second-highest concentration of this segment is not in Silicon Valley but in Las Vegas.”
We’re all in the relevance business now, my media friends. Survey: “56% said their online experience would be improved if social networking sites provided more targeted advertisements and offers tailored to their specific interests and preferences.”
“I don’t like to shatter an intern’s anchor dreams, it’s time for reality. Journalism schools, as a public service, should strongly discourage students from pursuing an anchoring career. Instead, emphasize the “do-it-all” multimedia journalist.”
Report due out soon on The Impact of Online Advertising Networks. Media Management Center will announce it at Digital Strategies for Media Executives seminar June 22 and will publish a complete report later in the year.
“While this may seem a bit creepy, it’s probably where the Web is headed. The data is being harvested anonymously. And Charter, to its credit, sent subscribers a relatively cleanly worded letter explaining the technology and how they could opt out.”
“If video commenting takes off and becomes ubiquitous in the coming years, I think the best practice will be to separate video comments from regular text ones, as YouTube does with video responses.”
“Publishers will soon have much more data to deal with as reading becomes more digital and more social. Publishers who see the world the way readers do and turn that data into something readers find truly useful stand a much better chance of success.”
Intereting rumor for N95 US users: “If you don’t mind risking voiding your product warranty for the NAM N95-3, you can change the ‘product code’ to one for the N95-1 with Nemesis and then run Nokia update–it should install to v21.0.016.”
“Expecting a user to devote their full attention to this embedded interface and to modulate between active and passive viewing modes creates user experience dissonance.”
Everything you ever wanted to know about accessing gmail securely — especially important when using public wifi, but I just do this everywhere, even at home. Lists URLs for secure access with different features. Bookmark AND USE the ones you need.
“When sifting through news every morning, my feed reader provides no indication of what’s important and what isn’t. But on Twitter, if it’s hot news you’ll hear about it first. Humans are the best editors, it’s almost like a filter for what I ne
“Twitter is definitely replacing text messaging as my primary source of quick and short communication. One reason behind this is that I’ve stopped texting some of my friends back. I’d rather they just Twittered me or called. “
I just posted this item to Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits by our correspondent in Shanghai, Fons Tuinstra (who blogs at China Herald) about the surprisingly important role Twitter is playing in the unfolding coverage of today’s major quake in southern China. Check out Fons’ post
Also read what UK Tidbits correspondent Paul Bradshaw has to say about this phenomenon on his Online Journalism Blog. He offers a ton of links to places where social media-based coverage and analysis of the quake is happening
Meanwhile, from Seesmic’s Newspod video alerts I heard that there’s a lot of on-the-spot video happening on YouTube. Here are a couple of videos I found…
News is going to be more and more like this, I think…
“On his way to the police station, Buck sent a message to his friends and contacts on Twitter. The message only had one word. “Arrested.” Within seconds, US colleagues and blogger-friends in Egypt were alerted that he was being held.”
“It’s time to need to replace Email Culture with a new set of tools and etiquette that helps us convey information and strengthen relationships in less time.”e-
I’m trying out the new video-based social media service Seesmic, based on recommendations by Paul Bradshaw and other colleagues. It seems kind of rough so far, but I’m used to rough.
Here’s what I like and don’t like about it so far…
(UPDATE: Heh… OK, another thing I don’t like.. Apparently embedding a Seesmic video in a Wordpress blog like this one isn’t as easy as it should be. Obviously, it’s not playing. Bummer. For now, here’s a link to my video post.)
Also, I haven’t yet investigated how mobile-friendly Seesmic is. Would be nice if you could combine some of the live/mobile functionality of Qik here.
Follow me on Seesmic: I’m agahran there. Send me a video! Tell me what you think of Seesmic so far. I’ve also enabled the Seesmic widget for this blog ,so you can see my latest video posts in the sidebar. I’ve also activated video comments for this blog.
Borobudur, a Buddhist temple on the island of Java.
For a change of pace, here’s an audio podcast. My good friend and environmental journalism colleague Dale Willman just got back from a three-week trip to Indonesia where he was training radio journalists there how to do an environmental radio show — and just how to do radio production, period.
Yesterday Dale and I had a fun conversation about his trip, the state of media in Indonesia, and why text messaging is so popular there.
Be careful what data you leave on your cell phone: “A student from Kennesaw State University, Britney Lewin, said the manager of a cell phone store went through her mobile phone and sent an intimate picture from her phone to his.”
“People ask me how I edit the blogs at the Guardian — wasn’t the point of blogs not to have an editor? I use the tools that are disrupting our (the newpaper) business model to do journalism.
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Ar college students really this close-minded about blogs? “Can we call it something else? Because all our friends said they won’t read a blog and it’s kind of embarrassing to say that’s what we are working on.”
“In communities where Twitter hasn’t taken hold, there’s opportunity for digital leadership. Be the local trend-setter. Place your news organization at the forefront of an emerging conversation medium.”
I love iCal, but it’s driving me crazy lately. Help!
As you might have guessed, I’m a pretty busy person. If I didn’t have a good electronic calendar program, with alerts and reliable backup, I’d be totally lost. That’s why I’ve been a devoted user of Apple’s iCal program for about 10 years.
A few months ago, when I upgraded to a Macbook Pro with the Leopard OS (original install, not a Leopard upgrade), iCal started getting weird on me. I’ve been to the Genius Bar at my local Apple Store twice about it, and have yet to find a problem. But I’m getting concerned, because I depend so heavily on this program. If it totally flames out on me, moving to a new solution will be a big hassle.
So I’m hoping some of my readers, or someone in the iCal support forums, is smarter or luckier than me and the folks at my local Apple Genius Bar.
Here are the iCal problems I’m experiencing, and what I’ve tried (unsuccessfully, so far) to diagnose and fix it. Your ideas and suggestions for further measures are most welcome… Keep Reading »
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