The New York Times Research and Development Lab have come out with a really cool idea for getting the newspaper right on your mobile phone. They developed a product using hacked Radio Frequency Identification chips (RFID) whereby you can transfer data to your cell phone seamlessly. The idea, once it’s fully developed, would work like [...]
This should be really exciting. I know Brian Storm from last summer when he worked with us at a Carnegie – Knight funded organization called News21. I like Brian because he is a visionary. He is not one of the ones trying to “catch up” but rather he is helping to lead the charge with [...]
The Guardian reported recently that the BBC will be making its iPlayer software available on the iPhone and iPod Touch in the coming weeks. Many blogs/rumor sites are reporting that this is undoubtedly linked to Apple announcing its Software Development Kit (SDK) release at the end of February. The iPlayer is simple enough. Stream all [...]
I had a great conversation over lunch today with Paul Grabowicz, the director of new media at the graduate school of journalism, UC Berkeley. We talked about why media organizations simply cannot demand a premium for their online ads, no matter how many unique viewers come to their sites. Our conclusion, among the vast amount [...]
http://rji.missouri.edu/projects/rji-adobe-air-competition/stories/10000-idea/index.php (Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) and partner Adobe Systems are giving $10,000 to come up with new technologies) This link should say it all. In a world increasingly dominated by Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and even things as simple as blogs, the methods by which young people communicate, have gone completely digital. In a recent ethnographic [...]