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Times Wire: New York Times Experiments With Real Time News, FriendFeed Style
Written by Richard MacManus / May 11, 2009 8:13 PM / 2 Comments
Earlier today we wrote about the new version of the Times Reader desktop app, notable for swapping out Microsoft's Silverlight technology for Adobe's AIR platform - a significant win for Continue reading »


Google Offering Training Services for Hyperlocal News in Europe
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 11, 2009 12:41 PM / 8 Comments
What can be done to help professional news organizations survive in this internet era? The New York Times made mention this weekend of a particularly interesting project in the Czech Continue reading »


Scientists Break Brain/Twitter Barrier
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 20, 2009 11:44 AM / 25 Comments
University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering doctoral student Adam Wilson has successfully tested a "brain wave monitor" to Twitter publishing interface, allowing him to compose a message merely by thinking and Continue reading »


StumbleUpon Breaks Free from eBay - Founders Buy it Back
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 13, 2009 1:49 PM / 17 Comments
Want a geeky way to chill out after a long work day of focus, focus, focus? There are few better ways online to keep the synapses lubricated than through the Continue reading »


Hitwise: News Sites Need Search Engines and Aggregators
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 8, 2009 4:55 PM / 4 Comments
It's no secret that the Associated Press and Google News aren't exactly getting along right now. According to the AP, Google News and other content aggregators often come too close Continue reading »


The Future of Journalism Will Be Radically Different
Written by Sarah Perez / April 6, 2009 6:06 AM / 19 Comments
An Interview with Spot.us about the changing nature of journalism. These days, everywhere you look it seems that some newspaper is closing its doors, stopping its presses, or maybe just Continue reading »


Study: TV Still Rules, But Online Video Has a Lot of Room to Grow
Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 27, 2009 9:58 AM / 2 Comments
Even though online video is clearly making its mark in the media landscape, TV is still the predominant means of media consumption for the average American. Indeed, according to a Continue reading »


Iranian Blogger Reported Dead in Prison
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / March 18, 2009 8:41 PM / 23 Comments
Omid Reza Misayafi, one of a number of Iranian bloggers arrested for "insulting" the government and religious authorities in that country, is dead. Misayafi's death was reported on Global Voices Continue reading »


Being Harry Potter, While You Walk to Work
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / March 18, 2009 11:43 AM / 13 Comments
Dan Hon is building a radical new future for one of humanity's oldest activities - the telling of stories. The modest young UK CEO's design company Six to Start won Continue reading »


How Japanese Newspapers are Trying to Save Themselves
Written by Sarah Perez / February 19, 2009 6:54 AM / 10 Comments
Hint: They're Using iPhone Apps The newspaper industry is in a downward death spiral, having been severely impacted by new technologies, the ubiquity of internet access, and a rise in Continue reading »


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