Worldcrunch.com translates news articles from all over the world, written in all sorts of languages into English… wow.
London 2012 Olympic volunteers have been banned from posting updates and photos to Twitter, Facebook and other social networks.
While at the same time:
London is set to roll out a massive Wi-Fi network as it prepares to host the 2012 Olympic Games. The best part? It’s absolutely free to use.
It’ll be fascinating to watch as the internet continues to transform those long-standing traditional global events and the way they are broadcast and reported on.
Incredible time to live in.
Revision 3 pumps out a new show: Toast Donut. From the mouth of Hippy Glen.
I am rooting for shows like these, I love online video, but this one hasn’t stuck with me quite yet.
The Verge does video and Gruber is on. Online video is coming and it’s getting better and better.
The Chronicle, a 122-year old daily newspaper based in Centralia, announced Tuesday that it will eliminate printed editions of the newspaper on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and publish only digital editions those days.
Time to rethink the term “newspaper” and start taking serious news outlets that don’t print on paper.
John Gruber, voice of Daring Fireball clarifies this and talks about his reasons for it in this week’s ‘Talk Show’.
Good to know, and good for him.
So, this site is for me:
The Days Of Yore interviews artists about the years before they had money, fame or roadmaps to success, and inspires you to find your own.
Comments are now threaded and on the same page as the articles.
Didn’t think they would go there.
Here is another cool iPad magazin app, this one is available in Newsstand and as standalone apps.
ONCE has a very interesting navigation structure. And I love the way it highlights photos by letting you blend in and out of the text.
Donna Hay, Australian super-star food writer and cookbook author releases her full magazine as an iPad app. Beautiful, stunning work. Love the pictures, animations, the whole content is incredible to look at and to experience.
A downside was the superlong download time it took to make the whole magazine available, which confused me at first, but once I realized what incredible immersive experience it would offer, it became clear, why it took so long.
The one big omission the magazine failed to address is the sharing ability. Content, delivered electronically screams to be shared, mentioned, commented and interacted with and the e-magazine failed to address any of those aspects, which might turn some people away, but the overall appearance was so incredible, that this made up for the lack of sharing features.
So, get the free version of the Anniversary Edition, you’ll fall in love with it, just for the recipes and food pics!
Anonymous blogger at the local blog Olympia Views compares our local rag’s comment thread with the one of the Seattle Times. A worthy comparison as our local comments are hideous for most part and the Time’s is more civil, smart perhaps. Reinforcing the stereotype that people in the big city are more civilized. But his conclusion, that The Olympian has to fear competition in business, as subscribers might switch from the daily O to the Seattle Times and would put the local publisher under pressure is not what I see. As long as their sales force can still plump up their statistics and can sell ads, the paper will continue to print. It will look more like a coupon book, but it will exist.
Ad sales drive local journalism. Not story-telling, unfortunately.
Gruber gives us a few nuggets on the latest Talk Show on the beginning of ‘Daring Fireball‘. Worth a listen.
How easy is it to sit on the couch, presumably in underpants and dissect ‘news’. Here is my take on that in the lastest: Don’t Watch This, episode #40!
What’s a viable business model these days for a local news operation that may have elements of citizen journalism but is informed by professional standards?
Read: What can we accomplish while sitting on the computer, without leaving the house.
Journalism succeeds when we actually walk the beat, no?