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Archive for August, 2010

Untapped consumer resource: 61% want to help improve products

Friday, August 13th, 2010

If you have $499, you can get a the full Forrester Research report: US Consumers Are Willing Co-Creators or you can just chew on this little teaser from Forrester:
Sixty-one percent of all US online adults are willing co-creators, and they are open to co-creating across a large range of industries. With such wide-ranging interest [...]

Robert Picard: Journalism is in good health

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Robert G. Picard, Hamrin Professor in media economics at the Jönköping International Business School, Sweden, and a fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at University of Oxford, says journalism is healthy, although news organizations are not.
Here are a couple pieces of the complete Picard interview conducted by Nikhil Moro, associate [...]

OhmyNews International: Citizen Journalism with No Citizen News

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

PJNet.org chronicled the first stages of OhmyNews, the citizen journalism site in South Korean. My first headline was in 2004: OhmyNews: Journalists aren’t some exotic species. Actually, it may turn out that they are.
Alas here, in part, is the latest from OhmyNews International:

Welcome to a fresh approach for OhmyNews International. In a [...]

Slate Launches Experimental Multimedia Lab

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Slate launched its new Slate Labs yesterday. Its Welcome statement says:
…this site will serve as a home base for all of Slate’s experiments with multimedia journalism. We’ve been doing a lot of them over the past few years, so we’ve collected a gallery of our favorite interactives from the Slate archives. To keep things fresh, [...]

One Stop Design and Editing for Print, Mobile and Tablets

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

In the New York Observer’s article: The Savior of Condé Nast: Scott Dadich Is The New It Boy of the Mag World, I was struck by one paragraph:
…Mr. Dadich’s ideal, … will work like this: A design editor will open up his computer screen and there will be four images down the right-hand side. [...]

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