Dive into the archives.
- Starting a Newspaper
Seth Godin writes about he would start a newspaper with roughly six people or so. What about the institutions that have many more people already writing for publication?
When I was at The Times, a few of us had this idea, trying to capitalize on everyone’s belief that focusing on local news is [...]
- Thought of the Day
Would it be such a terrible thing? If newspapers were managed by new groups of people with no real romantic link to the glory days of newspapers, and freed from management grown fat and lazy on the easy profits of the glory days of American local newspapers maybe titles can innovate again and start thinking [...]
- Some things I’ve liked recently
Here’s a few things I’ve come across the last few days which are pretty nifty…
The Las Vegas Sun’s weather page. Extremely clean design with lots of data but easy to read and understand unlike ours.
EveryBlock is now in LA… Watch out.
Simple Update Protocol looks like a mix between a cache and sending out [...]
- Dog Database
We rolled out a new app last week which allows you to dive deep into the wackiness of dog owners, letting you see who names their dogs what and where they live. It’s really interesting and it’s just the start of more data-driven apps, allowing people to dig deeper.
Chrys Wu has a look at [...]
- Opening the Archives
From Dan Gillmor
First is to open the archives, with permalinks on every story in the database. Newspapers hold more of their communities’ histories and all other media put together, yet they hoard it behind a paywall that produces pathetic revenues and keeps people in the communities from using it — as they would all the [...]
- Twittering the Earthquake
Our awesome Flash guy put together this really cool graphic showing the first 12 hours of tweets talking about the shaking that went on yesterday.
- Dodgers Trolley Begins Tomorrow
Yay! This will make going to a game much easier from downtown.
- New York Times and LinkedIn
I’m intrigued by this new partnership between the New York Times and LinkedIn.
LinkedIn will power the NYTimes.com customized headline feature with the five latest Times articles relevant to LinkedIn members based on non-personally identifiable attributes. For example, LinkedIn members who work in the energy sector will have the option to get relevant, targeted Times stories [...]
- Molten Data and NPR
Update: Jeff Jarvis asks a great question about what people could do with this data. It’ll be fun to find out.
I was re-reading Matt Waite’s post on molten data and then read about NPR releasing an API for parts of their content. The two seem linked.
I know the East Coast Times is working [...]
- The Big Picture
Patrick Goldstein, one of our columnists, has started a a new blog, This Big Picture. In one of his posts, I think he gives a great overview of why so many newspapers are starting blogs.
But in journalism, it’s time for a change–big change. As you might have heard, this newspaper, along with virtually every [...]
