New site blurs editorial and advertising ‘church-state’ wall
June 8, 2009
True/Slant, which has been in beta, officially launches today. It’s a new Web site that is, according to Howard Kurtz, “mapping a new relationship between journalists, readers and advertisers.” Read more »
10 steps to saving newspapers in the digital age
June 7, 2009
Mark Glaser, Executive editor of PBS MediaShift, sent out 10 great tweets over the weekend, from his hospital bed, about ways to save newspapers. Here they are…
Ads You Can Digg…or Bury
June 4, 2009
Digg is launching a clever new ad plaform in the next few months. “Digg Ads will give you more control over which advertisements are displayed on Digg. The more an ad is Dugg, the less the advertiser will have to pay. Conversely the more an ad is buried, the more the advertiser is charged, pricing it out of the system. “
Video: New wave of book publishing?
May 21, 2009
“The Obama Time Capsule” is personalized to the user and printed upon order.
Designer turns newspaper into cocktail dress
May 11, 2009
USA TODAY challenged designer Isaac Mizrahi, the co-host and judge of Bravo’s new fashion competition reality show, The Fashion Show, to transform a stack of newspapers into an elegant garment, and voila, he produced a size-4 belted cocktail dress that’s black and white — and blue and green and red and purple — and pin-tucked all over. Read more »
Can e-readers like Kindle save newspapers?
May 4, 2009
Several new e-reading devices are due in the next year, including ones from News Corporation, Hearst and Plastic Logic, and Amazon is about to announce a larger version of Kindle for reading newspapers, magazines and textbooks, The New York Times reports.
Real-time swine flu updates using Twitter
May 4, 2009
Check out this very cool mashup using Twitter and Google Maps. Read more »
The Espresso Book Machine prints books in minutes!
April 27, 2009
The Espresso Book Machine is a new machine that prints books in minutes from a computer database. Read more »
Google News Timeline
April 21, 2009
New and very cool: “Google News Timeline is a web application that organizes search results chronologically. It allows users to view news and other data sources on a browsable, graphical timeline. Available data sources include recent and historical news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, sports scores, and information about various types of media, like music albums and movies.”
Top web sites visualized as a subway map
April 6, 2009
Very cool: The Web Trend Map shows “the 333 most influential Web domains and the 111 most influential internet people onto the Tokyo Metro map. Domains are carefully selected by the iA research team through dialogue with map enthusiasts. Each domain is evaluated based on traffic, revenue, age and the company that owns it. The iA design team assigns these selected domains to individual stations on the Tokyo Metro map in ways that complement the characters of each.” Read more »