Journalists seem to always be taking it on the chin. If it isn’t that their craft is dying (which I don’t think is true) or their publications are failing (okay that one is true), now it’s that in order to be agile journalists, keep employed, and be relevant they need to be programers too? Wow, harsh.
As the news industry looks to reconstruct its suffering business model, the journalists of today must reconstruct their skill sets for the growing world of online media. Because of cutbacks at many news organizations, the [...]
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Citizen Journalism,
innovation,
journalism,
Social Media,
Web 2.0
Tom Foremski writes a compelling post about the potential threat to innovation as Web 2.0 companies toy with opening and closing APIs. I think he has an excellent point. There is a threat, of course we can still try to push innovation, but without revenue, how can a company seriously do such a thing?
But open standards will be years in the making, and in adoption. In the meantime, it looks like we will be heading into a closed web of the like that we haven’t seen since before the Internet.
[From [...]
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Social Media,
Technology,
Web 2.0
I love technology. Always have. Even as a kid I loved to figure out the gadget du jour. For the past four and a half years I’ve been immersed in what we’ve been calling “Web 2.0” and for the past couple of months I’ve been on hiatus. During this time I noticed that keeping an eye on Twitter, Techmeme and a couple other places, I could stay up to date. I might go a several days without checked my once much vaunted feeds and when I did check feeds, I [...]
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bwe08,
future think,
gnomedex,
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Technology,
Web 2.0
I hung out with Jordan and the Launch Party gang last night to check out some of Vancouver’s newest and most promising startups. Tagga was there, I hope they weren’t up too late since they are flying to Vegas today, and since I already think they are pretty cool, I can gloss cover them.
One startup that caught my eye was ClarityAccounting, basic web-based accounting for small businesses. Okay, maybe not so basic. Sheila got the full pitch, I was taking pics as usual, but she was really impressed. For $10/month [...]
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ClarityAccounting,
innovation,
Launch party,
LPV5,
startups,
Vancouver
Tris Hussey is a writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker on all facets of Internet life, WordPress, and social media. He is the author of Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Blogging Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro and Using WordPress.
