Yep, I was taken in as well. The night before the iPad launch Jason Calacanis started off a stream of tweets that said that he had been an iPad tester for a while and rattled off a features that sounded logical. Cameras, games, e-reader, solar panels … hold on … I was wondering about that.
I was pretty interested what Jason was saying and since I met him a few times, I figured that there wasn’t a bad chance that Apple had given him an iPad to test. The next morning [...]
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Yeah, I’ll admit it. I’m pschyed about the iPad. No, it isn’t perfect. Yep there are some obvious flaws (lack of USB port or SD card reader are big ones for me), but I’m excited about how this will change how we use computers. I remember I wasn’t too keen on the iPhone at first, but I knew from the moment I saw it that it changed how we would use and interact with smart phones from then on. Same with the iPad (I agree, the name is terrible, just [...]
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Oh New York Times, I know you’re having trouble making ends meet. I know it’s hard to keep up with the costs of dead trees and top notch journalists, but bringing back the pay wall in 2011? Are you kidding? You just want to cut off your links to spite your paper don’t you? Like Mashable said…
The company says that more details about the metered model will be revealed over the next few months. But let’s quickly look at what it almost certainly won’t do: attract links. Anyone who links [...]
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This is one of those times when the clichéd Tale of Two Cities quotes comes to mind. I’ll save you the pain and skip it. Yeah, we get it, newspapers as we know them are in trouble. Just like the advent of the telegraph changed how news was gathered, transmitted and reported, the Internet has done the same for papers.
Who wants to buy a newspaper to read news that is often stale before the ink is dry? Certainly not for the classifieds, Craigslist took care of that nicely. Weekly fliers? [...]
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In case you missed my column on The Vancouver Observer…
[From Phishing: How to Avoid Getting Hooked | The Vancouver Observer - Vancouver Olympics News Blogs Events Reviews]
Which not only covers how to avoid getting hooked by phishing scams, but also announcing the winners of last week’s contest!
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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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I’m not sure if Rupert Murdoch is a brilliant business mind, just doesn’t get the Internet, or just plain nuts. Maybe buying MySpace was a good idea when News Corp bought it, but it certainly isn’t holding much value now. Now with his massive newspaper holdings also having trouble, if his papers are following all the other papers, he wants to remove his papers from the current market leader in search engines:
Yes, really. Rupert Murdoch’s crusade to blame Google for the failing newspaper business model continues today, as it emerges [...]
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As conservative as Canadian business have been jumping onto the Web 2.0-Social Media bandwagon, the Globe & Mail newspaper has been ahead of the curve. Yes, they kept a walled garden up for a while, but Mathew Ingram has been blogging there for years now and maintaining his own personal blog as well.
Today Mathew announced that the Globe & Mail is taking another bold step: building communities around the newspaper online. What does this mean when the rubber hits the road? No one, even Mathew, is [...]
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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.
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