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• A First Step “…take 100 great journalists, give them small HD camcorders and laptops and say ‘here’s your camera, there’s the door….They could upload their stories and feed them to a web site, 24 hours a day…..and it would not cost all that much…say we paid each of our 100 reporters, $140,000 a year. Where would you get
• Garrick’s Wireless Cities Presentation Here’s a first pass at my presentation for next week’s Wireless Cities conference. Even though I didn’t include my notes, I think the idea comes across in the slides. I’m looking for your thoughts and comments - that’s why I uploaded it days before the talk. Garrick-WirelessCities-Presentation.pdf [5mb]
• Where Theory and Practice in Publishing Differ “…a newspaper blog, for example, has higher standards to maintain than a teenager’s rant blog…” - Mark Gisleson While I expect a higher standard of reporting from anything run through a printing press and sent over the FM dial (between 88.3 and 91.1) it’s a rare occasion the higher standard is delivered. In fact, I’m
• RE: Pioneer Press to Launch ‘e-paper’ Every couple of years, the idea of delivering a frozen PDF instead of a living, breathing website hits my radar 1. This is the first time it hit’s this close to home. “Presumably, you’ll now be able to pay a premium to have a format that less searchable, doesn’t get corrected or updated the same way
• What I Read in the Sunday Paper Jen and I have subscribed to a Sunday paper as long as I can remember. In Chicago, it was the Chicago Tribune, here in Minnesota on the west side of Highway 280, it’s the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Leisurely reading the paper over doughnuts and coffee is a tradition I’m quite fond of. In an effort