‘Innovation’ Category Archive

March 3rd

Fixing Obsolete Newspaper Circulation Marketing: A Challenge To The Washington Post

by Scott Karp  |   16 Comments

I received the following “offer” from The Washington Post in the mail today — I’m going to pick on the Post just because I happen to live in the DC metro area, but I’m sure almost every newspaper is sending out circulation marketing pieces like this:

February 20th

Reinventing Journalism On The Web: Links As News, Links As Reporting

by Scott Karp  |   23 Comments

A cornerstone of journalism has always been reporting what key sources say, put in context and given perspective, alongside reported facts.

It’s time to reinvent that process on the web — make it dynamic — using the fundamental mechanism for connecting information and people: the LINK

February 10th

The Pace of Innovation in Journalism

by Scott Karp  |   10 Comments

How long does it take to launch an innovative new feature on a newspaper site? About 48 hours — that’s the standard set by innovative editors like Jack Lail at Knoxnews.com, Tom Meagher at Herald News, and Mark Briggs at Thenewstribune.com.

December 18th

Reader-Centric Publishing: Aggregating and Repackaging Print Content Online

by Scott Karp  |   3 Comments

For most print publishers, mapping the audiences for their various titles would yield a cluster of overlapping circles — many readers of one of the publisher’s titles also read at least one other title. This is particularly true in trade publishing (magazines and books), where publishers often have multiple titles within a vertical, but it […]

November 25th

Technology Innovation Is Driven By Deep Dissatisfaction

by Scott Karp  |   15 Comments

A couple months ago I wrote that the mobile web sucks, based on my own user experience that didn’t seem to match the hype. Some people agreed, but a lot of people defended, passionately, the mobile web. Today the New York Times published some interesting data:
But at a recent conference, 3G was called “a failure” […]

August 5th

Fake Fake Steve Jobs On Forbes.com

by Scott Karp  |   24 Comments

It’s not surprising that someone finally unmasked the author of The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs AKA Fake Steve Jobs. It’s not really that surprising either that Fake Steve turned out to be an “old media” journalist who’s been fooling all the “new media” geeks. It’s not even that surprising that a journalist at an […]

July 12th

Facebook Monetization: Lessons From Google

by Scott Karp  |   29 Comments

Banner ads on Facebook is a dumb way to monetize. Same on MySpace. People don’t pay attention to banner ads on social networks because they are too busy paying attention to EACH OTHER. It’s no surprise that people are complaining about low click through rates on Facebook display ads.

But that doesn’t mean that Facebook won’t […]

July 6th

My iPhone Test Drive

by Scott Karp  |   20 Comments

Ok, so shame on me for writing so much about the iPhone without actually having used it, but I fixed that today by spending a couple of hours in an Apple store playing with the iPhone. Granted this is much more limited than the experience of long-term use, but it was enough for me to […]

May 23rd

Knight Foundation Funds Innovation In Online Journalism And Civic-Minded Digital Media

by Scott Karp  |   4 Comments

While everyone is hand-wringing over the decline of the news business and the attendant decline in Journalism and the Fourth Estate, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is doing something about it, having just announced the first-year winners of the Knight News Challenge, with $12 million in grants. Here are some of the […]

May 22nd

Can Facebook Be The Next Scalable Independent Web 2.0 Business After Google?

by Scott Karp  |   4 Comments

Has Facebook missed the boat by not being acquired by Yahoo, or is it just getting warmed up? A MediaPost piece by Gavin O’Malley showcases some opinions supporting the former:

January 9th

Apple’s iPhone And The Head Rush Of REAL Innovation

by Scott Karp  |   27 Comments

Instances of REAL innovation are so painfully rare, so few and far between. There’s so much HYPE, so much hollow, empty promise, it just weights you down — but there’s nothing like the head rush of experiencing real innovation — and that’s exactly what Apple delivered to today with the wildly anticipated and obsessively hyped […]

January 8th

Google Experiments With Utterly Old School Video Ads

by Scott Karp  |   5 Comments

Google is experimenting with ads in some Google Video clips (via Inside Google via Boing Boing) — a stunning failure of innovation, here is was an example of an Allstate ad embedded into a Charlie Rose clip, which is was as interruptive, untargeted and utterly old school as anything mass TV advertising has ever inflicted […]

December 13th

Chris Anderson’s Sober Assessment of Openness in Publishing Hints At Real Innovation

by Scott Karp  |   12 Comments

Chris Anderson of Wired has written what may be the most sober and balanced (i.e. ideology-free) assessment I’ve ever read of the upside and downside of 2.0 openness in publishing, or what he calls “radical transparency.” Here’s a sample:

3) “Process as Content”*. Why not share the reporting as it happens, uploading the text of each […]

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