Steve Jobs, Circa 1997, Reintroducing Apple

bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Scott Karp says: Steve Jobs in 1997: Those people crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that actually do.

The Twitter Diet: a simple, three-point plan for Twitter dominance

Argo Project Blog | Aug 4, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: From @mthomps at NPR's Project Argo, a strategic content analysis of @poynter and @niemanlab's tweets.

TBD debuts with no new ideas, but real action

Lost Remote | Aug 9, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: Friends at @lostremote review friends at @TBD: "What’s novel about TBD is not the ideas, but the action."

Spot.Us Goes National, Gets Clay Shirky as Sponsor

PBS IdeaLab | Jul 27, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: Spot.Us goes national, with stories brewing in Illinois, Texas, Minnesota, and across the country.

WikiLeaks Bombshell on Afghan War: What You Need to Know

The Nation | Jul 25, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: This curated list of links on the Wikileaks/Afghanistan story from @gregmitch is a perfect place to start reading.

The Knight Batten Awards: New Recipes for Journalism

Blogically Thinking | Jul 19, 2010

Greg Linch says: J-Lab Director Jan Schaffer writes about the Knight-Batten Award winners.

Seattle nightclub owners have ally at City Hall

Seattle Times | Jul 14, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: The Seattle Times is using Publish2 to add context to stories about efforts to stem nightclub noise and violence.

What if search drove newspapers?

…My heart’s in Accra | Jul 6, 2010

Daniel Bachhuber says: There's significant opportunity is building tools that allow news organizations to better understand demand for knowledge.

Sennheiser In-Ear Headphones - 2 Pack

www.woot.com | Jul 6, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: Comedy: Woot bills AP $17.50 for "the content you borrowed from our blog post" about the company's sale to Amazon.

Eric Schmidt talks about threats to Google, paywalls and the future

www.guardian.co.uk

Scott Karp says: Google CEO Eric Schmidt: "You have to plan your corporate strategy around what the internet does."

Groupon to Offer Exclusive Deals through Local Newspapers

Mashable | Jul 1, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: Smart: Partner with disruptors! Groupon to distribute local deals via McClatchy newspaper websites.

How Reddit Controls the Internet News Cycle

GeekOSystem | Jun 23, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: Believe it or not, Reddit users are a surprisingly huge green light in the blogosphere traffic grid.

Newsroom Collaborations: The New Culture of Sharing vs. Competing

PBS IdeaLab | Jun 22, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: Here's @digidave's latest on the culture of collaboration, with notes from #FNCM, @scottros, @mrosas and more.

USA TODAY Travel, now on Gowalla!

USA Today Social Media Lounge | Jun 14, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: USAT + Gowalla = Travel tips when you check in at the airport.

Announcing the 2010 Knight News Challenge winners: Visuals are hot, and businesses are big winners

Nieman Journalism Lab | Jun 16, 2010

Daniel Bachhuber says: Projects include: CityTracking, Local Wiki, WindyCitizen's Real Time Ads, and Stroome.

Apple iPhone 4 Sold Out Until July 2, Pre-Orders Suspended by AT&T (Updated)

Fast Company | Jun 15, 2010

Daniel Bachhuber says: When demand exceeds supply: 600,000 pre-orders for the iPhone 4 in less than 24 hours.

PolitiFact Georgia

www.politifact.com

Ryan Sholin says: PolitiFact launches a Truth-O-Meter in Georgia led by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Articles of incorporation: Nate Silver and Jim Roberts on the NYT’s absorption of FiveThirtyEight

Nieman Journalism Lab | Jun 3, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: Much more detail from @niemanlab on Nate Silver's deal with the NYT. Acquisition? Not exactly.

The New York Times To Host Political Polling Site FiveThirtyEight

NYT Media Decoder | Jun 3, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: Nate Silver takes @fivethirtyeight - indispensable polling analysis during election season - to @nytimes:

How The Mainstream Media Stole Our News Story Without Credit

Daggle | Jun 1, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: Danny Sullivan flips the script on the "mainstream media" but the real concern is attribution, right?

Experiments in delinkification

Rough Type | May 31, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: Nick Carr on removing links from the body text of his writing, but he doesn't actually go as far as Steve Gillmor did back in 2006. Steve's "links are dead" talk leaned heavily on search, and the idea that there were better ways to measure authority than inbound links. Nick is just trying to clear up reading space, pushing links to a print-style box at the bottom of his posts.

Publish2 News Exchange debuts to rival wire services

www.themediamanager.com

Whennn Are We Gonna Get Therrrrrrrrrre?

frozengrin.blogspot.com

Kellan Elliott-McCrea on Data Lock-In

laughingmeme.org

Revenge? Chicago mayor to post FOIA requests online

Lost Remote | May 17, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: Mayor Daley, paraphrased: You like transparency, reporters? How about I post all your FOIAs online?

Blogging

xkcd.com

Location, location, etc: What does the WSJ's Foursquare check-in say about the future of location in news?

Nieman Journalism Lab | May 12, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: Further notes on the Wall Street Journal's use of Foursquare: Are location-based networks too personal for news?

Watch the Startups

52 Weeks of UX | May 9, 2010

Daniel Bachhuber says: They can be more innovative because they are generally process agnostic and data-driven, and can iterate faster than larger companies.

Clarification about online/print texts

n+1 | May 7, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: The editors of n+1 are looking to raise $75,000 to put their print-only archives online. Anyone game?

Dismissing Gridlock: A Case for Parliamentary Systems

www.miller-mccune.com

Scribd "scrapping Flash and betting the company on HTML5"

feeds.appleinsider.com

PolitiFact Takes Lesson from Fast-Food Industry as it Franchises Fact Checking

Poynter Institute | May 5, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: Inside the Truth-O-Meter Owner's Manual in Texas with PolitiFact editor Bill Adair.

Confession #61: I Read Alone

tweetagewasteland.com

Confession #61: I Read Alone

tweetagewasteland.com

Can you gentrify the local web?

www.susanmernit.com | May 4, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: Susan Mernit relays a question from one community member in Oakland. According to the available data, the answer appears to be a resounding "no."

My new favorite New Yorker

kottke.org

In Need of a DocumentCloud for Video, Data

MediaShift Idea Lab | Apr 30, 2010

Daniel Bachhuber says: There's growing need for a repository for public data sets.

What If You Had Bought Apple Stock Instead of That Apple Product?

www.kyleconroy.com

WSJ Experiments With Location-Based News

ReadWriteWeb | Apr 26, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: In a new Foursquare integration tied to the Wall Street Journal's launch of a local news section for New York City, links to WSJ stories show up with tips about locations like the George Washington Bridge and Yankee Stadium.

Moving your newsroom workflow to the Web

BrianManzullo.com | Apr 26, 2010

Daniel Bachhuber says: When done correctly, switching to a Web-first workflow gets content published quicker and more effectively.

Reporters Look to Expand Horizons with Backpack Journalism

Old Media New Tricks | Apr 26, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: Leah Betancourt on a different sort of 'backpack journalism' involving world travel. Backpacker Journalism, anyone?

How to turn your electronics into cash | Yahoo! Green

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We're in the information business

stdout | Apr 22, 2010

Daniel Bachhuber says: Structured data absolutely needs to be a news organization's foundation.

Exploring a Networked Journalism Collaborative in Philadelphia

J-Lab | Apr 21, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: A J-Lab report on Philadelphia's media ecosystem recommends a collaborative journalism effort.

Riders on the Storm

The New York Times | Apr 19, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: David Brooks on how recent Internet use research continues to dismantle Cass Sunstein's original "Daily Me" thesis.

Collaboration Deepens at Logan Symposium on Investigative Journalism

PBS Mediashift | Apr 17, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: Chris O'Brien shares notes on a panel including California Watch, NPR, ProPublica, and more news organizations heavily engaged in collaborative reporting.

Why platforms like iPhone and Twitter are becoming control freaks

VentureBeat

Mark Fiore can win a Pulitzer Prize, but he can't get his iPhone cartoon app past Apple's satire police

Nieman Journalism Lab | May 14, 2010

Ryan Sholin says: Awkward, isn't it, Apple? To censor the App Store, keeping it free from the offensive nature of these Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoons?

Tags don't cut it

stdout | Apr 7, 2010

Daniel Bachhuber says: The real question: what's a more expressive way than tagging for expressing relationships between content?

Don't Mistake Your CMS for a Development Platform

Hacks/Hackers | Apr 13, 2010

Daniel Bachhuber says: The larger point is that you shouldn't allow a janky CMS to get in the way of building innovative news applications but, at the same time, you shouldn't be complacent with a janky CMS.