To display groups of photos, use a non-automated photo gallery
I think we all need to realize that most web surfers act like a babies on crack, with a severe case of ADD. (Which is another reason video is not going to be the ultimate salvation of newspapers.)

Big media vs. the grassroots: A status report
“OJR talks to two experts about the role of government in ensuring equal access to the marketplace of ideas.”

Chart: Who Participates And What People Are Doing Online
Breaking news: Old people don’t interact or create much web content. Young people do.

Innovation | Lessons from Apple
“Apple illustrates the importance of designing new products around the needs of the user, not the demands of the technology. Too many technology firms think that clever innards are enough to sell their products, resulting in gizmos designed by engineers for engineers. Apple has consistently combined clever technology with simplicity and ease of use.”

Fox Picks BrightCove For Online Video
“Starting immediately, Fox Broadcast Net, FX and Speed is available via ad-supported Internet video channels using Brightcove technology with more content to follow. Brightcove has existing agreements with CBS, Discovery, MTV Networks, National Geographic, Showtime, Rainbow Media, Buena Vista TV, Dow Jones, BSkyB and the New York Times, although none so far have been exclusive as this new deal is said to be.”

3G vs. Wi-Fi: The Battle Begins
“The battle between 3G and wi-fi for dominance of the wireless internet world will all come down to which offers the broadest benefits to individual users, analysts have predicted.”

Newspapers Should Embrace Online Aggregators
“Newspapers will also limit their growth by focusing only on their own content — the New York Times and many other mainstream media sites have embraced aggregation themselves, as blogs have done for years, by linking usefully to other sites, which only increases their value as a destination.”

Making the ’24-hour newsroom’ work
“A fundamental challenge to making the 24-hour newsroom work is changing the existing newsroom culture. Anderson said the desire to become a breaking news organization again must begin at the top. A 24-hour newsroom will not be successful unless management is committed and resources are made available to staff.”

Editor and Publisher’s new feature on Web innovation
“E&P introduces a new (perhaps daily) feature today, spotlighting news sites that are trying something fresh and interesting, often with the use of video, audio, and various forms of networking/interactivity.”

McClatchy Washington Bureau redesigns
Ooooooh. Check out what a newspaper homepage would look like without ads. Via Howard Weaver

Gone in 30 Seconds
“Traditional TV Spot May Be Headed Toward Extinction As More Advertisers Pitch Their Messages on the Web” Via Seth Gitner

Multimedia News Producers Workshop
$210 for three days with these ninja teachers is a steal. Speaking of steals…

Soundslides Plus hits the street!
But remember kids, friends don’t let friends overuse the Ken Burns effect.

Revver Founder Launches Thoof: Personalized News Service
“The web is littered with failed or stagnant personalized news startups. New startup Thoof is going to give it a whirl and see if they can do better than the ones that have tried it before. The idea around personalized news: instead of showing stuff based on what an editor chooses (like this blog, or the Washington Post) or via some sort of community action (Digg, reddit), a user will see news items that the service thinks you will like, based on your past behavior compared to the community at large.”

YouTube Remixer: Edit Videos Online At YouTube
“The new feature is powered by Adobe Premiere Express and supports insertion of graphics, text and audio as well as overlays and in-video transitions. YouTube Remixer is nearly identical to Photobucket’s Remix tool; both are powered by Adobe.”

Meredith debuts LivePDX.com in Portland
TV stations are finally getting into the web game! At least in entertainment sites, not video so much.

Harris Survey: Adult readers prefer online to print for daily news information
“Respondents also revealed the respondents’ concerns with the credibility of newspapers, something to consider for the future of both print and online news. Other suggested improvements include providing more research and representing more viewpoints, and raising the quality of writing an analysis.”

How to Make a Kite: The Tabloid Sled
Try and do this with your Google, Sergei!

Seattle Times telemarketer gets punked
Selling papers is hard.

Spectrum Warriors of the Digital Infrastructure
“This year the Federal Communications Commission will auction off another chunk of wireless spectrum; the U.S. Senate will hold hearings on the plans for the sale this week. Now a band of technology veterans and wireless entrepreneurs is asking the FCC to set aside a chunk of that spectrum as a kind of sandbox for entrepreneurs.” This is basically Net Neutrality for mobile.

Apple Reignites the Browser Wars
“On June 11, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs stepped up his assault on [Microsoft]. … Jobs, clad in his traditional uniform of black turtleneck and jeans, announced new versions of Apple’s Safari Web browser for the ubiquitous Windows operating system.”

Google’s PowerPoint viewer goes live
“Gmail users who get Microsoft PowerPoint attachments in their in-boxes can now view them without having PowerPoint installed on their machines.”

Internet bringing back the dignity of video storytelling
“If documentaries are hard to get shown in theaters and on TV, imagine the obstacles faced by serious shorts. But now, in the online archives of U.S. papers are thousands of videos, among them dozens of exceptional short docs, more like miniature Frontlines or public-radio-with-pictures than like network-news segments, available anytime. This is video-journalism-on-demand years ahead of digital television …”

Eye-Tracking Device Lets Billboards Know When You Look at Them
Ok, this just really creeps me out.

Online video shows absurdity of NFL policy
“Great work by the Houston Chronicle’s John McClain, who interviewed some Houston Texan football players and put together this video that shows just how silly the NFL’s draconian rules about online video use really are.”

A Brief Interview with Jason Calacanis of Mahalo
Introducing a new ‘human-powered search index’ from Jason Calacanis

Doing Local Right
Great presentation on doing local news right.

Trulia Hindsight – Maps of Properties Through Time
This is really beautiful. (Or depressing, if you watch Detroit.)

Defense Contractors Reap Windfall in 2005 Earmarks
So Boeing made a 4,352% payback on it’s lobbying and campaign contributions? Yeesh. I feel sick. Sunlight Foundation, you are awesome.

How much does 48TB really cost
Yeesh… only 88 hours of 1080P video storage for $66,300?

Etsy: A Site for Artisans Takes Off
“Etsy is actually making money. Just a few days shy of its second anniversary, the site has grown to a community of more than 250,000 registered members and 50,000 sellers, and is expanding daily. By the fall, the team expects Etsy to be completely in the black.” Shameless plug: Support your local artists and craftsmen / craftswomen, like my homie Cyd!

No Ads in Embedded YouTube Player (Yet…)
“YouTube is developing its video-fingerprinting technology, to ‘spot television shows and films posted by consumers without the content owners’ permission, so the sites can remove them or share advertising revenue.’”

HD DVD sales spike in wake of price cuts
HD vs. Blu-Ray battle ending finally?

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“…just felt like a good thing at the time” — Tim Berners-Lee, apologizing for the use of double slashes in web addresses

Yahoo! omg
omg is right. Yahoo! continues building niche content sites. Something newspapers need to seriously consider (hopefully not celeb gossip though… although it’d definitely get traffic.)

J-Lab: Knight-Batten Awards
TODAY’S THE LAST DAY TO ENTER!

MySpace IM launches
I thought this would have come a lot earlier, given their core demographic.

Yahoo! Food
Yahoo Food is quite awesome in it’s use of tagging. I love how they tag by taste “Buttery,” “Cheesey,” “Chocolately” for when you’re in the mood. This is a sleeper site that’s doing awesome stuff.

“Interactivity: an open sewer through your newspaper website”
“What does it mean when you don’t have the resources to verify, to select or to think? It can mean that you can be [only] as reliable as the next blogger. But if you want to think, if you want to take your time, you will be perceived as being as slow as the postman. The amazing worldwide web, what does it mean to your little paper? It can mean you are hosting a clash of civilisations and because of linking the beheading of a hostage or some child-porn may only be one click away.“

Pagination and Page-View Juicing are Evil
“In the long run, it’s not total HTTP requests that will determine how successful you are. It’s what percentage of any given population’s attention you earn. Don’t blow it by manipulating your readers.”

NYTimes admits photo was altered
“Growing concern about altered pictures in newspapers drew fresh attention today with The New York Times, in an editors’ note, revealing that this had occurred two days ago in the paper.”

National Library Week April 15-21, 2007
It’s national library week, so go hug your local librarians because they rule.
Triblocal
Man, the Chicago market continues to freak overflow with citizen journalism sites. I gotta say this effort from the Tribune isn’t the most impressive. I’m can’t put my finger on it, but ….It looks like a photoshop mock up of a drug company’s website. It doesn’t feel like a welcoming community yet. It should be interesting to watch the market and all the competition shake out. The winner will need to throw out the old journalism model and do this:

Build a network, not a destination
“The kind of network I’m referring to is a web of interconnections — links between content and between people. In essence, I’m arguing that on the Web, news organizations — perhaps, all media — should focus on building themselves “into the clickstream.”

Death and Taxes: 2008
Find out where’s your money is going in this infographic.

And it’s only the first quarter
Lucas breaks the quarterly announcements at media companies.

Nikon D80 Blog Army Update
Nikon’s giving D80′s to bloggers. Kinda like Microsofts’s free Ferrari laptop with Vista, but a bit more transparent. Speaking of blogging ethics…

On ethics, journalism blogging and the brave new world of media
Wil Harris discusses the challenges of journalistic integrity in the new age of conversational media. (via Wil Harris)

Google Phone will launch in 2007
“Taiwan based manufacturer HTC (High Tech Computer) has apparently begun manufacturing the Google Phone, with a shipment of 1 million units to be ready for delivery late 2007.” (via digg)Google to add Power Point style presentations to Google Docs
“While Google has web-based applications for word processing and spreadsheet management, the addition of a Power Point-style presentation application could be the final step in turning Google’s online office suite into a serious Microsoft Office competition.”

Say goodbye to the page view as an ad metric
“The Wall St. Journal is reporting that Nielsen NetRatings will drop the page view as a metric to measure web traffic and instead rely more on time spent on a site. ComScore, according to the report, will also begin de-emphasizing page views.”

Audience Measurement: Watch the Cookies Crumble
“Almost a third of Internet users delete “first-party” cookies from their computers at least once a month. Also, seven percent of users delete these cookies four or more times per month, comScore found.”

MySpace visitors to vote on what’s news – Los Angeles Times
“News Corp., which owns the world’s top social-networking website as well as the Fox television network, is introducing MySpace pages today that will present a massive number of articles and blog entries ranked by their popularity among its users.”

Video: Coping through journalism – Roanoke.com
Dude. The entire world is watching. Comb your freaking hair. (Via Ryan Sholin)eBay Acquiring StumbleUpon
eBay’s back in the acquisition game!

Washingtonpost.com launches HD podcasts
“Washingtonpost.com has become the first news group to offer high-definition (HD) podcasts to users. The podcasts, which can be downloaded and viewed on HD TVs and computers, feature a series of documentary videos created by the Post’s multimedia team.”

Tampa Tribune Lays Off 70; At Least 15 Hyperlocal Sites Launching
“At least 15 sites are planned, with other to follow as markets expand. Three are live—Brandon News ; Suncoast News-Pasco and Suncoast News-Pinellas. The next dozen are expected to launch by June.” More from Editor & Publisher

Which would you rather have? Pulitzers or a future
“Newspaper editors, let’s rap. I realize this is a gross oversimplification, probably even a bit silly, but I’m still dying to know: What would you rather have, two or three Pulitzer finalists, or the 10,000 subscribers you seem to lose every circulation reporting period?”

What I Learned From Friendster: Jonathan Abrams’ New Startup
On too much flash: “I think the hundred million people out there who actually use the web aren’t impressed by those things, and they actually want something that loads quickly and is navigable and that works. So, our focus right now is more on substance over style.”

Finetune, the Anti-iTunes
The service was quietly launched last fall and attracts about 700,000 listeners, with slightly more than 15 percent of those being very active registered users who have created 100,000 shareable playlists. Last night they made available a smaller desktop music player based on Adobe’s new Apollo software development environment.”

Webby Nominees
Good gravy, could there be any more nominations? Even my mom is up for three awards for her dial-up BBS.

It’s all about You, You, You
“In this age of citizen journalism, I suppose much of our talk has become “your” news Web site, “your” video, “Your” Live Breaking Action Night News Team. Surprisingly, the biggest coup for “you” was never mentioned — Time magazine’s Person of The Year for 2006.” … “I wonder if we’ll look back at this era and chuckle at our vanity.”

The songbird who’s outselling Take That with her homemade album
“Acoustic guitarist Kate Walsh has knocked Take That off the top of the iTunes download album chart – but does not even own an iPod. The 23-year-old guitarist recorded her album in a friend’s bedroom and named it Tim’s House in his honour.”

An anecdote on anecdotal leads
“I’ve dubbed these stories ‘Look, Ma! I’m writing!’ because they seem designed to show off the author’s storytelling capabilities rather than his/her reporting skills.”

‘Wash Post’ Finds Man Who ‘Hammered’ Saddam 4 Years Ago: Now He Regrets It
“On most days, however, he cannot afford to buy gas for his own Harley, a 1982 Fat Boy.”

New Boston Free Daily puts Bloggers on the Page
Reverse publishing bloggers in print.

Blogging Code Of Ethics
Ethics for bloggers!

Cadbury Eggs…smaller?
Investigative citizen journalism / crowd sourcing at its finest!

AllanDetrich – PictureThis: A New Life begins…
Detrich resigns. The investigation at The Blade continues and it’s going to be interesting from what I’ve heard.

Even the comics are depressing.
“I’m tired of all the depressing crap that goes on. Why can’t they report on sunshine and happiness?”

The Drupal Song
Drupal is officially the first open source CMS with a Sesame Street-like theme song.

The Role of the Journalist in a Participatory, Multimedia World
Good list, but I don’t see anything explicitly about being a watchdog for the community. I suppose it could be covered in being eyes and ears/town square/community pulse/most trusted info possible.

Time Sensitive CSS Switcher (Yes! You Can Change Styles Based on Time of Day!)
Ooooooooooo. A beautiful sunset/sunrise every day.

5 Reasons the Washington Post Express has got the Right Idea
“Not only has the Express positioned itself as a premiere free paper in DC, but it also has quite an ambitious, although somewhat unappreciated, online program. I think that larger papers could learn a lot from the Express’ online program, so I’d like to take a few minutes to point out some of the site’s best features.”

The Top 10 Things They Never Taught Me in Design School
Almost all of this applies to multimedia and interactive design

Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services
“The net effect will be that unstructured information will give way to structured information – paving the road to more intelligent computing. In this post we will look at how this important transformation is taking place already and how it is likely to evolve.”

A 23-point plan for riches
Jack’s got an awesome old school list from E.W. Scripps (yes, that E.W. Scripps) about business/innovation. And a bonus picture that makes him look like a classic black and white silent film villain!

Newspapers report declines in February revenue
I’ve been boycotting earnings reports on Journerdism for a while just because it’s just too depressing. Lucas has a nice recap of the recent announcements to help keep our heads straight.

Remember floppy disks? 1992 PSA against illegal copying
Whoa.. This brings back memories.. I remembering stockpiling those Free AOL floppies for files. (via digg)

The new McClatchy Digital building
Evidently McClatchy is trying to get every member of the RIAA peeved with all the copyrighted music the jacked for this. The “Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage” Smashing Pumpkins song was an interesting choice. (Via HowardOwens.com)

A video about The New York Times New Headquarters
Everyone’s getting new digs!

Phoenix’s New Monday Look
Print redesigned and filled with more alternative story forms.. lots of numbered lists. More color. Definitely not your mom’s newspaper.

NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2007
Winners are trickling out. Big ups to homies Mark Black and Gary Coronado. I see lots of the same from POYi… I wonder how much contests influence other contests.

Airbus A380 at Chicago O’Hare
Any aviation (or Chicago) nerds out there might dig this–the new world’s biggest airplane at O’Hare. (I still have the bug from back at BAX Global when I used to fuel aircraft during undergrad.)

Remembering Donny
Whoa. Newspapers don’t usually cover suicides, but this is an argument to start re-thinking that… It’s a really well-done piece telling the back story of one man’s death. (via Joe)

The Best of Cox Newspapers 2007
Woohoo!

YouTube – Vote Different
Holy Toledo, what is this!? Obama = Apple Computer?

‘SF Chron’ Updates Its Take on Wildly Popular ’1984′ Hillary Clinton Video
More buzz about that crazy video (above)

To bridge the revenue gap, grow audience
“In the global market place, dominance has paid off for the likes of Google and Yahoo! I’m not sure the model scales down to local DMAs, but I think we need to try and find out. It’s our best chance for survival.”

University of Wisconsin-Madison Will Not Forward RIAA Letters To Students
This is extortion. Go Badgers.

How I Became A Music Pirate
“I was raised on music. I was saved by music. I (used to) live for music. Lester Bangs wasn’t my idol, he was my soul mate (in a matter of speaking). I’ve devoted a not-inconsequential chunk of my life to collecting music; to tracking down obscure records, cassettes, 8-Tracks and CD’s of all genres and styles. And now apparently that is all but over. Music has somehow evolved from tangible things into amorphous collections of 1′s and 0′s guarded over by interested parties as if they were gold bullion. How so very sad.”

400 North May Street Chicago, IL – Google Maps
Whoa… Google has traffic now built into to some city maps (along with Map, Satellite, and Hybrid views).