Archive for June, 2012
Today’s links 06/27/2012
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The Start-Up That Wants To Tag The World With Augmented Reality – Forbes
“Augmented reality as a technology still has to shake off its gimmicky feel, and the Aurasma app itself — at least the ‘Lite’ version that I tried for a short while — seems to have a ways to go for being more than a pretty cool pub trick.”
Today’s links 06/25/2012
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stdout.be | The news industry and its problems
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Then there’s the question of the future of niche and hyperlocal. Everyone seems to agree that for publications to thrive, they must specialize and do one thing well. On the internet, after all, you’re not competing with your neighbors but with the best reporting everywhere. But it’s not clear that the money’s always there. In any case, hyperlocal doesn’t scale so it may be the future of news but it’s not likely to be the future of news organizations.
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Today’s links 06/24/2012
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the ‘trailers’ feature on the iPhone iMovie app.
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Today’s links 06/08/2012
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The Dichtbij model relies on close(r) relationships between journalists and sales people — something that raises the hackles of traditional journalists. A team of four “entrepreneurial journalists” collaborates with the advertising side across all the sites on generating commercially driven content. The result is stories like this one on Silly Bandz, which was paid by the local shop that introduced them to the Netherlands, or this one, a first-person piece from a student giving advice on how to cut expenses and paid for by a bank. (The sponsorship is disclosed in the last paragraph of the story.)
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Today’s links 06/06/2012
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Business models for data journalism
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Amidst all the interest and hope regarding data-driven journalism there is one question that newsrooms are always curious about: what are the business models?
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