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Best of 2010: Four noteworthy future of news blog posts you may have missed 1 Jan 2011 | 03:00 am
1. South African Paper's Mobile Site Focuses on 'Nowness' Knight News Challenge, May 24 It pains us to see news organizations devote so much of their limited resources to platform-specific apps — fr...
What if newspapers were invented today? 6 Dec 2010 | 11:40 am
What would newspapers look like if they were invented today? Swedish media group Bonnier's News+ tablet concept is one answer. As elegantly demonstrated in the video below, News+ iPad apps seek to cr...
UGC (the remix version) 25 Nov 2010 | 09:27 am
On its face, it's just a list of restaurants. All it accomplished, however, is a list in itself. My paper's 50 best restaurants list, unveiled in countdown fashion last week, introduced readers to ou...
Before you get all app happy… The case for HTML5 over native apps 14 Nov 2010 | 09:07 am
There's an app for that. And that. And that. But should there be? Or will there be? Platform-specific mobile applications might seem like the next big thing, but there are indications that they could ...
Embrace change, it happens 9 Nov 2010 | 02:30 am
Storytelling is changing, so says the headline in a Journalistics post by Bethany Bengtson. Yes, of course she’s right, but I like her point. Some journalists have spent too much time lamenting new fo...
Three free resources for covering the mobile/location-based midterm 2 Nov 2010 | 10:04 am
The previous three election cycles, blogs, Web video and social media emerged as mainstream tools for covering and influencing the political process. This time around, it's the mobile Web and location...
Guardian's Martin Belam on developing and designing news for the mobile Web 29 Oct 2010 | 10:29 pm
It's remarkable how much newspapers look like their parents. And grandparents. And great grandparents. With their medium in its second generation, a similar thing is happening now with news Web pages....
It's a post, it's a list, it's a baseball analogy: 17 'smallball' tactics for big digital success 26 Oct 2010 | 10:07 pm
This blog is nearly three months old, and somehow we've avoided baseball analogies. Until now. Last week during game 6 of the ALCS on TBS, I caught the tail end of a segment extolling the Texas Rang...
Being mobile ready just means being ready 21 Oct 2010 | 11:00 pm
These days, it’s almost sacrilege for news sites not to have a mobile presence. According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 40 percent of adults use the internet, email or instant messag...
Crowdsourcing's many functions and how to apply them to news 21 Oct 2010 | 11:55 am
Every field has its buzzwords. You know, words that are used so often to mean so many different things that their meaning starts to erode. At Journalism Lives, we've made restoring their meaning part ...
