links for 2005-11-17
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The American Press Institute has launched a $2 million year-long research project trying to find new business models for newspapers
For the last couple of years, I spent more than 200 days a year on the road. That’s a grueling schedule that doesn’t lend itself to healthy habits – especially for someone like me who has a lot of friends in the restaurant industry and a passion for trying great food. Despite the challenges –…
Steve Rubel points to a Pew statistic that shows 5 percent of users take advantage of RSS feeds. That’s obviously a number that shows the technology is in its very early stages. The interesting thing to consider here is how RSS might impact politics in a few years. For example, it could be used as…
I spent far too much time in airports the past few days, enduring the joy of late summer thunderstorms in the northeast. On the upside, I was able to knock out two books that I would recommend you pick up when you have a chance. John Battelle’s The Search offers a superb look at the…
MediaPost: A University of Missouri J-School experiment with a "citizen journalism" site found Readers and potential contributors are not interested in a rehash of events and issues that are already covered ad nauseum by the city’s other news media. Rather, they are interested in issues that go largely ignored on the nightly news
Contrarian viewpoint on the future of newspapers (tags: newspapers) Book Not Ready for Print? You Can Whip Up an Audiobook for a Podcast for Now (tags: podcast Podcasting publishing books Marketing) Take Your PowerPoint And… (tags: unconference) Can you hire my mom? | 901am (tags: workforce) What’s next? Facebook vs. Linked In (tags: SocialNetworking)
The SEC has nailed an Estonian investment bank and a couple of hackers for sneaking into the Business Wire press release distribution system to find out which public companies would be making significant announcements in the near future. They then bought stock or sold it short for a profit. Since the start of this year,…