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CNN asked viewers to respond to: “How important is saving America’s newspapers?”
Here is my quick, obvious, response:

Today, newspapers are too big and too slow to survive.
The reporters, photographers, infographics specialists and editors with newspapers need to survive. They are experts in gathering essential news and conveying it effectively to the masses.
Most of these professional […]

How do newspapers gain a bigger audience and sustain it?
Be the “EveryInfo” for your readers. It’s like the term “Everyman.”
By “EveryInfo,” I mean the place where an individual goes to get all the information one wants and needs.
Newspapers need to act like comprehensive libraries. Huge databases of breaking news, recent new and historical news. Databases […]

The Washington Post, like many media outlets, is gaga over cool, interactive software.
This is a good thing.
But sometimes, it can lead to fluff, leaving readers with nothing more than pretty interactive graphics and nothing relevant to learn.
A good example is The Washington Post’s use DayLife’s software to generate an infographic showing a story count of […]

Professor Alfred Hermida of Reportr.net shares a test pilot between Reuters and Nokia called mobile journalism toolkit.
Leave your laptop at home.
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It’s O.K.
You can use DVDs to back up your computer files.
They will recognize your files and you can retrieve them.
This may seem obvious to some people, yet it isn’t to everyone.
DVDs are great when you are trying to back up your entire computer. The DVDs we have at home can hold up to 4.7 Gigs. […]

Had to post this pithy slideshow. To watch, you need to hit the forward arrow to head to the next slide.

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Wired’s blog, Threat Level, is my source for this particular post. They have nice details on this video and its purpose.

Enclyclopedia of Life
Though this video and project is about nature and collaboration of humans, this project reminds me of how the internet works, especially Web 2.0. The ever-changing, evolving system.
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In the midst of writing an entry on another topic, I came across this important information, which needs to be shared to all social-technology users:

Monday is Wiretap the Internet Day

WIRED’s online blog, Threat Level, details Congress’ actions and what today means for U.S. citizens’ right to privacy.
Here’s a statement the U.S. Congress released to […]

Thanks to manfred_macx for sharing Tim O’Reilly’s defintion of Web 2.0.

O’Reilly, above, is known for his excellent series of books on coding, website and being a proponent of opensource.
O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 definition is at his blog, radar.oreilly.
Wikimedia Commons usage of Tim O’Reilly photo.
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Thanks to everyone who has taken the latest poll, “Using bookmarking websites and RSS feeds.”
Some of you who don’t use bookmarking websites or RSS feeds are interested in learning more about these sites and their Web 2.0 capabilities. I want to do some more research on the subject before sharing.
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Last night, I finished reading Neuromancer […]