Not Even Local News
SVD has a pretty funny post over at KtownLowDown about “Local News“. Well what do I find featured in the KNS the very next day? A real scoop: Kenny Chesney Still Loves The Vols. Look, I get it that offbeat stories are interesting. When somebody does something really stupid or odd, it’s going to attract [...]
Movies, Music, and Newspapers
This post by Jack Lail made me revisit a thought that has been rolling around in my empty skull off and on for a while now. Truth be told, the history of newspapers on the Internet is littered with missed opportunities, wrong turns, and a lack of investment that all seemed smart (or at least [...]
Language Evolution — Who Be Studying It?
Harvard’s Erez Lieberman, Jean-Baptiste Michel are applying mathematical analysis to changes in the English language to make predictions on how the language will evolve and what changes we can expect. Lieberman and Michel’s group computed the “half-lives” of the surviving irregular verbs to predict how long they will take to regularize. The most common ones, [...]
A Question For Newspapers and Their Readers
Why are stock quotes still printed in newspapers? Are newspapers paid to print them, or do they print them only because they have always printed them? Is it just filler information? It seems to me that if you are relying on a newspaper to tell you what happened in the markets the day before, you [...]
New Aggregator at KnoxNews
This is cool, and needed. The News Sentinel continues to be way ahead of the curve as far as newspapers go when it comes to embracing its local blogging community. Not at all a bad business decision either, since they will be hosting blogs (and advertising) for others there. The site itself has a lot [...]
USA Today is Catching On
They changed their look and feel today–very Web 2.0. Look for more big media outlets to do the same, adding “digg” style recommendations for readers and giving them the opportunity to participate, not just read. They even have a “shutter speed” feature where “you can be part of covering the story.”
