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Google’s chief economist explains value in era of endless info
Hal R. Varian quoted in Wired:
Varian believes that a new era is dawning for what you might call the datarati—and it’s all about harnessing supply and demand. ‘What’s ubiquitous and cheap?’ Varian asks. ‘Data.’ And what is scarce? The analytic ability to utilize that data.”
Providing information analysis is a task that is related to but [...]
Also posted in News Business, Scarcity to Abundance | Tagged abundance, analysis, datarati, Google, Hal R. Varian, News Business, Newsroomnext, scarcity, Wired | Leave a comment
Provide solutions to the problems that your stories create
Summary: In today’s information environment, making and selling a product is not a sustainable business. A product is not an end, but a beginning, and a gateway to the real business: providing services around that product.
Inspiration: A CNN story about Riversimple, a company from the U.K. that has come up with a hydrogen-powered, less-poluting city [...]
Also posted in News Business | Tagged business, cars, environment, information warfare, media, news, pollution, service | Leave a comment
The ways people use information / journalistic services that can be sold around them
I. Social: You are what you know and remember, and what others know and remember about you.
Forming groups of like interest / coordinate connections
Being in the know / personal topic guidance
Creating self-identity / ascribe values to information choices
Forming opinions / critiquing service
Sharing information (conversation, e-mail, clippings, recordings, etc.) to [...]
Also posted in News Business | Tagged information warfare, journalism, media, news, Newsroomnext, service | 1 Comment
Article in The Albuquerque Tribune: N.M. online journalists, bloggers predict how news will morph on the Web
When 17-year-old University of New Mexico freshman John Perry wants news about Albuquerque, he doesn’t pick up a paper. Instead, he visits four Web sites, one of which is run by volunteers, employs no journalists and isn’t trying to be a news organization.
It’s called Duke City Fix , and even though Perry enjoys the group [...]
Also posted in News Business, Portfolio | Tagged Albuquerque, Albuquerque Tribune, articles, business, journalism, media, New Mexico, news, newspaper, Portfolio | Leave a comment
3 changes in information experience micro-culture
Information experience micro-culture is my somewhat academic attempt to create a term encapsulating the rituals, behaviors, expectations and experiences involving humans and our interactions with information, which includes the concept of story, one way of many (and one of my favorite ways) to organize data.
Why this is important: To make long-term, effective decisions about serving [...]
Posted in Newsroomnext | Tagged Culture, experiences, information, journalism, media, news, Newsroomnext, theory | 1 Comment
Every story should be a Web site, and a Web site should be a network hub
To enhance your story’s online ferocity, build it as a standalone, interactive network hub for the topic it broaches, and make it easily embedded in other Web sites.
Building a network hub means you provide content filtering services in addition to your own researching and reporting:
Provide well-described links to other news, opinion and information sources relevant [...]
The Web is your Web site; search is your navigation
The implications of this are:
Every piece of content should function as an independent business that can be embedded in whatever Web site wishes to host it;
Advertising needs to integrate with every piece of content and go wherever it goes;
Journalism organizations should think of themselves as wire services providing content for any interested Web site; let [...]
Great analysis of the challenges of micropayments as an online news business