Inspired by Patrick LaForge‘s Times in 10 Tweets experiment at the NYT, I decided to do the same with a day in the life of The Seattle Times, based on the tweets of Seattle Times staffers. Here’s the result:
What do you think? Interesting? Or a waste of time?
Posted from Seattle, Washington, United States.
The world is changing with amazing speed, and we need to pay close attention to what is happening. … No one in our business has yet launched a really impressive or successful electronic product, but someone surely will. I’d bet it will happen rather soon. The Post ought to be in the forefront of this — not for the adventure, but for important defensive purposes. We’ll only defeat electronic competitors by playing their game better than they can play it. And we can.
Here is a fascinating glimpse of the future of digital media and newspapers’ place in it as seen from the year 1992 by then-Washington Post Managing Editor Robert Kaiser. Read Mark Potts’ write-up, and then read the full memo.
As an aside, it’s worth noting that Potts debunks the now-popular notion that newspaper execs’ “original sin” was not pursuing paid digital models from the get-go. In fact, newspapers tried many variations on paid content over the years, and most failed. (Newspaper executives were negligent in many other ways where digital is concerned, but on this count I think they deserve a pass.)
What’s most striking to me, though, is how the radical changes in technology that were predicted at this conference 20 years ago have unfolded more-or-less the way the technologists foresaw. (Remember, this is before anybody outside academe and big science had heard of the web, and 2400 bits per second was probably the most common connection speed for home computers to online services.) In fact, one of the few major technological advancements of the last two decades not mentioned in Kaiser’s memo is the explosion of mobile.
The thing nobody seems to have adequately imagined is how these changes in technology would shift the foundations of mass media in two fundamental ways: By disrupting the advertising business model and by giving rise to search and social media (and thus disaggregating the “bundle” that gave newspapers much of their value).
It would seem the near future is fairly easy to predict in purely technological terms. What’s harder to see are the economic and social implications of those changes. Credit to Bob Kaiser for trying.
Posted from Seattle, Washington, United States.
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I am an ex-Flash user. I uninstalled the Flash plug-in on my primary browser about a month ago, and I haven’t looked back. Here’s how it happened:
Back when Apple announced that its forthcoming iPad would lack Flash support, it sounded to me like a boneheaded move. If a device built for consuming multimedia doesn’t support the web’s leading format for multimedia presentation, what good is it?
But after using my own iPad for a while, I decided I didn’t miss Flash nearly as much as I thought I would. (And I discovered that a lot of web apps I’d assumed were Flash-based were actually built with JavaScript.) Which got me thinking: Could I do without Flash on my main computer as well?
I use a woefully underpowered first-generation MacBook Air that I’d rather not replace just yet. I’d done about all I can think of to squeeze a little more performance out of it, including installing a solid-state hard drive and upgrading the OS to Snow Leopard. Still I found many common activities, particularly web browsing in multiple tabs or windows, painfully slow.
So I decided, as an experiment, to remove the Flash plug-in from my primary web browser, Google Chrome. I still have it in Safari, which I fire up when I need to look at Flash content.
After about a month, here are my impressions:
In short, for me, the performance jump is worth the occasional inconvenience, but YMMV.
What do you think? Could you live without Flash?
I share the same ideology regaing flash. Until the iPad came out, I was not really aware of how badly Flash was affecting my browser performance. I started by install Click-to-Flash, but your idea about totally removing the plugin is radically brilliant. I’m going to rip it out of Safari as soon as I get back to my machine.
Since using Click-to-Flash, I’ve realized how many sites use flash for elements, which I found odd, but it’s prevalent. I certainly won’t miss it! And Windows users should pull their heads out and realize Flash affects their browser’s performance too!
Thanks for the great post and opening up my eyes to a new idea.
I used ClickToFlash with Safari for a while. It’s a good option if you use Safari, but last I checked it didn’t work with Chrome, which is my go-to browser. And since these days I only open Safari if I need to use Flash, ClickToFlash is superfluous.
I would love to see ClickToFlash or a similar plug-in for Chrome.
I’ve just also decided to have flash whenever I need it (as opposed to whenever a web designer has decided that it was good for me to have a flash animation).
As a user of google Chrome I have installed the no-flash application. This way when I visit websites with flash content, I can choose to view it by clicking play (such as a video), or not (such as an annoying add).
It’s much faster too
I know it’s been around for a year or more now, but I still can’t stop playing with Google Insights for Search, that small window into the universe of data that Google collects on user behavior. It’s a trend-spotter’s dream, and — particularly with its geographical filters — a potential source of story ideas for journalists.
For example, I can see the fastest rising search terms in Los Angeles and Berlin in the past week.
But what I’m finding fun right now is plugging in brand names and seeing where they’re strong. I offer, by way of example, some vehicle brands and maps showing search volume in the United States:
The four-wheel-drive Subaru line is understandably popular in mountainous, cold-weather states:
Saab has some fans in New England, but that’s about it:
Another ailing GM make, Hummer, still gets some interest in Nevada and Texas (I suspect the bump in interest in Michigan may be mostly from concerned GM stakeholders):
Toyota’s Prius, meanwhile, is especially popular in eco-conscious places such as California and Vermont:
And the Vespa scooter craze seems to have taken hold on the West Coast and, inexplicably, Utah:
When you look at popularity over time for all five brands, you can clearly see how interest in the brands associated with fuel-sipping vehicles spikes during periods when fuel prices are high. No huge surprises here, but it’s fun to see how well search data tracks real-world trends.
Have you used Google’s search trend data for story ideas? Share your tips in the comments.
That’s how BeeBCamp, a BarCamp-style unconference held at the BBC last month, was described on the organization’s public blog. My OJR piece on BeeBCamp and “innovation events” in general is up. If your organization has held such an event, please share your experience.
I was recently told that barcamps need not include alcohol — and that origin is in fact the infamous programming filler, foobar. A bit of a disappointment. If journalists can have any influence on the programming world, I hope it might be moving things from hotel ballrooms to trashy bars.
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