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Times Open: New assumptions for newspapers and their audience
Times Open, the conference for software developers hosted by The New York Times on Friday, suspended the typical gloom about the future of newspapers in favor of a mandate best captured by the keynote...
View ArticleThe New York Times envisions version 2.0 of the newspaper
The New York Times Co.’s research and development group has some of the best views in their midtown skyscraper — 24 floors above the newsrooms, higher even than the executives’ suites. Developers in...
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An open and shut case: At the new TimesOpen, different models for attracting...
One phone rings, then another, then four more, now a dozen. The 15th-floor conference room is suddenly abuzz with an eclectic mix of song snippets and audio bits, an intimate peek at their owners...
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Scripps fellows buy time for a local online strategy
When the E.W. Scripps Company announced its new “Scripps Fellows” program, cheers of “huzzah for jobs!” could probably be heard going up from around the news industry, not to mention on our Twitter...
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How public is public data? With Public Engines v. ReportSee, new access...
A recently settled federal court case out in Utah may affect the way news organizations and citizens get access to crime data. Public Engines, a company that publishes crime statistics for law...
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Here’s what the New York Times paywall looks like (to Canadians)
As Ken Doctor wrote earlier today, a big part of the success or failure of the new New York Times paywall will be based on how it treats those who bump up against it. Will it be a public-radio...
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Love me, love my NPR: Public radio listeners can show off their loyalty
NPR executives have been known to brag that theirs is just about the only news organization to show up in people’s personal ads. For example: “I am in need of some intelligent male company…I am an avid...
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Wisdom of the (developer) crowd: Key lessons from news organizations using...
Editor’s Note: At the International Symposium on Online Journalism earlier this month, one of the most interesting papers was by our own Seth Lewis, who’s now teaching at the University of Minnesota,...
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The Quora effect? Hacks/Hackers weighs the future of the niche Q&A
The broad goal of Hacks/Hackers is to connect journalists and programmers so they can learn from each other. So it made sense for the group to provide, in addition to in-person meetups and hackathons,...
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Why is Twitter meeting with developers for tea time?
As a technology platform, Twitter is the kid on the playground everyone wants to play with. And when you have that much interest — in Twitter’s case, people intrigued by their API — you have to find a...
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This Week in Review: Journatic and outsourcing local news, and Twitter’s...
Journatic and new directions for local news: The hyperlocal news content provider Journatic got caught last week using fake bylines, prompting a discussion about the value and perils of outsourced...
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This Week in Review: Twitter’s ongoing war with developers, and plagiarism...
[Since the review was off last week, this week’s review covers the last two weeks.] More Twitter restrictions for developers: Twitter continued to tighten the reins on developers building apps and...
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A new class of Knight-Mozilla Fellows is ready to interweave code and the news
Knight Foundation and Mozilla have announced a new class of fellows who will take their hacker skills into newsrooms around the US and across the globe. The new class of five Knight-Mozilla Fellows has...
View ArticleHow NYTimes.com cut load times and got faster for users
Page speed is an underrated part of user experience. A fast website is a website readers will return to more often and feel better about using. (Add WPO to SEO and SMO in your mental acronym storage...
View ArticleThe Guardian debuts Grid, an open-source image management system
Today in open-source offerings: the Guardian has a new image management system. Grid, as the product is known, replaces a clunky, out-dated, and unnamed system in favor of a sleeker and user-aligned...
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