Oldmedia. Bloggers. CES: Hearst to Show Off The Skiff Reader [PICS] If it seems like everybody and his second cousin is making an eReader device, it's because they pretty much are. Beyond the industry-leading Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader, a veritable troupe of newcomers are taking the stage to challenge the digital reading device market: The Barnes & Noble Nook, Plastic Logic Que, Spring Design Alex, LG's solar eReader and more will be vying for a share of the digital book market along with the now official Skiff Reader from Hearst.
In partnership with Sprint, who will supply 3G connectivity to the device, The Skiff Reader plans to come out swinging with a large 11.5-inch size and a high 1200 x 1600 pixel screen resolution. It will also be on the svelte side at just over a quarter-inch thick and just over a pound — the thinnest eReader on the market to date.The Skiff Reader is also notable for using an entirely new technology to power its display. Andreessen on Charlie Rose: "I Am Creating A Fund." (Full Video) NAA/Nielsen stats show newspapers own less than 1 percent of U.S. online audience page views, time spent. The NAA has issued another of its regular updates on the state of the U.S. daily newspaper Web audience. As usual, the numbers, sourced from Nielsen Online, sound impressive: Newspaper Web sites attracted more than 70.3 million unique visitors in June (35.9 percent of all Internet users), according to a custom analysis provided by Nielsen Online for the Newspaper Association of America.
Newspaper Web site visitors generated 3.5 billion page views during the month, spending 2.7 billion minutes browsing the sites over more than 597 million total sessions. NAA mentions that Nielsen has changed its methodology (in part by increasing the sample size of its online usage survey to more than 230,000 panelists), so the numbers should not be compared with those issued in prior months.
But just in case you do compare, they are nicely up in the unique visitor and page view categories — so far so good. Click here for my prior posts at Nieman Journalism Lab. Making media social: news as user experience. I live in Austin, Texas, and teach at Texas State University, a short drive down I-35 in San Marcos. One thing I look forward to every year with great anticipation is the annual South By Southwest conference that happens in mid-March.
Many are aware of the gigantic music festival associated with this event, but a smaller group of tech and media aficionados know about the fantastic Interactive gathering that occurs just before the musicians come to town. It is, by far, the most important event my students and I attend each year. Emerging topics at SXSW quickly become the “next big thing” within a few years. While attending SXSWi this year, an emerging theme that I noticed was that of User Experience (UX). At least one panel had UX in it’s title, and it was a common topic in many of the sessions and overheard in various hallway conversations. Where “content is king” was once the mantra of online publishing platforms, it now seems to have been replaced by “UX is king.” Missing the point. Lots of great future-of-news pieces in the new issue of Nieman Reports.
Www.bastimmers.nl » Blog Archive » Diginews 58: de gouden graal voor toekomst journalistiek. We zijn op weg naar een bestemming zonder dat we het eindpunt weten. Nieuwsmedia gaan van print naar online, zonder een vastomlijnd idee welk verdienmodel daarbij gehanteerd moet worden. ‘Internet brengt niets op’, mopperen de collega’s van de krant dan. Klopt. Maar als de oplage blijft dalen zoals hij doet (vier procent afgelopen jaar bij de Volkskrant, vermenigvuldig dat maar eens met tien…) dan zijn de kosten van redactie, drukken en distributie straks ook niet meer te dragen.
Daarom worden overal conferenties, brainstorms en seminars gehouden over business models (verdienmodellen) en werkwijzen voor de journalistiek van de toekomst. Edward Roussel van de Telegraph beschreef onlangs zijn tien geboden. 1 uitgevers moeten los komen van het idee dat online het inkomstenverlies van print kan opvangen. 2 verlaag je kosten drastisch. 65 procent van de kosten van een krant zitten in drukken en distributie. 3 je hebt meerdere advertentiestrategieën nodig. 4 gedeeld leiderschap.
Ranking of bloggers about journalism. Inspired by Martin Belam’s extensive charts of popular RSS feeds, and Adrian Monck’s list of popular UK journalism bloggers, I’ve grabbed the baton and produced a chart of the top ten American journo-bloggers, based on combined subscriptions via Google Reader and Bloglines: Not included are Susan Mernit (712), or the various Poynter, OJR and Cyberjournalist sites, which are set up as news services more than blogs.
Now I’m sure that in my transatlantic ignorance I’ve missed some major American journo-bloggers, so I’m trusting that you’ll let me know any glaring omissions. In the meantime: some comparisons with Monck’s list. Whereas the UK bloggers features two academics, the US list has three, with two occupying the top spots. The US bloggers are also more ‘strategic’, if that makes sense: most are involved in consultancy, founding companies or experimenting with technology. Perhaps this says something about the American news industry. Excuse me while I pull my head out of my backside…