December 21, 2011 – 6:36 pm
A fresh concept is evolving around the paywalls. In the last few days journalists are talking about how bad is the practice of penalize the most loyal readers. As Jeff Jarvis pointed out in Why not a reverse meter?, “media are valuing our readers/users/customers opposite how we should, rewarding the freeriders and taxing — and [...]
December 18, 2011 – 11:30 am
“A decade of studies by the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future creates a portrait of the American user of the Internet reaping the benefits of online activity, while at the same time paying a tremendous price in the form of time, privacy, and well-being” (quote from USC Annenberg | Is America at a digital [...]
December 16, 2011 – 10:21 am
Janet Robinson is going to step down at the end of the month, announced The New York Times. Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. will serve as CEO for a time, while NYT company look “to the technology sector for a new chief executive as its businesses shift to online formats”, writes Amy Chozick (Media Decoder: Janet [...]
December 3, 2011 – 6:31 pm
Let’s call him “Jim”. Jim had this problem: his blog was so successful that he had to upgrade its server. For a few months, it worked. But soon the problem repeated: hundreds of page-views for second, MySQL and Apache so busy that the server was like melting. One simple update on Facebook — and the [...]
December 1, 2011 – 4:38 pm
No. I’m not just quoting Mr. Schwarzenegger. I will be back to posting here. I’ve been so busy programming. A web application and a web service occupied me all the time in recent months. But worth it. A group of media in my country, Portugal, is making good use of my newsroom intelligence service (more [...]
Hello, my name is Paulo Querido. I'm a portuguese journalist and writer. Did almost everything in newspapers and wrote a lot about technology and networking. I still publish on print 5 days a week, but I prefer to develop web apps and services for newsrooms ans individual journalists. I occasionally update the conversation going on about new skills that improve journalism in an environment totally full of data, as well as the effects of openness of information and governance around the world.