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 [...]
In the new era of digital news publication does still apply the journalism jargon developed along two centuries of printing press? In a word: no. In an article published a week ago at ClickZ, Heidi Cohen synthesizes the 3 Cs of digital news consumption: What makes a platform relatively desirable to a news consumer? Here [...]
Speaking about all that media frenzy with iPad, how can reading evolve on digital devices? Do you think (as I do) in video instead of pictures like in The Daily Prophet read by Harry Potter? OK, but think again. Think in a “page” where “sounds, images and other types of ambient events can be triggered [...]
Is Innovation Fair? Andrew Keen Says No – titles Dana Oshiro a pertinent article on ReadWriteWeb. Andrew Keen use to say a lot of things. I usually disagree with Andrew Keen. But this is also true: I *always* read Andrew Keen. Because Andre Keen makes me think. “You can’t get nuggets of truth in 30 [...]
2010 will be remembered as the year open data went worldwide. Sir Tim Berners-Lee believe it and so do I. In this short TED talk Berners-Lee talks about Haiti, yes, but also about data effect things. Newspapers and online media *can* lead the process of putting all that public data into nice visualization schemes and [...]
“If media is in the infrastructure business, it is in the wrong business.” “The only wat to earn money in online publishing is by having a strong and identifiable brand with a unique offering“. “Start seeing your online publication as value provider, not content provider“. “This is an opportunity we have been waiting for, for [...]
I discovered The 15 Essential UNIX commands written almost 5 years ago by Pete Freitag. In 2005 talking to journalists in *nix commands was a bit of a daunting. But nowadays they are more known: much more journalists and media guys run Linux servers or Macs with OS X. First read Pete’s choice, then mine: [...]
February 27, 2010 – 5:31 pm
Facebook’s 30.000 servers (and growing) serve 6 million pageviews per minute. Yes, 6.000.000 in each minute, or 100.000 per second, if you prefer. For a data maniac and data visualization consumer like myself, this simple video from Jesse Thomas is a delight. Just watch (feed and newsletter readers, you may have to click here) The [...]
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.