Wireless fidelity - all the way

Wired News: Catch a Flick on Flexible E-Paper

How is online different than other media?The current status and potential development of online news consumption

Wired 11.10: The Fast-Forward, On-Demand, Network-Smashing Future of Television

Gothamist: Jayson Blair in Jane

OJR article: The Guardian of the Web:

"I think that now is the time to accept that, if you're in the game of online publishing, you have to be much more open-minded. I saw a comment that wouldn't it be great if a newspaper bloggerized all their content? Or if you could attract comments on every single piece you wrote? Supposing your leading columnists had blogs rather than columns?"

The Guardian online Editor in Chief, Emily Bell, is interviewed about online news in the OJR. The Guardian operation does not currently charge, and is increasing viewership. Bell sees the online version of the paper as another department of the existing Guardian, but pegs future growth and viability of the news operation to its online presence. Also, the term "micropayments" comes up again.

Read Clay Shirky, on the failure of micropayments to see what is happening in online publishing and payment for online content. Clay writes on the economics of networks and other and notes that he writes about “[S]ystems where vested interests lose out to innovation.”

As I have posted previously about the value and use of RFIDs, I thought it fair to present the views of a group of activists who plan to protest the use RFID tags in clothing and consumer goods on Sept.16th at McCormick Place in Chicago. Stop RFID Moblog

At Newsplex, we discussed how RFID tags on hardware could cut down on losses in newsrooms and in school settings. The tags could allow cordless devices or laptops to "call home" if a worker or student "inadvertently" walked off with them. The devices can broadcast their current location.

In Celebration, FL, grade schoolers wear cool dog tags or rings with their info in them. It allows them to enter the school building, but also to move from room to room, class to class, but keep connected to their individualized computer-related lessons and assignments.

These uses presume that the information flow is being managed with the knowledge of the user of the device. However, Bennetton wants to put the tags in clothes that could broadcast information back to them, as a retailer, in a "spy" fashion. That is, you the consumer wouldn't have a clue that Benneton was learning where you hung out when you put on the snappy clothing you purchased. Some retailers claim they will deactivate the tags when the consumer leaves the store and has purchased the item. But there are no safeguards about this.

Stay tuned to this issue. It is going to come increasingly into the public consciousness.

Traffic Patterns: Global Usage, July 2003

Here you can view your intrepid teacher with the well-respected reporter Christiane Amanpour. I posted this from my phonecam while the event was in full swing. scoops-of-life project 1

OJR article: Online News Pioneers See Lots of Changes in the First 10 Years

I tell you, here all the secret technology I was going to teach you is rendered unncessary (just kidding) but here is a "zine maker" site that works like blogger software. CrimsonZine - Easy Way to Publish Your Articles and Essays - Powered by WebCrimson

Whew, I am glad that our Topics class (Human Rights was the topic) worked to produce a CD-ROM of conference highlights. I like to keep a bit ahead of the commercial application crowd. If you would like to see Columbia College's Journalism students' CD-ROM, drop me an email. I think I will upload it, as though it is on a CD-ROM, it uses a browser to display its content.

The idea that the print version will build readership among the coveted younger audience by getting their interest via the CD is interesting. It could work, but I am wondering if the under 25s haven't given up the CD as media in favor of their MP3s and MP3 players which are like portable hard drives. Just a thought. MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | A newspaper revolution?

Here is something we could consider. We could create online work and package the best of it on CD ROM. What skills do you bring to an interactive and online work? Who is a vivid writer? Who can use images with their words? Any advertising or PR folks? It is going to be fun this semester. MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | A newspaper revolution?

Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits Students, do you know what RSS is? What can you find out about this app that is going to turn news on its head?