Posts Tagged ‘journalism’


The intersection of technology and journalism

Comments Off// Posted in Journalism Industry by on 06.17.10.

During a recent keynote address, Apple CEO Steve Jobs displayed a slide depicting the road signs of technology intersecting liberal arts, saying one of the keys to Apple’s success in creating beautiful yet innovative products was the idea that design was just as important as the technology. When watching this, I couldn’t help but feel [...]


Diet.com brings calorie info to your mobile phone

Comments Off// Posted in mobile, Web services by on 03.01.08.

Apparently a new feature from diet.com is making the rounds and becoming quite popular. The latest is that you can text message the name of a popular restaurant followed by a menu item to “D-I-E-T-1″ or 34381, and it will return all of the nutritional facts of that item. News of this feature has gone [...]


Why can’t news demand a premium from online advertising?

1 Comment// Posted in Journalism Industry by on 02.20.08.

I had a great conversation over lunch today with Paul Grabowicz, the director of new media at the graduate school of journalism, UC Berkeley. We talked about why media organizations simply cannot demand a premium for their online ads, no matter how many unique viewers come to their sites. Our conclusion, among the vast amount [...]