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Better online video for news: Short movies = long pictures

Today’s great post from Mindy McAdams reminded me of some thoughts I’ve had recently about online video. News organizations are trying too hard! There’s an easier way to tell video stories on the web.
The web is not TV
Television news has gotten us used to a specific format of video. But a TV [...]

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Grading news applications on the iPhone

Mindy McAdams graded news apps on the iPhone 3G:

Bloomberg LP doesn’t have any pictures or video, but whew! It loads fast and navigates fast. It updated a few times in the 24-hour span from Saturday to Sunday night; I’m betting that will only increase Monday. Note that you can input your own stocks, including the [...]

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Surviving newspapers: don’t get caught in the undertow

Are we sinking or sunk?  Alfred Hermida writes that, at least in Canada, new research shows that nobody buys the paper for local news:
The main reason for choosing newspapers was out of habit. People were either daily readers or subscribers.
But only 8% said they choose newspapers because they were a source of local news. And [...]

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