• Apple iPad keyboard delayed

    Updated: 2010-03-19 13:32:19
    The docking keyboard won’t be coming out at the same time as the iPad. CNN reports the keyboard will be delayed until May (the iPad’s supposed to come out in April). LR’s Erik Schwartz and I (both Apple freaks) wonder if the keyboard was a hack – an afterthought added once Apple realized most of [...] Related posts:Lessons to learn: how the iPad will impact local media Did the iPad’s Oscar performance dazzle or disappoint? AP to charge for iPad news

  • ‘Everybody and their mother is humping their leg’

    Updated: 2010-03-18 18:05:03
    In Search of the Future of Local Media Search Search : for Go Home Jobs Twitter iPhone RSS About you’re reading . Everybody and their mother is humping their leg’ By Cory Bergman March 18, 2010 Post a comment You can’t sum it up any better than that . Foursquare , one of the hottest tech companies in the hottest space right now local-social is reportedly searching for a new round of financing . As you might imagine , they’re not having any trouble finding potential investors . Everybody and their mother is humping their leg , 8221 says one VC Related : posts Foursquare serves up your location history Location-based games for foodies and photogs Foursquare on TV and Vegas big screens Filed Under Foursquare geolocation mobile Share Discussion View comments Comments for Everybody and their mother is humping their leg’” The Unknown Known that's one hell of a weird festish blog comments powered by Disqus Follow us Lost Remote covers the exploding local media space , from hyperlocal news to location-aware . mobile 2010 Lost Remote .

  • AOL steps up aggressive local news push

    Updated: 2010-03-18 17:52:29
    AOL is going great guns with local news. We already know about Patch, AOL’s quickly-growing network of local news sites that aims to expand into the hundreds. And now AOL says it’s creating a hyperlocal venture capital fund for budding entrepreneurs in the space, as well as relaunching its “City’s Best” franchise to [...] Related posts:Notes: Patch’s bucks, Twitter local, hyperlocal hooch Local TV news audience in sharp decline MSN: ‘Local is a home run’

  • Fwix inks deal with New York Times Company

    Updated: 2010-03-18 17:34:12
    In Search of the Future of Local Media Search Search : for Go Home Jobs Twitter iPhone RSS About you’re reading . Fwix inks deal with New York Times Company By Cory Bergman March 18, 2010 Post a comment The local and hyperlocal news aggregator Fwix has signed its first big media deal : an agreement with the New York Times Company to distribute headlines across local newspaper . sites We are extremely proud to be working with The New York Times Company , one of the world’s leading news companies , 8221 Fwix CEO and founder Darian Shirazi said in the press release This is a vote of confidence in our technology and our unique offering to news companies . 8221 Fwix recently updated its API to display nearby” streams of content , both from city and neighborhood news sources . And last month it launched mobile apps for 6 . cities Related : posts Why The New York Times partnership with RMG Networks is not a digital signage slam dunk AOL steps up aggressive local news push Marijuana legalization ad to hit Times Square Digital Billboard Filed Under hyperlocal newspapers Share Discussion View comments Comments for Fwix inks deal with New York Times Company” The Unknown Known NO COOKIE CENTER

  • Modern day storytellers and journalists are everywhere

    Updated: 2010-03-18 16:20:33
    With the launch of iPad pre-orders,  the new media stories coming out of SXSW,  and the surge of announcements around the hyperlocal sector (ex: NY Times is working w/ FWIX), it’s nearly impossible for me to go a day without thinking about the future of news. It could be in the form of citizen journalists, [...] Related posts:Train all staffers to be journalists in case of emergency RTDNA to FCC: Success comes from reinvention SXSW: Highlights from online news of tomorrow

  • A look at Seattle’s news entrepreneurs

    Updated: 2010-03-16 17:10:56
    As SeattlePI.com approaches its one-year anniversary of online-only operation later this week (stay tuned for an update on how it’s doing), it has published an overview of Seattle’s thriving independent news scene. On the list, which includes my own company, Next Door Media, there’s the West Seattle Blog, Neighborlogs, Publicola, TechFlash, InvestigateWest and Crosscut. [...] Related posts:Raycom to add neighborhood sites KSTP to launch hyperlocal network in Minneapolis AOL steps up aggressive local news push

  • Local TV news audience in sharp decline

    Updated: 2010-03-15 19:14:00
    The one piece of data that jumped out to me in the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s annual media report (that Steve posted below) is this one: local TV newscast ratings are in steady decline across all timeslots. Early evening newscasts dropped 1.7%, late news is down 6.4% and morning news has declined 5.5% [...] Related posts:Annual report: local media audience in rapid decline Heaton: ‘Kicking butt with Continuous News’ AOL steps up aggressive local news push

  • SXSW: The iPad is better than print

    Updated: 2010-03-15 16:58:04
    Do you still run into people who tell you they like reading a newspaper or magazine or book in print vs. digital? The iPad is about to change that. Scott Dadich, creative director at Wired magazine, says Wired measures reader engagement in hours, not minutes like online. And that allows for higher ad rates. It was [...] Related posts:Lessons to learn: how the iPad will impact local media Paid newspaper apps are working in Europe Links and notes: SXSW local edition

  • Annual report: local media audience in rapid decline

    Updated: 2010-03-15 13:25:21
    The annual Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism’s “State of the News Media” report is out, and it is a compendium of discouragement for anyone tied to the media. Here are just some of the top lines: Local TV news audiences fell by an average of 5-6% in the past year, depending upon the hour of [...] Related posts:Local TV news audience in sharp decline Local digital ad revenues to rise higher (and higher…) E.W. Scripps blames low online advertising on print

  • SXSW: Obligatory celebrity party photos

    Updated: 2010-03-15 11:41:52
    SXSW Interactive is all about the parties, so I feel obligated to post a few bad party pics from my iPhone. Here is Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley, who did not offer any details about who owns his code, and Anna Robertson from Yahoo hanging out at the Mashable party Sunday night. And here’s Gist founder [...] Related posts:Forget SXSW – Come to NXNE! SXSW: Work smarter, and more social media strategy SXSW: Social media marketing for business

  • California Watch rewards civility – with iPods

    Updated: 2010-03-15 00:53:08
    The genius of this… California Watch is having a contest and all you have to do is comment on the site. The site is giving away a free iPod Touch each month for the next six months. (Seems they got the Touches free when they bought computers and wanted to put them to good use.) [...] Related posts:Who’s tops on Twitter in local TV?

  • SXSW: Highlights from online news of tomorrow

    Updated: 2010-03-14 16:36:33
    The power of the human link, all that traffic that comes from Twitter and Facebook for example, will drive the new economy for news more than pay walls set up by Rupert Murdoch and the Associated Press. That was one of the key observations by Jeff Jarvis from panel called Online News of Tomorrow http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/688 panel [...] Related posts:SXSW: Work smarter, and more social media strategy SXSW: The iPad is better than print SXSW: Social media marketing for business

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