Local Online News to Get TMZ Slant in L.A. | TVNewsCheck.com
“It’s basically a newsroom in a garage,” Sternberg told CNNMoney anchor Poppy Harlow, who moderated the discussion on “Information Reformation: The New Frontier of Local News.” According to Sternberg, that new frontier will also see stories being shot and possibly edited on iPad 2s, along with launching an app that lets users look right into [...]
Supply chains: Apple and the American economy | The Economist
THE macroeconomic discussions that Apple’s success prompts tend to be very curious things. Here we have a company that’s been phenomenally successful, making products people love and directly creating nearly 50,000 American jobs in doing so, criticised for not locating its manufacturing operations in America, even as Americans complain to Apple about the working conditions [...]
Edelman’s 2012 Trust Barometer reveals good news for digital marketers | Econsultancy
via econsultancy.com more evidence independently corroborates the hypothesis that as people-powered platforms grown and are populated, people themselves are winning over the pundits and powerful on institutional publishing platforms. the paradigm shift is becoming more pronounced and legacy media becomes increasingly irrelevant as they try to use emerging social platforms as marketing channels.
Amazon Studios: Platforms become publishers
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A fourth “r” for 21st century literacy – The Answer Sheet – The Washington Post
Before mass printing, universal literacy and numeracy were not considered important because the division of those who ruled and those who were ruled was skewed radically, so a small aristocracy controlled the majority of people. With the rise of the middle class in industrialism came compulsory schooling and a push towards universal literacy. Simple access [...]
Online Gamers Achieve First Crowd-Sourced Redesign of Protein: Scientific American
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A Healthy Information Diet: The Case for Conscious Consumption – Maria Popova – Health – The Atlantic
“You are a mashup of what you let into your life,” artist Austin Kleon recently proclaimed. This encapsulates the founding philosophy behind Brain Pickings — a filtration mechanism that lets into your life things that are interesting, meaningful, creatively and intellectually stimulating, memorable. Naturally, I was thrilled for the release of Clay Johnson’s The Information [...]
Tablet and e-book reader ownership surge in the holiday gift-giving period | Pew Internet & American Life Project
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How sharing disrupts media | Felix Salmon
Facebook and Google have become two of the biggest media companies in the world in extremely short amounts of time, precisely because they don’t have much interest in owning any content. Rupert Murdoch looks at Google and sees a pirate because he does everything: he both creates content (think 20th Century Fox), and also distributes [...]