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“Will anyone with information please come forward”. It's a refrain we always hear police echo in crime-dramas. People are too afraid to come forward though for lack of trust in the official authorities or fear of gangs. That's especially in poverty-stricken, gang-ridden areas. You can easily imagine the classic scene: New York cops at a ghetto crime scene with apartment residents hiding behind their curtains. Then again, we are constantly documenting massive amounts of potential evidence each time we post ...
As the Interactive portion of SXSW began winding down, BuzzFeed's CEO and founder Jonah Peretti shared a few of the insights that he and his puppy-and-kitten-loving team have discovered work well for their media site, BuzzFeed, and in fact, indicate the kind of shift that is taking place.BuzzFeed, with its lists and cute pictures of bunnies, taps into what Peretti calls the bored-at-work network (hundreds of people stuck at work all day behind a computer looking for distraction, which has ...
Content marketing has become a firmly established trend over the last couple of years. As brands move to become more like publishers, marketing themselves through quality content, there are lessons people more well-versed in traditional content production can learn.A great example of a brand having to market its content, rather than using content to market itself, is ZANews, a puppet-based satirical news network which lampoons South African and global political figures.Thierry Cassuto, who co-founded ZANews with internationally renowned ...
Do you want your articles to spread like Gangnam online? You’d better master the art of capturing the micro-attention of your readers. For a bit of help with what that might entail, I went up to Mount Table, and asked those on high for help. I came back with these some commandments. Fortunately they're not written on stone tablets (so old school since the iPad, really) so we can remix them if and when we need to.1. ...
One industry that has been expansively affected by technological changes is film. Both mechanical and digital innovations have influenced everything from equipment to distribution, changing how films are made and the manner in which we consume them.With the medium being just around 120 years old, we take a look at the biggest tech innovations that, through time, changed film for the better.Movie camera – late 1800sThe movie camera – a camera that could capture a sequence of photographs onto filmstrip ...
My 2013 prediction warned of the continued fall in the value of online content which would lead to the production of ever more content as media companies tried to maintain ad revenues.You can think of it as a towering tsunami of content, or as a massive bubble of content inflation.Just as inflation devalues currencies, content inflation is devaluing content.Ryan McCarthy, Deputy Editor of Reuters.com, and the former Business Editor of the Huffington Post, comes to a similar conclusion:The dirty secret ...
Of all the challenges faced by those who put content online, the comments facility must be the most vexing one. (There’s even a Twitter account, @AvoidComments, which reminds followers not to read the comments, ever. Sample tweet: Whenever you see a smiling child, remember: she's never read a comment in her life, and she's doing just fine.)Many websites have experimented with reining in the bad behaviour that predominates in a facility that offers a toxic combination of visibility and anonymity. ...
Media content has evolved dramatically over the last 70 years, and the models traditionally used to fund such content are only just keeping up. The vast array of content today would probably overwhelm those pioneers who celebrated the first television broadcast back in 1928.Nearly 100 years later and instant access to an unlimited wealth of information is an intrinsic part of many of our daily lives. It is almost impossible to imagine a world without TV, or the internet, ...
The New York Times revealed today that the paper has been persistently hacked by Chinese hackers for the last four months. The hackers were purportedly going after David Barboza, the New York Times correspondent based in Shanghai, and his Chinese contacts who fed him information for his article on the Chinese premier’s hidden wealth and alleged connections to corruption.The paper said, “Over the course of three months, attackers installed 45 pieces of custom malware” in order to access New York Times databases. The attack was identified ...
The Financial Times said it would try to eliminate 35 editorial jobs through voluntary means and add 10 jobs as part of its focus on "digital" and a move away from news to "a networked business."Financial Times editor Lionel Barber announced the changes in an email to staff. He wrote that a trip to Silicon Valley in September had "confirmed the speed of change."The FT plans to shift resources from the production of the print editions to its online news ...
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