February 25, 2010
How newspapers will make money in the 21st century is a legitimate question. As such, the publishing world was quite excited with the prospects for new technology saving an old industry after Apple’s iPad announcment earlier this year, which included the unveiling of a New York Times app with a subscription model. The app, which [...]
February 11, 2010
The Internet has changed the way we see and get information, that’s undeniable. But despite the revolution, the traditional way of getting and enjoying news is barely altered. People still love the good old newspaper. Maybe it’s the smell of ink in the morning, or maybe it’s the texture of the papers on your fingers, [...]
February 3, 2010
My name is Ryan Dube and I am a corporate news media addict. There…I said it. I love the glitzy commercials, the shiny well-funded world news websites with lots of widgets and cool gadgets to feed my mobile phone and my PC with piles of important news headlines, like who won the Oscars last night [...]
January 18, 2010
Your personal newspaper in less than 5 minutes. Custom news sites are nothing novel. Google itself has a Custom News feature. Then there are a host of other news aggregators like Meehive and DailyMe. We have top lined quite a few ourselves. These web services allow you to personalize your news just the way you [...]
January 18, 2010
While the iPhone interface for Google Reader is pretty slick, there are a few extra options that it could do with. The free version of MobileRSS [iTunes Store link], a Google Reader iPhone app makes up for what Google have missed out on. Setting up the Google Reader app is simple. On launching it, you’ll [...]
January 15, 2010
According to Wikipedia, National Public Radio is one of the few nationally syndicated news organizations in the U.S. that still thrives and provides a diversity of news programing. It’s a “privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicate to 797 public radio stations” in the nation. It “was created [...]
April 24, 2009
In the US, one major crisis facing the public is the dying of newspapers. As the Web becomes more prevalent and more important, newspapers are struggling to figure out how to make the Internet functional as a business model, and create a website as a destination similar to what a newspaper has been for so [...]
April 23, 2009
Before the flaming starts, let me qualify that headline – I mean ‘foreign’ as in ‘foreign to me’. Yes, the web is worldwide and you may be reading from one of the countries that I reference. That’s cool. Welcome. The goal of this article is driven by the axiom that when there are two opposing [...]
October 12, 2008
If you’re a news junkie and you need your fix, or if you just want to see what’s going around the world from the perspective of local or national newspapers then you’ve come to the right place. We’ll take a look at a few sites that help you get the info you need. The podcast [...]
