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Across the Internets

admin — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:33:58 -0700

Google Operating System, Linki Go Wiki
Google Operating System, Google Txt
Tech Crunch, Cranky
Recovering Journalist, Irrational Exurberance
Scobleizer, Microsoft is Suck-e

USA Today Goes Social

admin — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:04:01 -0800

USA Today launched its redesigned site today, and offers this very noteworthy introduction:

"Our website has a new look. But the real change is in the approach, not the appearance."

You can read more about USA Today's redesign, here.

Across the Internets

admin — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:19:20 -0800

Calacanis, Saying Buh-Bye to PayPal
Editors Weblog, Newspaper Readership Growing ... ONLINE
WNBC, NYC Wants to De-iPod Pedestrians
TechCrunch, Second Life Bursting at the Seams
Lifehacker, Don't Tie The Knot Until...

Arthur Sulzberger on the Internets

admin — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:07:47 -0800

via Haaretz

Given the constant erosion of the printed press, do you see the New York Times still being printed in five years?

"I really don't know whether we'll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don't care either," he says.

Sulzberger is focusing on how to best manage the transition from print to Internet.

"The Internet is a wonderful place to be, and we're leading there," he points out.

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"Students do not relate to newspapers at all--any more than they would to vinyl records"

admin — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:09:19 -0800

via CNET News

More U.S. teachers are using national and international online-news sites in the classroom, leaving behind newspapers that fail to grasp the Internet's importance in trying to reach students, a study found.

Fifty-seven percent of teachers use Internet-based news in the classroom with some frequency, said the study, which was based on a survey of 1,262 teachers in grades 5 through 12 in the fall of 2006 and released on Monday by the Carnegie-Knight Task Force on the Future of Journalism Education.

That compares with 31 percent for national television news and 28 percent for daily papers. Local television news, at 13 percent, was at the bottom of the list, the study found.

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