Jacet Utko, the Polish architect-turned-newspaper designer, believes there is no particular reason technologically for the print edition to endure. To make it relevant, it has to capitalize on its design advantages.
Utko has a basic message: Give the designer more power inside the paper and the audience will come. His track record is impressive. Utko has taken some of the dullest-looking eastern European papers and turned them into Society for News Design winners.
He spoke recently to a TED gathering. His eight-minute presentation is attached.
Techcrunch is reporting today the launch of Tinker, a service from Glam Media that will provide micropayments for Facebook and Twitter microbloggers. If you haven't had a chance to absorb Jeff Jarvis' What Would Google Do?, take a moment and go through the attached PowerPoint presentation as a taste of the book. WWGD? - The PowerPoint View more presentations from jeffjarvis. Internet advertising grew in 2008, even though the U.S. economy slowed. A new report from PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the Interactive Advertising Bureau indicates online ad revenue grew 10.6 per cent to $23.4 billion US. IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report View more documents from Rafal Borkowski. The State of the Media report from the Project for Excellence in Journalism has published a special report today from a survey of 300 Online Journalism Association (ONA) members (me included). Jack Shafer's latest column for Slate pokes at the assertion that the decline of the newspaper is by implication a dimmed democracy. I caught up over the weekend with a lovely essay written by former Atlanta Journal-Constitution executive editor John Walter, discovered posthumously by his family on his computer and reprinted by Poynter in recent days. Huffington Post has created a $1.75-million fund for the coming year to hire 10 journalists and freelancers to develop stories concerning the U.S. economy. It is the latest entry into journalism through the philanthropic route. It is getting to be a familiar refrain. Week after week essay after essay appears on what is being lost and what might not be retrieved as the American newspaper diminishes in capacity and connection. I've spent a bit of time today learning as much as I can about Hunch, the new social media application from the co-founder of Flickr, Caterina Fake. (My official invite is en route.) |