tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600806399237471053.post4103386685620405923..comments2023-12-17T02:43:47.460-08:00Comments on The Future of Newspapers: Lessons from the iPhoneJoe Posnanskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14405637102877937924noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600806399237471053.post-86213544207584749392012-08-01T09:39:06.729-07:002012-08-01T09:39:06.729-07:00That's right, whatever the technology, iphone ...That's right, whatever the technology, iphone or whatever, we are all searching for the same thing - news, etc. Technology changes,but technology is meant to SERVE people. They just make things easier, that's their job!Iphone Repair Singaporehttp://iphonerepairsingapore.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600806399237471053.post-45457137256250748492012-06-23T02:08:36.061-07:002012-06-23T02:08:36.061-07:00I'm an avid follower of Vizio products and I h...I'm an avid follower of Vizio products and I have already their LCD television. For sure I will purchase this 8" tablet for my business if it’s already in the market. Good luck to Vizio and hope for more great products to come. Thank you for posting this blog. Cheers!!CCTV camerahttp://cctvsingapore.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600806399237471053.post-52859092364392312912012-06-17T17:39:17.112-07:002012-06-17T17:39:17.112-07:00I think, people won't learn a lesson form this...I think, people won't learn a lesson form this topic but there are a few who would get this as a learning form their phones. Well, each of us has their own belief.CCTV Singaporehttp://cctvsingapore.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600806399237471053.post-50378420663824984822011-06-15T10:29:25.922-07:002011-06-15T10:29:25.922-07:00A visit to any supermarket will show you shelves o...A visit to any supermarket will show you shelves of varied products available for carpet cleaning.Cleaning productshttp://www.amway.com/Shop/Product/Category.aspx/Cleaning-Productsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600806399237471053.post-91089361063212587532011-03-17T02:52:03.101-07:002011-03-17T02:52:03.101-07:00One unique source related to an iPhone. Gadgets no...One unique source related to an iPhone. Gadgets now are very well created. Somebody may say that the product of technology were devastating, I will prove them wrong. Because through this technology we are now at ease and feel comfortable in using those products.wholesale cellular accessorieshttp://www.hypercel.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600806399237471053.post-74547224829006966762011-03-16T23:12:23.253-07:002011-03-16T23:12:23.253-07:00Not all the information in the newspaper also note...Not all the information in the newspaper also noted on the iPhone. But iPhone can be a source of useful information of any thoughts you want to know. With iPhone everything is possible.iPhone4 casehttp://www.myiphone4case.org.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600806399237471053.post-54362510077931491712011-03-16T18:34:35.425-07:002011-03-16T18:34:35.425-07:00Hopefully I can avail these apps, and download thi...Hopefully I can avail these apps, and download this as soon as possible. I will be on this, trying to set up everything and be right after this stuff. I am excited to avail these apps and try its concept.cheap international callshttp://buzport.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600806399237471053.post-55945964426023068702009-06-10T00:37:45.368-07:002009-06-10T00:37:45.368-07:00In this age of crisis, the newspapers industry can...In this age of crisis, the newspapers industry can really be helped by technology. There is now, in fact, for publishers the possibility of selling and distributing their newspapers directly via iPhone reaching many new readers all around the world. This solution will allow them to reduce printing and distribution costa and to monitor clients behaviour towards their products. On the other hand iPhone owners will enjoy a visually pleasant application that is highly optimized and full of fanny options like which one of listening to a podcast version of each article read aloud by a high quality synthetic voice, directly on the iPhone. The lastest of this technology is called Pagestreamer and this is its website: www.pagestreamer.comPagestreamerhttp://www.pagestreamer.com/index.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600806399237471053.post-39138679076330625212009-04-20T18:05:00.000-07:002009-04-20T18:05:00.000-07:00"I should figure out a way to create an iPhone app..."I should figure out a way to create an iPhone app for my blog"<br /><br />There's no way you have the time, my friend, but someone absolutely should.The Magnificent Eeyorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12385955811078737669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600806399237471053.post-91037518796462702322009-04-20T17:54:00.000-07:002009-04-20T17:54:00.000-07:00I absolutely agree, the iPhone is the new newspape...I absolutely agree, the iPhone is the new newspaper, with a drop of magic it seems, no matter how much you read it never finishes. All the news at your fingertips. I love reading the news in my morning commute, and by the time I get to the office there is always something new to see. And it's hardly possible to fit all the morning press in your jacket pocket.Silvia Simeonovahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00881075762668551601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600806399237471053.post-81928733548617864602009-04-20T14:57:00.000-07:002009-04-20T14:57:00.000-07:00What about the ads? I used to love browsing throu...What about the ads? I used to love browsing through my favorite ads in the Sunday paper. I'd check only a few of the stores I visited regularly. It was an opt-in, non-obtrusive, time-sensitive system that worked well for finding a bargin and keeping up with fashion (both clothes and in tech in my case). Advertising tends to be a dirty word on the Internet and in all electronic media, but is there a place for this type of selective, opt-in system in the iPhone or anything else any more? Or is the segmentation your allude to too permanent and too pervasive to allow for the past amalgamation?Kathryn Gordonhttp://www.kathryngordon.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600806399237471053.post-85351902246809199342009-04-20T14:37:00.000-07:002009-04-20T14:37:00.000-07:00Tim O'Reilly of web 2.0 fame just twittered this p...Tim O'Reilly of web 2.0 fame just twittered this post and that is how I found it. Tim has about 300,000 people following his twitter updates.<br /><br />Great post and you did a great job of putting the current state of newspapers into context. The question is not how people will consume information (it will move to all digital and mobile) but who will create the content, who will edit it, who will add to it. Professional news organizations are struggling because the business model was based upon creating the content and distributing it. Once unbundled how do you get people to pay for just the content? You figure this out and I will start a company with you. We will see the quality of content deteriorate unless this is figured out. I feel for those in the newspaper (and TV news for that matter) business. If its any solace, I am in the advertising business and lets just say many of us wish we were in the newspaper business.Greg Woodhttp://www.bluefishagency.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600806399237471053.post-57309826058319252052009-04-20T13:26:00.000-07:002009-04-20T13:26:00.000-07:00Joe,
Very nice post. I live in Baltimore and have...Joe,<br /><br />Very nice post. I live in Baltimore and have been a Sun subscriber for all of that time. About two months ago, we had the paper get redesigned and <br />1) it got a lot smaller.<br />2) There are at least 2 pages that are only pictures.<br />3) There is the who is divorcing who in Hollywood page.<br />4) There is one whole page of national/international news.<br /><br />I also have an iPhone and most of the same apps that you have. What they lack is the integration of a newspaper. I have to launch each individually to get their specific content. That may be the point where journalism might survive in a digital world. Clay Shirky has an interesting blog entry on the difference between newspapers and journalism (which we all tend to conflate) - http://bit.ly/18tDhyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600806399237471053.post-58122650224184373762009-04-16T10:49:00.000-07:002009-04-16T10:49:00.000-07:00I'm so sad about the state of newspapers in this c...I'm so sad about the state of newspapers in this country, but I'm not sure if they can be saved. If the name NEWSpaper is any indication, they ought be about news. Yet its clear, they can't possibly be the first source of news (or very rarely). Usually, when newspaper reporters break a story, it gets leaked to TV stations before the story can even be printed.<br /><br />Now, clearly, newspapers have to adapt. The time lag issue is clear. They can't compete in personalizing information for their market in the same way that web-based programs can.<br /><br />The best thing I have to offer is this--the lesson of magazines. Sure, all of print media is hurting, but I get the feeling that newspapers are getting beaten down at a much faster pace than most magazines. It's not just the larger media market... its something more.<br /><br />Magazines have had to deal with the time-lag issue for years, yet Sports Illustrated has remained relevant to us, even as ESPN has taken over planet Sports. Why? Because SI has traditionally hired the very best sportswriters in America, and they have contributed thoughtful commentary. Commentary is an area that Newspapers and magazines can compete in, because it doesn't depend on "breaking" news stories first. It depends on good writing.<br /><br />I think if newspapers considered this kind of shift, they might have a chance at surviving. This isn't a great solution, obviously, if we shrank newspapers to only editorials and commentary, there wouldn't be much left. But I think there would be renewed interest in that product.<br /><br />Newspapers can continue to deliver local news stories, I think. The media outlets present on a local level aren't quite where the national media is, and I think locally, the papers can compete still. National news is gone for the star... commentary on national events is a possibility. Of course, local sports coverage is always done best by a local paper, which may be the biggest loss of a hometown paper.<br /><br />If the hope of this blog is to find ways that newspapers can succeed, you've accomplished a great deal today by admitting and identifying some areas where newspapers can not compete any longer. Finding out what we're doing wrong is at least as important as figuring out what we should be doing.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16891590552116667437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600806399237471053.post-58549830649737599762009-04-15T00:47:00.000-07:002009-04-15T00:47:00.000-07:00Good post... and spot on. Now look what Mr Nine-In...Good post... and spot on. Now look what Mr Nine-Inch Nails is doing... hammering a big, nine-inch nail into the coffin of a browser...<br /><br />And with it Google Search..?<br /><br />http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=280<br /><br />All the best, etcRickWaghornhttp://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600806399237471053.post-63479101198925573422009-04-14T11:37:00.000-07:002009-04-14T11:37:00.000-07:00I don't know, it seems to me that the AroundMe typ...I don't know, it seems to me that the AroundMe type apps, those based on pinpointing your location with GPS and giving you useful information based on that, are different in kind from what a newspaper of yellow pages would have given you. As a recent transplant to KC I find the movie listings in the newspaper maddening, because I don't know where any of the theaters are. <br /><br />Newspapers are metro-based, and that is one of their advantages -- they give you a viewpoint that's wider than your neighborhood. I'm not sure I see how that could be combined with the new hyperlocal technologies.bigstevenonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600806399237471053.post-80181152562710800242009-04-14T10:59:00.000-07:002009-04-14T10:59:00.000-07:00Joe,
Newspapers had the distribution thing down. ...Joe,<br /><br />Newspapers had the distribution thing down. That gave them the platform for all the information they distributed. The key was that there was no other competing platform. <br /><br />(I'm pulling this out of my ass, so I'm not sure I buy it. Work with me, and let's see if it works.)<br /><br />Given the capital costs and distribution costs, it made sense for for as many differents kinds of information to piggyback on that platform as possible. <br /><br />You see the newspaper as the information, the content. But I think that you might be wrong. The newspaper is the platform. And the platform has passed/is past its usefulness. <br /><br />So, what's left? You just wrote of the numerous *different* apps that are needed to replicate the old newspaper. Sure, the iPhone is a great platform in many ways, but perhaps the key one is that it allows independent creation of different apps. That is, the "killer app" of the iPhone is the App Store. Because The Weather Channel can now deliver your weather news, and MLB can give you baseball games, Craiglist can give you classifieds and and and...the basic platform developer (i.e. Apple) is not required to develop expertise in the various information area that might be delivered on the platform. <br /><br />That's quite unlike the newspapers. They had to maintain the platform and distribution, in addition to developing the information expertise in order to fill their product with content. <br /><br />If you remove the old platform and distribution -- which now appears quite inevitable -- what is left? Can they do sports better than ESPN? Can they do weather better than TWC? Can a single organization do any of these areas better than specialists? And is there any value in a common provider? <br /><br />Isn't that the question? Is there any value to consumers in a common provider of diverse forms of information?ceolafhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07068271910397558372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600806399237471053.post-59086859841774087192009-04-14T06:58:00.000-07:002009-04-14T06:58:00.000-07:00Sorry, I'll try this again.
I learned three things...Sorry, I'll try this again.<br />I learned three things today, lede is spelled lede, spell check doesn't like lede and I was probably overdue in canceling my newspaper subscription.<br />I'm still not ready for a smart phone, but I am in the market for a netbook. I've been reading a daily newspaper for 50 years, and even being a PC user for 25 of those, it still feels strange to get all of my printed news on a screen. Since The Star's "newspaper product" keeps pushing me that way, I give up. I've already set up one browser on my wife's laptop to load all her funnies when she opens it.<br />So it goes...Extremushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06909889429977539197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600806399237471053.post-13423059008462150672009-04-14T06:56:00.000-07:002009-04-14T06:56:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Extremushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06909889429977539197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600806399237471053.post-65623873470475129682009-04-14T06:54:00.000-07:002009-04-14T06:54:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Extremushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06909889429977539197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4600806399237471053.post-53552265445206415462009-04-13T13:23:00.000-07:002009-04-13T13:23:00.000-07:00Great post Joe. I have had plenty of those "wow, t...Great post Joe. I have had plenty of those "wow, the world has changed" moments. The convenience of these apps, is only getting better and more creative. <BR/><BR/>Newspaper exec's already have strong brands, but they need to apply the new media rules to it asap. The more apps and information that comes out, the more overwhelmed people will be, leaving a perfect opportunity for strong brands to exploit.Ben Teaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12686319387985971124noreply@blogger.com