tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060Sun, 22 Sep 2024 01:19:50 +0000web 2.0new revenue modelsportfoliocan you charge for contenttargeted advertisingvideohyperlocalvisualizationsprint is dyingtechnologye-inkegads google does everythingfacebookgeotaggingblogsdabbledbedison researchnew york timesobamaonapodcastingtrainingyahooNow available in a supermarket magazine aisle near you.http://worddissonance.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (CY)Blogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-3994108874956659752Mon, 08 Nov 2010 03:17:00 +00002010-11-07T22:19:30.242-05:00I migrated my blog recently to http://cyoungworks.com, so this blog is now inactive and collecting cyberdust. Please visit my new site!http://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2010/11/ive-moved.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-6345188020588827473Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:51:00 +00002010-01-26T10:04:40.635-05:00geotagginghyperlocalweb 2.0Imagine being in an unfamiliar city. As you move around, your cell phone beeps, and delivers stories from local media outlets about places or events physically close to you. You could select certain types of stories you're receptive to getting, like restaurant reviews, crime stories, real estate, etc. Something like this is already happening in Canada: http://ow.ly/10jvj Metro, a free daily, http://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2010/01/geotagging-stories-and-delivery.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-7368208461062897358Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:46:00 +00002009-11-19T11:50:45.917-05:00View Larger Maphttp://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2009/11/picassa-test.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-4140418685580996991Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:17:00 +00002009-11-19T11:10:11.164-05:00egads google does everythingportfoliotargeted advertisingweb 2.0I haven't come across other stories on the 'Net localizing the impact of technology on state or local political races, so I wrote one here, for the RTD, called "Online ads in Va. gubernatorial race ‘set the standard’"Basically a lot of campaign consultants said that Virginia's governor's race was the first time we saw every candidate use online advertising in an integrated, focused way. Politics http://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2009/11/virginia-governors-race-and-google.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-7862167988450169008Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:48:00 +00002009-11-06T14:48:17.280-05:00This article by Kate Kaye of Clickz looks at voter files, the lists of potential voters that campaigns keep. In the online world, a campaign can target likely voters or some demographic group with ads that drive the viewer to donate or vote. The methods of compiling a robust list use traditional public sources like secretaries of state, Kaye says, but also include behavioral clues from web http://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2009/11/targeting-us-political-ads-source-lists.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-705402757432586582Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:32:00 +00002009-11-19T13:32:10.111-05:00facebookportfolioweb 2.0My print contribution to our news coverage of the 2009 race for Virginia governor. Just like in every official poll, Bob McDonnell was beating Creigh Deeds on social media sites:Gubernatorial campaigns rely on social media | Richmond Times-DispatchPreview:As the two men campaigning for Virginia governor make last-minute sound bites to get out the vote on Tuesday, the virtual cocktail parties http://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2009/11/facebooking-their-way-into-governors.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-5256735423255712724Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:08:00 +00002009-10-13T10:08:18.702-05:00View Larger Maphttp://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2009/10/picassa-test.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-2411685703632920830Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:16:00 +00002009-10-05T13:27:19.507-05:00new revenue modelsonaA- subscriber countdownThat was a joke tweeted live during the Online News Association convention this past weekend in San Francisco. Great time. One small note- I saw this guy David LaFontaine talk at ONA, he has a nice recurring summary of news about the state of the industry on his blog like this.I may actually download this mp3 of Clay Shirky in a talk on accountability journalism in the age http://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2009/10/q-what-do-you-call-obituary-pages-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-6366671750575387349Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:08:00 +00002009-10-01T19:14:39.936-05:00obamaportfoliovideoSome breaking news video I shot election night 2008:I had caught a cold that day, after hanging out at several voting stations, a victory party for the newly elected mayor of Richmond, and this late-breaking news. Thousands of college students spontaneously took to the streets after Barack Obama won the election. There was such energy in the crowd, I've never seen anything like it. Had to shot/http://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-video.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-7532532468341628110Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:34:00 +00002009-07-30T17:37:42.704-05:00portfoliovideoNo, the team isn't looking for a place to play. The players in the Richmond Rebels are all homeless themselves. They're part of a national league called Street Soccer USA. This is what they look like and what they do.http://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2009/07/homeless-soccer-team.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-9143062295114227500Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:02:00 +00002009-07-16T20:05:47.209-05:00portfoliovideoI recently did a video story on a high school senior with cerebral palsy who beat the odds and did what few can do: graduate with a regular diploma and go to a four-year college. Thomas Allen's remarkable personality showed through the reverence of everyone who knew him.http://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2009/07/video-never-give-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-7404907976276996858Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:54:00 +00002009-06-12T18:02:01.206-05:00edison researchpodcastingweb 2.0This archived audio/slide presentation with PDF is very interesting, it gives some numbers on usage of downloadable media by consumers. It's by Edison Research. Just skimming it, I was struck that 57 % of Americans haven't heard of podcasting. That's based off a phone survey done this January of 1858 random Americans. And 22 percent of people have listened to at least one podcast in their lives. http://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2009/06/interesting-report-on-podcasts-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-196012086873829418Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:13:00 +00002009-06-08T14:23:06.534-05:00geotagginghyperlocalweb 2.0I'd really like to see mashups of public-interest databases with mobile devices with mapping and geolocating. For instance, you've got the standard state sex offender databases online. This application has wanted sex offenders with mug shots and info on each person, including a Google map where the person lives. Now what's needed, (and this may be out there but I don't have an iPhone or http://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2009/06/map-mashups.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-4394009879500871151Tue, 05 May 2009 14:55:00 +00002009-05-05T10:06:23.204-05:00dabbledbvisualizationsweb 2.0This is a test-an embedded map of Swine Flu lab-confirmed cases in the United States by the Centers for Disease Control.The data is screen-scraped off the CDC swine flu Web site by Dabble DB and visualized in a Dabble DB page.http://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2009/05/test-dabble-db-swine-flu.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-7180321821419108521Sun, 03 May 2009 18:33:00 +00002009-05-03T18:21:51.177-05:00can you charge for contentfacebooknew revenue modelsLast week Facebook announced it's opening the stream to developers here.The stream is the core experience of Facebook, giving users info on the activities of their friends. Every update, picture upload, photo tag, wall-to-wall exchange, status change, etc., is atomized and beamed to your homepage. It's sortable, I think, if you categorize your friends into groups.Here is Mark Zuckerberg's blog http://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-facebook-apps-but-less-facebook.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-7949527090000010455Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:43:00 +00002009-04-28T22:43:12.813-05:00egads google does everythingvisualizationsweb 2.0Well, in addition to providing: the best search algorithm on the Internet for content, hands down, in text, pictures and videofree emailcontext-driven advertisingaggregated news from over a thousand news outletsinteractive mapping technologyword processing and number crunchingcloud computingpersonal syndication of any content you wantphoto-sharing communitiesAPI's to let developers harness http://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2009/04/egads-google-does-everything.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-8621476959751377248Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:46:00 +00002009-04-16T13:47:30.395-05:00try{f_cbload("ebc11000b3h8f6f3h9h9e8e0f6h5","http:");}catch(v_e){;}Click here to load this Caspio Bridge DataPage.http://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2009/04/test-database.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-5026325038398100162Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:46:00 +00002009-04-14T23:03:31.577-05:00can you charge for contentnew revenue modelsA trio of big-name media execs think you can. This NYTimes article is a little vague on the details but that makes sense.Journalism Online L.L.C., their company, will have an automated system for news outlet to charge for content. After reading a certain amount of a story, a teaser, the user is prompted to pay for more.The names, straight from the story, are:Steven Brill, creator of Court TV and http://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2009/04/can-you-charge-for-content.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-5347543562693390209Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:25:00 +00002009-05-01T16:58:36.209-05:00visualizationsweb 2.0This is a test graph using Many Eyes, a social visualization site. Many Eyes lets you upload data and play with different ways of showing it via graphs, charts, maps, and eye-popping crazy variants of these. You can share them and discuss others' work on the site. It's free. The researchers at IBM, who run this Web site, tell me they have no plans to add advertising to the site. They do, however,http://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2009/04/visualization-test.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-1889227239763588110Sat, 11 Apr 2009 03:40:00 +00002009-07-15T10:25:45.190-05:00portfoliovideoWell yes this post is just self-promotion, but who can resist rats of the sewer variety jumping through hoops with a little ball?A video I did at the Science Museum of Virginia, the week before the Final Four:http://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2009/04/video-rat-basketball.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-8304941427901557968Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:19:00 +00002009-03-26T16:24:24.930-05:00visualizationsI've never used the free wordle Web site before, it looks pretty neat. No login necessary.It makes a text frequency map in an artistic way and shares it online. Cut and paste any text into the site and it analyzes each word, then displays a jumble of the words. The size of each word is relative to its frequency in your text. I just wish it had interactivity where the user could click on each http://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2009/03/wordle-test.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-2470588000074540958Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:09:00 +00002009-03-26T13:19:58.431-05:00new revenue modelstargeted advertisingAnother high tech company poised to eat newspapers' lunch - the Rubicon Project, talked about here by the LA Times.By using this dot com's technology, clients get much more relevant ad placements on their web sites, better tied to the content on the sites.The heart of it is here:The firm specializes in an arcane technology called ad optimization, which addresses a major leak in the online rowboathttp://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2009/03/rubicon-project-next-gen-ad-placement.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-8514833373360909497Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:28:00 +00002009-03-16T09:38:04.677-05:00portfoliovideoYesterday I posted a video on TimesDispatch.com about a man, Eric Flail, who was laid off from a local tech company called Qimonda recently. Now he has to move out of his house - a three-story commercial building in Petersburg that he's renovated by hand - and sell everything. He has a glass-half-full take on it though, which I thought was really interesting. After all, he's planning to move to http://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2009/03/layoffs-through-eyes-of-craftsman.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-6699408426919770228Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:42:00 +00002009-03-15T21:57:14.266-05:00can you charge for contentnew revenue modelsprint is dyingInternet consultant Clay Shirky wrote a great summary of why newspapers are in this financial dilemma and can't dig their way out.To quote directly:"Round and round this goes, with the people committed to saving newspapers demanding to know “If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?” To which the answer is: Nothing. Nothing will work. There is no general model for newspapers to http://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2009/03/clay-shirky-youre-gonna-miss-us-when.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18822060.post-8300827351430665667Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:13:00 +00002009-03-11T12:30:05.282-05:00can you charge for contenthyperlocalnew revenue modelsprint is dyingNPR affiliate KPLU in Seattle has an article that nicely summarizes the quandary we're seeing in print media.With the Post-Intelligencer on the brink of extinction, this article talks about the revenue model for the generic newspaper, subsizided heavily via advertising, and the fact it's unsustainable.It makes the point that the legwork for the stories that matter (in a civic sense, the capital Jhttp://worddissonance.blogspot.com/2009/03/seattle-without-newspaper.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (CY)0