Why news media should not wait to develop iPad apps
Brian Manzullo said: The iPad, releasing in April, is "tailor-made" for traditional news media. But will it become widespread enough to "save" journalism?
Google's Chief Economist: "Newspapers Have Never Made Much Money From News"
Brian Manzullo said: A lot of nice graphs/data here explaining how newspapers make their money (now and then). Very interesting.
WordPress Guns for Web Content Management Duties
Daniel Bachhuber said: Edit Flow gets a bit of high-profile attention.
@dcatchpole @mediatwit I actually think it'd be cool to have a "Sources" box/section on every story. Link to sources' Web pages/Twitter/etc.
Summer internship
Daniel Bachhuber said: Get paid to work with the awesome News Apps team at the Chicago Tribune.
The importance of social media during natural disasters: a first-hand perspective in the aftermath of the Chile earthquake
Brian Manzullo said: "I know that a lot of false information was spread though Twitter, such as the rumor of nonexistent tsunami warnings or fabricated death tolls, but other twitter users quickly declared these rumors as false, proving that social media is self-moderated."
Major kudos to the @copress team for strong-arming our CP5 archive and pounding it into submission. Took a few tries, but it works now!
A massive misallocation of online advertising dollars
Daniel Bachhuber said: The money is being spent at the end of the purchasing process instead of being evenly distributed because the end is the most trackable.
New Slice sizes, price changes and bandwidth increases
Daniel Bachhuber said: The new intermediate slice sizes are a perfect addition to the lineup.
Bringing journalists and coders together for #wjchat, Feb. 17 at 8 p.m. ET
Daniel Bachhuber said: Looking forward to an interesting, productive discussion.
