Influx

We new speed was now of the essence concerning news media, but it’s not just speed, it’s also the quantity of stories that now matter. For the major online players, there’s an urgent need to flood the web with content, just to make sure your site gets the traffic it needs to stay...

Mark Cuban has a good post about ESPN's struggles to take control of breaking sports news.He suggests that despite massive efforts from journalists at ESPN who are using  Twitter, they aren't really winning the battle and the threat is putting advertising dollars at risk. "Today, sports news...

An amazing piece of data visualization showing the traffic to the website of the New York Times on the day Michael Jackson died. Look for the eruption in traffic from 5.20pm onwards when TMZ first broke the news.The New York Times site traffic, US, June 25, 2009 from Nick Bilton on Vimeo. Posted by...

Interesting to see The Atlantic write such a flattering article about The Economist and the current state of the newsweekly business. The discussion revolves around the recent changes and re-designs at Time and Newsweek, who are both hoping to drag their publications to new found success in an...

From the panel I ran in New Orleans for the AAAA's media conference, the group of twentysomethings I interviewed were pretty clear that news is headline based and something to be skimmed and probably something that should be free. It's as if it's part of the ambient information; a news feed from a...

Data from Akamai shows that Obama become the new number 1 new story in internet traffic volume since records began (2005). Obama beat out a mix of celebrity deaths and sporting events to claim the number one spot.Posted by Ed Cotton

Cool story about the Movable Type art piece in the new New York Times building in New York. The concept is all about breaking the original content down into small elements and finding connections between the pieces. Posted by Ed Cotton

It often seems like the robots science fiction promised never materialized. Sometimes we see glimpses of something in Japan, but then we hear nothing. What if the robots don't look like we expect them to?What if the robots are already here?Imagine trading on Wall Street, you would like to feel that...

"The time between observation and conclusion, between description and prediction, however, has shrunk to almost zero. There are no more lapses between news, analysis, background story, industry trend story, and intellectual dissection; they have become one and the same, at the same time."Tim...

Grant McCracken has a good post about Katie Couric,news and CBS. He suggests that there's a big oppoortunity to fuse news and entertainment or to bring the best of TV idolization to the news format."Perhaps it's time to move away from the "journalism" model and start again.  The...