We tend to comment more on analytic methods than news delivery techniques,but today we offer an interesting example of the latter. Ifra,the European-based newspaper training —and R&D —organization,publishes something called newspaper techniques ePaper. It is published IoP (ink-on-paper),but there is also an online version. Check it out at the [...]
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Belgium:e-paper test launch De Tijd,the Antwerp based daily with Belgium's highest online readership,will be the world's first paper to launch a digital version,for a three month trial period beginning in April 2006. The paper will take the form of a portable electronic device;a paper thin [...] Serious Games Initiative http://www.seriousgames.org/ The Serious Games Initiative is focused on uses for games in exploring management and leadership challenges facing the public sector. Part of its overall charter is to help forge productive links between the electronic game industry and projects involving the use of games in education,training,health,and public policy. Says [...] Interesting announcement from Yahoo Maps this week. Seems as though Google,Yahoo and Amazon (with it's A9 entry) are starting to look like three NASCAR competitors on the backstretch of the lap before the finish line. Here's the latest from Yahoo:========================== November 02,2005 Announcing New Maps APIs GIS software discount for IRE members Return to IRE Training Members of Investigative Reporters and Editors,Inc.,qualify for discounts on geographic information system (GIS) software from ESRI,the publisher of ArcView. ESRI is offering ArcView GIS single use licenses at no charge to IRE members who agree to attend a GIS [...] A UK firm has developed a free,innovative tool that plots breaking news by location. Developed by Birmingham-based technology firm Daden,NewsGlobe can combine Google's geographic search engine Google Earth with the user's favourite RSS news feeds to present stories on a local,regional or international map. [...] We agree,there can be many reasons not to run a map in the IoP (Ink-on-Paper) version of a newspaper. And maps are sometimes run more as a graphic element in the page design than as a tool to tell a story in a better way. (Although this seems to happen less as “design and [...] Steven Roth was one of those guys who could see farther than most of us and,even more rare,make that vision a reality. He died in his sleep this past weekend in his home near Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette obit sub-hed:“One of the pioneers in field of 'information visualization'a 'reluctant manager'http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05165/521102.stm [...] Here's one of those online sites that will keep us browsing for hours. “Information Aesthetics”weblog says it's about “form follows data –towards creative information visualiztion.” Indeed so. How about links to: Faucet Friend:a slip-on visualization device that dynamically changes color according to the temperature of the water that is exiting the [...] It can. The NYT this morning tells us that “Big News Media Join in Push to Limit Use of Unidentified Sources.” Readers are told: “Concerned that they may have become too free in granting anonymity to sources,news organizations including USA Today,The Washington Post,The Los Angeles Times,NBC News and The New [...] | ||||||
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