Category: Future of News

• From Storify, to Storyful, Tumblr and iPhone only, Color, tools that let a clever or opinionated, or journalistically inclined individual “curate” the firehose of news we all get from the Web are coming online. Use a blog, first, to get smart about a subject and to make yourself an expert in an area. This is the sedentary version of building a beat. You don’t hit the pavement and coffee shops, you virtually explore. So, you know who to follow on Twitter, and you’ve set up a couple of “lists” and perhaps you use FriendFeed, and Facebook. What is the next step? Try out a curating agent that let’s you easily pull the little tidbits, tweets, and strands of information together into a news feed. Now you can build an audience, and maybe even charge for your insights.

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• http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/VideoPlayerMain.swf (via Summify – The Really Smart Phone – WSJ.com) MIT

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• Broadcasters are caught in a cost/price squeeze. TV’s declining economy is now reflected by a buyers’ market in the medium. TV can grow no more because its audience is near the saturation point. The rate structure is threatened because the audience is getting choosier. A growing number of sponsors question the value of TV advertising. If that all sounds familiar, well, no wonder. These are articles of faith among those who conquered their fear, denial, blind faith and desperate attachments to the status quo at last to face the reality of the gathering Chaos Scenario.

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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtEvcXkxio0 The news the way we *should* hear it — as a set of

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• NewspaperTurnaround.Com | Saving journalism as a business model

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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2QSrCoho2E SugarGamers (FULL) PEK PONGPAET INTERVIEW (by Sugargamers

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• Active Twitter Users Have Shorter Relationships [STATS]

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• One of the nation’s largest coal-burning utilities said yesterday it will shutter 18 of its coal-fired boilers and pay billions to rein in pollutants at many of its remaining units, underscoring the evolving energy landscape in the United States. The move by the Tennessee Valley Authority will result in nearly 1 percent of the nation’s coal-fired power capacity going offline by the end of 2018, including 1,000 megawatts of coal-fired power TVA said it planned to retire last year. TVA’s landmark deal with a suite of states and environmental groups and U.S. EPA resolves a number of lingering violation complaints EPA brought against the company for allegedly failing to comply with Clean Air Act pollution control requirements at 11 of its plants.

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• http://www.ustream.tv/flash/viewer.swf (via The Stream – Al Jazeera English) this new offering start

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• KissMetrics infographic, The Evolution of the Web

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