Archive for September, 2009

Tips for live blogging

September 21, 2009

The Halifax Chronicle Herald has joined a growing number of news organizations that are live blogging events to break news quickly and build engagement around them. It live blogged 8 events this past summer during Nova Scotia’s provincial election. Seven were political events — party platform releases or debates — the other was a discussion [...]

Google Fast Flip built for mobile

September 15, 2009

So this is it. In April, Sharon Waxman reported a conversation with Google CEO Eric Schmidt in which he told her: “In about six months, the company will roll out a system that will bring high-quality news content to users without them actively looking for it” … one in which users “will be automatically served [...]