The newspaper is dead. Long live the newspaper (…or whatever)!
Funding journalism: the overall theme seems to be related to divorcing content from the platform, even in this question about business models.
An Ethics Seal for blogs
Calling for an Ethic Seal for blogs and news sites at the Ethics Panel at ONA. Seems like a good idea, mostly about transparency. Sounds a little bit like purity rings…
Newspapers eating the broadcaster’s lunch?
According to the study the researchers are presenting on media convergence, “newspapers are eating the broadcaster’s lunch” in the run for the web. Really?
Old town lost, in digital pictures
Hurricane Ike rammed into my hometown of Gibara, Cuba. I have already seen images of the destruction, as some pictures are already making the rounds on the web since early Monday. Gibara used to be a prosperous old town, established in 1817. But the old charm may be hard to rescue this time.
Shine the floor, Teresa!
So, it turns out that while we in Cuba were being brought up on Soviet apple sauce and shown socialist-block cartoons (a.k.a “munequitos rusos”), in India they were also watching movies from the USSR and, surprise surprise, Cuba.
