Those eager for Hearst’s splashy debut of its great online experiment, seattlepi.com, are in for a big letdown. It’s Wednesday, March 18, the first day of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s digital age, and the Web site looks, well, like everyone who wasn’t staying packed up and left, and the few who were coming back are still [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 17, 2009
The Place and People I Hated to Love
If Jim’s colleagues were people I loved to hate, he was the exception that I hated to love.
March 14, 2009
Jazz and the Flip Mino HD Camera
Now this is a tool that even the least tech savvy users can get up and running in no time. Really, all you have to do is press the big red button to record. A 1.5-inch LCD screen reveals all the action. The lens zooms with the + and – buttons, but even if one didn’t know that, she or he could use the “human zoom” (moving closer), which is the preferred way anyway. The unit has 4 GB of onboard memory, enough to shoot about an hour of HD video.
March 13, 2009
Seattle P-I Closing
Reported and produced by Jane Austin, Rebecca Livingston, Sasha London and Helena Habes. The piece was produced entirely with Flip Mino cameras. more about "Seattle P-I Closing", posted with vodpod
March 10, 2009
Is The Seattle Times Next?
ON DEATHWATCH IN SEATTLE – The evidence continues to mount that today (Tues., March 10) may be the last day in the print life of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. This is, after all, the deadline that parent company Hearst set for a buyer everyone knew would never come. P-I employees, who were offered a “last” visit [...]
March 7, 2009
Seattle’s Past-Intelligencer
What would a stripped-down SeattleP.com (a Seattle Post without the Intelligence(r)) offer? It’s already begun to tip its hand by populating its Web site with links to local bloggers and related content. Hearst, no doubt, would leverage its national content from whatever is left of its news stables after the print versions of the P-I and San Francisco Chronicle are laid to rest.
March 3, 2009
Journalism on the Brink (Part II)
Yes, the Web makes it way cheaper to present content. And, yes, there are fewer barriers to entry to both content providers and technology. But one plus the other does not equal profits, or even sustaining revenue.
March 1, 2009
The Kindle 2 Won’t Save Newspapers
Overall the newspaper experience on the Kindle is, well, sterile. The device is white and the e-ink screen is black on white. A lot of guys will recognize a parallel: Ever see a pile of stories on the floor in a bathroom stall that someone printed from a news Web site and brought to the throne with him? That’s kind of what it’s like to read a newspaper on the Kindle. It’s even close to being that random. First off, there’s no facsimile, even if non-functional, of section fronts, only an index of sections. Secondly, there is no table of contents listing out the day’s offerings. You kind of jump in blind, the “home page” being what someone deemed as the day’s top story. You either can navigate story to story, or jump to another section, where you again have to navigate story by story.
