Metaprinter » New Media http://blog.metaprinter.com Internet and Online Strategies Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:10:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Visualizing the World Cup – explorations in html 5, css3, jQery and more http://blog.metaprinter.com/2010/06/visualizing-the-world-cup-explorations-in-html-5-css3-jqery-and-more/ http://blog.metaprinter.com/2010/06/visualizing-the-world-cup-explorations-in-html-5-css3-jqery-and-more/#comments Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:42:41 +0000 Robert Ivan http://blog.metaprinter.com/?p=3055 Continue reading →]]> world cup visualization html 5 css3

click image above to experience the World Cup Visualization…

Some of you have asked for more info about the World Cup Visualization I recreated. Honestly, go read the overview of how robby macdonell did it, that’s what I did.

All my data came from wikipedia.  I’m still adding data to this little by little as time permits.

As an aside, I’m pretty comfortable using flash and actionscript and I feel that I could have done this in flash in half the time and with the emergence of things like Smokescreen and other things not yet created I would not discount the ubiquity of Flash for the near future.

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iPad + Velcro from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.

Seriously though, we have an iPad for development purposes, but I haven’t seen a need for any personal reasons until watching this video. Now I want it just so I can watch cooking shows/ recipes while cooking in my Kitchen.

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I think that the press has been all over the iPad because Apple puts on a good show, and because everyone in journalism-land is looking for a daddy figure who’ll promise them that their audience will go back to paying for their stuff.

 -read the entire article at BoingBoing

]]> http://blog.metaprinter.com/2010/04/ipad-enthusiasm-cory-doctorow-says-journalism-is-looking-for-a-daddy-figure/feed/ 2 Advertisers and Readers Return to Newspaper Industry – Profits Up http://blog.metaprinter.com/2010/04/advertisers-and-readers-return-to-newspaper-industry-profits-up/ http://blog.metaprinter.com/2010/04/advertisers-and-readers-return-to-newspaper-industry-profits-up/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:47:21 +0000 Robert Ivan http://blog.metaprinter.com/?p=3012 Continue reading →]]> In a stunning turn of events for the newspaper industry Q1 2010 numbers show that readers and advertisers have returned to this medium.   Experts suggest the return is real and that long-term the outlook for newspapers and newspaper revenues look strong.  One ratings analyst with April Capital Management was quoted as saying, “look, where else are people going to raise awareness for their brand or read the news? Newspapers seem the best option for both customers”.

No comment from the Google Topeka executives who are now scrambling to unload their digital advertising and data mining enterprises.

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Here’s TechCrunch founder and co-editor Michael Arrington, “On Monday evening I received a phone call from someone I trust who told me that one of our interns had asked for compensation in exchange for a blog post. Specifically, this intern had allegedly asked for a Macbook Air in exchange for a post about a startup.”

1.  I’m stunned that TechCrunch, one of the most influential and widely read blogs in the world would allow someone so young to create content for the site.

2.  I’m glad they fired him and deleted his content.

3.  One of the comments tips you off  to the fired intern’s  identity but he’s a minor so I’ll let you figure it out on your own.

4.  Another commentor links to an insightful article by Mark Cuban who breaks down the legality of “unpaid” internships. (tl;dr they’re illegal if your work benefits the company in any way).

5.  I’m now much more skeptical of some blog content. If there is more than one author on a blog site, I want to be directed to the bio of the author when I click on the author’s name, not to a list of all their other blog posts.  Seeking Alpha is one example of a good author link (for full disclosure I am a contributor to that site).

When I interview Don Carli about sustainability in news media a while back we had the following exchange, which is relevant.

RI- Will people still care where they get their news from?

DC- I don’t think people care so much about where their news comes from, but journalism… yes I believe they still care. Anyone can make news and anyone can report it, but journalism is different and that difference matters. For example, Twitter is fast becoming one the most important source of breaking news, but it isn’t journalism. I think a robust Fourth Estate capable of independent investigative journalism is essential. The first tenet of sustainability is having a political system that secures effective participation of its citizens in decision making. That is the role served by journalists and the media channels that deliver and store their content. …full article

Anyone can make news. ps i could use a new car ; )

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Person Finder: Haiti Earthquake – from Google Crisis Response

Haiti News Articles and Sources:

Twitter Helps in Haiti Quake Coverage, Aid – WSJ.com JANUARY 14, 2010, 5:03 PM ET

Viewing Haiti Through Social Media - Huffington Post January 15, 2010 03:04 PM

Google News results for Twitter + Haiti

Google News results for Blog + Haiti

Technorati is currently tracking 29,040 blog posts tagged “haiti” January 17, 2010 2:38pm ET

Haiti News filtered through Yahoo Pipes

Donate:

Google Crisis Response – Haiti news, video, free Google Voice, unicef, care, and more – Google.com

#Haiti Twitter hashtags:

#haiti
#help
#emergency

Haiti results and info from WThashtag.com

Haiti results from hashtags.org

*Readers, If you know of any more good ones, please comment and i’ll add them to the main post.

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O'Reilly Media founder and CEO Tim O'Reilly joins Michael Gough, Adobe VP for Product Experience, discuss the future of publishing.

O’Reilly Media founder and CEO Tim O’Reilly joins Michael Gough, Adobe VP for Product Experience, for an in-depth discussion of the rise of electronic content distribution, and its impact on the traditional publishing industry. (30:21 minutes)

]]> http://blog.metaprinter.com/2010/01/tim-oreilly-and-micheal-gough-discuss-the-future-of-publishing/feed/ 2 Comscore presents The Internet: Past, Present and Future http://blog.metaprinter.com/2009/12/comscore-presents-the-internet-past-present-and-future/ http://blog.metaprinter.com/2009/12/comscore-presents-the-internet-past-present-and-future/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:58:04 +0000 Robert Ivan http://blog.metaprinter.com/?p=2882 Continue reading →]]> It’s a comscore commercial / 10th anniversary video, but they do a good job of showing The Internet: Past, Present and Future in 6minutes. The video includes soundbites by John Battelle, Andrew Braccia, Mark Cuban, Esther Dyson, Wenda Harris Millard, John Markoff, Dave Moore, Tina Sharkey and Fred Wilson. I was not available for comment at the time of this filming.

My tip for the next decade is get your business online and mobile ready – if you are not already (what the hell are you waiting for?). If you have money to invest, put it in the big usa internet stocks, they are the new USA blue chips.

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