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With newspapers continuing to swirl around the proverbial toilet financially, making sure that they are able to compete in the online space is no longer a nice idea - it’s critical.
As news came down the line of TownNews adopting the hnews format, I suddenly found myself wondering why this matters to the reader? Looking into [...]

Ask anyone in the industry and they will be among the first to inform you that the news as we once new it is evolving. Some say it is dying, but I have seen evidence of it changing rather than simply rolling over to play dead as others believe it to be.
As this NYT piece [...]

While on one hand I might admit that this is an improvement for Yahoo as to how they serve up videos, my gut still thinks that they are simply trying to hang onto their status as the news kings.
Last I heard, it was the last content cow Yahoo still had available to them - news. [...]

If there was one missing ability of Google News Search, it had to be the option of finding other articles by the same author by simply clicking the hyper link of the name given. Today, this issue has been resolved.
This functionality goes even further as you can queue up alerts via RSS or email, for [...]

Compared to some newspapers out there, the Seattle P-I was pretty good. Sadly, as the P-I newspaper soon discovered…pretty good was simply not good enough. It has been sometime now since the newspaper has gone to an online only format. And thus far, I find myself missing the old format in a big way.
It is [...]

Imagine watching your favorite news program, but being empowered up a level by also being able to discuss the issues of the hour in real time via Twitter during the program itself. Now imagine that this is not some sort of strange nerd fantasy, this is for real.
I have learned today that Nightline of ABCNews [...]

Do we really need a new way to Google things? Seems that Google feels that we do, even to the extent that they are seeking to create a new means of providing similar data to what you initially queried. One of their latest Lab’s projects reflects this well as Google seeks to further define relevant…especially [...]

I recently started serving as an evangelist for Daylife, and if you haven’t heard of them before, Daylife presents a news site and a distribution platform that pulls together news and imagery from thousands of sources and organizes and displays it all for you in a way that easily enables you to follow specific topics [...]