by Chris Snider | Sep 26, 2008 | Digital ideas
We had visitors from Apple (yes, that Apple) in Des Moines this week to demo their Podcast Producer software. The Apple folks wanted to show us (and some representatives from Gannett) how media outlets could use Podcast Producer to speed up their workflow for video...
by Chris Snider | Sep 18, 2008 | Digital ideas
The Chicago Tribune has the best presence I’ve seen of any newspaper on Facebook, Twitter and Digg. The paper created a persona based on former Tribune owner Robert Rutherford “Colonel” McCormick. See them here: Twitter | Facebook | Digg Creating...
by Chris Snider | Sep 17, 2008 | Digital ideas, Digital tools
Last night, this blog went mobile. And it only took about five minutes to set up (I even threw in an iPhone version for good measure). I already had an account with Mofuse, a free service that lets you create mobile sites using RSS feeds and manual links. You...
by Chris Snider | Sep 16, 2008 | Digital ideas
Paltalk is a web site that offers instant messaging, group video calls and chat rooms – all for free. How do I know this? Certainly not because I was searching for a solution to my instant messaging and group video needs. I know because I received this video via...
by Chris Snider | Sep 12, 2008 | Digital ideas
One huge advantage newspapers have over all of the competition is the quality of our photographs. So how do we take better advantage of that? Obviously producing daily or weekly or monthly “best-of” photo galleries makes sense. But here’s another idea: Tap into our...
