Here are a few Austin-related stories that caught my eye this week:
How’d they do that? Local Web site explains (Austin Business Journal): ExpertVillage.com, an Austin company that produces how-to videos for the Internet, has launched its new how-to video sharing Web site.
Austin Ventures buys Seattle firm (Austin Business Journal): Austin Ventures has bought and recapitalized [...]
Tags: Digital
Rex Hammock points out that former UT quarterback Vince Young is featured as part of Reebok’s “When Did I Know” campaign as he returns to his high school in Houston to establish a scholarship for students there. Check out the audio here.
It appears that the Statesman.com / Austin360.com movie showtime listings have changed since the last time I used them. I recall selecting “All Movies” and “All Theaters” from this page, then having the results listed alphabetically by film title, with listings of showtimes for each film at each theater.
Now, however, selecting “All Movies” and “All [...]
The Statesman has solid coverage of last night’s Rolling Stones concert, although it’s still a bit too “one-way”. They have included a spot where folks can give their review of the show, as nearly 70 people have done this morning.
One piece that’s missing, however, is a link to the flickr site where people have already [...]
I know writing any more Rob Curley-oriented posts may make it look like I’m stalking the guy, but here goes: The king of hyper-local media is featured in this month’s Fast Company magazine (”Hyper-Local Hero“).
Having recently moved his gig from Naples, Florida, to the Washington Post, Curley faces a new set of challenges, but he [...]
Dear publishers: When Dave Winer says he wants to work for you, please put down whatever you’re doing and contact him immediately.
At the end of a post titled, “How to improve professional reporting“, Dave included this note:
Disclaimer: I am looking for a job as CTO or Chief Scientist at a professional publisher that wants to [...]
Austin’s PBS affiliate, KLRU-TV, has received a $150,000 grant from the RGK Foundation designated to support a plan to improve customer service and station technical infrastructure.
As part of the plan, KLRU plans to hire a webmaster to provide strategic directions for new technology, upgrade their donor database, and train their staff to take advantage of [...]
In today’s Statesman, Sarah Coppola reports that City Council members Jennifer Kim and Brewster McCracken spent money to create “better” websites apart from their official city website pages. The in-house technology, they complained, didn’t meet their needs.
Coppola reports that the new sites drew grumpy responses from “the law department and city ethics officer, who recently [...]
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A couple of items that have caught my eye in the past week. I’m posting them here to keep a link to them for further reading:
American Press Institute: “Newspaper Next: The Transformation Project“
Doc Searls: Newspapers 2.0 and Newspapers 2.1
Following the “One’s a anomaly, two’s a trend” line of thinking, I’ve come across a couple of similar posts in my reading over the past week: That the websites of events and groups are beginning to rival media websites as the best places to go for information.
First, Steve Yelvington pointed out that Berkeley journalism instructor [...]
