Entries from lucasgrindley.com blog | Exploring the new way for journalism tagged with 'Good Ideas'
Spectacular psychic predictions, and some useful ones
Rob Curley has made a daring prediction for the future. Now, Rob claims he’s not a futurist. But he’s gone out on a limb. Here it goes: In the future, newspapers, will still be called “newspapers.” OK, so it’s not...
A good idea usually spreads
Yahoo launched its own answers site. Not sure whether Amazon came out with its version first. As you might recall, I asked a question using the Amazon site, Askville. And I’m happy to report it provided a good answer. Since...
BoomerGirl.com has a good personality, really, she does
As baby boomers retire, a market to serve them is about to explode. And Journerdism points out a new site called BoomerGirl.com, which was created by LJWorld.com to answer the emerging trend. The pluses. Most of the content seems on...
What a cool kuler scheme
Try this Web site from Adobe if you’re in the market for a good color scheme. Designers are asked to submit combinations and then rank their favorites....
One week on the Web could change your life
The News Tribune in Tacoma, Wa. is one of the first I’d heard of to create a weekly “Web internship” for the newsroom. Anyone – a reporter, copy editor, designer – can spend one week with the Web team instead...
Careful or you’ll miss the real lesson
Something about the Washington Post’s story on the “mojos” at Gannett got journalists in a tizzy. Mobile reporters at the Fort Myers News-Press work out of their cars, filing several times a day to the Web site, without editing. Interesting,...
The Newsroom pays me to inform you
Found this site called The Newsroom, where anyone can get a video clip or news story and post it on their site. Oh yeah, and then you get a cut of the advertising dollars attached to the news story. I...
The new beat as a new blog
The folks over at Gangrey are brainstorming ideas for new beats, assuming that all of the traditional beats were thrown over a cliff. What strikes me about the ideas is how narrowly focused they are, but not by geography. And...
One more election results example
Here in Sarasota, the U.S. House race is so close that a recount is underway. And there's some question about the large undervote seen in some precincts. This graphic, also made by the IBISEYE.com folks, shows the precinct-by-precinct vote breakdown...
Presenting election results
A new program called Flex, from Macromedia, changed the way we present the election results at HeraldTribune.com. Please take a moment to explore the presentation, which feels a lot like an application and less like a newspaper graphic. I’d love...
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