Mobile news from the AP
Posted on April 19, 2008
Filed Under: Work | 0 Comments
Tagged: ap, iphone, media, mobile, news
Am I missing something here? Does the newly announced Mobile News Network from the AP actually add any value to my mobile experience?
The AP is going mobile. The nonprofit news cooperative, which recently beefed up its entertainment news staff, announced the formation of the Mobile News Network, which will deliver news to smart phones including Apple’s iPhone.
The AP’s CEO, Tom Curley, went on to state in Monday’s announcement that “the Mobile News Network will provide a national platform for smart-phone users to access local content from brands they trust.”
Note to Tom and the rest of the AP staff: I already get international, national, and local news from you on my iPhone (http://news.google.com/m). What’s more, I’m able to customize the results, meaning I don’t have to read the trash churned out by your “recently beefed up its entertainment news staff”.
If companies are going to come out with new product announcements, they darned well ought to be able to explain what they’re doing, why they’re doing it, and what value it provides to the customer. Perhaps the AP needs to hire someone with some PR skills.
Get fired Friday
Posted on April 11, 2008
Filed Under: Link O' Rama | 0 Comments
Tagged: employment, fired, job
Want to get fired the easy way? Have your boss or HR staff find a photo of you in a compromising situation.
Of course, there’s no need to actually put yourself in that situation and that’s where getyourselffired.com comes in.
Simply choose your situation, upload a photo of yourself and ta-da, you’re ready to get fired!
Once that’s done, job search site itzbig.com hopes you’ll stop to find your next job.
What are you looking at Mr. Vice President?
Posted on April 10, 2008
Filed Under: Link O' Rama | 3 Comments
Tagged: dick cheney, fishing
Vice President Dick Cheney spends an afternoon fly-fishing (wink) on the Snake River in Idaho.
[source: ]http://xo.typepad.com/blog/2008/04/whats-dick-chen.html]
Obvious asks - Why do you use Twitter?
Posted on April 10, 2008
Filed Under: Personal, Richmond, Work | 0 Comments
Tagged: connections, media, richmond, stowe boyd, twitter
Yesterday, I noticed that Twitter added a link for me to “share my story”. The team at obvious.com wanted to know who I was and why I use it.
I responded telling them that I was an Incognito Anthropologist interested in Twitter for four reasons:
1. Richmond has an incredibly smart, savvy, and downright friendly group of people when it comes to all things Internet. From our projects in citizen journalism to wi-fi initiatives to the general chatter on the blogs, we’re creating meaningful connections. Twitter serves to extend and enrich those connections.
2. Many local media outlets aren’t connecting with their audience in the way they used to - or rather, the local audience wants a different kind of connection. Adopting Twitter and using it to meet the needs of their audience (a crucial point that will be missed by many media companies) adds capital to the social connection that needs to exist between local media and the informed citizen. I’m interested in following media companies using Twitter to learn more about how they use the service.
3. My Twitter feed is much more entertaining than scanning the 5000+ new posts I get in Google Reader every day.
4. Twitter lets me directly connect, in 140 characters or less, with brilliant minds around the world and that’s a beautiful thing.
Stowe Boyd, eloquent as always, has his take on the survey here:
http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2008/04/my-twitter-stor.html
