This post on the future of online video news is part of the September Carnival of Journalism.
The history of online video production and distribution is one of fragmentation (competing formats and players) followed by easy-uploads-with-inferior quality (YouTube); one of dissatisfaction with the cross-browser and cross-platform work-around (Flash) with hopes pinned on a new savior for rich media, HTML5.
I logged into Amazon.com a moment ago and was greeted with this letter from Jeff Bezos (emphasis added): Continue reading
The Online News Association annual conference in Boston wrapped up Saturday night: it was a blast and a half. Monica Guzman and I led the live-blogging. Here’s the ONA schedule with links to each session’s reporting:
Material for MCDM 2011 Orientation. http://bit.ly/2011mcdmorientation Continue reading
How Americans Use Text Messaging: Voice Mail v SMS
My cellphone greeting to callers asks for a text rather than a voice mail. It’s an artifact of my life with a Samsung Blackjack that did not reliably or clearly indicate when I’d missed a call. That was before my iPhone, back when I had to wade through a series of keypad prompts to get to messages and then listen to them one-at-a-time.
Periodically, I think about tweaking my greeting, now that I have visual voice mail. But I never seem to get around to it. A new report from Pew will extend my procrastination.
Pew’s research shows that 8-in-10 American adults now own cellphones; three-quarters of those folks use SMS (short message service, aka texting).
The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project asked those texters in a survey how they prefer to be contacted on their cell phone and 31% said they preferred texts to talking on the phone, while 53% said they preferred a voice call to a text message.
