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An opportunity for a different point of view
YouTube has announced an ambitious journalism contest for “citizen journalists.” I suspect this contest will produce some powerful pieces. In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, YouTube presents Project: Report, a journalism contest (made possible by Sony VAIO & Intel) intended for non-professional, aspiring journalists to tell stories that might not otherwise be told. In each…
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Easy to use trumps everything
A report released yesterday by Stacy Lynch and Vivian Vahlberg of the Media Management Center at Northwestern University says that being “easy to use” beats better or more complete in becoming a user’s favorite Web site. And their study re-emphasizes the fact that becoming one of a user’s three to five favorite Web sites in…
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In a completely different time zone
I took a tour of Greenspun Interactive on Tuesday afternoon, the home of Web sites for the Las Vegas Sun and Las Vegas Weekly and discovered what might be a tell for the success (hey I’m in Vegas) of president and executive editor Rob Curley. It’s not the refrigerator packed with Red Bull or the…