Social TV Of newspapers and milk By Don Day on May. 7, 2009 - 1:31 PM I was lucky enough to get my hands on a copy of the final edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Reading it weeks after the fact gave me some perspective, and like many readers I’m sure – made me a bit wistful for ...
Social TV RTNDA Edward R. Murrow awards announced By Don Day on Apr. 9, 2009 - 10:08 AM Seems like quite a few divisions without any web winners this year. Quick list below – full list of all winners here. KOMO, Seattle, WA – komonews.com KREM, Spokane, WA – KREM.COM KGMB-TV, Honolulu, HI – KG ...
Social TV AP complains over YouTube video, hilarity ensues By Don Day on Apr. 9, 2009 - 9:25 AM Oh the AP. WTNQ Radio in Tennessee embedded an Associated Press video on its website — from YouTube. Then a regional AP rep e-mailed the station demanding they take it down, saying it was a violation of the station’s l ...
People Things I’ve learned about Twitter By Don Day on Mar. 30, 2009 - 8:11 PM Is your station on Twitter yet? And by “on Twitter,” I don’t mean either “you have an account reserved,” or “we feed our news headlines into it automatically.” Both of those options are a ...
Social TV “Why a Little Wonder is a Good Thing” By Don Day on Mar. 27, 2009 - 5:27 PM I spoke at the first-ever Ignite Boise last week – and talked about how we’re using Twitter – both to help cover stories and provide information. The Ignite format is really cool — five minutes with 20 slid ...
Social TV Big publishers to Google: Treat us special By Don Day on Mar. 23, 2009 - 9:57 AM Several big newspaper publishers (and ESPN) have formed a group to pressure Google to rejigger the PageRank feature to give them preferential treatment. Many publishers resent the criteria Google uses to pick top results, starting ...
Social TV Breaking: Seattle P-I to go online only By Don Day on Mar. 16, 2009 - 10:13 AM The Seattle Post-Intelligencer will print its final edition tonight, for distribution tomorrow. The paper will go online only starting tomorrow -- the first major market newspaper to do so. All eyes will be on SeattlePI.com in t ...
People Will future of news come from Seattle? By Don Day on Mar. 14, 2009 - 9:26 AM Seattle is often a hot topic here on Lost Remote — and surely it’s partly because our founder lives there (and I used to) — but the city is becoming the ultimate case study on the future of the news industry. Thr ...
Social TV PI on verge of going online-only By Don Day on Mar. 5, 2009 - 8:04 PM The Seattle P-I has a report on… well… on itself today. The story does some investigative digging inside its own newsroom – and finds out that several staffers have likely been given an offer from Hearst to becom ...
Social TV In Rocky’s aftermath, journalism rises By Don Day on Mar. 5, 2009 - 8:03 PM Several staffers who lost their gigs when the Rocky Mountain News was shut down last week are still practicing. Highlights include InsideTheRockies.com – a site dedicated to the baseball team, and several staffers writing pi ...