Printed Matters

What I’m reading

• NEWS HAS NEVER BEEN A COMMERCIALLY VIABLE PRODUCT - The Media Business
  Focusing on news as a commercial product appears futile and commercial news providers would do well to put their efforts in creating other commercial activities that can subsidize news provision […]
• iBox - Lightweight inline popup
  iBox is a lightweight script that lets you overlay images and documents in a small dialog without a page reload. It's built to be easy to install and use, while offering great flexibility. […]
• "Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40%
  Though it asked people the same questions found in typical sign-up forms, the Huffduffer registration form did so in a narrative format. It presented input fields to people as blanks within sentences […]
• Google facts and figures (massive infographic) | Royal Pingdom
  "We’ve been digging through Google’s SEC filings, news articles and the trusty old Wikipedia to get plenty of interesting data to include." […]
• Media’s evolving spheres of discovery - BuzzMachine
  "...content starts with the consumer instead of the creator; authority is established by the public instead of the brand; the audience is the distributor." […]
• CakePHP Comment Plugin - LoadStr - A Loadsys Blog
  In addition, we typically had to allow users to comment on everything (photos, posts, news, articles, etc…). Here is the solution we came up with that worked very well […]
• The Newsonomics of online marketing
  Online advertising is where the game has been played. Now it’s moving to digital marketing. The new definition targets two big shifts […]
• jQuery source viewer
  Type in a jQuery method name (then wait a bit) and the corresponding source will show up. […]
• How to Fix Google Buzz - Google Moderator
  News stories consumed by Reader and then shared on Buzz should keep incoming geotags intact and make use of them somehow, by showing a map, passing the data through to outgoing Buzz feeds, and connecting geotagged news to nearby users. […]
• Official Google Blog: Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network
  We want to see what developers and users can do with ultra high-speeds, whether it's creating new bandwidth-intensive "killer apps" and services, or other uses we can't yet imagine. […]