Soup | Anthony De Rosa
“Effective immediately, there is zero tolerance for on-screen errors. Mistakes by any member of the show team that end up on air may result in immediate disciplinary action against those who played significant roles in the “mistake chain,” and those who supervise them. That may include warning letters to personnel files, suspensions, and other possible actions up to and including termination, and this will all obviously play a role in performance reviews. So we now face a great opportunity to review and improve on our workflow and quality control efforts. To make the most of that opportunity, effective immediately, Newsroom is going to “zero base” our newscast production. That means we will start by going to air with only the most essential, basic, and manageable elements. To share a key quote from today’s meeting: “It is more important to get it right, than it is to get it on.” We may then build up again slowly as deadlines and workloads allow so that we can be sure we can quality check everything before it makes air, and we never having to explain, retract, qualify or apologize again. Please know that jobs are on the line here. I can not stress that enough.”
News organizations need mobile-first strategy ➔
“Mobile first” needs to change how we think and act throughout our organizations. Reporters, editors and visual journalists need to think first about how to package and deliver news for mobile devices. Information technology staffs need to work first on development of mobile applications for popular devices. Sales staffs need to make it a top priority to guide business customers in using our mobile apps and platforms to reach customers with advertising and direct-sales opportunities. Designers need to present content that is clear and easy to read on the small screen (even if this means spending less staff resources on design of print or web products). Executives need to redirect resources and set priorities so that we pursue mobile opportunities as aggressively as we pursue the most important news stories in our communities.
Microsoft vs. Google : Everybody Wins?
I think the rumored Murdoch deal is stupid. It’s good for Microsoft because they get the only exclusive deal for the rights to index content of this scale in the history of the web.
It’s bad for News Corp because not only are they limiting who will have access to their content, they’ll make it more difficult to find the content they’re trying to sell. The upside is they get a truckload of cash from Microsoft up front. Is that worth giving up 25% of their traffic? Traffic that could have been potential customers for their paid content.
Google has gone unchecked, and has had basically zero competition for virtually a decade. Microsoft, in the odd role of David to Google’s Goliath, poses the first real threat to their monopoly. Putting Google in a position where they need to innovate and come up with ways to keep consumers from choosing Bing means better services all around for consumers.
Or does it?
The negative is it could become a land war, with Google and Bing scooping up one exclusive deal after the other, fragmenting how we find information on the web, forcing us to adopt a cable model to decide where we go to locate what we need.
We need a real competitor to Google but if it comes at the expense of a splintering of search, it could be a net loss for consumers.
The Best of Leon : Season Six
Watch me and Soup present and answer questions about Neighborhoodr at Web Expo 2.0’s Launch Pad event. Full panel here.
Jets Player Tells Fan to Kill Himself on Twitter ➔
Maybe social media isn’t for everyone.
How to Say "We Have Absolutely NO Ideas" in 10 Easy Steps - The Republican "Purity" Pledge Decoded ➔
(1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama’s “stimulus” bill;
America is $12 trillion in debt. The stimulus plan cost $787 billion (and as for those scare quotes, it was apparently worth it). But that doesn’t matter. Whether you agree with the stimulus or not, it isn’t up for renewal. It happened. So opposing it now doesn’t do anything to reduce the deficit. Alternately, neither will lowering taxes. You can’t just say you’re for lower deficits and reduced spending. PROPOSE a way to make this happen. Anyone.
(2) We support market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run health care;
We are opposed to Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, veterans’ servicesAmerica has the best health care in the world.(3) We support market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation;
Drill, baby, etc.
(4) We support workers’ right to secret ballot by opposing card check;
ACORN.
(5) We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants;
Build a wall. Let Dobbs deal with the rest.
(6) We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges;
Wait… Didn’t we already win in Iraq and Afghanistan?
(7) We support containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat;
Since the two wars we’re already involved in are going so well, we’d like to start two more! This, by the way, will lower the deficit.
(8) We support retention of the Defense of Marriage Act;
The gays are worse than the Mexicans.
(9) We support protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing and denial of health care and government funding of abortion
If we could legally change our name to the party of old white Christians, we would.
(10) We support the right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership.
#10 is our solution to #5.
“The “politically correctness” has got to get out now. I mean, we’re Americans and [Palin] sticks up for the American people, not for other people. We’re first. Other people are last.”
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Palin supporter at SARAH PALIN BOOK SIGNING (via robot-heart-politics)
God bless their tiny little hate filled hearts.
@NYT_JenPreston says the NY Times is coming to Tumblr "very soon" ➔
New York Times Social Media Editor Jen Preston:
“We’re going to be doing something interesting very soon with Tumblr.”
Well we’ve already got two of the best things going at NYT, Brian Stelter and Soraya Darabi.
“Nice. Newsweek has a Tumblr, and it looks good, links out (HT @bigboxcar)”
SARAH PALIN PARKING LOT
America, I Am Disappoint of the Day: Sarah Palin supporters, gathered outside a Going Rogue book signing event in Columbus, Ohio, are presented with basic questions about her policy positions.Vacularity ensues.[via.]
Oh it’s that left wing GOTCHA media again.
“I’m an American. We don’t have Czars in America.”
Really? We’ve had them since 1926. Reagan had Czars, Bush I & II had Czars.
It’s OK that we have misinformed people like this cause they just want to meet someone famous, right?
“I watch Fox News a lot! The mainstream media is jeopardizing my freedom of religion!”
I hope you’re right but I’m blaming you if suddenly this dipshit is shooting coyotes from Air Force One in three years.
She is tough—more hawkish than most liberals; she’s comfortable with war talk in a boys’-club environment. “I think Hillary now prides herself on the fact that she’s part of the gravitas team,” says Chuck Todd, the NBC News chief White House correspondent. “Her, Joe Biden, Bob Gates…the over-60 crowd.” (Vogue: “Her Brilliant Career”)
Sneak peak at Foursquare for Blackberry (via dennis)
