meganboler.net » new york times http://www.meganboler.net Megan Boler's Research Projects and Blog Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:40:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New York Times Makes History Again With New Media http://www.meganboler.net/2008/07/02/new-york-times-makes-history-again-with-new-media/ http://www.meganboler.net/2008/07/02/new-york-times-makes-history-again-with-new-media/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:24:31 +0000 chantelle http://www.meganboler.net/?p=193

 

Syndication, Widgets, Aggregation, Social Overlay and Personalization are the new buzzwords being put into play at the Times online. Monetizing these new-media techniques is a low priority as it is for most Silicon Valley start-ups in these early years of development. 

Far beyond other old-media newspapers the Times has enough of a foothold online to give other social news aggregator sites like Readburner and Techmeme real competition.

]]> http://www.meganboler.net/2008/07/02/new-york-times-makes-history-again-with-new-media/feed/ 0 New York Times Knows the Future is Electronic http://www.meganboler.net/2008/05/21/new-york-times-knows-the-future-is-electronic/ http://www.meganboler.net/2008/05/21/new-york-times-knows-the-future-is-electronic/#comments Wed, 21 May 2008 15:05:30 +0000 chantelle http://www.meganboler.net/?p=159 The New York Times, the largest metropolitan print newspaper in the United States, is demonstrating the impact that digital markets have had on print journalism by developing technologies that cater to niche markets (like bloggers), a generation of people who prefer digital over paper and Google mash-ups. Specifically these include: (via Scobilizer)

  • A prototype newspaper rack that could print out a custom version of the newspaper.
  • Tons of gadgets, including a cool thin book reader following a discussion of metadata that the New York Times is collecting. They have these gadgets so they can develop new ways of delivering content to those devices. In this video they announced a Mac version of the Times Reader, coming “within days.”
  • New York Times articles showing up on Google Earth while in their digital living room.

    • Will these technologies reverse circulation declines for the paper? Is print media production destined to become obsolete? Developments at The New York Times are crucial for the future of old media.

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