Damon Kiesow

Didn't feel a thingboo

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:36:11 -0500

Wash that man right out of your hairboo

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:27:01 -0500

Wash that man right out of your hairboo (mp3)

"On the day we discovered the million dollar prices, the copy offered by bordeebook was1.270589 times..."

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:53:32 -0400

“On the day we discovered the million dollar prices, the copy offered by bordeebook was1.270589 times the price of the copy offered by profnath. And now the bordeebook copy was 1.270589 times profnath again. So clearly at least one of the sellers was setting their price algorithmically in response to changes in the other’s price.”

- The Infinite Loop Of Algorithmic Pricing On Amazon… Or How A Book On Flies Cost $23,698,655.93 | Techdirt

"Journalists should do only that which adds maximum value. That’s not telling the public what it..."

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:28:34 -0400

“Journalists should do only that which adds maximum value. That’s not telling the public what it already knows. It’s not exercising ego. It’s not production. It is reporting, vetting, curating, explaining, organizing, teaching…. Do what you do best and link to the rest.”

- Hard economic lessons for news « BuzzMachine

The State of the Mobile App World

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:58:51 -0400

The State of the Mobile App World

"Chris and Tim are at sea now, heading toward Benghazi, which means, in the indirect but solemn ways..."

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:29:46 -0400

“Chris and Tim are at sea now, heading toward Benghazi, which means, in the indirect but solemn ways that the fallen travel from battlefields, that they are heading home.”

- THE GUN by C.J. Chivers

News.me Concept Video (by NYT R&D)

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:45:26 -0400

News.me Concept Video (by NYT R&D)

"But I doubt that RIM actually listened to customers or outsiders — the train wreck is just too..."

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:36:02 -0400

“But I doubt that RIM actually listened to customers or outsiders — the train wreck is just too complete for there to have been anything other than heads deeply buried in sand. Still, it’s one thing to see an impending train wreck and fret. It’s another to view the aftermath — it’s a lot worse than I could have imagined, and it feels awful to look at it.”

- RIM BlackBerry PlayBook: Unfinished, unusable | Mobile Technology - InfoWorld

"The lesson: what you do and what you sell may be two different. My sense is that we’re newly into..."

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:01:01 -0400

“The lesson: what you do and what you sell may be two different. My sense is that we’re newly into that era as paid content plans sell convenience and delight — all access wherever you are are — rather than “content.””

- Six Lessons for News Publishers from Seth Godin | Newsonomics

"I am hesitant to take any time away from aggregating adorable kitten videos to respond."

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:20:21 -0400

“I am hesitant to take any time away from aggregating adorable kitten videos to respond.”

- Arianna Huffington: About That Lawsuit…

"The group invited three teams to program “social bots”—fake identities—that could mimic human..."

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:14:10 -0400

“The group invited three teams to program “social bots”—fake identities—that could mimic human conversation on Twitter, and then picked 500 real users on the social network, the core of whom shared a fondness for cats. The Kiwis armed JamesMTitus with a database of generic responses (“Oh, that’s very interesting, tell me more about that”) and designed it to systematically test parts of the network for what tweets generated the most responses, and then to talk to the most responsive people.”

- Are You Following a Bot? - Magazine - The Atlantic

"About a week ago, I was at the Marriott in Detroit, and as I stepped over the newspaper at my door..."

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:03:56 -0400

“About a week ago, I was at the Marriott in Detroit, and as I stepped over the newspaper at my door as I usually do, I then wondered why. It occurred to me that everything in that artifact that would be useful for me — scores from the teams I follow, a brief on big news and a splash of entertainment coverage — I had already learned on my smartphone and tablet before leaving the room.”

- David Carr - quoted in Rethinking the jobs newspapers do

More Media Time, on Various Screens - NYTimes.com

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:15:58 -0400

More Media Time, on Various Screens - NYTimes.com:

That jump reflects in part a rise by 26 percentage points in the number of Americans with access to the Internet. But it also speaks to the increasing ubiquity of smartphones, which have brought media into what were once silent spaces.

"Some will argue that ranking Twitter accounts by number of followers is a load of hogwash, either..."

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:18:08 -0400

“Some will argue that ranking Twitter accounts by number of followers is a load of hogwash, either because Twitter’s recommended list skews things or because it’s not a good measure of “engagement”. The truth is, you could argue the same about any type of metric.”

- The top newspapers on Twitter? Try this list | Old Media, New Tricks

"It’s been six weeks since Motorola released the Xoom, and April 19 is probably as long as..."

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:44:52 -0400

“It’s been six weeks since Motorola released the Xoom, and April 19 is probably as long as Adobe can wait before Flash can no longer be considered “a few weeks” late.”

- No BlackBerry PlayBook? Blame Flash - CNN.com

"The same is true, Bharat said, for news: It’s an overall experience rather than a simple product...."

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:16:23 -0400

“The same is true, Bharat said, for news: It’s an overall experience rather than a simple product. And so news producers have an interest in producing not just quality content, but an overall experience of content consumption that is, to use the buzzwords du jour, seamless and friction-free. At the most basic level, “pages have to load instantaneously” — delays lead to impatience lead to, often, abandonment — and then, once a site is loaded, “you need an obvious next action that takes you through the sequence that the editor has intended for you.””

- Google News founder Krishna Bharat: For news consumers, “the whole experience is what counts” » Nieman Journalism Lab

"The increasing role of mobile content in cars is something getting explored by car makers, who are..."

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:15:00 -0400

“The increasing role of mobile content in cars is something getting explored by car makers, who are looking more at developing “connected vehicles” (think Android cars here) that can use mobile networks and GPS for mapping and other location-based services; as well as integrating car data into mobile apps like OnStar.”

- Drive Time: The Connection Between Smartphones And Cars | mocoNews

"The last thing established players will do is a Flipboard-like experience that bucks the trend..."

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:28:01 -0400

“The last thing established players will do is a Flipboard-like experience that bucks the trend around media consumption. Am certain its not a question of skill, there are smart people everywhere, but one of managing perceived risk.”

- Comment by Mahesh CR on Subtraction.com: Guessing at Numbers for The Daily

"One is journalism students’ complete lack of talents as bloggers. Believe it or not, blogging is a..."

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:37:17 -0400

“One is journalism students’ complete lack of talents as bloggers. Believe it or not, blogging is a skill that you have to learn (!). The greatest difficulty for many journalists in becoming a blogger is the conversational tone native to blogs. Journalists write like boring, humorless robots. Have you ever watched mainstream journalists try to be funny? They are almost universally terrible at it and overly reliant on bad puns. The only exception I can find is ABC Nightline’s Bill Weir, who is hilarious. Many pretentious reporters think journalism can’t be fun, can’t be snarky, can’t be entertaining and light-hearted and funny. They think “important” journalism has to be boring and staid and humorless. Those people are wrong.”

- “Blogger” is Still a Dirty Word With J-Schoolers « David Teeghman: Multimedia Journalist

"The problem is that hyperlocal content, by definition, has limited appeal. To amass an audience..."

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:25:43 -0400

“The problem is that hyperlocal content, by definition, has limited appeal. To amass an audience large enough to generate significant ad revenue, you have to produce a large volume of content from different places, and that is expensive. On top of that, many hyperlocal advertisers are not yet online, limiting the ad dollars.”

- Five myths about the future of journalism - The Washington Post