In our recent contest for best idea for reinventing classifieds, student edition, winner Will Sommer suggested that the dullness of newspaper classifieds is part of the problem. Make them fun, he suggested, and newspapers might have a chance of fighting back against Craigslist and the other forces lined up against them.
The other day I ran […]

Video ads like this will become increasingly
common, and represent a largely untapped
business opportunity

If newspaper designer and consultant Alan Jacobson is right, there is still a big opportunity open for newspapers to get in on something new online — and make some money from it — before others beat them to the punch, as has happened […]

I keep thinking about Seesmic, a fairly new video discussion website that’s currently in alpha phase, and pondering how it might apply to the classifieds space. And I think there’s potentially something big there.

Briefly, Seesmic combines a discussion forum with video. A user posts a quick video — typically just talking into the web-cam that’s […]

Below is a 6-minute video essay by Paul Bradshaw, a UK new-media expert and senior lecturer in online journalism at Birmingham University. This is worth your time. He’s talking about the profound change in distribution models for media that’s taken place; it’s an excellent presentation about what many media practitioners don’t yet fully understand.
Bradshaw is […]