Financial Times goes all-in on its web app, Flickr puts up fences, and daily deal fatigue sets in.
by David Sims
| @ndwoods
| 1 September 2011
The Financial Times says subscriber data trumps Apple's reach, Flickr introduces geofencing to keep things private, and the cracks in the daily deal world start to show.
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As sources become less important, filters are the natural target for those who want to sway opinion.
by Karl Fogel
| @kfogel
| 1 September 2011
When people are trawling so many content sources, it no longer pays to concentrate on sources at all. It makes much more sense to study how the trawlers work and become part of the filtering infrastructure.
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Digital book designers face a big question: Is it better to scroll or flip?
by Peter Meyers
| @petermeyers
| 26 August 2011
We all got comfortable scrolling through web pages a long time ago, but ereader and tablet design added a new quirk with the introduction of page flips. Here, Pete Meyers considers the applications of scrolling and flipping across reading environments.
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How a freelancer ruling complicates copyright and affects the Google Books case.
by Jenn Webb
| @JennWebb
| +Jenn Webb | 26 August 2011
A recent ruling in a case between publishers and freelancers could complicate the Google Books settlement as well. Here, attorney and literary agent Dana Newman explains why.
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A look at three publishing startups, Romenesko retires, and Jer Thorp discusses data at the NYT.
by Jenn Webb
| @JennWebb
| +Jenn Webb | 26 August 2011
The TOC Sneak Peek webcasts continue, Poynter gets a part-time employee while Romenesko plans a new blog, and Jer Thorp talks about being a data artist at the New York Times.
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A new media startup tries to mine the social web for stories.
by Alex Howard
| @digiphile
| +Alex Howard | 25 August 2011
The newly launched Daily Dot is trying an experiment in community journalism, where the community is the Internet. To support their goal, they're applying the lens of data journalism to the social web.
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