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LINKS | Down with the AP?

There's been a growing feeling that the AP is not our friend in the media industry, but this week, that feeling seemed to bubble over. We've got some rough numbers to show that they're not helping us, and with the rise of ESPN local sites, the AP is rapidly loosing it's marketplace. I don't know if I'm ready to sign their death sentence yet, they do seem to have some smart people working for 'em (I look to the New Model for News study and their iPhone app). Yet, it's painfully obvious (after the youtube fiasco) that the AP is a classic case of the right hand not knowing what the left is doing.

heads up: this is a pretty old post, it may be outdated.

There's been a growing feeling that the AP is not our friend in the media industry, but this week, that feeling seemed to bubble over. We've got some rough numbers to show that they're not helping us, and with the rise of ESPN local sites, the AP is rapidly loosing it's marketplace.

I don't know if I'm ready to sign their death sentence yet, they do seem to have some smart people working for 'em (I look to the New Model for News study and their iPhone app). Yet, it's painfully obvious (after the youtube fiasco) that the AP is a classic case of the right hand not knowing what the left is doing. These are my links for April 14th through April 18th:

The AP is outdated and increasingly irrelevant; so are Printies

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Daily Kos: State of the Nation: Newspapers make up 20% of the sources for The Daily Kos, but blogs make up near 13%, the second most. The AP? Less than 1%.

“On the other hand, I will be gleeful when the AP goes out of business. I’m actually shocked at how little we depend on those jerks.”

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

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  • I realize the extent to which the media economy is moving towards people who give a shit over people who are willing to tolerate something. You know, it’s no longer something that’s just good enough so people don’t change the channel — now it’s something that people pick.

    Jesse Thorn on gathering your online audience in the real world » Nieman Journalism Lab

  • nytimes page breakdownTypeface Inspired by Comic Books Has Become a Font of Ill Will - WSJ.com: Kinda nifty, a profile on the guy who created Comic Sans, “It is a punch line: ‘Comic Sans walks into a bar, bartender says, ‘We don’t serve your type.””

  • Jonathan Mendez's Blog: New York Times Landing Pages: All the Irrelevance That Fits the Pixels: Great look at how much of newspaper site design doesn’t center around content, but around the excess.

  • stevenf has a great post on the future of UI and HMI on computers. The following are excerpts from the text meant to summarize the post.

    Every geek I know shares, to some degree, the notion that the “desktop” metaphor for computers is outdated. What nobody seems to have a solid opinion on is what would take its place. Every once in a while, there is an attempt to obsolete the concept of the hierarchical file system. The Newton had a very unique object storage system — essentially a system-wide “soup” of data objects, such as your calendar events, address book contacts, and so on. Any app could dip into this database and pull out objects, even those put there by other applications. Applications could then look at them, maybe even modify or extend them, without needing the original application to intervene at all. The result was an unprecedented interconnectedness of data among Newton applications, both first and third party, unmatched by any desktop environment that I know of.

  • …a huge portion of iPhone usability training is done via the TV ads, pre-sale. They’re both marketing and instruction.

    stevenf.com - WARNING: A long, rambly exploration of the state…_

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