Posts Tagged ‘Dan Kennedy’

Dan Kennedy, Dharmesh Shah, Adam Gaffin and Scott Kirsner talk social media and journalism

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Blogger/media critic/Northeastern professor Dan Kennedy hosted a panel on the effects of blogging/social media/fancy technology on journalism last night featuring Hubspot founder/2009 MHT All-Star Dharmesh Shah, Globe columnist/2009 MHT All-Star Scott Kirsner, Universal Hub founder Adam Gaffin, and MHT editor Doug Banks.

Listen to hear Gaffin explain what professional journalists and the twittering mobs do and don’t do well; Kirsner talk about his attempts at hunting down a nasty commenter for an Obama-esque beer summit; Shah express bemusement at the silly journalists and their self-imposed limits on what are, at heart, capitalist enterprises; and Banks talk about transforming a newspaper’s business model during the never-ending journalistic apocalypse.

Globe puts content online again

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

The Boston Globe has released GlobeReader, Adobe Air-powered desktop software that will download the contents of the newspaper daily, so it can be read offline.

Dan Kennedy, who has followed the parent company’s similar TimesReader,  called the product “slick and highly readable,” but said it’s not the answer to all the problems at Morrissey Blvd.

It’s an interesting strategy and, combined with other delivery platforms, such as the $9.99-a-month Kindle edition, may help chart a path out of the current mess in which the newspaper business finds itself. Such projects are not going to be nearly enough, but they could help.

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