Best Newspaper Websites; Web 3.0?
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Today's news roundup:
CyberJournalist has a list of the top 10 newspaper websites. Not surprisingly, the New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today make the top 3. A colleague mentioned before this list was published that these papers' web content is great because they can afford and/or have the staff to do extraordinary work. I tend to agree although a large part of great multimedia journalism is taking risks and being innovative.
Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt gives his take on what Web 3.0 will be at the Seoul Digital Forum. Web 3.0 has been a tossed around, but relatively undefined concept (Wikipedia initially removed and later flagged its Web 3.0 page because of unsourced statements. Here is Schmidt's take on Web 3.0 as quoted by Cybernet News:
View Schmidt's dialogue below:
CyberJournalist has a list of the top 10 newspaper websites. Not surprisingly, the New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today make the top 3. A colleague mentioned before this list was published that these papers' web content is great because they can afford and/or have the staff to do extraordinary work. I tend to agree although a large part of great multimedia journalism is taking risks and being innovative.
Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt gives his take on what Web 3.0 will be at the Seoul Digital Forum. Web 3.0 has been a tossed around, but relatively undefined concept (Wikipedia initially removed and later flagged its Web 3.0 page because of unsourced statements. Here is Schmidt's take on Web 3.0 as quoted by Cybernet News:
Web 3.0 will ultimately be seen as applications that are pieced together. There are a number of characteristics: the applications are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the applications can run on any device (PC or mobile phone), the applications are very fast and they are very customizable. And further more the applications are distributed by virus…essentially virally. Literally by social networks or by email. You won’t go to the store and purchase them.
View Schmidt's dialogue below:
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