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Connectors on Glue: Fri Sept 11
by Fraser on September 11, 2009 · 2 Comments
A Friday afternoon treat for you: an update on the biggest Glue connectors over the past 7 days.

Quick background: part of the info displayed on the new Glue object pages is the source where the user visited the item. If a user visits an item via another user’s collection, then that individual is sited as the source.

As mentioned in the post last week, this allows a quick tally to see who is the most influential connector on Glue.

MarshalSandler.com » Notes From ad:tech Chicago: “It’s not the last chapter; it is merely Chapter 11″

MarshalSandler.com » Notes From ad:tech Chicago: “It’s not the last chapter; it is merely Chapter 11″


 "This is not the end of the newspaper business. It’s not the last chapter; it is merely Chapter 11.” Fred Lebolt, President and Publisher of (and prepare for attribution to an incredibly long title) Sun Times Newspaper Group Suburban News Division and New Media Integration, kicked the Transformation of News Media session off with this rather epic sound bite. Fred was joined on the panel by Mark Marvel (MSNBC), Kinsey Wilson (NPR), Kay Madati (CNN) and moderator David Griesing (The Chicago Tribune). Rather than cranking out a giant post attempting to summarize an incredible panel, I thought I’d share a few more sound bites that caught my attention and captured the key takeaways. Local is incredibly valuable in the new model: “Our ability to share deeply relevant local content and engagement is key…. One of the keys of local content is the database- not merely disseminating the local news but using the apps model and making that content very easy to target and easy for the audience to find.” –Lebolt “Our view is that, in the future, no single or handful of news organizations will dominate the local scene…. It is an advantage that we don’t have a big established legacy in local communities.... We are attacking local as a startup would. Partnerships are important and you have to let those partners stand on their own.” –Marvel on the acquisition of EveryBlock Selling against breaking news is tough but there is a huge opportunity for media companies to serve as creative consultants:

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Ical In the age of rapid cycles and connected data, how long are we going to have to settle for dumb software?

Here's the detail screen from iCal. If I write a long text to go with an appointment, the only way to see the whole thing is to hit 'edit.' But I don't want to edit it, I just want to see it.

If I try to schedule an appointment for 2 pm, it requires me to not only hit the 2, but also select pm. I have never once had a meeting at 2 am. Shouldn't it know that?

When I type in someone's name, how come it doesn't know that this is someone I know, correspond with and meet with often? Why isn't it connected?

I have tens of thousands of people in my address book. Some of these folks were put there ten years ago and, alas, are dead or long gone. Do I really have to go through and delete people manually? Why isn't my address book smart enough to sort the list in reverse order of use, so I can see records I haven't encountered in seven years first and start from there? Or, better, why doesn't this address book hook up with other address books of trusted peers and automatically correct and update?

The people who make desktop software are making themselves obsolete. When you start developing on the web, your default is to be smart, to interact and to be open (with other software and with your users). Desktop software (like Word) is insanely unaware of what I do, why I do it and who I do it with. Right now, the desktop folks have the momentum of the incumbent. Not for long. Time to hurry."

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