Posts tagged ‘publishing’

Making information available and useful online and why newspapers aren’t very good at it.

Editor’s note: The actual quote was “Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” The full presentation is available here: http://sites.google.com/site/io/the-worlds-information-in-context

“Our mission is to make information available and make it useful.” — Michael T. Jones, Chief Technology Advocate, Google

When Michael Jones uttered that line at the recent Google I/O conference, I about fell over. Waitaminute, I thought, isn’t that the roll of the newspaper? I mean, if Google’s mission is to make information available and make it useful, how is that any different from the traditional newspaper mission?

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Why it’s so hard to get print stories online

These days my world at work revolves around getting news stories out of my employer’s newspaper publishing system and onto the web via my employer’s in-house web CMS.

Welcome to my nightmare.

You’d think it would be easy, just issue a SELECT * FROM news WHERE date = $today; and be done with it, right? Well, not so much.

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