Jeff Sonderman
Jeff Sonderman (jsonderman@poynter.org) is the Digital Media Fellow at The Poynter Institute. He focuses on innovations and strategies for mobile platforms and social media in online news.
He previously has worked as the senior community host and managing editor of TBD.com, a local news website in Washington, D.C., and WJLA.com, the website of D.C.-area news station ABC7. Prior to that he was the internet content director and metro editor of The Times-Tribune in Scranton, Pa., and also spent years reporting on health care, business and transportation.
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Jeff Sonderman
Feb. 22, 2012
11:08 am
The New York Times |
9to5 Google
Nick Bilton reports
Google will be selling eyeglasses with an embedded digital display by the end of the year. What kinds of new news products and sources will emerge to fit this new class of devices?
Bilton's sources say the Android-powered headsets will cost "around the price of current smartphones." They'll have a small screen on the side of the viewing area, wireless Internet access, and sensors like GPS, an accelerometer and a front-facing camera to "monitor the world in real time and overlay information about locations, surrounding buildings and friends who might be nearby." This description sounds similar to the glasses envisioned by Matt Thompson and Robin Sloan in "The Storm Collection," their vision of
a future when digital information overlays every part of the real world.
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Jeff Sonderman
Feb. 22, 2012
9:39 am
Storify | iTunes Store | The Next Web
Storify's brand-new iPad app unveiled this morning should extend the curation tool to new, more-casual users and increase the live-blogging of conferences and events.
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- The new Storify iPad app enables easy, intuitive story building.
In general, the app offers the same service the Web version of Storify does. But its touch-based interface is more intuitive for drag-and-drop story building. And the availability on a portable device now means more people can Storify an event live. There's also a new feature to tweet from within the app, so you can quickly post your own updates while curating others'.
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Jeff Sonderman
Feb. 21, 2012
4:21 pm
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Jeff Sonderman
Feb. 21, 2012
3:20 pm
Wall Street Journal |
Facebook
A German group claiming affiliation with Anonymous told followers to flood the Journal's Facebook pages with comments this afternoon. The group is protesting
a Journal article comparing the online hacking group to Al Qaeda. Comments began on the Journal's
German-language Facebook page then spread to the
main page. Commenters were instructed to post this message:
"Dear editors of the German Wall Street Journal, You equated Anonymous with Al-Qaeda in your February 2012 article and the related coverage. With this type of coverage you may be able to stir up fear in the United States, but not in the land of poets and thinkers! With this comment, we would like to oppose the deliberate dissemination of false information and express our displeasure with your lobby journalism. We are Anonymous. We are millions. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us!"
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Jeff Sonderman
Feb. 17, 2012
11:16 am
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Jeff Sonderman
Feb. 16, 2012
1:29 pm
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
When Gandhi said that famous line (if he did), he was describing the process of reform through nonviolent protest. But… Read more
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Jeff Sonderman
Feb. 16, 2012
10:39 am
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Jeff Sonderman
Feb. 15, 2012
5:00 pm
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Jeff Sonderman
Feb. 15, 2012
1:23 pm
Panel discussions about journalism and technology can be pretty hit-or-miss these days. This week, I saw a couple of hits.
In two Social Media Week panels Tuesday in Washington, D.C., O’Reilly Media’s Alex Howard (better known as @digiphile)… Read more
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Jeff Sonderman
Feb. 14, 2012
10:57 am
comScore
Facebook's 1.3 trillion display ad impressions accounted for 27.9 percent of all the display ads served online in 2011,
according to comScore. The biggest content-related companies were Yahoo (#2 at 529 billion impressions) and AOL (#5 at 131 billion). These companies' dominance of display ads is likely helped by their ability to target ads to relevant visitors.
Pew Research Center recently found Yahoo targets more ads (67 percent) than other news sites. Facebook personalizes almost all of its ads based on a user's demographics, interests and friends. News orgs
mostly do not target ads.
|| Related: comScore
also reports Web users spend about 5 percent of time on news/information sites, and 17 percent on social networks.
|| Earlier: Online advertising passing by news organizations (Poynter)
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