The Czech Lead

There has been quite a debate recently about the announcement by the Associated Press that they will protect their news by a code that will enable them to show who is using their content without paying for it. I am not sure everyone in the debate discussed the same thing, but in any case it [...]

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“Citizen Journalism Networks Stepping Up Editorial Standards,” states DigiDave in his recent post. Just as he does I try to avoid the “professionals good - amateurs wrong” (or vice versa, which is far more frequent) debate about journalism, since I think it mostly exaggerates and misses the point. My view is that these two branches [...]

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Starting from scratch is what not many people do. It is not natural, sometimes not quite useful (my fellow fans of Zdenek Jirotka´s book Saturnin will know exactly what I mean) but in other instances it can be very innovative and revealing. I think one such project was recently announced by Elsevier and is called [...]

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The Washington Post has been at the receiving end of the new media gurus and “print-is-dead-squads”. It is interesting, therefore, to see WP´s new effort boldly called Innovations in News – The latest creations from Slate and The Washington Post (sponsored by, who else, 3rd Generation Prius – which, I guess, is important).
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So we got rid of Santa and now there are a few days for producing the Top lists for 2008 in everything. Do not wory, I am not going to add my take on it. I do what I do best and link to the rest So I thought it might be an interesting idea [...]

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It was bound to happen. Since the US Government is trying to save the US car industry a debate about what else is worthy enough to be saved by Government intervention was inevitable. As it was inevitable that someone will point out that newspapers are so important, that they should, perhaps, be the next target [...]

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I feel I should add a bit more about our Twitter feeds, an issue I mentioned briefly in my last post.
We started experimenting with Twitter very recently, after a complete redesign of Ceske Noviny and its sister publications (http://www.ceskenoviny.cz, http://www.financninoviny.cz, http://www.sportovninoviny.cz and for those still speaking only English at http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news) which took place over the [...]

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Well, so we moved back to Prague, unpacked and after pretty mad few months, I feel I can start updating this blog. Our new project in online media is testing Twitter as news platform. So far we are just running test with couple of hiches apparent already, but mostly everything is running smoothly in Czech [...]

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This is definitely an Apple week. After the problems with people not being able to register their new 3G iPhones to O2 network, the mania reached the Marks and Spencer and throuh them, us. My wife and son went shopping - and this is what they brought - the “iPod enabled jacket”.
     

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 Jeff Jarvis made interesting comments here regarding new division of “labour” in the internet age, in this case among newspapers and Google (or somebody - Google is a metaphor). His point is that everybody should be doing what they are best at, and he considers that:
Newspapers are in the wrong businesses. They should no longer [...]

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