Defrag(mentation)

by Brian Mueller September 2, 2010

I have long been a proponent of defragging your hard drive. “What is this?” you ask. Well, defragmentation is a process that physically reorganizes the information on your hard drive so that it can be accessed in a more efficient manner. I liken this procedure to alphabetizing your address book. It just saves time. Now defragging is a relatively simple task. There are software tools built into Windows & Mac OS X, however

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Safe Downloads

by Brian Mueller September 2, 2010

Over the past 15 years I’ve watched the the Web develop beyond my wildest expectations.  My first experiences online with Internet Explorer 2.0 were of static websites, some with unusual colors, and many with blinking text.  Of course in the halcyon days of 1995 I wasn’t spending a great deal of my time online.  If my browser was not crashing, then my dial-up connection through Prodigy

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Saving the news with some Google-ness

by Joe Wessels May 12, 2010

CinDaily is about saving the news.

That is what it was at its inception and where it is now. The question – and why not much has happened to CinDaily lately – is about how to do that without losing one’s proverbial shirt. Sustainability through profitability (not charity, though that has worked for some) is not a good long-term approach. Or so says me.

Jeff Jarvis, author of the book “What Would Google Do?” and a co-host on “This Week in Google” (a must-listen – or now, must-watch and/or listen- show for anyone interested in cloud computing), has a great post this morning on his blog “Buzz Machine.” Google may save news.

Fallows says that the three pillars of a new online business model for news, in Google’s view, are “distribution, engagement, and monetization.” My equivalents are the conveniently alliterative engagement for the public, effectiveness for advertisers, and efficiency in the operation. That is to say, Google doesn’t touch — nor should it want or need to — the fourth and vital leg to sustainable business models for news: cost. That’s what will make it easier to get Politico’s local product, TBD.com, to profitability more easily than the competitive Washington Post can stay there. That’s why I am looking more at the entrepreneurial than institutional future of news. That’s why I think this quest Google and others are on is about more than saving newspapers and more than saving news; it’s about finding new opportunities. But nevermind that.

via Finally, good news for Google « BuzzMachine.

I have been interested in what Google is doing to help further journalism/save it/make it new for some time. Jarvis and I are cut from the same cloth on this (and, it seems, many issues). Looks like things are starting to get more interesting quickly.

Two together better than none?

by Joe Wessels April 1, 2010

So, this good for local media? Probably not.

The less competition – and there is, my God, less of it – the less news there is out there reported. Not to mention less accountability by not only the the people, businesses and public servants who typically get reported, by also less likely that the two media outlets here would report on each other’s actions. And who loses? The public.

Clear Channel Media Cincinnati, parent of WLW-AM, and WXIX-TV (Fox19) have formed a broadcast and marketing partnership, including a deal to broadcast the Cincinnati Bell/WEBN fireworks show.

via Fox19, WLW form broadcast/marketing partnership – Business Courier of Cincinnati:.

In slipshot fashion, the weakened Business Courier left out a key aspect of this story: What happens to the partnership WLW had with its former sister-station, WLWT-TV? I guess that’s over.

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March 23, 2010

A controversy arose in March 2010 after New Media Cincinnati co-founder Daniel Johnson, Jr. instituted a $5 charge for attending is monthly second-Saturday new media/social media gatherings. A post on the New Media Cincinnati Web site drew a flurry of comments, many criticzing Johnson for not noting where the funds generated by the fee would [...]

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August 15, 2009

Tom & Joe record their second “Tom & Joe Radio Show – Not on the Radio Yet” at the Coffee Emporium in downtown Cincinnati. This week there were no guests, but Tom & Joe discussed everything from health care to The Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County’s budget issues. Plus, the City of Cincinnati’s [...]

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August 15, 2009

Who said conservatives and liberals can’t get along? They can’t – except when it comes to getting together to debate each other. That’s what former Ohio State Rep. Tom Brinkman, a staunch conservative and founder of the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (C.O.A.S.T.), and journalist Joe Wessels, a solid liberal and most recently [...]

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June 1, 2009

My good friend Mike O. is about to arrive in Cincinnati for, what is becoming, his annual trek here for chili, humidity and friendly people. Having grown up in Orange County, Calif., Mike jokingly said he always looked at the Midwest as someplace “you flew over on your way to New York or London.”  But [...]

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