links for 2011-04-01

"When the iPad launched in April last year, news media companies were among the first to create applications for the new tablet device. We're now a year into the iPad era and some of those news apps have dramatically changed how we consume news. But it hasn't been the apps from traditional news media. Rather, it's been two iPad native apps that have enhanced our news consuming user experience: Flipboard and Newsy."

"Here's the thing. I came to both apps with a mixture of curiosity and jaded contempt, but after using them both, I find myself avoiding Color like the plague (again, I'm not alone) and clicking over to Stellar daily. They're both still pretty inessential in terms of functionality. The difference lies in the user experience -- or more importantly, the "first run" user experience. First impressions, in other words."

"The future of journalism will be a tale of smaller and smaller organizations making a bigger and bigger impact. In the future, you won't be able to count the number of outlets for journalism, or the number of small, ad-hoc organizations across the globe making it happen. They will form, collaborate, break apart, and come together again in a new configuration that fits the moment."

The new Radio 4 Desert Island Discs site uses DBpedia, Musicbrainz IDs and Solr. Its got it all!

"I’ve heard things like “we use automation to help build relationships” or “we’re extending our personality on Twitter by using automated postings”. Really? Does that sound fundamentally wrong to anyone else or is it just me?"

I missed this whilst I was mid-Atlantic. Brilliant post on live tweeting: "Between the Budget and the march I’ve been doing a fair bit of live tweeting over the last week or so. Here are the principles I follow when I’m doing this sort of live reporting, wbether it’s live on the ground at a breaking news event or curating in front of a screen in the office."

"The Web changes the game. Sure, in many areas it still pays to treat the customer as an emotional fool. But there's far more benefit-particularly long-term benefit-in treating the web customer as an intelligent stranger."