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The new feature turns on a view called "the Monocle" when iPhone 3Gs users shake their phones three times. The app then uses the phone's GPS and compass to display markers for restaurants, bars and other nearby businesses on top of the camera's view.
Tom Martino, a nationally syndicated talk radio host and Denver-area TV personality known as The Troubleshooter, recently went after Westword writer Jared Jacang Maher for a story Maher had written on him. Problem was, in his video attacking Maher as a "cowardly writer," Martino grabbed a picture off the internet of comedian and former Westword staffer Adam Cayton-Holland wearing Maher's name tag at an event and said it was Maher. Now Cayton-Holland has responded with a story and the video below.
"Journalists and news organizations are all atwitter these days, but they are seeing different returns on investment from their uses of Twitter," Poynter's Patrick Thornton writes. He notes that the New York Times' main Twitter account features very little interaction, which many deem a death knell in social media. But the feed is wildly popular: it has more than 1.6 million followers, and is the 18th most popular account on Twitter. "There is a market for interactive and non-interactive accounts," Times social media editor Jennifer Preston says. "Like most media organizations, we recognize that Twitter is about conversations, not broadcasting. That said, some people do like their headlines." Thornton also holds up the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Tribune account as a model of a curatorial Twitter presence. "The Colonel's Twitter account links to interesting Tribune content, content from around the web and spurs discussions," he writes. "The Colonel doesn't just grab headlines, but rather finds interesting parts of stories and points them out to users."
"Maybe we should have been smarter, or less starry-eyed about it, but we thought and hoped Eason would succeed," says Mike Lenehan, who owned a small part of the Reader before it was sold to Eason. "I don't think there would have been much sentiment to do [the deal] if we thought he'd turn out to be Ben Eason. Maybe we should have known better -- but that's what we thought." MORE: Reader media columnist Michael Miner discusses the paper's future with Chicago Public Radio, and Creative Loafing (Tampa) publisher Sharry Smith has sent out a memo calling Atalaya's acquisition of the company "a very positive development." (AAN News has been told the memo was drafted by all of the CL publishers together.)
"Things are tough all over, and here at Baltimore's Most New Economic Weekly, we've made some less-than-thrilling adjustments, namely spending a lot less dough on all the stunning, award-winning original photography we used to -- and will again, dammit -- be known for," Baltimore City Paper art director Joe McLeod writes in the introduction to a piece featuring short updates and images from eight of the paper's freelance shutterbugs.
Forbes' Elisabeth Eaves recently looked at efforts by national and global brands to market themselves as local businesses, and concluded that whether or not such tactics deserved to be decried as local washing "depends on your definition of local." Jackson Free Press publisher Todd Stauffer singles out Eaves and her argument in a column this week. "Actually, the definition of local isn't up for grabs, and it isn't just marketing," he writes. "The entire concept of 'local' is fundamental both to America's economic recovery and to the potential for progress and self-sufficiency for our local communities." Stauffer goes on to explain that what Eaves and other local-washing defenders are "are doing is purposely conflating the concepts 'local' and 'locale.'"
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