Some good tips for mobile app development, marketing and evaluation
1) Boring doesn't sell
2) Your App is Good, not Great
3) Track Your Success,
4) Advertising (I'd include Marketing)
5) Highlight Features

Read through for more narrative/explanation

Great posts on tools/strategies to help support publishers in curation and aggregation. Two separate things btw (as noted by previous link). A definite must read.

"Curation platforms, which have moved beyond the RSS feed, provide varying levels of automation, functions and technology to suit a media company's needs. News organizations are even investing in curation platforms; the New York Daily News holds a stake in LOUD3R and The Washington Post recently acquired the personalized news aggregator iCurrent.

While publishers choose to utilize aggregation and curation platforms in a variety of ways, the main point is clear: Many media companies see benefits in collecting content from around the Web. Publishers find curation can attract and retain readers by offering the best of all content, rather than the best of just their own content. Here are a few ways publishers are deploying these platforms to add to their site's content"

Parsing the differences bw curation, aggreation and indexing. Important when thinking of jouranlism/publishing and community strategies and what your communities want.

My $.02: The tempest-in-a-teapot over leaked JournoList emails reveals both the right's gotcha M.O. and the limits of the cult of objectivity.

Voice of America interviews me about what the Shirley Sherrod video debacle tells us about the state of journalism

I think I have to get on tumblr…

Check out these winners, especially Sunlight's coverage of the healthcare summit and ProPublica's citizen reporting project.

"Sunlight Live attracted nearly 43,000 viewers, 9,800 livebloggers, and more than 1,300 tweets…. They showed how to add journalistic punch to a carefully orchestrated government event, adding context and insight to the proceedings.. they go a step beyond to make it fun and engaging, creating a social experience around the event.”

ProPublica’s Distributed Reporting: "This investigative news site is systematizing the process of crowdsourcing, conducting experiments, polishing their process, and tasking citizens with serious assignments. Its more than 5,000 Reporting Network members have conducted spot checks on federal stimulus spending, unraveled loan modification stories, and tracked the oversight of state nursing boards, among other efforts. “This is a major step forward with how we understand crowdsourcing,” the judges said."

"Tracking how many people view articles, and then rewarding — or shaming — writers based on those results has become increasingly common in old and new media newsrooms. The Christian Science Monitor now sends a daily e-mail message to its staff that lists the number of page views for each article on the paper’s Web site that day.

The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times all display a “most viewed” list on their home pages. Some media outlets, including Bloomberg News and Gawker Media, now pay writers based in part on how many readers click on their articles.

Once only wire-service journalists had their output measured this way. And in a media environment crowded with virtual content farms where no detail is too small to report as long as it was reported there first, Politico stands out for its frenetic pace or, in the euphemism preferred by its editors, “high metabolism.”

"There may be some technical matters to work out before dynamic content can be fed into Foursquare, but I'm sure the company is working on those….I'm ready to follow the local historical society, an environmental justice organization or two, perhaps an art-graffiti-watchers association – the possibilities are nearly endless. Imagine allowing background location tracking and notification for some layers. "To see the world through the lenses of my favorite organizations" would be a nice addition to the reasons why people say they use check-in apps.

"Internet expression coming from outside traditional media culture could simply be considered as a form of folk or outsider culture, but it’s more typically described as a kind of threat: political blogs opposing the mainstream media or Wikipedia serving as an alternative to the Encyclopedia Britannica. There was some talk along these lines at ROFLCon, but the way Internet memes work suggests a more comfortable synthesis, maybe even a codependency. Many riff off or simply appropriate familiar mainstream-media material. And these days the interesting things done by people who don’t know they are interesting can be instantly referenced on “South Park” or “Family Guy” or just reported as news."