Comments on: Solving the newspaper industry, in one page http://alexkniess.com/2009/04/29/solving-the-newspaper-industry-in-one-page/ creative strategist Tue, 05 May 2009 04:29:48 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: joey mucha http://alexkniess.com/2009/04/29/solving-the-newspaper-industry-in-one-page/comment-page-1/#comment-57 joey mucha Tue, 05 May 2009 04:29:48 +0000 http://akniess.wordpress.com/?p=114#comment-57 Crazy idea: Wireless devices, made available to all for free (ad-supported), that displays tweet-sized headlines of the top and localized news sources delivered real-time. User selects (favorites), based on reading the tweet, which story they want to read. From this information, news publication is triggered and sends an email to the user with the entire article. The article comes with the content and then targeted ads based on information collected from the user and content within the article (similarly to the ads in gmail). So instead of picking up the paper at your local coffee shop, you will basically genetically splice (mash-up) these services together to consume your daily news: Amazon Kindle or Danoo Media (depends if its portable or stationary) Twitter Email service XYZ Ad Network (there are so many looking for "business development" opportunities it makes me sick) (innovative) Newspaper company Lastly, something like Digg.com to help determine the most interesting stories. ^ consider this a random brainstorm comment Crazy idea: Wireless devices, made available to all for free (ad-supported), that displays tweet-sized headlines of the top and localized news sources delivered real-time. User selects (favorites), based on reading the tweet, which story they want to read. From this information, news publication is triggered and sends an email to the user with the entire article. The article comes with the content and then targeted ads based on information collected from the user and content within the article (similarly to the ads in gmail).

So instead of picking up the paper at your local coffee shop, you will basically genetically splice (mash-up) these services together to consume your daily news:

Amazon Kindle or Danoo Media (depends if its portable or stationary)
Twitter
Email service
XYZ Ad Network (there are so many looking for “business development” opportunities it makes me sick)
(innovative) Newspaper company
Lastly, something like Digg.com to help determine the most interesting stories.

^ consider this a random brainstorm comment

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