Visual Journal(ism) - Region 1

Good day for you readers. I recently came across two super fantastic sites. Trendspotting and print buying.
Type and bookmark Springwise. Over 8,000 trendspotters from around the world send in the newest in funky, useful, innovative entrepreneurial ideas and companies. Currently, the site splits the posts into 20 industries including marketing and advertising, style and design, non-profit [...]

Each month, Wired magazine publishes Jargon Watch - a collection of new ‘it’ words. Take December 2008, one of the nouns to make the list:
“Frolleague n. A work colleague friended on a social networking site and thus granted access to personal information, from blog entries to stag party pics, that may be perceived as less [...]

The meltdown of newspapers is suddenly big, big news. Coincidence that the industry became a media darling after the Chicago Tribune threatened bankruptcy? Hometown of President-elect Obama where a bazillion journalists are camped out waiting for the journey east? However we got in the media spotlight (including a sketch on The Daily Show!), with [...]

Convergence, integration, cross-media, inter-departmental collaboration. All sounds good but can a mid-size newspaper make any money at it? At monday note, Frederic Filloux, an editor for the Norwegian group Schibsted, debunks the myth that leaner, compact newsroom can produce a general news site that operates in the black. His suggestion: diversify for that elusive net [...]