500 million versus 107 million.
Facebook and Twitter have more women than men.
Twitter users update their status more frequently than Facebook ones.
But Facebook users log everyday more than Twitter ones.
And more College people on Twitter than on Facebook.
A fascinating graphic.
The history Of King’s Cross and St Pancras on one brilliant billboard.
Just with words.
Typography and great design to explain a history of changes and reforms.
Looks like a big twitter!
(Via Londonlist)
Remaking King Kong, Dino de Laurentis told investors:
“Monkey die, everybody cry.”
A tweet before Twitter
ARA is the name for the new Catalan multi-platform newspaper to be launch in Barcelona on Monday November 25. 28
Small format and short pagination (40-48) during weekdays and trying to produce a big weekend edition.
The founders will present the new paper formula next Tuesday October 26 but many details, including its own Manifesto, have been released here.
Like the new British “i” newspaper, ARA wants to reach a new generation of Catalan newspaper readers and non readers with a slick, crispy, trendy and compelling print brand with many electronic news extensions.
The goal is really modest and realistic (11,000 copies in the first year) but the founders expect more than that.
Keep in mind that the almost 8-million Catalonia market is smaller but richer than the 10-million Portuguese one where “i” sells more than this figure.
They are investing less than 9-million euro and they the business plan expects to break-even in four years.
The less than 100-journalist newsroom will have very young reporters and the top editors are also a new generation of journalists, lead by Carles Capdevila as editor in chief, Joan Alegre as publisher and Oriol Soler as president of ARA.
INNOVATION was approached by the founders of ARA interested in many of our most recent projects, including the Portuguese “i”, which multimedia newsroom visited in Lisbon, but we have not been involved in any way.
They told us that the ARA project will share many of our ideas (“compact and compelling newspapers”, “caviar journalism”, “daily-news-magazines”, “”30/30 newspapers”. “why and what’s next newspapers”, “show don’t tell journalism”) and the same with the integrated multimedia newsroom concepts that INNOVATION working with our Calau&Riera media architect partners have developed in many countries like the most recent one for India Today in New Delhi.
With more than 19,000 fans on Facebook and more than 3,000 followers on Twitter ARA is promoting the new paper with several viral marketing tools including pre-launch presentations across Catalonia.
Is this new paper going to be a real competitor of La Vanguardia, El Periodico de Catalunya, Punt Diari or Avui?
I don’t think so, but they better pay attention to all these grassroots tactics.
Newspapers are as strong as their connections with readers, audiences and communities are.
And ARA is doing this very well.
If the product delivers this kind of new post-news quality journalism and avoids the temptation to become another political partisan newspaper, ARA could find space and become a viable model.
So, again, like with the new “i” project in the UK, welcome to ARA and to any new paper willing to innovate and offer quality journalism, in English or in Catalan, because around the world there is only one journalism language: the good one.a
UPDATE: A few, and not very impressive, front page proptotypes.
Hundreds of twits about INNOVATION‘s Unfolding NewSSlate prototype.
Just a few of them.
A brand new £500 million cruise ship is right now in Bilbao (Spain) boarding hundreds of tourists stranded by the Icelandic ash cloud.
Free.
The 122,000-tonne Celebrity Eclipse was to be in Britain for inaugural celebrations before a two-day launch cruise, but they changed plans.
Smart move.
They are getting now:
Hours and hours of free media coverage.
Including reporters that were invited aboard, like Jo Palmer that writes for the Hampshire & Isle of Wight BBC website and twitters from the ship.
Tons of free publicity, and the goodwill of cruise market costumers.
Bilbao pick-up will be restricted to customers of Thomson, First Choice, Thomas Cook and Co-op Travel Group who have been allocated a space aboard the ship.
Eclipse, which can carry 2,850 passengers, will get back to Southampton tomorrow and should dock at the City Cruise Terminal at around 6pm.
Brilliant!
Good visual journalist be alert!
How do you believe in these maps when the information is not very good?
Look at the first ones and you will see how unreliable they are.
This will be a great challenge for my infographic friends.
But they will end doing a good job.
You will see.
The BBC has done this basic one:
Anoher version with the same data posted by the European edition of The Wall Street Journal website from the U.K. Met Office with an illustration of the volcanic ash dispersion from the surface to 20,000 feet, issued at 6 a.m. on Thursday.
According to The Times of London the red line on this map of the level of ash shows the exent of debris between surface and 20,000 feet
A late arrival from The New York Times.
And The Telegraph included this picture from a real-time radar image showing all aircraft movements in UK airspace at 9.30am today.
The image from www.radarvirtuel.com shows how ash from the Icelandic volcano stopped all flights in the northern parts of UK.
Here you can see who is flying in Europe… with IUK air space as no-fly-zone.
Lainformacion.com in Spain has a bigger map with more or less the same data.
Lainformacion.com’s logo gets some of the ashes too…
El Pais in Madrid shows the Meteosat 9 images and this the best way to understand the size and impact of the volcanic ashes.
From AFP
And in Twitter going to ashes you can see this incredibly beautiful picture
The BBC offers this fantastic pictures saying:
An image made available by NEODASS/University of Dundee which shows the volcanic ash plume from Iceland, top left, to the north of Britain as received by NASA’s Terra Satellite at 11.39 GMT Thursday April 15, 2010. Photo: NEODAAS/University of Dundee/AP
More, later.
Jeff Jarvis, a Google fan, buys his first iPad a few hours after its launch…
Interesting.
He says that his Dean asked all the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Faculty to buy it.
So Jeff is another early adopter.
His last Twitter:
Will the iPad count as a computer I have to put through airport security separately? Or like a iPhone or Kindle can it stay in a bag?
On ABC News he said:
“Apple is Apple and they amaze us and give us new ways to look at the world, so I await the wow of touching and using the iPad,..But the iPad isn’t going to change the economics of all media. It’s not the tablet coming down from Mt. Sinai.”
Well, let’s wait and see.
We don’t need more prophets.
We need digital narrative content editors, producers and designers.
As I said this morning in this blog:
The new digital bottle is here.
But the new digital narrative content is not yet.
One day to go, and Twitter is full of views, comments, opinions and interesting observations about the Apple iPad.
As always, the techies bashing the new Apple product, and the fans excited.
But no doubts in all the sides: the iPad is the main issue of conversation.
Apple is wining again the viral marketing campaign.
jeffjarvis: Uninspired by what I see so far in the iPad app store.
jeffjarvis: Apple’s marketing is even better than its design. Or its design is its marketing. Which is it?
jeffjarvis: My dean just told me I should get the iPad, considering what I teach. Sadly, he ain’t paying for it. Now to convince the wife….
gabosama: Do I need to choose sides: pro or anti iPad? Im going to buy one, anyway
gabosama: On the new phenomen of “Google reporting”, if you google “iPad is …”, first search suggestion is: “…a joke
philiped: Steve Jobs on the cover of TIME: “Inside Steve’s Pad” marks his seventh appearance
NiemanLab: Don’t worry, iPad cheapies: New York Times will have a free iPad app, too, not just a paid one
esignerDepot: First sanctioned iPad reviews speak favorably of new device
JMF1957 RT @FortuneMagazine: iPad apps: 1,350 and counting
