The New York Observer » Gillian Reagan http://www.observer.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:10:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Cubicle Queue: Charlie Brown, Best Viral Videos, and a Sad Doc on Puppies Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what's worth watching on the Web.A Charlie Brown Christmas on Hulu — Apparently there is a "War Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/cubicle-queue-charlie-brown-best-viral-videos-and-sad-doc-puppies The Man at Google News Just Wants to Help Last week, Josh Cohen, Google News' senior business project manager, was in Washington, D.C., at a Federal Trade Commission-organized workshop titled "How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?" He appeared onstage before a crowd of journalists, entrepreneurs and F.T.C. policy lawmakers in a slate-colored jacket, white shirt and black patterned tie. Heavy navy cur-tains and Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/man-google-news-just-wants-help Time Inc.’s Squires Reveals Digital Consortium Time Inc.'s John Squires is making it official. The five-publisher strong alliance between Time Inc., Conde Nast, Hearst, Meredith and News Corp is starting work today on building the most comprehensive digital store for publishers.As the Observer reported in November, the Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/time-incs-squires-reveals-digital-consortum A Demo of the Future: Sports Illustrated on a Tablet Terry McDonnell, editor of Sports Illustrated, explains how their magazine will work in

Sports Illustrated worked with David Link, the founder of Wonderfactory, to help design the product. He told The New York Times that he was not sure whether the new digital magazine would be distributed through iTunes or other e-commerce stores. But he's Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/demo-future-sports-illustrated-tablet The Cubicle Queue: Taxi Driver, Baby Johnny Depp, New Yorker ‘Path Lights’ and More! Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what's worth watching on the Web. Taxi Driver on Hulu — Taxi Driver needs no introduction. Put one of Martin Scorsese's best in your Hulu queue for one Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/cubicle-queue-taxi-driver-baby-johnny-depp-new-yorker-path-lights-and-more Inside the Times’ Blog World Which New York Times blogs are doing well and why? That's a question some members of the masthead are asking as preparations are made to reduce the newsroom by 100 bodies in the coming weeks.Here's a peek inside some of the Times' most popular blogs, as offered by the editors:Wendell Jamieson, deputy metropolitan editor for Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/new-york-times-blog-darlings As Times Staff Shrinks, Blogs Will Be ‘Pruned’ Early last month, when Times executive editor Bill Keller

“We are and have been looking constantly at [the blogs],” he said. “But each desk needs to go back to the question: What sort of tools do you need to do the strongest reports?”

They also need to consider blogs and verticals Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/times-staff-shrinks-blogs-will-be-pruned Drawing Gender Lines on the Web Women are more likely to be chatting it up on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites you've probably never heard of, like "Bebo." According to data taken from Google's U.S. Ad Planner, a site that tracks popular Web sites' traffic, 84 percent (or 16 out of 19) of the sites they studied Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/drawing-gender-lines-web The Cubicle Queue: Escape on Hulu, Learn to Cook a Turkey, and More Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what's worth watching on the Web.A Thanksgiving survival guide on Hulu - Admit it: You'll probably be spending at least some of your Thanksgiving vacation hiding away from family members in your Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/cubicle-queue-8 The Cubicle Queue: The New Yorker’s Funny People, Everyday New Yorkers, and More! Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what's worth watching on the Web.One in 8 Million series on NYTimes.com - How many times have you walked around the city streets wondering Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/cubicle-queue-7 Dash to D.C.! Tech Guru Will Head Gov’t Incubator, Digitize Democracy Last February, Anil Dash; the co-founder and “chief evangelist” for Six Apart, the company that creates the most popular blogging software in the world; was visiting his family in India for the first time in 25 years, explaining what he does for a living. Mr. Dash, 34, is an influential tech blogger and consultant who Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/dash-dc-tech-guru-will-head-govt-incubator-digitize-democracy Time’s Techland: The Nerdy Wonderland Nerds, rev your browsers! Time Inc. has just launched a new site titled Techland. In his introductory post, technology editor Peter Ha writes: "Think of TECHLAND as the water cooler for nerds. Or, the way I see it, TECHLAND is the result Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/times-techland-nerdy-wonderland The Cubicle Queue: Hitchcock Speaks, Lou Dobbs’ Greatest Hits, and More. Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what's worth watching on the Web.How to draw a New Yorker cover - Speaking of the last Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/cubicle-queue-6 Send the Google Street View Trike to Central Park (Or the Zoo)! Last month, Google announced that they had invented a "Street View trike." Their Street View car could roll down traditional roads and take pictures for their popular maps feature. But it couldn't document hard-to-access trails, parks, landmarks and sports venues. A Google mechanical engineer who did some mountain biking in his spare time Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/send-google-street-view-trike-central-park-or-zoo Esquire’s Augmented Reality Issue A few weeks ago, Hearst Corp's Esquire announced that they'd debut a snazzy new "augmented reality" issue and be the first publication to take the relatively new technology into its pages. AR, the hot new trend in iPhone apps, layers data, images and video Read More

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