Bernews headlinesJournalism is changing so fast these days that career advice about entering the business is becoming outdated and irrelevant. With print media seemingly struggling to survive and electronic media under pressure from the internet, “uber-blogger” Robert Scoble says would-be journos today need to be multi-tasking entrepreneurs and should look for options outside traditional media.
MediaShift . Video: Robert Scoble on How to Build a Career in Media | PBS.
The Atavist is an intriguing new take on digital publishing. Founded by two former Wired writers/editors, it aims to be a home for the type of long-form journalism that is disappearing fast as publications fold and the web fragments into social media and soundbites.
Basically, Atavist produces original, in-depth articles that it offers like music tracks for iPad/iPhone, Kindle or Nook (Android versions are in the pipeline). Prices range from $1.99 for a text-and-photos version to $2.99 for a fully-loaded article with audiobook – you can switch between text and audio without losing your place – and other multimedia content and features.
Atavist says it sees its articles as “a new genre of nonfiction, a digital form that lies in the space between long narrative magazine articles and traditional books and e-books”.
See also: Long-form journalism finds a home (New York Times).
This is pretty impressive … the Adobe Museum of Digital Media, the world’s first virtual art museum dedicated to digital art and innovation. The Museum went live this week with a work entitled “Valley” by American artist Tom Oursler.
Check out this fascinating clip on how the Museum was designed and built too:
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