For some reason the fate of newspapers in the Web 2.0 era is getting a lot of mileage here this week. The latest item to attract my attention: The Boston Globe has a piece today regarding its efforts to use new technologies and Web 2.0 advancements to survive in a print-challenged world. The author of the piece is the Globe’s new ombudsman, Richard Chacón, who proclaims “Wi-Fi pulse points” are the future of the paper.
These pulse points are micro-web sites set up by the Globe at various locations around the city, sites that provide information of a highly localized nature — Chacón talks about Boston’s South Station and the pulse point, available only via Wi-Fi and only in areas around the station, and the page set up by the Globe describing the history of the station, the shops and restaurants at the stations, and comments made by visitors.
Another intriguing development: the Globe now has an ombudsman’s blog that allows rapid reader feedback and, presumably, more rapid response by Chacón
Cynthia Brumfield at 6:16 PM|Comments(0)
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