Damon Kiesow

Damon Kiesow

08
Dec

Flipboard and Medium are not fighting for app v.s. web supremacy

Yes, apps and web have different features and user experiences. Yes, some people prefer one over the other. Yes, we
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20
Nov

Why do people read news, why do they pay for it?

Both of those headline link-bait questions and more answered (or at least addressed) in a below roundup of somewhat recent
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20
Oct

ONA was mobile-friendly but what does mobile-first look like for news organizations?

Only a handful of presentations at #ONA13 had ‘mobile’ in the title, but none of the many others I attended
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16
Sep

Listening about product management

Everyone has a list of books worth recommending to someone new to your profession. For instance, this collection I posted
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12
Sep

The death of NFC and the potential of the new news bundle

I ‘watched’ the Apple Keynote on Tuesday as per usual. And yes I plan to replace my 2-year old iPhone
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26
Apr

When conspiracy theories strike, how do you respond?

Simple question: When misinformation is spreading on social media – can it be stopped? Simple answer: No. As Churchill (edit: apocryphally)
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23
Mar

Mobile-First Journalism : a Top Ten list

This discussion originated at Poynter’s Mobile First workshop last week and is slightly edited from suggestions gathered on the
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23
Feb

News reading metrics: One big game of "telephone" and average errors

I am building a presentation on mobile metrics, so most any data-related tidbit catches my eye. This from Mathew Ingram
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18
Sep

Public media & newspaper API

There must be additional media companies with public-facing APIs – these were just the obvious ones that showed up in a
14
Sep

A discussion for 'young' journalists

This morning in Worcester I participated in a discussion with Noah Bombard of the Telegram, Tiffany Campbell of WBUR and