Integrated Media Publishing
Shorewood Media publishes integrated media solutions that combine the impact of a web presence with the power and convenience of mobile applications. Shorewood Media combines sound marketing strategies with creative and innovative thinking.
Kermba
Shorewood Media publishes the Kermba news source manager available for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Focused mainly towards political news and commentary, Kermba allows a community of users to categorize, sort, search, and view news sources according to a distinct set characteristics.
Kermba provides ready access to content from a growing list of news sources from around the world, but its real strength is enabling a community of users to interact with the news sources’ characteristics as expressed by their composite opinions. Using Kermba, news sources can be searched, filtered and sorted by viewpoint, bias, fairness, and even highlighted in gradients of color (blue to red) according to viewpoint. Article titles and authors may be searched for names and keywords across any or all news sources with a single click. Article links may also be emailed, posted to Facebook, and saved for quick access later.
Kermba features include:
- Over 40 news sources from around the world with more added all the time
- Re-categorize news sources according to your own opinion of their political viewpoint, bias and fairness. Your opinion then adjusts the overall viewpoint, bias and fairness scores for the rest of Kermba’s users
- Filter news sources based on your political viewpoint
- Filter news sources based on categories such as hard news, opinion, analysis, or any combinations.
- Search article titles and authors from any or all news sources with one click
- Sort news sources based on political viewpoint
- Add your own news sources, or hide those in which you’re not interested
- Save favorite articles
- Email an article to your friends, or post an article link to Facebook
- Built-in help pages describe Kermba features and operations
Shorewood Media also publishes kermba.com news source manager. Kermba.com also serves as a companion web site to the Kermba iPhone mobile app. At kermba.com, users can unlock the full potential of the app by registering to participate in the Kermba community. Kermba.com also provides readers with an assortment of news articles and commentary as selected by Kermba editors.
For more information regarding Kermba, visit the Kermba mobile information page located here.
