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  • links for 2009-09-08

    Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Structured Data – readwriteweb "The first major Web trend we're looking at is Structured Data. In prior presentations, this has sometimes been referred to under the umbrella term of 'Semantic Web'. However the way 2009 has panned out so far, it's become clear that this [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2009, 4:02am EDT
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  • links for 2009-09-07

    The Influentials: New Approaches for Analyzing Influence on Twitter – Web Ecology Project "mashable is more influential than CNN" (tags: internet socialmedia microblogging twitter audience trends influence attention research) RSS Is Alive And Well – A VC "RSS is way more than the readers it spawned. It is a fundamental part of the Internet [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2009, 4:03am EDT
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  • links for 2009-09-04

    The seven sins of usability – Netimperative.com Neil Walker, Chief Technical Officer at Just Search: "More than 83 per cent of internet users are likely to leave a website if they feel there are too many clicks to find what they are looking for. Recent studies have shown that the typical [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 4:03am EDT
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  • links for 2009-09-03

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    Taking The Plunge: How Newspaper Sites That Charge Are Faring – paidContent "As more newspapers kick around the idea of charging for content, much of the attention has been focused on the pay models employed by the bigger players like the WSJ and the Financial Times. But quietly, some small- and [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 4:04am EDT
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  • links for 2009-08-10

    The Pay Wall Debate In Quotes: No Consensus – paidContent:UK "If monetising news websites is a war, it looks like the big publishers are about to send in the ground troops… what do other digital thought leaders think? Here’s a round-up…" (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites journalism business revenue paidcontent) Murdoch On Leading The [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 4:02am EDT
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  • links for 2009-08-07

    Mirror Football – MirrorFootball.co.uk The latest football news, opinion, gossip and match reports, and unique football images from the Mirror's football photo archive. (tags: internet sport journalism football trinitymirror mirror launches) [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2009, 4:02am EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2009-07-28

    6 Sites that are changing the way you follow the news – 10,000 Words "The way we read the news is changing, so it only makes sense that the way we follow the news should change as well." (tags: internet news aggregators journalism multimedia web2.0 mapping visualisation tools) The A-to-Z of online copywriting [...]
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    Posted: July 28, 2009, 4:03am EDT
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  • links for 2009-07-27

    Monetize The Audience, Not The Content – A VC "There's a lot of discussion out there about how online content should be monetized. " (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites business journalism free paidcontent ft freemium) Online Ad Rates Picking Up – Chart of the Day – Business Insider "At the end of June, ad rates [...]
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    Posted: July 27, 2009, 4:02am EDT
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  • links for 2009-07-06

    Freemium and Freeconomics – A VC "This week we saw the release of Chris Anderson's book Free and reviews from the New Yorker (Malcolm Gladwell) and the Financial Times. I'd like to talk a bit about the firestorm that freeconomics (fed by Chris' book) has unleashed but first we need to [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2009, 4:08am EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2009-07-03

    Borrell: Local Online Ad Market Will Be Bigger Than Expected This Year – paidContent US: "The research firm now expects the market to grow by 11 percent, up from its initial projection of 8 percent in January." (tags: internet business advertising local stats forecasts analysts borrell) Aggregate, Curate, Publish To Create Local Media [...]
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    Posted: July 03, 2009, 4:04am EDT
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  • links for 2009-06-22

    Adding value in the new news ecosystem – BuzzMachine "How can and should news organizations and others add value to the new news ecosystem that is being used in the Iran story?" (tags: internet media newspapers news journalism) The Future of Journalism's Blog – Open – Salon "Welcome to the Future of Journalism on [...]
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    Posted: June 22, 2009, 4:02am EDT
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  • links for 2009-05-25

    Weekend Reading: The Future Of Wired, Malcontents and Content – paidContent.org "head over to Boing Boing Gadgets, and read the meme that started earlier this week about the future of a very specific brand, Wired magazine, how it has capitalized on the brand online over the years, and the future for [...]
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    Posted: May 25, 2009, 4:08am EDT
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  • links for 2009-05-05

    Ex-Ofcom Member: ‘Digital Britain Needs Networked Journalism, Not Another BBC’ – paidContent:UK "A former Ofcom board member has called on Digital Britain author Lord Carter to create a citizen media ecosystem instead of the rumoured public-funded counterpart to the BBC. Ian Hargreaves said during his Unesco World Press Freedom Day lecture [...]
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    Posted: May 05, 2009, 4:07am EDT
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  • links for 2009-04-09

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    Analysts: Behavioural Targeting Has Finally Taken Off In Europe – paidContent:UK "A new report from Forrester Research shows behavioural is growing fast in western Europe: just 10 percent of European companies Forrester surveyed in 2007 said they used targeting but that number grew to 26 percent in 2008, when the report [...]
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    Posted: April 09, 2009, 4:11am EDT
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  • links for 2009-04-07

    Micro-Billing Suits the Phone Companies Just Fine – NYTimes.com "the phone industry has had a micropayment system for decades. Ever since the local telephone company charged a customer an extra 35 cents to hear a recorded weather forecast, the phone industry has been charging for content." (tags: internet business revenue paidcontent micropayments [...]
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    Posted: April 07, 2009, 4:03am EDT
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  • links for 2009-04-06

    UK consumers do not mind online ads – FT.com "Brits are happy to watch advertising on the internet or their mobile phones if this means they will get videos, music or other content for free, a survey has found. About 60 per cent of people polled by KPMG, the professional services [...]
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    Posted: April 06, 2009, 4:01am EDT
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  • links for 2009-04-02

    Online ad spend up 17 per cent in 2008 – IAB UK "Internet advertising continues to buck wider advertising industry trends, with spend rising 17% to £3.3bn in 2008." (tags: internet business revenue advertising marketsize stats trends iab pwc) Internet ad spend up 17% in 2008- IAB – Netimperative "The internet now accounts for [...]
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    Posted: April 02, 2009, 4:05am EDT
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  • links for 2009-04-01

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    Who’s Saying What: A Recap Of Predictions For ‘09 Ad Spending – paidContent.org "Today brought yet another forecast for ther 2009 display advertising. Since it’s hard to keep all the various ad forecasts straight—particularly with the frequent revisions—here’s a quick rundown of some from the past three months from prominent internet [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2009, 4:04am EDT
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  • links for 2009-03-30

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    HuffPost launches investigative venture – Politico.com "The Huffington Post today announced the the launch of a non-profit investigative fund to 'produce a wide range of investigative journalism,' according to a release. Funded by HuffPost and The Atlantic Philanthropies, the new venture will be led by Nick Penniman, founder of The American [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2009, 4:02am EDT
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  • links for 2009-03-26

    Online video traffic up 41%; BBC iPlayer 22nd most popular UK website – Robin Goad "UK Internet traffic to Video websites has increased by 40.7% over the last 12 months. During February 2009, 1 in every 35 UK Internet visits went to a specialist Video website, up from 1 in every [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2009, 4:04am EDT
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  • links for 2009-03-25

    BBC Trust Adds £30 Million To BBC Online’s Annual Budget – paidContent:UK "Having been chided for overspending its digital budget to the tune of £36 million last year, the BBC has now won backing for an extra £30.7 million a year to invest in bbc.co.uk over the next three years, taking [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2009, 4:02am EDT
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  • links for 2009-03-18

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    Warning over broadband target – FT.com "Almost 4m homes in the UK cannot get broadband internet access at speeds that the government would like all households to be able to have by 2012, according to Ofcom, the telecoms regulator." (tags: internet broadband ofcom) AOP interview: SEO strategies for publishers – Netimperative "we caught up [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2009, 4:03am EDT
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  • links for 2009-03-17

    Old Growth Media And The Future Of News - stevenberlinjohnson.com "The following is a speech I gave yesterday at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin." (tags: internet newspapers business journalism technology socialmedia trends) Guardian goes data crazy - andydickinson.net "As I said in my new years convictions, media companies, and newspapers in particular will [...]
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    Posted: March 17, 2009, 4:04am EDT
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  • links for 2009-03-11

    Guardian Launches Open-Platform API Developer Progamme; Will It Make Money? - paidContent:UK "The principle aim of this is to increase engagement with developers, improve the way content is used and help spread The Guardian‘s liberal journalism far and wide, as per the aims of the GNM’s parent company, the Scott Trust. [...]
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    Posted: March 11, 2009, 4:04am EDT
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  • links for 2009-03-09

    A User's Guide to 21st Century Economics - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org "2009 may look bleak - but this year, those with the purpose, courage, and vision to get seriously radical will have the opportunity to reconceive and reinvent the global economy. " (tags: internet business strategy innovation economics) How to measure visitor [...]
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    Posted: March 09, 2009, 4:03am EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2009-03-08

    Twitter To Start Serving Local News To Users? - TechCrunch "Twitter could actively ping users about local events that are going on in their neighborhood, in real-time, based on the location they’ve indicated. As an example, Williams says users could be alerted to the fact a fire is burning a few [...]
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    Posted: March 08, 2009, 4:01am EDT
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  • links for 2009-03-04

    Top 10 websites of 2008 - Robin Goad "We published the results of the Hitwise UK Online Performance Awards today. These list the 10 most visited websites in the UK during 2008 for over 60 industry categories." (tags: internet audience usage stats trends analysts hitwise) Which news organisations are using Twitter best? - [...]
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    Posted: March 04, 2009, 3:05am EST
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  • links for 2009-03-02

    The Times & CUNY (and others) go hyperlocal - BuzzMachine "The New York Times is about to announce that it is starting a hyperlocal product called The Local working with our students at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism. " (tags: internet newspapers participatory journalism hyperlocal citizenmedia blogging local news nyt) The New York [...]
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    Posted: March 02, 2009, 3:07am EST
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  • links for 2009-02-23

    The ROI of Journalists and Magazines Using Twitter - Dan Blank "I decided to take a peak behind the curtains at one brand to see what all their Twittering has brought them." (tags: internet publishing magazines socialmedia journalism blogging microblogging twitter) BBC News Radar - Monitoring low flying news since 2008 (tags: internet news [...]
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    Posted: February 23, 2009, 3:05am EST
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  • links for 2009-02-17

    The three primary roles your local website should play - yelvington.com "Town crier", "town square" and "town expert". (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites participatory journalism citizenmedia local) Rules of Engagement: Users Are Spending More Time On MySpace - TechCrunch "Since last month, MySpace saw the number of minutes each U.S. user spent on the site [...]
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    Posted: February 17, 2009, 3:05am EST
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  • links for 2009-02-13

    Who's Doing Good Work in Online News? (Part 1) - Recovering Journalist "There's a lot of time being spent these days chasing old ideas for the online news business that seem new to some people. Meanwhile, lots of smart folks are doing some very good work in truly inventing the future [...]
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    Posted: February 13, 2009, 3:05am EST
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  • links for 2009-02-12

    The writing is on the paywall - Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog "Still, I don't see micropayments working for news. Most news stories, for one thing, are transitory, disposable things. That makes them very different from songs, which we buy because we want to "own" them, to have the ability to [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2009, 2:32pm EST
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  • links for 2009-02-10

    Can journalism go with the flow? - BuzzMachine "All the many desperate attempts to propose means to save newspapers/journalism seem to me to be efforts to swim upstream, for force something to happen that doesn’t want to happen in the internet age. I prefer instead to look for models that allow [...]
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    Posted: February 10, 2009, 3:05am EST
    by David Black

  • links for 2009-02-05

    10 Ways Journalists and Newsrooms Can Conquer SEO - searchenginejournal "editors, journalists and newsrooms everywhere can conquer SEO by keeping some simple tips in mind when developing and writing news stories." (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites journalism marketing search seo training tips) New metrics and business models for digital publishing - selling outcomes not [...]
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    Posted: February 05, 2009, 3:04am EST
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  • links for 2009-02-03

    The Economics of Giving It Away - WSJ.com Chris Anderson: "In a battered economy, free goods and services online are more attractive than ever. So how can the suppliers make a business model out of nothing?" (tags: internet business technology economics longtail free) How we make websites - BBC - Radio Labs "Designing and [...]
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    Posted: February 03, 2009, 3:20am EST
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  • links for 2009-01-28

    Traffic to US newspaper websites up 16 pct: Nielsen Online - Yahoo! Tech "The number of visitors to the top 10 US newspaper websites grew to 40.1 million in December, an increase of 16 percent over a year ago, research firm Nielsen 0nline reported on Tuesday." (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites audience stats [...]
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    Posted: January 28, 2009, 3:05am EST
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  • links for 2009-01-27

    Trinity Mirror adds social media tools with Pluck - Journalism.co.uk "Trinity Mirror will introduce new interactive tools to its newspaper websites as part of a deal with social media firm Pluck. The publisher will implement Pluck's SiteLife range of features on its national sites, Mirror.co.uk, Sunday Mail and Daily Record, and [...]
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    Posted: January 27, 2009, 3:04am EST
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  • links for 2009-01-26

    Twitter Raising New Cash At $250 Million Valuation - TechCrunch "Twitter, which just recently turned down a half billion dollar acquisition offer from Facebook (albeit to be paid mostly with Facebook stock), is dipping back into the venture capital market, we’ve heard from a source with knowledge of the deal. They’ve [...]
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    Posted: January 26, 2009, 3:05am EST
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  • links for 2009-01-24

    Ad Network Prices Take a Hit - eMarketer US: "Ad network CPMs were down in Q4 2008 compared with Q4 2007, according to PubMatic. Prices for ads on Websites of all sizes had decreased; small, medium and large sites’ ad prices dropped 52%, 23% and 54%, respectively, from the previous year." (tags: [...]
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    Posted: January 25, 2009, 1:01am EST
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  • links for 2009-01-20

    Search Ad Update: Q4 A Mixed Bag In Terms Of Spending - PaidContent.org US: "The latest round of search-ad spending reports offers both good and bad news on Q4: AdGooroo found double-digit growth in some areas, while Efficient Frontier reported that overall search spending dropped 8 percent year-over-year" (tags: internet business advertising [...]
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    Posted: January 21, 2009, 1:02am EST
    by David Black

  • links for 2009-01-20

    Print organisations will need to open source their systems: New year convictions - andydickinson.net "That means they can benefit from the fast moving developments in the community and support the innovation where required." (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites journalism technology tools opensource cms) 'Dallas Morning News' Launches Community Sites - E&P "The Dallas Morning News has launched [...]
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    Posted: January 20, 2009, 2:11pm EST
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  • links for 2009-01-11

    Avoiding The Big Yellow Taxi Moment - A VC "So to me, avoiding the Big Yellow Taxi moment comes down to solving the business model question for microjournalism." (tags: internet journalism blogging business revenue economics trends) [...]
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    Posted: January 11, 2009, 5:01pm EST
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-10-07

    LiveBlogging across the Trinity Mirror titles: as we type - Journalism.co.uk "Trinity Mirror regional titles, Newcastle’s Journal, the Birmingham Post and the Liverpool Post have joined forces to report on the economic situation on this live blog, happening right now, as we type this post." (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites journalism blogging liveblogging [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2008, 6:10pm EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-09-14

    Looking ahead, local will be the big media winner - Howard Owens "The beauty of the web for local news is not only does it give us a new chance to refocus on true local news, but it makes it easier to enable the strong civic engagement that only comes when [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2008, 11:05pm EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-9-9

    US: JP Morgan Cuts Online Ad Outlook; Gap Between Search And Display Widens - paidContent.org “JP Morgan is lowering its ‘08 US display market estimate to $8.2 billion from $8.6 billion— or 14 percent year-over-year growth, versus its previous call for 20 percent growth. Looking to ‘09, the analyst is dropping [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2008, 5:59pm EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-09-08

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    News site from scratch: What are the most important things to include? - Strange Attractor "I didn’t ask this question, although I think about it quite frequently. Mohamed Nanabhay, the Head of New Media with Al Jazeera, posed the question on Twitter - Twitterverse: If you were building a news website [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2008, 5:30pm EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-09-03

    Google to Offer its Own Browser: Chrome - ReadWriteWeb "Chrome is being framed as a browser for applications instead of just web pages. Here's what Google thinks that should look like." (tags: internet browsers opensource google googlechrome) A fresh take on the browser - Official Google Blog "What we really needed was not just [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2008, 5:35pm EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-09-01

    Google to Offer its Own Browser: Chrome - ReadWriteWeb "Chrome is being framed as a browser for applications instead of just web pages. Here's what Google thinks that should look like." (tags: internet browsers opensource google googlechrome) A fresh take on the browser - Official Google Blog "What we really needed was not just [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2008, 5:30pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-08-30

    Moderation a Virtue? How 10 Top Sites Handle Online Comments - E&P "As the number of unique visitors to newspaper Web sites grows, newsroom leaders are contending not only with the challenge of monetizing their product but with how much moderation they can or should provide for their hugely popular user [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2008, 2:31pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-08-25

    Online Journalism Scandinavia: VG.no adds blog trackbacks to articles with Twingly - Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog "Yesterday the site quietly opened its virtual doors for bloggers and started using Swedish blogsearch-engine Twingly to display links from bloggers below individual articles." (tags: internet newspapersites socialmedia blogging aggregators twingly vg) Debunking The Myths of Multitasking - [...]
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    Posted: August 25, 2008, 5:34pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-08-17

    Online Advertising Outpaces TV Spend: Ofcom Report - paidContent:UK "Online advertising spend has outpaced advertising on mainstream TV in 2007, surging 40 percent to £2.8 billion, Ofcom reported today in its hefty annual survey of the British communications market. In comparison, ad revenue at ITV1, Channel 4, S4C and Five came [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2008, 5:30pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-08-11 [delicious.com]

    Top Ten Web Typography Sins - Smashing Magazine “While many designers have been quick to embrace web standards, it’s surprising how often the basic standards of typography are neglected. Here are ten deadly sins to avoid in your web typography” (tags: internet webdesign typography fonts) [pdf] Improving Ad Performance Online: The Impact of [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2008, 5:30pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-07-14

    Sunday newspaper goes 24/7 with new online operation - Holdthefrontpage.co.uk “But the biggest change will see the Mercury’s reporters filing breaking news stories to the website rather than waiting for the Sunday print edition.” (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites regional launches trinitymirror birmingham) SundayMercury.net (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites regional launches trinitymirror birmingham) Buzzmachine goes clunk: When [...]
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    Posted: July 13, 2008, 10:30pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-07-13

    iPhone 3G review - Engadget “For our money, you’re going to have a hard time finding a better device for two hundred bucks — or maybe even for any price. But that doesn’t mean you ought to toss your original iPhone, either.” (tags: internet mobile apple iphone) Guardian Buys Publisher of PaidContent Web [...]
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    Posted: July 12, 2008, 10:30pm EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-07-11

    New-look for Newsquest websites - Holdthefrontpage.co.uk “Regional newspaper publisher Newsquest has begun the roll out of its new-look websites.” (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites regional webdesign redesign newsquest) Online Journalism Scandinavia: Norway’s Aftenposten to webcast editorial meetings - Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog “the paper’s editor-in-chief Hans Erik Matre told attendees it was time to open up [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2008, 10:32pm EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-07-08

    John McQuaid, The Big Die-Off, And The Long Tail Of Hyperlocal - /Message “hyperlocal will have to be hypersocial: it will have to be biased, take sides, stand for something, and be written by networks of partisans. It will have to be indigenous, written ‘by us, for us’ and not carrying [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2008, 10:31pm EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-07-07

    Inching Toward an Era-Appropriate New Local News Service - Steve Outing, Stop The Presses “I’m particularly intrigued by recent developments like beatblogging, community reporting, content geo-tagging, and tapping into public social network conversations.” (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites hyperlocal participatory journalism geotagging socialmedia) Response to a critic of my hyper-local thinking - SteveOuting.com “Mark Potts, [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2008, 10:31pm EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-07-03

    BBC local website expansion: an unnecessary waste of public money - guardian.co.uk “In short, this proposal is a threat to the diversity of the local media sector online and potentially to its print cousins. It is anti-competitive. It is simply not needed and will waste public money replicating existing commercial offerings” (tags: [...]
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    Posted: July 02, 2008, 10:31pm EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-06-30

    Peter Preston: More than a little hyper-local difficulty - Media - The Observer “What gives local newspaper editors pain? The thought of Ofcom letting the BBC spend £68m of licence fee money on setting up hyper-local internet video sites which conflict directly with the sites that Johnston and Trinity (among others) [...]
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    Posted: June 29, 2008, 10:30pm EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-06-27

    Trinity Mirror launches YouTube channels for its regional newspapers - Journalism.co.uk “Trinity Mirror has launched a series of branded YouTube channels for the video content of its regional newspapers.” (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites multimedia video youtube) Local community data reporting - Matt McAlister “EveryBlock has taken a very data intensive look at local news [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2008, 10:32pm EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-06-25

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    BBC plans £68m network of local video news websites - Media - guardian.co.uk “The BBC has unveiled plans to spend £68m by 2013 on a network of 65 websites covering the whole country that will provide local on-demand video news.” (tags: internet multimedia video local news journalism newspapers bbc bbclocal) BBC’s Local Video [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2008, 10:32pm EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-06-24

    Online, all journalism is potentially local - Online Journalism Blog “Why? Mainly because of three core technologies: Searchability (geotagging and keywords added by the journalist or search engine); GPS positioning of the reader; and personalisation.” (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites journalism local) Job interview: the presentation - Joanna Geary “When I decided to post about [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2008, 10:33pm EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-06-23

    The crowdsourced life - BuzzMachine “I happened to tweet this morning about two crowdsourcing moments - student tries to crowdsource his tuition; …Arrington crowdsources his rats/ship/flee list for Yahoo - when Mark Comerford tweeted back with a link to the crowdsourced job interview” (tags: internet socialmedia newspapers participatory journalism crowdsourcing) From dino to [...]
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    Posted: June 22, 2008, 10:31pm EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-06-19

    The link economy v. the content economy - BuzzMachine “Ket’s say that the real value in this equation is not content and information — both of which are now quickly commodified — but links, which are the new currency of media.” (tags: internet media journalism economics links ap) SEO Basics - Bivings Report “In [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2008, 10:35pm EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-06-18

    Newspaper content goes hyper-local - Media Week “In their quest to better engage with readers, publishers of regional newspapers are exploiting their online potential.” (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites hyperlocal participatory journalism cuttings trinitymirror) The New Architecture of News - Upendra Shardanand “One of its key components will be an intelligent, malleable technology platform for [...]
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    Posted: June 17, 2008, 10:35pm EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-06-17

    WalesOnline icWales is now WalesOnline (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites trinitymirror wales) Trinity Mirror Wales site renamed WalesOnline : Journalism.co.uk editors blog “Trinity Mirror has renamed its icWales website WalesOnline, as part of a ongoing overhaul of its Welsh websites” (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites trinitymirror wales) BBC accused of muscling in on local news - Media - [...]
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    Posted: June 16, 2008, 10:32pm EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-06-15

    Seven Traits of Highly Effective Community Managers - E-Media Tidbits “A lot will be riding on this person — more so than which tools are used. Your community manager should understand people well and be good at creating and maintaining relationships and ability to create relationships, regardless of which tools are [...]
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    Posted: June 14, 2008, 10:32pm EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-06-10

    Advertising spend: UK total rises to £19.4bn - Media - guardian.co.uk “Ad spend across all media in the UK rose 4.2% to £19.4bn last year, with the internet, cinema and the outdoor advertising sectors posting the biggest year-on-year growth, according to an Advertising Association report.” (tags: internet business advertising revenue marketsize stats [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2008, 10:31pm EDT
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    How to Build a Better Content Model for Your Site: Understanding News Consumption Patterns - Doshdosh.com “Create appealing content, designed to satisfy all four news needs in the consumption model (Facts, Updates, Back Story, Future Story) and then deliver it across all the channels these consumers use.” (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites news [...]
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    Posted: June 08, 2008, 10:31pm EDT
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    Snapshot of UK local newspaper activity - Sarah Hartley “My brief was, well, brief. What local newspapers are doing. The snapshot of that activity is here for you to share, use, add to, comment upon or otherwise consume.” (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites participatory journalism socialmedia regional local) Interactivity from UK regional and local [...]
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    Posted: May 20, 2008, 10:34pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-05-08

    @PPA: Teesside hyperlocal sites getting 5-figure audiences - The Wire - Press Gazette “The five largest of the Teesside Evening Gazette’s 20 hyperlocal websites have five-figure monthly unique user figures not much smaller than the number of households in the postcode-size areas they serve, the paper’s editor has revealed.” (tags: internet newspapers [...]
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    Posted: May 07, 2008, 10:34pm EDT
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    1) Newsroom Barometer 2008: main results, the integrated newsroom will be the norm - editorsweblog “In this edition, editors worldwide see neither their newsroom nor their journalists as being “print-only,” having clearly accepted the multimedia revolution.” (tags: internet newspapers journalism newsrooms integration trends) Future of newsrooms is integrated, claims editors survey - Journalism.co.uk “More [...]
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    Posted: May 06, 2008, 10:36pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-05-06

    Change 101 - BuzzMachine “Instead, in the last few months, I’ve been teaching the faculty itself in all the tools of online: blogs, wikis, RSS, video, SEO, and on and on.” (tags: internet media socialmedia newspapers journalism change) New architecture of media - SlideShare Jeff Jarvis: “Notes used for discussion with faculty of CUNY [...]
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    Posted: May 05, 2008, 10:34pm EDT
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    Who Should I Follow? - Twitter Friend Recommendations “Enter your Twitter username. Get suggestions on interesting people to follow.” (tags: internet socialmedia blogging microblogging tools twitter recommendations) The European News Interactivity Index - Journalism.co.uk editors blog Joanna Geary’s interactivity index spreads: “Nicolas Kayser-Bril, contributor to the Online Journalism Blog and Observatoire des Media, has [...]
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    Posted: April 30, 2008, 10:33pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-04-30

    Twitter Gaining Momentum But Still Niche - Heather Hopkins “The chart makes the growth look impressive - and it is. However, to put things into context, the site ranked #439 among Social Networks and Forums last week and #4309 among All Categories of websites.” (tags: internet blogging microblogging twitter audience stats trends [...]
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    Posted: April 29, 2008, 10:38pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-04-29

    Morgan Stanley’s March Internet Trends Report: Social Applications Dominating - TechCrunch “Morgan Stanley’s Internet Trends report from last month takes a big turn from previous reports - the focus is nearly 100% on social applications and how they are taking over the Internet” (tags: internet socialmedia socialnetworking business trends analysts morganstanley) Internet Trends, [...]
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    Posted: April 28, 2008, 10:33pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-04-28

    How New Influencers are Reinventing Journalism - Paul Gillin’s Blog Ben Popken, The Consumerist: “The secret is to be reader-centric in a fundamental way. The content is driven by the readers and reacted to by the readers. We’re really just a curator of consumer-generated content.” (tags: internet participatory journalism citizenmedia blogging) Recommending news [...]
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    Posted: April 27, 2008, 10:34pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-04-27

    You too can be a citizen journalist - Technology - guardian.co.uk “All of us need to do our bit to free up information. And you can start by emailing your local council” (tags: internet participatory journalism citizenmedia mapping opensource ordnancesurvey foi) Blogs getting better… finally - BBC Internet Blog “We’ve upgraded from the frankly [...]
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    Posted: April 26, 2008, 10:31pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-04-22

    Web Metrics and Grains of Salt - New York Times “Perhaps Internet metrics should come with a warning label: ‘handle with care’.” (tags: internet audience measurement google trends analysts comscore) BBC introduces registration scheme for blog comments - Journalism.co.uk editors blog “The BBC has opted for a registration system for comments on blogs and [...]
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    Posted: April 21, 2008, 10:35pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-04-20

    Words matter - Google News Blog “we’ve been hard at work making quotations in news articles easy to search and browse. You can now more easily keep track of what your favorite politician, actor or sports star is saying. You can even search within their quotes for specific topics.” (tags: internet vertical [...]
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    Posted: April 19, 2008, 10:32pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-04-15

    Borrell: Newspaper-Owned Web Sites Dominate Local Ad Space - NAA US: “Newspaper-owned Web sites maintained a three-to-one lead over other local competitors in advertising market share last year, capturing 26.9 percent of the market, according to data from Borrell Associates” (tags: internet business revenue local newspapers newspapersites stats trends analysts borrell) The Independent [...]
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    Posted: April 14, 2008, 10:34pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-04-13

    Flexible screens - why am I so grumpy? - simonwaldman.net “Which do you think will have more active users in three years time: e-readers or whatever twitter turns into?” (tags: internet newspapers technology mobile eink twitter) Rebuilt My Telegraph due soon - Shane Richmond “The new sites are being built by American social network [...]
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    Posted: April 12, 2008, 10:35pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-04-10

    Editors and readers split over participation on local news sites - Journalism.co.uk editors blog “50% of the 500 readers surveyed said this would be ’somewhat or very beneficial to good journalism online’. In comparison only 27% of the 1,250 newsroom editors interviewed felt the same way.” (tags: internet newspapers participatory journalism citizenmedia) Net [...]
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    Posted: April 09, 2008, 10:36pm EDT
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    Online ad revenues reach £2.8bn - Media - guardian.co.uk “UK online advertising trade body, the Internet Advertising Bureau, said spending rose 38%. It predicted more double-digit growth this year as the web shrugs off the economic turmoil hitting other media, to overtake TV advertising revenues…” (tags: internet business advertising revenue marketsize stats [...]
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    Posted: April 08, 2008, 10:34pm EDT
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    All the news that’s fit to print on a map: The New York Times in Google Earth - Google LatLong “The New York Times offers geo-coded news, and Google Earth offers the platform for reading that news in a 3D browse” (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites geotagging google maps googlemaps nyt) Glasgow IDOM - [...]
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    Posted: April 07, 2008, 10:33pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-04-07

    The “Hidden Return” Of Online Advertising - A VC “We all know that online advertising benefits from being measurable and that it’s returns are often better than offline advertising. But the one thing we have not been able to measure is the offline impact of online advertising.” (tags: internet advertising effectiveness search [...]
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    Posted: April 06, 2008, 10:33pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-04-06

    New Dashboard Design and March Wrap-up - WordPress.com The new Wordpress 2.5 dashboard has been rolled out to Wordpress.com. Looks much clearer and easier to use, though with a few inconsistencies between the old and new to tidy up. And presumably a new WPMU is on its way soon. (tags: internet blogging [...]
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    Posted: April 05, 2008, 10:31pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-04-03

    Peter Preston: According to local sources, this could be a real winner | Media | The Observer “there’s a coherence to the Trinity Mirror approach that makes everything seem to fit.” (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites regional local strategy journalism trinitymirror) Trinity Mirror ramps up hyperlocal drive with Coventry Telegraph launch | Media | [...]
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    Posted: April 02, 2008, 10:40pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-03-31

    “If the news is important, it will find me” - mathewingram.com/work “how digital ‘word of mouth’ - in other words, social networking of all kinds including Twitter, IM, Facebook and so on - has become a dominant means of news delivery for young people” (tags: internet newspapers news journalism socialmedia socialnetworking blogging [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2008, 10:34pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-03-30

    A web presence without a website? - Online Journalism Blog “I don’t have a website,” she replied. “But you have a blog?” “Yes.” “Facebook?” “Yes. And a MySpace page. With 800 friends.” “So you do have a web strategy.” (tags: internet socialmedia blogging facebook identity) Blogging research - social media research and statistics [...]
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    Posted: March 29, 2008, 10:33pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-03-26

    David Black - FriendFeed I am now on FriendFeed. Drop by and say hello… (tags: internet blogging microblogging lifestreaming friendfeed) The Lifestreaming Backlash - ReadWriteWeb “For consultant Jevon MacDonald, who thinks that lifestream aggregators are starting to become ‘noise aggregators,’ the solution to the problem lies in the development of filters that learn what [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2008, 7:52pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-03-25

    The world according to newspapers - Online Journalism Blog “The cartograms below show the world through the eyes of editors-in-chief, in 2007. Countries swell as they receive more media attention; others shrink as we forget them” (tags: internet newspapers maps attention visualisation) Quotably: The Perfect Tool To Make Sense Of Twitter - TechCrunch “Quotably [...]
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    Posted: March 24, 2008, 10:22pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-03-24

    Despite shares gloom in media sector, it is not all bad news - EveningStandard.co.uk “The media is doing rather well in reporting the crisis of the markets. A pity, then, that the markets are treating the media so very poorly. As major share prices see-saw, it is noticeable that the media [...]
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    Posted: March 23, 2008, 10:20pm EDT
    by David Black

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    Online social networks: Everywhere and nowhere - Economist.com “Social networking will become a ubiquitous feature of online life. That does not mean it is a business.” (tags: internet media socialmedia socialnetworking business strategy revenue trends facebo myspace) Mass intimacy - Stef Lewandowski On Twitter and Microblogging: “It’s not heavy on intelligence but it’s high [...]
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    Posted: March 22, 2008, 10:19pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-03-19

    Twitter / davidblack I have succumbed to Twitter. Join my, er, exclusive band of followers. (tags: internet blogging microblogging twitter) Does FriendFeed Solve a Problem, or Highlight One? - ReadWriteWeb “In an attention economy information overload is a serious concern. Services that can aggregate activity streams — things that command a lot of our [...]
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    Posted: March 18, 2008, 10:19pm EDT
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  • links for 2008-03-18

    The State of the News Media 2008 - Journalism.org “The state of the American news media in 2008 is more troubled than a year ago. And the problems, increasingly, appear to be different than many experts have predicted.” (tags: internet newspapers journalism business advertising unbundling trends) The State of the News Media 2008 [...]
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    Posted: March 17, 2008, 10:22pm EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-03-17

    How Internet news should work - Scripting News “I think every newspaper on the web should at least offer the reader a choice of a reverse-chronological view of the news. I think they would find most readers would use this view, most editors would too.” (tags: internet newspapers news aggregators journalism) Google to [...]
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    Posted: March 16, 2008, 10:18pm EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-03-11

    Hamilton Start of New Series of Websites - allmediascotland On our Hamilton Advertiser launch: “the promise from S&UN is that this year will see other titles follow suit, under the supervision of a 17-strong digital team, headed by Craig Brown and John Hutcheson.” (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites launches trinitymirror scotland) Hamilton Advertiser - [...]
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    Posted: March 10, 2008, 10:19pm EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-03-10

    Ten ways journalism has changed in the last ten years (Blogger’s Cut) - Online Journalism Blog “The past decade has seen more change in the craft of journalism than perhaps any other. Some of the changes have erupted into the mainstream; others have nibbled at the edges. Paul Bradshaw counts the [...]
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    Posted: March 09, 2008, 10:19pm EDT
    by David Black

  • links for 2008-03-05

    Editors, send users away or lose them forever - Reportr.net “Editors should be thinking of their products as a service that is part of a larger network of news.” (tags: internet newsspapersites socialmedia distributed journalism links) Page View Metric Dying - But What Will Replace It? - ReadWriteWeb “The reasoning is simple enough: While [...]
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    Posted: March 04, 2008, 9:20pm EST
    by David Black
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