LINKS | Down With the AP?
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There's been a growing feeling that the AP is not our friend in the media industry, but this week, that feeling seemed to bubble over. We've got some rough numbers to show that they're not helping us, and with the rise of ESPN local sites, the AP is rapidly loosing it's marketplace.
I don't know if I'm ready to sign their death sentence yet, they do seem to have some smart people working for 'em (I look to the New Model for News study and their iPhone app). Yet, it's painfully obvious (after the youtube fiasco) that the AP is a classic case of the right hand not knowing what the left is doing.
These are my links for April 14th through April 18th:
The AP is outdated and increasingly irrelevant; so are Printies
AP thinking of future:http://www.ap.org/newmodel.pdf - Interesting 'atomization of news' but still top-down publishing model. –@GregElin on March 23
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Daily Kos: State of the Nation: Newspapers make up 20% of the sources for The Daily Kos, but blogs make up near 13%, the second most. The AP? Less than 1%.
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“On the other hand, I will be gleeful when the AP goes out of business. I’m actually shocked at how little we depend on those jerks.”- Daily Kos: State of the Nation
- Hanging Tough: Financial Page: The New Yorker: This is the mindset the media industry needs to have: take risks, experiment. Either you’re going to fail, or come out on top. Non-risk isn’t gonna make you succeed.
- Why top-down syndication is broken: This is it: the newswire isn’t going to be top down, but bottom up. We’re crowdsourcing news, that means you can’t control abundancy. Take that AP.
- Garca Interactive: How ESPN Chicago sticks another nail in the newspaper coffin 26 and what to do about it: Common sense on what to do about saving your niche before someone scoops it up from under you. My favorite: fire the management. They’ve failed, bring someone new in.
- Journalism Online Just in case you were wondering what a plan for failure looks like…
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“A strategy is a product of a big vision of the market and where it’s going. It’s about abandoning some markets to concentrate on others. Newspaper companies don’t have a strategy. Newspaper companies have tactics, things they do to respond to other people’s strategies. Until newspapers get a strategy of their own that helps them decide what to do and what not to do, they are doomed to see all the high-potential market strategies owned by everyone else. Which leaves newspaper companies to grumble about unfair everything is and not much more.”- García Interactive: How ESPN Chicago sticks another nail in the newspaper coffin … and what to do about it
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“Let me be the first to tell you that saying you aim to be a “world-class platform-neutral news information provider” just tells me you haven’t got a clue about the future, are too scared to make a guess and are hoping someone else will get it right so you can copy them.”- García Interactive: How ESPN Chicago sticks another nail in the newspaper coffin … and what to do about it
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"Instead of feeling diminished by the Huff Post's excerpts, more publications might want to pre-empt the site by serving distilled versions of their own articles. That's right: Even the Post and the Times and the Journal can learn something about how to serve readers from the Huffington Post." –Hey, journalists! Stop getting all huffy about the Huffington Post's "lifting" of stories. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
Numbers
- Measuring user engagement: Lessons from BusinessWeek: It’s a good breakdown of how to measure user engagement on a story. This is a valuable metric, that we really need.
Engagement is high, now we just need to harness it.
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Lest there be any doubt, the internet is used by all age groups.
LINKS | Generation Y Has Inherited the Media
“Maybe, just maybe, the existing model for generating, distributing and monetizing content could benefit from a Ctrl-Alt-Delete reboot.”- Can the Statusphere Save Journalism?
It's been two weeks since my last one of these, which is in part due to laziness, and in part due to my wanting to get a good list going on a contentious topic: Generation Y needs to take over the media.
I'm increasingly convinced that the 'old media' model is broken largely because the old folks just don't get it. Not to say that there aren't people in 30s-70s who don't get 'it,' just that there are too few, too few in a position of power, and too few who get 'it' enough.
These are my links for March 29th through April 13th:
"You blew it"
- 'Star Tribune' Withholds Select Print Content From Web: Talk about Baby Boomers not getting “it.”
- Print is still king: Only 3 percent of newspaper reading happens online: There's a lot of fuzzy math done here, and reliance on numbers that may or may not be accurate. (readership is 2+ per copy!?) (avg. person reads 24 pages/day in print!?) Maybe I'm too genY, but I just don't see how this is possible.
- CIRCLE - A nonpartisan research center studying youth civic engagement and civic education. College Students Talk Politics: It's a valid point: GenY might not really pay attention to news b/c they feel like it's not relevant to them. It's largely just talking heads yelling at each other. Argues against Infotainment and for the masses being smart.
- Streisand effect: “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it”
- "NCAA: Greet the 21st century" : The Editor's Log : Blogs : News-Record.com : Greensboro, North Carolina: NCAA is trying to prohibit people from expressing opinions on Facebook!? They need to get over themselves.
- 1. Solve journalism's data problem. 2. Kill the AP. 3. Invest in the next market. BuzzMachine: Jarvis calls for the disbanding of the AP. In light of how backwards they have been, I’m for it.
- NYTimes-turned-NPR Exec: "Not Very Bullish on People Paying for News Content" - mediabistro.com: WebNewser: CEO of NPR in the news for the second time this week with details on how Times Select was a failure despite making 10 million/year.
- The speech the NAA should hear BuzzMachine: I love a good rant, and Jarvis delivers. I think I’m still hoping he’s wrong – that newspapers still can be re-tooled to work online, but I fear he’s right.
- Google's Love For Newspapers & How Little They Appreciate It: A good, old fashion, smack-down of the old fashion old media. “Robert, I’ve been creating original content on the internet for about 12 years longer than you’ve been editor of the WSJ. Shut up. Seriously, shut up. To say something like that simply indicates you really do not understand that all blogs are not echo chambers. I mean echo chamber? Sorry, that’s the mainstream media, too.”
- Google a 'Tapeworm:' WSJ Exec: Here’s more of the ‘old media’ mind-fuck.
LINKS | Generation Y Takes on the World
Things our grandkids will never understand.
Last week has lead me this generalization: Generation Y fundamentally understands the internet, and therefore the current state of the world, in a way that older generations just never will.
It's a generalization and not a maxim, because as folks like John Bryne, Bryan Murley, and even Steve Jobs remind me that us youngin's aren't the only ones who get it, we're just in the majority.
These are my links for March 21st through March 27th:
Generation Y, X, BB…
The following are excerpts from #editorchat from John Bryne of Business Week. I'm throughly impressed with his insight. It gives me much hope for the older generations.
“There will be many Born to the Web enterprises over the next few years that will teach the mainstream media a thing or two. #editorchat”- Twitter / JOHNABYRNE
“They think that some day online advertising will offset the print decline and help support a broken print model. #editorchat”- Twitter / JOHNABYRNE
“Online readers also earn more than print readers and are more likely to be female. #editorchat”- Twitter / JOHNABYRNE
“Of our total audience, about 38% are online only; 31% magazine only & 31% are both online and print. #editorchat”- Twitter / JOHNABYRNE
“There’s overlap in our print and online readers3 but generally our online users are 10 years younger and more highly educated. #editorchat”- Twitter / JOHNABYRNE
- On the other hand, the following is a tweet sent by a Syracuse University student during a lecture by Ryan Sholin on 'new media.'
“@ryansholin I’d prefer that we have fewer citizen journalists. You don’t see me trying to be a citizen software engineer or citizen waiter.”-
Twitter / benjgcPut this up there as Generation Y not “getting it”
- 2020 vision: What's next for news: A fantastic bit of futurism on the journalism business.
• Industry will shrink/re-make itself
• The semantic web plays a huge role and datamining becomes key
• Collaboration among local news sites for ads and info
• New business models like endowments, non-profit, etc
• copyright law needs a re-think
• The idealist unbiased journalist dies, starts reporting for interest groups - Newspaper ownership and the fourth generation syndrome | yelvington.com: Steve argues that the current generation of newspaper owners are more interested in spending money than their own business.
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“When I got my first computer back in 1984 or 1985, it was a Mac and there was this program called Hypercard by Bill Atkinson. In a very basic way, Hypercard teaches you the basics of how computers [and software development on them] work.” Being who I am, this obviously struck a chord. I wondered if he has hit upon a simple truth about the evolution of computers… and their users. Early on, the software and tools that were available to users were more about working with the capabilities of the machine than what you could get done with it. That lead to every computer user innately understanding the architecture of the machine. Of course, it also lead to scaring many people off, but for those that stuck around, to this day we all have a very true understanding of the what, why and — most importantly — how a computer can (and can’t!) do the things it does.”- At SXSW Michael Penn Talks iTunes, Film, Music, and Hypercard! - The Mac Observer
- Newspaper Execs: Still Sleepless in Seattle - ClickZ: Vin speaks from personal experience about the staff and history of the Seattle PI. In Vin’s opinion, the staff is top notch, but the Hearst Corp. has shackled them.
Journalism Business Models
- Nonprofit journalism: It's in the numbers: Presents numbers dating back to 2006 on the average number of bylines, pages, and sections in the local paper. It’s not really good news.
- Md. Senator Proposes Nonprofit Status For Newspapers - Baltimore News Story - WBAL Baltimore: Current rules don’t allow print media to report on political issues (apparently). A senator has stepped forward and suggested that we allow them to do so.
- A scenario for news BuzzMachine: Think of this one more like a “Jarvis Manifesto”
- “The most profitable newspapers have tended to be monopoly markets with circulation of 20,000 to 100,000 readers. These are not sexy papers like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, which have historically have significantly low margins.”- One Banker’s Plan to Save the Newspaper Industry - Deal Journal - WSJ
- Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet: Controversial post by a UPenn Prof. He refers to his own research on how people interact with ads. Most interesting: the break downs of what and how you can sell online.
“The problem is not the medium, the problem is the message, and the fact that it is not trusted, not wanted, and not needed.”- Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet
- A fantastic quote from rev2oh
“The wonder of the web is that it gives readers more and more control every day over what information they consume. Fighting against that trend is futile. Trying to improve the banner ad is like trying to motorize a horse.”- RevenueTwoPointZero » Advertising on iPhone
Just plain nifty/WTF?
- The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine gets a new data center: Apparently the entire internet can fit into a shipping containter. 4.5 petabytes, 1TB RAM, and 63 servers.
- The 13 Most Essential Plugins for WordPress - Nettuts+: Totally fantastic list.
- What Happened to the Land of the Free?: Very long, very detailed piece arguing that the government has become too powerful. Well researched, well opined.
- BBC NEWS | Americas | US high school 'held cage fights': WTF!? A Dallas school was holding cage fighting matches, with students!?
- Goodbye Google | stopdesign: Google’s top designer quits ostensibly because Google doesn’t understand good design. Here’s the thing: they’re still successful. They don’t have Microsoft levels of shitty design, so what’s the…
For the Photogs in the house…
Amy O'Leary is a multimedia producer at the Times. This interview was taped on March 22, 2009, at the Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism, where O'Leary was a speaker.
LINKS | Inspiration Only
Spotted: The Chicago Tribune puts Twitter in their masthead
This has been a really inspiring week for me. Everything from my talks with John Lowe, to activity at CoPress, to a phone conversation with Daniel about the future, to progress at The Daily Orange to this fantastic piece at Nieman Labs. With that in mind, I'm going to limit myself to links that inspire this week. (Also, it's been two weeks since I did one of these posts due to vacation. There's a lot of links.)
These are my links for March 8th through March 20th:
- Joel Kramer: Lessons I've learned after a year running MinnPost Nieman Journalism Lab: Great look at how the MinnPost works by its founder, Joel Kramer.
• Short form content monetizes better than long form
• Uncut video is much less expensive than docu and popular
• Have funding for a few years before you start
• Donations will be just as important as advertising - Social Weather Mapping | smalltalk: Great proof of concept: datamine twitter to show the current weather conditions across the country.
- Nick Bilton Keynote O’Reilly Tools of Change 2009 | Metaprinter
- There are stages people go through when they’re introduced to a subject:
- Rejection as irrelevant (too much change)
- Knowing nothing, and admitting it
- Know just enough to hurt themselves
- Knowing that you know nothing
- Knowledgeable, enough to get by
- Respected authority
- Master, even the experts defer to you
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There's always time to launch your dream - (37signals): A great call for, “don’t sacrifice your education for the sake of school.”
- Printed Matters Five ideas for display ads: 5 crazy and good ideas for how to change online ads.
- RevenueTwoPointZero Improving online display advertising: A summary of how online ads are broken and two suggestions on how to fix it:
• Limit to one ad a page. Make it a dominant element again
• Make homepages on news websites more like the rest of the web… - “Anyone who runs a newspaper should be watching this experiment under a microscope. Someone should even go so far as to obtain copies of the last month of Seattle PI in print and call up every display advertiser and ask them what they plan to do.”- The Great Seattle Advertising Experiment: What Will Happen to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Print Advertising Dollars? - Publishing 2.0
- Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable Clay Shirky: Cheers to Clay Shirky, for so eloquently stating what we’ve all be thinking.
- Telecommuting can replace newsrooms | The Journalism Iconoclast: A strong argument to replace the newsroom with telecommuters. It saves money and increases efficiency.
- #FollowFriday: The Anatomy of a Twitter Trend: Look at how twitter trends start. Good research implications.
The new short film by Blu
an ambiguous animation painted on public walls.
Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche)
http://www.blublu.org/
Bre Pettis | I Make Things - Bre Pettis Blog - The Cult of Done Manifesto
Newseum | Today’s Front Pages | Seattle Post-Intelligencer
LINKS | the Rocky Dies and the Daily Emerald Strikes
So, I'll be on vacation (woot!) for the coming week which means a couple of things:
- I'll have limited Internet access, so don't expect a my LINKS post to be very long/exist next week.
- I'll have limited Internet access and don't plan on being able to get any work done. At all. Not too sure how I feel about that.
- My Thursday resolution to try out TweetDeck for twitter is gonna have to wait a while.
On a similar note, if any of you have any requests on how to better lay this post out or better formating or etc… lemme know.
Here we go: these are my links for February 26th through March 5th:
OMG! (and other news that broke this week)
- EMERALD NEWS STAFF STRIKES - News: The Daily Emerald newsroom unanimously walks out until they’re satisfied their board will not be putting them in a position where they can be censored.
HAHA haha heh hehe… Oh, my. It’s funny ‘cause it’s true.
- What to do if your startup is about fail (or "Don't Stop Believing") The Jason Calacanis Weblog: It’s a how-to guide on how to save your VC funded business. Or how to close it down. Told by one who knows, this is a must read _before_ you get into the startup world.
Journalism, Examples of
- Interactive | Taubman Museum of Art: Great example of what an infographic can be. They clearly put a lot of work into this.
- The Geography of a Recession - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com: Fantastic infographic from the New York Times on the unemployment rate nation wide.
Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.
Nifty Online Things
- Present Like Steve Jobs:
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is well known for his electrifying presentations. Communications coach Carmine Gallo discusses the various techniques… - 15 Useful Twitter Hacks and Plug-Ins For WordPress | How-To | Smashing Magazine: Some nifty hacks for wordpress and twitter.
- Prez Loves to Work the Phone - Politics news | Newser: Feels good to have a president that is both active and actively using basic technology.
- 85+ Tools & Resources for Freelancers and Web Workers: It’s an okay list that primarily relates to time tracking and billing
- Microsoft Office Labs vision 2019 (montage + video) - istartedsomething
- Google Tasks, a Standalone App: Looks like Google may be introducing a task manager soon. Here’s hoping it allows for some group collaboration!
Online Journalism
- Recession? Local news sites are hanging tough: Great look at some/most? of the successful hyperlocal news startups.
- Online video storytelling and trends : Online Journalism
- Hulu Traffic Still Up Big After Super Bowl Spike: Hulu saw a huge spike in traffic after the Superbowl (perhaps because of their ad?), and has seen that traffic stay high – roughly 33% higher. Proves that good advertising not only works, but online,…
- Printed Matters Why SEO is still job #1 at news sites: On Google is your landing page and why your newspapers site needs to be a platform.
- Chicago Reader Blogs: Chicagoland: A long analysis of a Chicago townhall on what todo with the Trib. Points I don’t agree with: aggregation is bad, journalists aren’t to blame. Points I like: journos should be able to brand themselves…
Journalism Business Models
- Newspapers: From No Profit to Non-Profits?: A wrap of how how the endowment business model may come into play.
- Business Models of News :: Innovation in Software :: The Vagueware Blog: Good summary of the current state/failure of newspaper advertising, including a quick macro list of how to fix it.
- Five ways newspapers can improve online ads | Knight Digital Media Center Weblog: I’ve actually mentioned all these ideas before, but this is a really handy list of ways for newspapers to make money. – That they’re not doing!
- Information Wants to Be Expensive - WSJ.com: Basically: information will be paid for if it’s unique and high-value. There’s gotta be a way to leverage this idea for freemium.
- The size of social networks | Primates on Facebook | The Economist: Apparently, Dunbar’s number holds true online as well as physically.
- Poynter Online - NewsPay: Knight CEO Bill Mitchel says:
• Make way for a new establishment.
• Think of media as a path to activism.
• Imagine a smaller world.
• Get creative with economic models for sustaining news. - The ethical journalist's guide to selling ads on a website: Part one: Ethics and basic introduction for journalists trying to advertise online.
Pew Research Center: Newspapers Face a Challenging Calculus
- Yahoo! Previews Powerful News Advertising Platform: Seems like a good idea to me. Yahoo provides the ad distribution network and newspapers provide the ad selling power.
- Yahoo Teams With Newspapers to Sell Ads - NYTimes.com: The Yahoo - Newspaper ad collaboration deal seems to be working out well.
- Pew Research Center: Newspapers Face a Challenging Calculus: Apparently, newspaper readership has declined in the last 2 years both online and in print. Though, this number might not include aggregators ∴ who really knows.
- Content Bridges: Paid Newsday? Parsing What It Means...and Those 4.5 Minutes: The reason why Newsday paid content will fail is not because of low engagement, but because the newsroom doesn’t do online right to begin with!
LINKS | Google’s Church
Since I've decided to start giving my links rankings, starting next week, I will only be posting links with a 3 star or greater ranking.
Lots of links on journalism this week (not unusual). There's a very long article from The New Republic that's very long, but exceedingly good. Also, check out my post on newspapers as a platform – I promise it's shorter. :)
Photography
- 5 Common photo slideshow mistakes :: 10,000 Words :: multimedia, online journalism news and reviews: 5 things to avoid when making an audio slideshow. Rather insightful.
J-School
- Skills training is not enough for the digital journalist: A list of things that journos aren’t doing right in terms on thinking/training. It a topic that’s been overwritten on, but it’s very well thought out.
brightkite.com: Skills all J-Students need to know. A pic of a whiteboard from what I can only presume was a brainstorming session at News Innovation PDX- Journalism degree applications up 24%: Apparently, the number of jDegrees are up by 24% in the UK. Makes me wonder how US numbers compare. I suspect that most would guess that US numbers are down, but that never sounded right to me.
Journalism Business Models
A suggestion for The New York Times: Monetize your superior platform by sharing it with smaller news outlets:Interview at Times Open with Michael Veytsel, founder of a semantic-web startup he’s tentatively calling Factbox.Cast: Nieman Journalism Lab- 25 ideas: Creating An Open-Source Business Model For Newspapers: A really solid list for creating a successful online newsorg that is user-friendly and “open source”
- Op-Ed Columnist - Start Up the Risk-Takers - NYTimes.com: Don’t bail out the failed businesses, use the money to start new ones.
- Printed Matters Paywall madness: Dec. 2008 - Feb. 2009 A roundup of the paywall argument from the last few months.
- Local Media in a Postmodern World, Part XCI, Advertising Loses Its Balance: A good look at the problems facing Mass marketing with the rise of the Internet. Basically: the web allows adverts to cut the middle man out of the picture, taking a lot of the wind out of Madison…
“The online display advertising paradigm was pulled directly from the print industry, the group that originally designed the Web for media. Assumptions were made that
simply don’t apply, because the Web is not a one-to-many, mass marketing medium. It’s a place where horizontal connectivity replaces the vertical, top-down model of communications. We weren’t aware of this in the early days of the Web (or at least the media and advertising businesses weren’t aware), so display advertising seemed a logical choice.”
- Local Media in a Postmodern World, Part XCI, Advertising Loses Its Balance
- The follow is a list of quotes from a very long, very in depth article in The New Republic on the state of the newspaper industry.
“The other standard means of supporting the production of public goods is through private non-profit organization. In fact, non-profit support of journalism has recently been increasing. But much of the discussion about non-profit journalism has failed to recognize that it can mean at least three different things. The first, though not necessarily the most relevant, is the conversion of newspapers from commercial to non-profit status as a way of preserving their public-service role.
…a second approach is philanthropic support of specific kinds of journalism, available through multiple outlets, whether they are commercial or non-profit. The best-known example of this solution is ProPublica.
…a third use of non-profits—and it is for underwriting new models of journalism in the online environment. A good example of this approach is the Center for Independent Media.”
- Goodbye to the Age of Newspapers (Hello to a New Era of Corruption)
“When a society requires public goods, the solution is often to use government to subsidize them or to produce them directly. But if we want a press that is independent of political control, we cannot have government sponsoring or bailing out specific papers.”
- Goodbye to the Age of Newspapers (Hello to a New Era of Corruption)
“News distributed to the public is a public good in two respects. First, from a political standpoint, news contributes to a well-functioning society inasmuch as it enables the public to hold government and other institutions accountable for their performance. Second, news is a public good in the sense economists use that concept.”
- Goodbye to the Age of Newspapers (Hello to a New Era of Corruption)
- Wasting Ink, Beating a Dead Horse - ClickZ: “If the newspaper industry wants to survive, it must begin mass-customizing its products on- and offline, rather than trying to find ways to get people to pay for the obsolete generic package. The…
- Why the debate about financing journalism misses the point. - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine: A call for for newspapers to embark on Bill Gates’ “creative capitalism” — a business that acts in the public good. In the case of newspapers this would likely involve an hybrid of endowments and…
- Content Bridges: Paid Newsday Site? What's 4 1/2 Minutes Worth to You? Newsday is now charging for content. Is that such a good idea considering the fact that they have the lowest level of engagement of the top 30 newspaper sites?
Journalism
- JPROF: A superior user experience: A great quote out of the recent manifesto written by Google’s Jonathan Rosenberg on the future of GOOG. The quote suggests that readers need a better UX out of newspaper websites.
How college media uses Twitter - Innovation in College Media: CICM has a good study on how college media is using Twitter. Conclusion: either you use it wrong, or (a select few) use it very well.- Journalism is the business of building communities - so newsrooms must hire from within those communities: A call to use local resources for local reporting. Makes sense, you have to use people who know your niche market.
- Newspapers Will Never Get IT Right David Strom's Web Informant: Here’s the meet of the post:
Examine any aspect of any newspaper’s online edition and you will find it botched. Fixed table widths that assume everyone has a 26-inch monitor set to 1024 x 768… - “Throughout the 20th century, newspaper-reader surveys showed the average reader read only four to six stories per edition, no matter how many stories were in the paper. That hasn’t changed, and it’s worse with newspaper sites. Data from Nielsen Online and comScore Media Metrix show the average newspaper-site user visits only two to eight times per month, reads less than 25 stories all month long, and spends less time on site all month than the average print-edition reader spends on a single edition. The Web isn’t the newspaper industry’s savior.”
- Wasting Ink, Beating a Dead Horse - ClickZ - “The 400-year-old era of traditional newspapers is over. They are obsolete.”- Wasting Ink, Beating a Dead Horse - ClickZ
Offbeat
Common, you know you wanna click on that picture to see where it leads.
- Facebook et al risk 'infantilising' the human mind | Media | guardian.co.uk: A British psychologist testified before the House of Lords that short form communication (like twitter) leads to ADD.
- Safari 4 Hidden Preferences - Random Genius: Restore the new Safari UI back to the old one.
- Microsoft has to hit up laid-off workers for money - BusinessWeek: Well, that’s just embarrassing :)
- ““Marijuana already plays a huge role in the California economy,” said Stephen Gutwillig, the group’s California state director. “It’s a revenue opportunity we literally can’t afford to ignore any longer.””- Bill would legalize, tax marijuana - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee
LINKS | Micropayments Don’t Work, but Everyone Has a Better Idea
Somehow, I missed the links from the latter part of last week, and have been bookmarking like crazy this last week. So, ya'll get a ton of links. Apologies for the long, long list, but I've broken it up with some good videos — and I've edited down! These are the cream of the crop from February 10th through February 20th:
Journalism Business Models
Hulu's Superbowl Ad and the Boxee Fight - O'Reilly Radar: “I’m sure Hulu is totally pissed. They pretty much said just that in a somewhat more stilted way. The real insult, though, is calling the people who made them cut Boxee off “content providers.” They…
- Why I dislike micropayments, don't mind charity, but really have a better idea Network(ed)News: What a fantastically simple idea for a journalism business model: charge for interaction with the content creator. Donate some money to the site, and the chances of your comments etc being responded…
- Walter Isaacson: You've got it all wrong | Musings of an Anonymous Geek: Theodor Nelson writes the equivalent of a very long blog post as a response to Walter Isaacson’s use of his name in his argument for micropayments for news. Essentially, Nelson wants to use a…
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Interview: Wired's Chris Anderson on the 'free' business model | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com: Chris Anderson, author of Long Tail, discusses the Freemium business model.
- Tech Tools Day 1: Tomorrow's Journalism and Journalists - The Next Newsroom Project: “Readers have never been willing to support this industry economically,” Fine said. “Her advice for anyone in the news biz was direct: ‘I know that not everyone wants to be an entrepreneur,’ Fine…
- DigiDave | Communication is Key: Journalism Beyond Newspapers - Don't Become Nonprofits - Work for Them: Dave Cohn makes a good point: journalists can market their services toward non-profits who need the press and often can’t get their message out there.
- Forget Micropayments -- Here's a Far Better Idea for Monetizing Content: Steve Outing endorses Kachingle, a micro-payment service for websites with one distinct caveat: paying is still optional. The user decides on how much they want to pay for their news, and all the…
- Will paid content work? Two cautionary tales from 2004 Nieman Journalism Lab Pushing to the Future of Journalism: Good look at the failures of the Paid Content model: LAT, and the Albuquerque Journal. End with a reminder: just because Editors think that they are entitled to make money from content, it doesn’t…
- Op-Ed Contributor - You Can't Sell News by the Slice - NYTimes.com: A New York Times op-ed on why paid content won’t work. Oh, and that even if it did, the revenue wouldn’t “save newspapers.”
- What does engagement mean for newspapers? - Eat Sleep Publish: A good summary and batch of links on why engagement on sites is important.
Top 15 of 2008: The leading regional newspaper sites shuffle their ranks Nieman Journalism Lab Pushing to the Future of Journalism: The top regional newspapers have seen a significant increase in pageviews.
- lectroid.net Blog Archive Newspapers could actually try online: Really solid advice on how to evolve your print newsroom into a real, online newsorg. Topics include: Staffing, web design, and workflow.
- Reflections of a Newsosaur: How to charge for content. Theoretically.: Alan Mutter jumps on the micropayment bandwagon as the most “logical way” to make money online. He makes the wrong assumption that “Consumers might not like being micro-nickled and nano-dimed for…
Web Journalism
- The Doc Searls Weblog : Saturday, March 24, 2007: Fantastic list of things that newspapers should do on their websites to make them more relevant to users (read: user friendly)
- How an NYT developer built a new way to read the news online: The ‘new’ interface is a great move for the Times. It does distinctly reminds me of http://newser.com and I think corrects one of the major flaws of current online newspaper design: the lack of…
LINKS | Newspapers Don’t Need Micropayments
These are my links for February 6th through February 8th:
Newspaper Business Models
- How to Save Your Newspaper | TIME: Didn’t we already have this debate? Paying for essential information doesn’t work. You can charge a niche audience, (a’la Wall Street Journal) but charging the masses just won’t work. This is the story that initiated the latest debate across the web.
- Death Of Print: How Not to Save Newspapers: A really good argument against the micropayment plan for journalism.
- Lab Book Club: Jay Hamilton, Chapter 2 on Vimeo: As newsorgs rely on less and less sustainable business models, they become more and more biased. Ends with a call for the non-profit business model.
- Please pay us for our news - please? Nieman Journalism Lab Pushing to the Future of Journalism: Sums up the argument for and against the paid content model and concludes that users never really paid for content anyway, and that newspapers must add some value to the news to be … valued.
- Journalism 2.0 There really are new business models for journalism: A list of some new media orgs that are surviving in today’s economy with off-beat business models.
LINKS | Please, Please Don’t Charge for Free Information
These are my links for January 30th through February 5th:
- Please pay us for our news - please? Nieman Journalism Lab Pushing to the Future of Journalism: Sums up the argument for and against the paid content model and concludes that users never really paid for content anyway, and that newspapers must add some value to the news to be … valued.
Lab Book Club: Jay Hamilton, Chapter 2:As newsorgs rely on less and less sustainable business models, they become more and more biased. Ends with a call for the non-profit business model.- NYTimes Exposes 2.8 Million Articles in New API - ReadWriteWeb: The New York Times seems to be moving towards establishing itself as a platform of news. Sharing all of it’s content in this matter is a good indicator that they ‘get it’
- On Portfolio Reviews (part 2) (Conscientious): Good advice for getting a photography portfolio reviewed from a variety of people who do it.
- How to Save Your Newspaper | TIME: Didn’t we already have this debate? Paying for essential information doesn’t work. You can charge a niche audience, (a’la Wall Street Journal) but charging the masses just won’t work.
LINKS | in Case You Missed It Last Week…
These are my links for January 23rd through January 30th:
A Review of Two Things: One For the Mac and One For iPhone - Shawn Blanc- Cadbury Dairy Milk - Eyebrow dance - Cadbury Dairy Milk - Eyebrow dance:
http://www.adme.com.br
Agency: Fallon, London
Executive Creative Director: Richard Flintham
Creative Directors: Chris Bovill &… - Alba to O'Reilly: No, You're a Pinhead! - Gossip news | Newser: Jessica Alba uses a blog and wikipedia to fire back at Bill O’Rielly — props to her for using the Internet to criticize a very non-internet friendly guy
- How Michael Wolff Puts the News in 'Newser': “…journalism is important here, but it certainly isn’t the whole game. It’s a relatively segmented part of what you do when you create a news product.”
That combined with the 1.5 million pageviews… - “DM: Do you think that’s going to be an aspect that may increase readership, with people expecting that they won’t be bombarded with display ads? MW: No, no, we’d love to bombard them. Just looking at the economics, it becomes incredibly front-loaded to build an ad staff. And that’s kind of the advantage of using Google in this regard. You’re going to lose an upside of [revenue], but at this point our traffic is growing very quickly – I think we’re at close to 1.5 million this [November 2008] – but nevertheless, if I bring on an ad-sales staff on that, and I’m not going to recoup for a long time.”- How Michael Wolff Puts the News in ‘Newser’
- The Canary At The New York Times Grows Larger As Internet Advertising Keeps Dropping: If the New York Times has seen stagnant online ad revenue for the last year, things are not looking good for the industry as a whole.
- MediaShift . College Newspapers Finally Hit by Economic Downturn | PBS: Bryan Murley uses some excellent reporting to discuss the current state of revenue streams in college media. The sector is down, but looking to innovate.
Paul Harris 50 cent rap featuring Dexter “sexy dex” Harris jr. and Rudy SohlViews:
5944- 10 Reasons why online news sites suck :: 10,000 Words :: multimedia, online journalism news and reviews: Interesting that half the complaints relate to online advertising far more than they relate to the practice of news online.
- The Peoria plan for saving local dailies: Interesting tax option. An L3C can operate as a for-profit, but can receive donations like a 501c3 can.
- iMovie ‘09 Image Stabilization test on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
- “BLAGOJEVICH: Well, let me answer that two ways. First, I can’t comment specifically on that, ‘cause I haven’t heard those tapes. But assuming that’s what it is, if you hear all the tapes, and you hear the whole thing in its context, if I feared that that was something sinister or onerous would I want all those tapes heard?”- Transcript: Rod Blagojevich, one on one - Rachel Maddow show- msnbc.com
- MediaShift . The Big Video Debate: Rough or Slick? | PBS: Argues that Flip quality video is just fine for the web. IMHO: he’s right, the convenience of the flip just lends it to journalism far more than larger equipment.
The three primary roles your local website should play | yelvington.com- “Flight 1549, and the Mumbai and Gaza incidents demonstrated how powerful Twitter and citizen reporting has become for breaking news. Why Facebook and other social networks are horribly used by mass media, and the right ways to leverage Facebook and other networks to reach your audience.”- Introducing a Social Media System for News Organizations (Free!) at Media Transparent
- GateHouse exec Kirk Davis: "What do you think, we're stupid? Of course we like linking" Nieman Journalism Lab Pushing to the Future of Journalism: “In the spare time I had to follow public sentiment about this case,” Davis said, “you’d see comments like, ‘GateHouse is against linking.’ You’ve got to be kidding me. What do you think, we’re…
- Objectified trailer - Objectified trailer:
A peek at the upcoming design documentary “Objectified”, by Gary Hustwit, the director of “Helvetica”. The trailer features the voices of… 
xkcd - A Webcomic - I’m An Idiot- The lie of print advertising (followed by good news) BuzzMachine: “Media organizations can and must devise new services for marketers. Perhaps, for example, a local media company should act as an agency for every local business, helping them get good search-engine…
- Traditional Media: Let's Take it Offline: Turning the page on Print Ads: Google will no longer sell print ads. Disappointing, but a good example of ‘do what you do best, link to the rest’ in action.
- Let's talk about the economics of great journalism | Rational rants | ZDNet.com: “Forget about advertising and the like as a means of support.”
Goes on to argue for a business model similar to spot.us - How Twitter makes you a better writer (Scripting News): “Twitter forces you to write concisely, and that makes for crisper, more direct, easier to read copy.”
Fanboy.com » Blog Archive » Social Media “Experts” are the Cancer of Twitter (and Must Be Stopped)
Links | “Journalists Are the Biggest Terrorists”
These are my links for January 19th through January 22nd:
- PhotoScavengerHunt — recent flickr upload
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- Journalism.co.uk :: 'To succeed online student journalists must collaborate outside their own university': Greg Linch gives a good overview of the current state and goals of CoPress
- “Whitney is an accomplished Times veteran whose work I’ve admired over the years. But this memo sums up some of the very reasons why so many believe the mainstream media is doomed to irrelevance.”- ‘The New York Times’ Facebook problem | Coop’s Corner - CNET News
- Journalistopia » Tinkering | Danny Sanchez -
- Barack Obama's inauguration speech ... crafted by 27-year-old in Starbucks | World news | The Guardian: The Guardian (of all newsorgs) has a great profile on Obama’s head — 27 y/o — speech writer.
- UI.Layout Plug-in - Home: jquery plugin that allows for ajax layout of massive proportions.
- Journalists are biggest terrorists: Zardari - PakTribune: “Journalists are the biggest terrorists,” —President Zardari
A showreel of work from the Guardian’s Dan ChungViews:
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ratings- Inside the Transition: Technology, Innovation and Government:
Members of the Transition’s TIGR team explain how technology can bring reform and transparency to the… - Photographing the President: A look from 2 TIME photogs on covering the Bush White House.
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Links for January 16th Through January 19th
These are my links for January 16th through January 19th:
- Model for the 21st century newsroom pt.6: new journalists for new information flows | Online Journalism Blog: Breaks down the responsibilities of a new media corp. very smartly. The six roles necessary:
• Data Miner
• Multimedia Producer
• Newsfeed Aggregator
• MoJo
• Networking
• Community Editor - David Ardia: Why news orgs can police comments and not get sued Nieman Journalism Lab Pushing to the Future of Journalism: re: user content online and immunity granted by “CDA section 230”
• you do not have remove defamatory material if legal action is brought against you until the court instructs you to do so.
• you can… - Team Obama Told to Ditch Instant Messaging - Politics news | Newser: How backward is this!? We finally bring in a team that wants to use technology in the US government that corporations rely on and the lawyers tell them it would be too embarrassing!?
- Study: Web Ad Prices Fall, Lowering Site Revenue - AppScout: No surprise here: online ad revenue is down in Q4 2008.
- MediaShift Idea Lab . Two Coders Head Off to 'Fix Journalism' | PBS: Why does journalism need programers? “Because it’s fucking important.”
- "Google CEO Eric Schmidt was quoted recently as saying, “All information wants to be free," - “Google CEO Eric Schmidt was quoted recently as saying, 'All information wants to be free,'”
- Time for Newspaper Folks to Fight Back! Here’s How - Yahoo BOSS Twitter Google App Engine = fresh news | Webware - CNET: Search meets real-time with by using twitter. You get authority from the press, and news value from crowdsourcing a’la twitter
- Can CNN, the Go-to Site, Get You to Stay? - NYTimes.com: CNN.com is profitable, but they’re still worried about innovation, and how to make money.
- “WHICH brings us to a pivotal issue: money. While audiences for online news sites are growing, “revenue is everyone’s billion-dollar question,” Mr. Brown says.”- Can CNN, the Go-to Site, Get You to Stay? - NYTimes.com
- Twitter May Have Found Its Business Model: Twitter…what is it good for? It turns out this little service is good for a whole lot of things, despite the loud objections of people who’ve never really …
- MediaShift . The Place of Blogs in Journalism Education | PBS “The notion of blogs as immediate, uncensored and unmediated can appear at odds with established journalistic norms and practices. But it provides a valuable learning tool as it makes the students…
- Hulu - It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia This is how transparency is supposed to work folks.
Links for January 12th
These are my tumblr links for January 12th from 01:57 to 18:58:
- "Synergy" means no need to "save" or "sync" on Palm's pre: Hotsync was hot technology in 2001, but with the Pre, Palm has totally removed the concept of user sync and assumed that you’re tied to The Cloud, not a computer at home.
It’s Palm PR to say that the…The Renegades at the New York 'Times' - The All New Issue -- New York Magazine: Want to know why the New York Times is going to continue to be the standard for journalism in this country? Read this. - “One of the New York Times’ roles in this new world is authority—and that’s probably the rarest commodity on the web,”
- Image by Getty Images via Daylife
- The Renegades at the New York ‘Times’ - The All New Issue — New York Magazine
- “Print is just a device. The New York Times is not just a newspaper, it’s a news organization.”- The Renegades at the New York ‘Times’ - The All New Issue — New York Magazine
- “Nick Bilton, who designs what his website describes, with ominous confidence, as 'technologies that will become commonplace in a 24-to-48-month time frame.'”- The Renegades at the New York ‘Times’ - The All New Issue — New York Magazine
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Wooster Collective: Photoshop Adbusting In Belin(follow link for more detailed view)
- NBC's Mara Schiavocampo: Inside her digital toolkit - NBC's Mara Schiavocampo: Inside her digital toolkit:
Schiavocampo is a digital journalist with NBC News.
Cast: Nieman Journalism Lab
- Rich Beckman discusses how to reshape journalism education | The Linchpen: A fantastic summary on what’s wrong with j-schools today and the tremendous challenge they face.
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Links for January 11th
These are my delicious links for January 11th from 08:06 to 22:57:
- UNCUT: Barkley, Wife at Their Gated House -
- From: Jerry YangSteve. Why do you keep ignoring my Facebook... -
From: Rod Blagojevich
How do you delete email that’s already been sent?From: Barack Obama
AirforceOne needs an XBOX. Hint, Hint. - New Media Douchebags Explained -
How to blog, Twitter, podcast, poke, write on Facebook walls and become a new media douchebag. More at http://cinnamonpants.com. - New Web-based news agency going live on Monday - AFP-MediaWatch - New Web-based news agency going live on Monday - AFP-MediaWatch: The Global Post is a new newswire-like service for world news, focuses on new media and beat reporting, the project has exciting implications because it employs a freemium business model, along with…
- Skirting Laws, Iran Buys Bomb Parts From US Firms - World news | Newser - Skirting Laws, Iran Buys Bomb Parts From US Firms - World news | Newser: Are you kidding me!? I don’t know if I’m more embarrassed by the companies that will do anything to make a buck or by the inability of our government to NOT SELL WEAPONS TO THE EMENY.
- Avoiding The Big Yellow Taxi Moment - Avoiding The Big Yellow Taxi Moment: Do bloggers just opine while reporters do ‘journalism?’ The comments are particularly interesting, but present the same problem blogs do: They are a raw source of material — a source — that require a…
- "You are one of the millions of people who sit at a computer all day. Every hour you have 10 minutes..." - ““You are one of the millions of people who sit at a computer all day. Every hour you have 10 minutes where you’re not doing anything productive at work, and you can’t look at porn. So you make a comment and fulfill this desire to show yourself off as a smarty-pants.””
- —Marshall Poe, a professor of history and new media at the University of Iowa, who has studied Internet communities.
All-Stars of the Clever Riposte - New York Times
- "People are doing it [commenting on blogs] for the same reason another generation of people called in..." - ““People are doing it [commenting on blogs] for the same reason another generation of people called in on talk radio.””
- —Shel Israel, a social media consultant and a columnist for Blogger & Podcastermagazine
All-Stars of the Clever Riposte - New York Times
- Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales - Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales:
Winner of the Webby Award for Viral Video! Full credits at http://richterscales.com/bubble_credits Web 2.0 had it… - Crunchies 2008 - The Richter Scales - Crunchies 2008 - The Richter Scales:
The Richter Scales perform their new song at The Crunchies 2008.Views:
4468 - Skirting Laws, Iran Buys Bomb Parts From US Firms - World news | Newser - Are you kidding me!? I don't know if I'm more embarrassed by the companies that will do anything to make a buck or by the inability of our government to NOT SELL WEAPONS TO THE EMENY.
- Avoiding The Big Yellow Taxi Moment - Do bloggers just opine while reporters do 'journalism?' The comments are particularly interesting, but present the same problem blogs do: They are a raw source of material — a source — that require a curator (pro. journalist) to make readable for the average person.
- New Web-based news agency going live on Monday - AFP-MediaWatch - The Global Post is a new newswire-like service for world news, focuses on new media and beat reporting, the project has exciting implications because it employs a freemium business model, along with content sharing.
Links for January 10th
These are my delicious links for January 10th from 15:27 to 15:40:
- Why commenting on news sites still stinks: Further notes on the commenting survey results - Invisible Inkling - Conclusion: "Commenting on news stories is still broken. Busted. Stinks. It’s a mudpit. Still."
Offers a few ways to fix the issue. Among them: let your reports respond to comments! - 10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design - Gives you a really good idea where design has headed now… we've just created a new position called UX designer that is responsible for creating the feel of your product … think Apple.
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Links for January 9th
These are my delicious links for January 9th from 20:36 to 22:50:
- DJ Strouse - A odd, but insightful look at what the economy might be without money as the currency.
- How I want to redefine my role, and the reader's role, in the newspaper | By Daniel Victor - The start of a mobile journalist (MoJo) career.
- Transparency as a PR Principle, Not a Tactic | PBS - In the internet age, where trust is a currency, companies ought to consider transparency of business a necessity if not an obligation.
Joey's thought: If civilization has developed far enough the economy to produce at at its current rate, and enough time is freed up for people to be investing it in goods and services that aren't necessities, perhaps it's time for us to look at currencies that aren't just monetary as a means of judging our economy.
e.g. China produces a lot but isn't as trusted as US
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Links for January 8th Through January 9th
These are my links for January 8th through January 9th:
- Eyetracking research shows how younger readers view news websites - Eyetracking study summary:
What works
• left sided ads
• sidebars (related links)
• moving ads with women (regardless of side)
What doesn't work
• video
• option to personalize the site
• busy design - DiSEL-Project.org - Somehow I just found this:
Consortium of papers that do 'eye-ball' research — fantastic implications for online advertising, and not in a good way.
- mental_floss Blog 6 Unusual Things Owned by Newspapers - The newspaper business just isn't profitable (anymore), but back when they were rolling in 20% profit margins, they could afford some horizontal growth. 6 things newspapers still own.
- Dan Froomkin: What Google Can Do for Journalism - A much better list of things Google could do for newspapers than http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/01/five-things-goo.html
- An Oral History of the Bush White House: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com - Fantastic piece on the entire Bush Administration. It's worth the long read.
Format: Short summaries of major events chronologically introduce quotes from major players in the administration on the topic. - Introducing Tweetbacks Plugin for Wordpress | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine - How to stylize the tweetbacks plugin for wordpress
- DigiDave | Communication is Key: Editors and Publishers - In a Battle Against Inertia - "If you have an idea - you should get your organization equipped to execute on it within two weeks, maximum."
- Eyetrack studies: What we've learned and how to conduct your own :: 10,000 Words :: multimedia, online journalism news and reviews - Interesting look at how people read newspaper sites.
• People read in an "F" pattern
• Seems like video is not a hot topic
• banner ads are ignored
Links for January 8th
These are my delicious links for January 8th from 13:18 to 13:49:
- China's Electronic Waste Village - Photo Essays - TIME - Wish TIME would start doing some video or at least audio with these stories. Nonetheless, this one has some fantastic imagery and journalism.
- Commenting survey results - Invisible Inkling - Informal survey says: comments are less civil on news articles than on blogs. Hypothesis: disproven.
- BBC NEWS | South Asia | Swat diary: 'Taleban rule now' - It's short, but it's really good journalism. It's proof you need feet on the ground to report.
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Links for January 6th Through January 7th
These are my links for January 6th through January 7th:
- Mainebiz - A new freesheet practicing the Guerilla journalism style is starting in Portland.
- How the newspaper industry tried to invent the Web but failed. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine - The claim: Newspapers were early to get online, they just didn't get on the open web soon enough.
The problem: Newspaper structure is inherently flawed for internet consumption. Ad rates alone cannot sustain the newsroom, newspapers have become distracted by video as their answer, and stock price is too much of a concern. There's probably more to add to that list too. - Public Press FAQ | The Public Press - Here's a radical idea: share your published articles with Public Press, a non-profit that receives its money NPR fashion, so there are no ads.
Links for January 6th
These are my links for January 6th from 00:38 to 02:52:
- Blogging, a new journalistic genre ? | Monday Note - Pretty strong argument that blogs are a great new form of journalism.
Problem: they don't make money. Adverts don't value them and they just don't generate the pageviews an article does. - What is literacy? BuzzMachine - If online journalism is expected to work, the audience must be able to do the following:
Media literacy, then, must embrace all those activities and skills, not just reading but:
* knowing how to focus on a need for information and express that by crafting a query to find an answer;
* knowing how to judge the relevance and reliability of sources - including the PageRank-like skill of judging sources on sources;
* knowing how to create (and remix) content across all media types;
* knowing how to collaborate;
* understanding the impact of facts on perspective and perspective on opinion;
* understanding the impact of identity and anonymity;
* understanding the relationship of pieces of information that make up a larger story via links;
* understanding how to make and find corrections - On The Media: Transcript of "You Are What You Is" (November 28, 2008) - Jeff Jarvis makes a good case for convergence. The media is now a singular: no longer do jounos choose, video, print, photo, whatever. We're cross-medium.
- Twelve months of top journalism blog posts in 2008 Christopher Wink - Title says it all. It's a pretty darn good list of the top posts of last year. Worth reading through the list at least.
- HuffPo Worth $200M? Em, More Like $2M - Business news | Newser - Sounds like the $25 million dollar investment that HuffPo just got may have inflated the value of the blogging newspaper. Instead of the $100-$200 million the investment was based on, it might be worth closer to $2 million. Ouch.
- Reflections of a Newsosaur: Newspaper share value fell $64B in '08 - A look at the stock prices and market cap. of the major newspapers in 2008.
- The Turning Gate / TTG iPhone Portfolio - iphone friendly photo gallery direct from Lightroom: Cool!
- Lee Enterprises: A poster child for the ownership crisis | yelvington.com - Steve Yelvington breaks down the economic crisis for newspapers:
1. The internet means long term changes, newspapers weren't ready.
2. Global economic crisis = less adverts = less income.
3. Newspapers borrowed when the borrowing was good, and are in the same place as everyone else in this economic crisis. They debt they can't pay back.
Links for January 5th
These are my links for January 5th from 16:39 to 17:00:
- December: Newspapers that use Twitter | graphic designr - A look at the newspapers using twitter, and how fast they're expanding. Cool!
- BBC - Journalism Labs - blog - Nifty new technology that allows users to interact with video.
Links for January 5th
These are my links for January 5th
- L.A. County restaurant health inspection scores - Los Angeles Times - It's not pretty, but it's a really good example of a newspaper looking to use their site as a platform and providing content that users can't find elsewhere.
Links for 2009-01-04
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It's actually 10 things every journalist should ask before clicking 'publish'
1. Are we making our community feel better-informed or merely distracted?
2. How important is this for our community to know and why?
3. Are we chasing the larger story, or just the latest story?
4. Are we synthesizing information, or merely aggregating it?
5. How are we serving those who know [nothing | a lot] about the topic?
6. Have we provided a clear trail through our coverage? [HAVE YOU LINKED?]
7. Are we using 1,000 words where a picture should be? [Hey, remember that video thing those guys were talking about? It works if it's relevant. If you've made it this far, it's relevant]
8. How good are our filters? [tag, and SEO please!]
9. Will our coverage find its audience where and when they’re ready for it? [more SEO, and more SEO, and more SEO]
10. How are we managing our own info overload? [setup -
Fantastic photos from the latest Israeli invasion of Gaza.
