links for 2007-08-07

Exalead, a French search engine involved in the Quaero project, has joined up with ACAP. Google and Yahoo are no doubt trembling.

Iain Dale, Guido, and Conservative Home now claim about half the traffic levels of the smallest national newspaper web sites…

“One year after Google acknowledged signing a licensing deal with The Associated Press to launch new Google features and services, the promised offerings haven’t been delivered.”

Seamus McCauley yawns at Newer: “Vin Crosbie’s most recent manifesto… once more points out that the issue with online news is not at the presentation level but the content level. Lumping that content together in yet another new way”.

Kevin Anderson: “My question to Sky News or any news organisation for that matter: Do you want an online community or fight club?”

“Sussex is in the grip of a high-tech crimewave with dozens of eBay customers being targeted by criminals every month.”

BBC’s judgment on the 10 o’clock News: Floods in Asia leave 1m homeless and at least 175 dead (16 seconds). Reduced deaths in Minneapolis bridge collapse follow-up (3 minutes 18 seconds).

Jose Baig and Carlos Ceresole are using a blog, Flickr, Facebook, Skype to report across the Spanish-speaking US for BBC Mundo

If the equivalent of the Minnesota bridge collapse happened at your local newspaper, would you be ready?

JetBlue Airways and The New York Times have announced the launch of “Times on Air,” an exclusive in-flight video magazine.

“The New York Times yesterday names Forbes technology editor, Daniel Lyons, as Fake Steve Jobs.
Lyons praised the sleuthing skills of NYT reporter Brad Stone for tracking him down”

The evidence…

OTM looks at Nielsen/Netratings recent decision to focus on time-based web metrics. Abbey Klassen, of Advertising Age says web metrics are more valuable for publishers than advertisers.

” I have also been looking closely at which stories attract the most hits on our website and once again it’s doom and gloom that generally prove the most popular.”

Wot’s this? Project badger hiding the fact that their next site is called “London is Free”?

Ooooh… structured blogging. Clever stuff.

“Apparently some way-into-web 2.0 dude live twittered during the birth of his child and then posted the pictures to Flickr.” Why?

J.E. Luebering: “In the aftermath of Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition of Dow Jones and, with it, the Wall Street Journal, one of his former employees declared American journalism in need of Anglo-Australian editorial discipline.”

Facebook profile scoop for Slate…

“Regional news magazine publisher Steve Egginton has launched a new internet on-demand TV channel, Mendip TV.”

“Rupert Murdoch’s takeover of The Wall Street Journal will not affect its coverage of China, the newspaper’s editor said Tuesday.”