Mathew Ingram: Anonymous Comments: Are They Good or Evil?
Sunday, 21 March 2010, 08:16
"I think that persistent (and quasi-verified) identity agents like Facebook Connect and OpenID can help with some of the problems that online comments have — not necessarily “real” identity so much as persistent identity. It’s not really important that I know who Shelley456 is when she comments, but if she is Shelley456 everywhere she comments, then she has devoted some time (theoretically) to establishing that identity, and therefore will be less likely to destroy it by spewing Nazi hate in some online comment board."
Search Engine Land: Stat Rant: Does Facebook Trumps Google For News & Can’t We Measure Twitter Correctly?
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 11:10
Danny Sullivan: "Earlier this week, Hitwise put out stats suggesting that Facebook is beating Google and Twitter when it comes to driving traffic to news sites. I dug a little deeper, and I beg to differ."
Search Engine Watch: One Man’s Keywords are Another Man’s List of Forbidden ‘Newsspeak’ Words and Phrases
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 10:33
"No journalist will respond well to being handed a list of search terms to use or a list of trite clichés to avoid using. That's why it is important to teach journalists how to do keyword research themselves, so they get to decide which words and phrases are relevant and important to their story…"
Fast Company: Hot off the Presses: The Newspaper Club Produces–and Prints–a Newspaper at SXSW
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 10:30
"The 1000 pieces (three long pages folded, in color) were printed last night at the Austin-American Statesman's press, just across the river from the convention center where SXSW was held. 'We have broken your business,' was the message from digital to print media at today's launch. 'Now we want your machines.'"
guardian.co.uk: How will print content look on the iPad?
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 10:11
All of the prototype videos imagining expensively overproduced iPad consumer magazines, collected in one place.
Nieman Reports: What Changed Journalism—Forever—Were Engineers
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 09:38
"Journalism schools could never have invented Google. Publishers and news executives could never have foreseen the power and spread of Google. Why? It’s because Google is the product of engineers. Brilliant engineers. … Here at Newhouse we are hiring professors who understand the intricacies of algorithms, search patterns, social media, and new media business plans. These new faculty members are not only teaching our students, they are teaching the rest of the faculty."
Journalism.co.uk: Sussex University launches new journalism MAs with five bursaries on offer
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 09:24
"Three new journalism MA courses have been launched by Sussex University, in collaboration with local training centre, the Brighton Journalist Works."
Washington Post: Post readers deserve a better online gateway to government data
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 09:12
Andrew Alexander: "The Post knows it's lagging [in presenting public data online]. Old technology and short staffing are to blame. Raju Narisetti, the managing editor who oversees the Web site, said its decade-old content management system "can't really handle a lot of the databases and open-access information." A state-of-the art system, to be implemented by year's end."
Online Journalism Blog: The iPad magazine cover – lovely, but pointless
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 09:07
"Magazine covers have always been adverts for their contents – and it’s a curiously old-media approach to focus so much energy on the front cover when, online, the majority of users typically never touch your homepage. … It reminds me of those Flash-heavy ’splash pages‘ that websites used to employ to impress users – but which ultimately ended up frustrating them."
FT.com: Emap poised to become acquisitive
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 09:00
"[David] Gilbertson says he could spend well over £100m on 'a list of targets' which would accelerate its growth, mostly serving industries in which Emap already has a presence. … Emap has quietly led the way online in charging for its publications’ websites … One early benefit has been a 5 per cent improvement in renewals of print subscriptions, which are bundled with online access, he says, but he cautions that customers will only pay if B2B publishers make their content 'more actionable' and 'turn information into intelligence'."
paidContent:UK: FT.com Takes Free Articles Away From Unregistered Users, Except Via Search
Saturday, 20 March 2010, 08:52
"[The Financial Times is] now ensuring that no free articles are on offer to non-registered users. … While it’s closing stories off to directly-visiting users, with First-Click-Free it’s leaving the door ajar to search visitors, however. … FT.com is set to trial day and week payments via PayPal."
FolioMag.com: Hearst Carpet-Bombs the App Store
Friday, 19 March 2010, 14:45
"The apps are essentially mini content aggregators by themselves. Each is built within a similar template and collects links from a variety of sources on a particular niche topic—specific celebrities, sports teams, etc."
psmith, journalist: Is News Over? City University journalism chief George Brock says journalists should accept changed world
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 14:12
“'News' may not be the thing that makes the big news organisations much money in future – I’d look to things like real-life events, dating, games, membership clubs, content partnerships, spin-off mini-sites, affiliate advertising, mobile publishing, e-commerce and branded products as the potential growth areas – and with all these things the more niche, the better. As I pointed out this week, the Racing Post gives away all its news as marketing for its many paid digital products."
