Techcrunch: Bit.ly’s Grand Plans, And Their Inevitable Clash With Digg: Bitly Now
Tuesday, 30 June 2009, 15:05
"Bit.ly’s new Bit.ly Now service will show popular links at any given time, just like Digg (for now, Bit.ly sends the most popular link every hour to a twitter account). When Bit.ly Now launches, that link data will be combined with additional metadata about the URLs. In particular, they plan to extract important entities, people and topics from the stories in real time, allowing for a categorized approach to popular links. Bit.ly says they are talking to a number of third party services, including Reuter’s Open Calais, to help them do this."
Sarah Hartley: Digg it like The Telegraph for news success
Thursday, 14 May 2009, 06:51
"The hundreds of links which succeeding in Digg will create, will boost search engine positioning and could ultimately result in that audience which can be monetised hitting your site."
Malcolm Coles: Telegraph.co.uk gets 8% of its traffic from social sites
Monday, 11 May 2009, 22:07
"Telegraph.co.uk gets an astonishing 8% of its visitors from social sites like Digg, Delicious, Reddit and Stumbleupon, Julian Sambles, Head of Audience Development, has revealed to me."
Soshable: 46% of the Digg Front Page is Controlled by 50 Websites
Sunday, 22 March 2009, 18:25
"Despite tens of thousands of submissions every week, the last seven days have shown that 46.6% of the Digg front page comes from 50 websites, according to data accumulated on di66.net." — and guess who's top: the Telegraph.
Nieman Reports: Digging Into Social Media to Build a Newspaper Audience
Saturday, 27 December 2008, 08:44
Bill Adee explains how the Chicago Tribune participates in social media sites using its avatar Colonel Tribune: "Can a mainstream news site become part of the social media scene? Absolutely, yes. But be warned. To do this requires having the same kind of great team I had: Facebook-savvy youth, an innovative Web staff, and an extremely supportive newsroom."
Valleywag: It Costs Digg $5 Million a Year to Run the Internet
Saturday, 20 December 2008, 09:17
"[E]ven in their decline, newspapers remain prodigious generators of cash. This moribund industry generated $13.7 billion in profit in 2007. The same cannot be said of Digg,"
Guardian: New media are not so different after all
Saturday, 6 December 2008, 15:40
"[A] piece consisting entirely of popular keywords might get lots of hits, but it would also have a very high rate of "bounce" - people would exit as quickly as they'd entered, and definitely not pass it on to their friends, or link to it on their website, or use it as a hyperlink in a blog. It would, in effect, be nearly invisible to a search engine such as Google - and, indeed, Brooker's piece doesn't show up when you type any of those key words in."
Telegraph: Fake Christmas trees: shop offers ‘most realistic ever’
Friday, 14 November 2008, 18:44
The Telegraph has a new (?) widget showing the popularity of its stories on Digg.
Saturday, 24 May 2008, 12:35
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"Made-up bullshit still drives huge traffic, if it’s marketed right."
Saturday, 5 April 2008, 13:53
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"[W]e’ve just added a great new feature to www.journalisted.com. Click on any article written by a journalist and you’ll be able to see who’s blogging about it."
Friday, 21 March 2008, 13:43
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How to (ab?)use the Wall Street Journal’s first-click-free approach to Google News and Digg to get free access to the bits behind the paywall …
Saturday, 15 March 2008, 12:26
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"What’s the most obvious sign that a traditional news brand is merely reproducing online what they do in print, instead of publishing in a way that makes sense for the web? They way news is organized on the homepage."
Sunday, 20 January 2008, 16:36
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What citizen/networked journalism learn from Digg and Google to prevent gaming by interested parties including "PR flacks and unqualified hacks"…
Monday, 14 January 2008, 16:32
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"The most recent–and seemingly unlikely–election coverage team is CBS News and Digg, … Under the partnership, political stories from Digg will appear in a box on the politics section of CBSNews.com."
