Saturday, 14 June 2008, 14:41
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"The point of the Topic Pages is that they bring together content from all around bbc.co.uk. Obviously, many different systems produce all that content, and in general they don’t tend to share content very well…"
Friday, 9 May 2008, 16:52
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Amy Gahran: "Do country-specific news aggregators still make sense if they only collect news from others, without adding any value? … Do you still use aggregators to get your news?"
Tuesday, 6 May 2008, 22:41
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"Can you imagine a content economy five or ten years from now that supports 2,000 versions of the same story? Is it any surprise that the company that creates far and away the most economic value on the web produces NO ORIGINAL CONTENT?"
Thursday, 1 May 2008, 19:01
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Is screen-scraping a website legal in the UK? (MP3) It could be limited by copyright law or the Computer Misuse Act.
Thursday, 1 May 2008, 19:01
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Is screen-scraping a website legal in the UK? (MP3) It could be limited by copyright law or the Computer Misuse Act.
Saturday, 19 April 2008, 07:56
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Google News now searches for quotations within your copy. "To access these new features, first search for a person’s name on Google News. If we have a recent quote, we’ll show it above the search results."
Wednesday, 2 April 2008, 12:29
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Loïc Le Meur looks at how important news finds him via the various social tools he uses online. This is how geeks and young readers find information. Advice to publishers: understand this now. (via Adam Tinworth)
Thursday, 27 December 2007, 11:29
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Scott Karp: "Publishing 2.0, like most commercialized blogs, is essentially a trade publication … and just as my content has little relevance to Digg’s niche audience, so too does Digg’s audience have little value to Publishing 2.0."
Saturday, 15 December 2007, 09:09
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"Brooklyn, NY-based The Issue aims to bring the best of the wider blogosphere into focus via a daily, human edited online newspaper that aggregates quality blog content in a single place."
A crash course in journalism and Web 2.0
Monday, 22 January 2007, 10:46
A lot of people have been linking to the new issue of Nieman Reports, a special issue titled “Goodbye Gutenberg” and about the transformations happening in newspaper journalism and the rush to digital.
There’s a lot to get through, but a good place to start is the introduction to Journalism and Web 2.0 by Francis Pisani. It begins with a summary of the always-controversial discussion of what “2.0″ actually means, and then admonishes journalists to take note of these developments even if they can’t see the immediate relevance to their craft as it is traditionally understood:
Change starts at the edges. That’s where people—our readers and viewers—probe new practices. That’s also where their emerging culture is forming, a culture in which they look at media from a different perspective. And so journalists’ new thinking needs to begin at the periphery, where change comes quickly among the younger generation of users, and a lot more slowly for us. Tomorrow’s potential readers are using the Web in ways we can hardly imagine, and if we want to remain significant for them, we need to understand how. Yet news organizations have been all too slow to notice movement in places that are away from what has been their center.
In remarkably few words, Pisani runs through the effect on traditional media being caused by the ideas underlying Google, Craigslist, Wikipedia, Digg, Newsvine, and news mashups like ChicagoCrime.org. Blogging, citizen journalism and RSS are covered, too. It’s an invaluable crash-course introduction.
A UK-centric look at new media and online journalism.
