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."
ReadWriteWeb: Why Wikipedia Should Be Trusted As A Breaking News Source
Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 07:51
"Moka Pantages, the communications officer for the WikiMedia Foundation … discuss[ed] how the Wikipedia community addressed the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai. … by the end of the first day of the Wikipedia article's life, it had been edited more than 360 times, by 70 different editors referring to 28 separate sources from news outlets around the web. … 'There's no real-time reporting going on in Wikipedia, it's real-time aggregation,' Pantages said. So the very first level of information vetting, which happens at the reporting level, has already taken place by the time it reaches the site."
BBC – See Also
Thursday, 4 February 2010, 12:51
A link journalism blog at the BBC: "See Also is a collection of the best of the web, including comment, newspaper editorials and analysis."
Wired.co.uk: Mobile news apps vs tweet-led link economy
Tuesday, 2 February 2010, 08:43
Peter Kirwan: "Promiscuity is limited by the opportunity for discovery. Searching for alternatives to stories that pop up inside your app will cost you time. And for most mobile users, that's a commodity in short supply. On this basis, it's a racing certainty that some news publishers perceive apps as a way of putting Humpty-Dumpty back together again, on the mobile web at least. … Suddenly, our work-flavoured, ADD-like, promiscuity-fuelled browsing for atomised content on laptops seems like just one scenario among others."
Editor & Publisher: More Readers Skimming Google Headlines Than Going Directly to Newspaper Web Sites?
Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 15:46
"The 'News Users 2009' study conducted by Outsell Research affiliate analyst Ken Doctor found that 19% of people accessed Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL News for news in 2009, up from 10% in 2006. For newspapers, 19% of those polled went there first, a drop from 23% in 2006. … Fully 44% of those polled said they scan headlines on Google 'without accessing the newspaper sites,' the report said."
Temple Talk: Rest in peace, E&P: Killed by an aggregator
Friday, 11 December 2009, 20:02
John Temple: "It's easy to underestimate the power of aggregation. But the truth, in my view, is that Romenesko replaced Editor & Publisher long ago as the place where journalists turned to find out what was going on in their world. It's not limited by one medium or industry. It's timely. And it's deep. The magazine couldn't compete."
The Shatzkin Files: Aggregation and curation: two concepts that explain a lot about digital change
Saturday, 24 October 2009, 12:55
"Aggregation … simply means pulling together things which are not necessarily connected. Curation is a term that has always referred to the careful selection and pruning of aggregates, such as for a museum or an art exhibition. But the concept in the digital content world means the selection and presentation of these disparate items to help a browser or consumer navigate and select from them. Aggregation without curation is, normally, not very helpful. Curation creates the brand."
Slate Magazine: Introducing News Dots
Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 21:19
"News Dots scans all the articles from major publications—about 500 a day—and submits them to Calais … Each time two tags appear in the same story, this tool tallies one connection between them. … s this tool scans hundreds of stories, this network grows rapidly, and "communities" begin to form among the tags. … The news network that results is visualized using Slate's custom News Dots tool, which is built using an open-source Actionscript library called Flare."
SimsBlog: Top 10 Lies Newspaper Execs are Telling Themselves
Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 09:44
From a great list by Judy Sims: "Most newspaper employees are not qualified to do the strategic thinking required to manage disruption let alone create it in the form of new products that may challenge the core because they still see themselves as print newspaper employees. Just stating that you are a 'news' company instead of a 'newspaper' company doesn’t make it true."
Hartford Courant: Courant Reviews Aggregation Policy
Tuesday, 1 September 2009, 19:44
"Last week, The Courant received a letter from The Journal Inquirer managing editor that prompted it to review our aggregation strategy. We found that there were legitimate points of concern. Most importantly, we discovered a mistake in our editing process when we take articles from our website to our print newspaper. We found that we inappropriately dropped the attribution or proper credit and in some cases credited ourselves with a byline to a Courant reporter. Once made aware of this mistake, The Courant took immediate steps to correct the process.
Press Gazette: Newspaper Licensing Agency to regulate web hyperlinks
Thursday, 18 June 2009, 16:50
"The NLA will be introducing a new form of licence from 1 September to regulate 'web aggregator services (such as Meltwater) that forward links to newspaper websites and for press cuttings agencies undertaking this type of activity'. … There is no attempt to regulate use of hyperlinks where that is not as part of a chargeable service, such as by private individuals or as the results of queries by internet search engines such as Google News."
The Art Newspaper: With newspapers in terminal decline, what future for arts journalism?
Monday, 1 June 2009, 07:41
"Arts journalism as we used to know it is sinking with the ship. … We are past the tipping point: it has become acceptable to run a paper with just a skeletal culture staff. Specialised writers are giving way to generalists. Culture sections are being tossed overboard … The problem is not the scarcity or the quality of arts journalism (the latter has always been mixed), but that no one is paying for it—at least not yet. Broadly speaking, there are three ways forward from here."
Carta: Alan Rusbridger on the Future of Journalism
Tuesday, 28 April 2009, 21:55
Alan Rusbridger: "Always look to see what the technology journalists are doing, because that's how we're all going to be working in five years' time."
Recovering Journalist: It’s Not the News. It’s the Packaging
Monday, 20 April 2009, 06:06
Mark Potts: "Nobody's ever bought news by the story. … What people do buy are packages of news, often supported by other, non-news content. Journalists don't always like to think about this, but the reasons for subscribing to a newspaper often are as much about the comics, the crosswords and the ads as they are about the news itself. That's what people plunk down their quarters for: the package, not the story. News collected in a convenient, easy-to-use form that adds value."
