http://www.martinstabe.com/blog A UK-centric look at new media and online journalism Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:15:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "[F]or the second and now ... third quarters of 2008, the company has reduced the rate of pay per pageview." http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2008/07/04/radar-online-rate-cuts-at-gawker-media/ Peter Kirwan: "[A]nyone thinking of buying Trinity Mirror at the moment should think in terms of paying money for its digital operation — and picking up print for free as part of the deal." http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2008/07/04/press-gazette-media-money-is-the-daily-mirror-worthless/ "[R]eporters are effectively ‘embedded’, with all the ethical and professional considerations that that should entail. The question is, is the pressure to produce web video bringing newspapers too close to the police?" http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2008/07/02/online-journalism-blog-web-video-privacy-complaint-upheld-by-press-complaints-commission/ Matt Wardman: "Anybody who thinks that any web traffic measuring process (even the “gold standard” ABCe version) can meaningfully distinguish differences between competing websites of well under 1% has not done their homework." http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2008/07/02/the-wardman-wire-watch-out-daily-mail-here-comes-the-independent-tabloid-websites-and-tabloid-newspapers/ "The Irish Times will publish under its own title online from Monday morning with the launch of a new site for the newspaper, www.irishtimes.com . Access to the site will be free." http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2008/06/30/the-irish-times-the-irish-times-free-online-at-irishtimescom-from-monday/ Strangely, the IoS neglects to [barely] mention[s] the Independent's debut figure in a review of the ABCes. http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2008/06/29/independent-on-sunday-the-papers-would-blush-but-anything-goes-on-their-websites/ Student journalist rips Northcliffe's (older) regional newspaper sites... http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2008/06/27/daniel-ionescu-lincolnshire-echo-tries-multimedia-still-no-luck%e2%80%a6/ "Top Gear (the show and magazine) are using wordpress for their web presence." http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2008/06/26/andy-dickinson-top-gear-on-wordpress/ Bloggers from Shiny Media's Catwalk Queen were interviewed for Panorama's Primark story, but weren't credited. Instead, videos were credited to YouTube. http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2008/06/25/shiny-media-bbc-screws-british-bloggers-again/ "When we journalists talk about integration we generally mean, integrating print and online activities. But the true integration comes online itself. The integration between journalists and citizens." http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2008/06/25/greenslade-why-journalists-must-learn-the-values-of-the-blogging-revolution/ Long-expected new site getting close... http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2008/06/24/sky-news-beta-of-new-website/ "While direct income from [Iain Dale's] blog has been modest – ads provided by Google Ads and Message Space earn Dale about £7,000 a year – its value in promoting his “brand” has been huge." http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2008/06/24/press-gazette-total-politics-boldly-going-where-no-blogger-has-gone-before/ Vin Crosbie: "Mass Media are wonderful at satisfying the very few common interests. Those practices are so-so at satisfying group interests ... But they are frankly lousy at satisfying very specific interests." http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2008/06/20/digital-deliverance-epublishing-innovations-forum-2008/ "I like the idea that print is the place for slightly less time-sensitive articles ... Making print less time-senstive, I think, increases its worth and makes people more likely to hold onto it for longer and read it more." http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2008/06/20/joanna-geary-online-vs-print/ Some interesting features on the new Mail & Guardian site: StoryPredictor suggests articles according to reader interests. NewsSwarm shows who is viewing articles. StoryHistory utility will save articles ... Articles will be integrated with Google Maps. http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2008/06/18/bizcommunitycom-exclusive-sneak-preview-of-mg-online/ "If The Atlantic, with its top shelf editorial standards, can [quote from a blogger's site without permission], then why can’t a blogger quote AP — almost as if the AP were a person?" http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2008/06/18/publishing-20-connecting-the-dots-of-the-web-revolution/ New York Times magazine story plotted on a map: "A culinary scorecard for all 30 major league baseball stadiums." http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2008/06/17/nytimescom-interactive-graphic-finding-the-hits-avoiding-the-errors/ Tom Shields: "Sadly, many contributions on the message boards are reminiscent of those letters written in capital letters with green and purple ink. In the old days, journalists had the option of consigning these missives to the bin." http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2008/06/15/sunday-herald-alas-journalists-are-no-longer-in-charge-of-the-asylum/ Jem Stone: "From this afternoon, all of the BBC's blog feeds are now full-fat..." http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2008/06/15/bbc-internet-blog-full-feeds-for-bbc-blogs/ Sueddeutsche.de editor-in-chief calls for transparency on SEO "tricks and manipulations" because "excessive SEO" is "distorts competition". Uh-Huh. So does writing strong print headlines. http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2008/06/15/horizontnet-sueddeutschede-chef-hans-jurgen-jakobs-fordert-seo-konvention-gegen-manipulationen/