FeedVis RSS Feed Tag Cloud Generator – information aesthetics
Sunday, 7 December 2008, 14:34
"FeedVis [jasonpriem.com] is an online tag cloud generator with some additional interactive features. Users can select specific time periods, common blog themes or individual blog feeds. Individual tags can be further explored to read specific blog posts of interest."
Mitch Joel: 10 Things Every Newspaper And Magazine Website Must Do
Saturday, 15 November 2008, 13:17
"Here are ten things every newspaper (magazine or other) website can do to build their business by building their community…Link Journalism …Formatting … Tagging … Blog directory … Cross promote effectively .. unique website address … highlight your contributors .. comments … Correct mistakes … Collaborative filtering…"
PBS MediaShift: How Newspapers Can Increase Their Google Juice
Saturday, 15 November 2008, 13:15
By now, we surely all know that "shovelware prevents Googlejuice". But just in case, here's a reminder.
Guardian.co.uk: The BBC’s Pete Clifton discusses metadata ideas with Jemima Kiss
Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 19:27
"Pete Clifton, head of editorial development for multimedia journalism at the BBC, speaks to Jemima Kiss about metadata and sharing the organisation's technology"
PRNewswire: Independent News and Media Chooses Nstein to Semantically Tag All Assets and Drive Online Revenues
Thursday, 6 November 2008, 21:44
"Independent News and Media (UK) Ltd has selected Nstein's Text Mining Engine (TME) solution to semantically tag and organize its vast library of media assets."
Vincent Maher: Strategies for tagging large volumes of content
Saturday, 20 September 2008, 15:17
" During the redevelopment of the Mail & Guardian Online, I had several very interesting discussions with the editorial staff about the logic of tagging. … Based on this discussions, I have put together a list of several approaches to tagging and categorisation and my thoughts on the pros and cons of each.
Wednesday, 6 February 2008, 23:37
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"[Reuters' Open Calais API] oes a semantic markup on unstructured HTML documents – recognizing people, places, companies, and events."
Saturday, 2 February 2008, 14:05
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"One of the priorities of the new [Guardian] CMS was to extensively tag rategies – Editors Weblog- Analysisall editorial – and non-editorial – items, so that “every piece of content has a relationship inside the system,” said Neil McIntosh"
Wednesday, 2 January 2008, 11:25
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Nik Silver looks at the argument that big publishing could be done with ‘lighweight’ CMSs like Wordpress and asks ‘what has the Guardian’s big CMS ever done for us"? Lots, it seems…
New German regional newspaper site is well worth watching
Sunday, 28 October 2007, 07:00
A much-hyped, much-anticipated and much-delayed, very “Web 2.0″ regional newspaper portal is finally set to launch late this evening in Germany.
While many regional publishers are pulling away from regional portals in favour of sites using established newspaper titles, the Essen-based WAZ newspaper group is going the other way, creating a new brand for its new [...]
Wednesday, 24 October 2007, 10:01
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"Twitter users Nate Ritter and Viss have been busy posting rapid-fire updates of the current wildfire situation in Southern California. … Twitter users can enter "track sandiegofire" in SMS or IM [to get their updates]"
Thursday, 28 June 2007, 07:42
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Paul Bradshaw: "Most impressive is a tagging system which allows users to click through to articles on the same subject/person – potentially making the accompanying ‘Related articles’ box redundant."
Thursday, 12 April 2007, 22:49
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The Economist’s innovation team, Project Red Stripe, has narrowed its list of potential projects to a very interesting shortlist.
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.
