Wired: Threat LeveL: Wikipedia Sleuths Win Journalism Award for Wired.com
Saturday, 13 September 2008, 07:57
"Wired.com's Threat Level blog won the 2008 Knight-Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism on Wednesday for finding a way to let you readers highlight the worst whitewashing of Wikipedia entries by corporations and governments. … Knight-Batten also awarded $2,000 special distinction awards to Politifact.com and Ushahidi."
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."
Wednesday, 12 September 2007, 09:16
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The Project for Excellence in Journalism has compared 48 news sites with social news aggregators Digg, Reddit and del.icio.us. The study also compared the items selected for Yahoo News and user-driven pages.
Thursday, 16 August 2007, 23:52
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Only about a year late: "Late yesterday the BBC added social bookmarking buttons to all its news stories".
The Jon Stewart effect
Monday, 6 August 2007, 18:22
Forget the Digg effect. Try the Jon Stewart effect.
Guess what was the most-viewed story on PressGazette.co.uk in July. No, nothing about Alan Johnston or Rupert Murdoch. No, it was this one about the New Zealand Parliament’s new standing orders making it a contempt of Parliament for broadcasters to use footage of the chamber for “satire, [...]
MySpace News: What, no personalisation?
Wednesday, 25 April 2007, 12:57
As was long expected (by those who read the right blogs), the social networking behemoth MySpace last week launched a news aggregation service, MySpace News. But nobody developing news aggregation or recommendation sites will be quaking in their boots just yet.
As it stands a week after launch, MySpace News is an enormous missed opportunity. [...]
