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."
Washington City Paper: Eyewitness Confirms: D.C. Cop Freaks Out Over Snowball Fight–Brandishes Gun
Sunday, 20 December 2009, 14:28
Interesting example of a local story with much information added to the local paper's account via material uploaded to Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, blogs etc…
MediaWeek: Web Publishers Divided Over Value of Charging
Monday, 14 September 2009, 12:47
Erm, it's not just the BBC that won't be charging for content you know: "Besides Yahoo, neither MSNBC.com, CBSNews.com, nor CNET are likely to implement any paid structure. CNN.com has made no moves in this direction. Even ESPN.com, which has long maintained a small paid subscription service with its ESPN Insider product, isn’t likely to change its online approach."
Techcrunch: Flickr Finally Goes Native With An iPhone App
Tuesday, 8 September 2009, 16:43
"Yahoo’s Flickr app has just gone live in the App Store."
Business Insider: From Celeb Pics To The WSJ, News Corp Will Charge For Everything Online (NWS)
Thursday, 6 August 2009, 19:05
"[Rupert Murdoch] overestimates the value of celebrity scoops. TMZ broke the story of Michael Jackson's death. We know this because we watch the Web publishing space obsessively. Most people don't. TMZ got a lot of traffic breaking the story — 33% over its previous record. But Yahoo, which was even a little late to the story, crushed it too, setting all-time record in unique visitors with 16.4 million people. Yahoo's front page story “Michael Jackson rushed to hospital” saw 800,000 clicks in 10 minutes."
Nieman Journalism Lab: Link from Yahoo breaks traffic records at New York Times
Monday, 29 June 2009, 15:08
"A link at the top of [Yahoo]’s front page helped send more than 9 million page views to The New York Times in the span of two hours last week, breaking records for web traffic at the newspaper. … But as we’ve seen with other news sites, the huge spike didn’t produce much advertising revenue — or, at least, not the copious coin you might expect from traffic at a rate of 7,300 hits per second. That’s because the Times could only serve cheap, remnant ads to its unanticipated visitors."
AP: AP eyeing better deals with Internet heavyweights
Wednesday, 17 June 2009, 06:54
"Besides hammering out new Internet licensing contracts, the AP also plans to review more effective ways to capture revenue from advertising tied to its stories, photography, audio and video, [Chief Executive Tom Curley] said. One way could be through a new system that will bundle some of the AP's top stories with those of newspapers and broadcasters on certain topics. The system, which is still under development, would rely on so-called "landing pages" that could compete with the news sections run by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN."
Invisible Inkling: How I share: A tour of my personal linking behavior
Thursday, 14 May 2009, 07:39
Ryan Sholin explains his "admittedly edge-case-ish linking behavior", which is a bit more elaborate than my own method of finding and sharing information.
The Journalism Iconoclast: News orgs have forgotten that people really love photos
Saturday, 2 May 2009, 09:34
Pat Thornton: "I hear all this talk about videos and databases and iPhone apps and Web ninjas, when news organizations could be making a killing by just utilizing something they have done well for decades: photos. Why have we lost sight of the fact that people love photos?"
Adrian Short: Building a local news mashup with Twitter, TwitterFeed, Delicious, Yahoo! Pipes, Ruby and RSS
Thursday, 19 March 2009, 07:28
Adrian Short shows how he combines local news sources for Sutton, London, including his blog, the local Newsquest-owned paper, the council and local politicians.
Mashable: Mashable, Disqus and UberVU Launch Social Media Comments
Friday, 6 March 2009, 09:34
"Mashable is announcing an exclusive partnership with the blog comment service Disqus with regard to their integration of the comment aggregation service UberVU. For the next two weeks, you’ll be able to test Disqus-powered social media comments exclusively on Mashable, getting a glimpse at what both companies think is the future of blog comments."
CurryBet: Mumbai terrorist attacks show that search engines still can’t get breaking news right
Thursday, 27 November 2008, 09:24
Martin Belam: "We are used to hearing that search engines are one of the primary routes that people find news on the net, but I've just been having a scout around the three major search engines as news of the terrorist attack in Mumbai unfolds, and I have to say that they are not performing very well."
New York Times: Yahoo Changing Its Home Page, Gradually
Sunday, 19 October 2008, 09:11
"If even a small fraction of Yahoo’s audience doesn’t like the changes, the company could lose millions of users and millions of dollars in advertising. So Yahoo is introducing changes in small stages and to small segments of its audience at a time, all while soliciting feedback from its users."
Search Engine Rap Battle
Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 21:51
Some very funny geeky stuff (via Paul Cheesbrough on Twitter).
