Los Angeles Times: With information galore, we need news judgment

Posted on 4 October, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"John Temple, the former editor and publisher of the Rocky Mountain News ... said the much-celebrated Rocky and other papers have been so worried about their printed product (which brings in the vast majority of the ad revenue) they've given short shrift to expanding Web opportunities. A user-powered review site like Yelp.com could and should have been driven by newspapers, Temple suggested. But they would have fretted, he said, over minutiae like citizen contributors misspelling words."

Reportr.net: Pilhofer shows early working version of DocumentCloud

Posted on 4 October, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"The tool becomes more powerful as DocumentCloud would be a store of documents from diverse news organisations. So it would be able to find connections between documents from different sources, explains Pilhofer."

Slate Magazine: Introducing News Dots

Posted on 9 September, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"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."

Techcrunch: Bit.ly’s Grand Plans, And Their Inevitable Clash With Digg: Bitly Now

Posted on 30 June, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"Bit.ly’s new Bit.ly Now service will show popular links at any given time, just like Digg (for now, Bit.ly sends the most popular link every hour to a twitter account). When Bit.ly Now launches, that link data will be combined with additional metadata about the URLs. In particular, they plan to extract important entities, people and topics from the stories in real time, allowing for a categorized approach to popular links. Bit.ly says they are talking to a number of third party services, including Reuter’s Open Calais, to help them do this."

Nieman Journalism Lab: Knight News Challenge: A grant to DocumentCloud promises a data boost for investigative journalism

Posted on 17 June, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"DocumentCloud’s vision is to collect, archive, and index the text and metadata of all documents used by participating news organizations, advocacy groups, bloggers, and others — “so they’re not just sitting in the corner of a newsroom collecting dust,” Pilhofer explained."

ReadWriteWeb: CNET Partners with Thomson Reuters on Linked Data Initiative

Posted on 29 May, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"CNET ... has signed up to use OpenCalais for semantic analysis of its tech product reviews, news, and blog posts. CNET has also joined Thomson Reuters as one of the first commercial media companies to publish its data to the Linked Data community on the Internet."

American Journalism Review: Welcome to Web 3.0

Posted on 25 September, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"Just as news publishers come to terms with Web 2.0, along comes Web 3.0 to shake things up. ... Web 3.0, also known as the Semantic Web, uses smart programs to tag and link to information across mediums, providing context and depth to stories without much human intervention."

Mail & Guardian Online: WelcoimeThe new M&G Online

Posted on 18 June, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"We built our own content management system from the ground up. The site was built using PHP5 and MySQL5, on a Fedora Core OS." Includes Calais-based Semantic tagging and lots of other interesting ideas.

FeedShaver

Posted on 5 May, 2008 by Martin Stabe

Mark Ng's application which won second place at last week's Telegraph Developer Weekend. It takes an RSS feed, categories the content using Reuters' semantic tagging tool Open Calais and outputs each tag as a new, topical RSS feed.

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