Nieman Journalism Lab: AP Interactive visualizes a future of stories that reach beyond text
Saturday, 30 April 2011, 01:28
"the AP’s Interactive department is pumping out a steady amount of work, it’s what they’re creating — and how they’re creating it — that’s really interesting: from data visualizations to mash-ups of video, maps, and animation that ca…
Techcrunch: Publish2 Wants To Disrupt The Associated Press With An Online News Exchange
Tuesday, 25 May 2010, 07:47
"Publish2 is taking a swing at the newswire mammoth [Associated Press] – they un-lovingly call it an inefficient monopoly – by launching a platform that allows newspaper publishers and other media organizations tap the vast amount of quality content already available for free on the Web"
Talking Points Memo: Internal AP Memo Thanks Writers For Successful ‘Literary Treasure Hunt’ In Finding Sarah Palin’s Book
Tuesday, 24 November 2009, 07:30
AP memo on how reporters who found an accidentally pre-released copy of Sarah Palin's book produced a story in 40 minutes: "They bought a copy, ripped it from its spine and scanned it into the system so it could be read and electronically searched. A NewsNow moved within 40 minutes, followed quickly by multiple leads as details were gleaned from the 413-page manuscript."
Nieman Journalism Lab: How The Associated Press will try to rival Wikipedia in search results
Thursday, 13 August 2009, 22:20
"[The AP plans] to build 'news guide landing pages' that will aggregate the AP’s content around subjects, places, organizations, and people. Think of the topic pages on sites like The Chicago Tribune, BBC, and others — except that the AP will be harnessing its vast network of members and customers in what could amount to a brilliant SEO play."
MediaFile: Why I believe in the link economy
Thursday, 6 August 2009, 19:51
Chris Ahearn, president, Media, Thomson Reuters: "Blaming the new leaders or aggregators for disrupting the business of the old leaders, or saber-rattling and threatening to sue are not business strategies – they are personal therapy sessions. Go ask a music executive how well it works. … Let’s stop whining and start having real conversations across party lines. Let’s get online publishers, search engines, aggregators, ad networks, and self-publishers (bloggers) in a virtual room and determine how we can all get along. I don’t believe any one of us should be the self-appointed Internet police; agreeing on a code of conduct and ethics is in everyone’s best interests."
Editor & Publisher: ‘Smart’ Idea: AP App Pushes Hot News
Wednesday, 5 August 2009, 10:51
"[Jane Seagrave, AP’s senior vice president/global product development] says the AP mobile apps have proven popular, with more than 1.2 million downloads. About 75% of those apps are for the iPhone, but Seagrave points out that’s because the iPhone app was the first one AP launched. Down-loads for the Blackberry version are “creeping up” since it was made available three months ago, she adds."
Steve Yelvington: Microformats, hNews, the AP and the Animals
Thursday, 30 July 2009, 10:12
"Some geeks at the AP got together with some geeks in Europe and came up with a really smart idea. Unfortunately, that smart idea got sucked into the swirling vortex of panic and craziness that reigns at a lot of media companies these days. And a really smart idea has become terribly misunderstood, twisted into a really bad idea, portrayed as something it is not, sold as a cure for a questionable ailment that it can't fix. The idea is the application of microformats to news content."
Wired.com: AP Doesn’t Know Its Protection Tech Doesn’t Protect
Wednesday, 29 July 2009, 00:16
"Nothing in copyright law requires a blogger or commenter to include the meta-tags if they use an excerpt in a blog post. In fact for a blogger to comply, they’ll have to do more than just cut and paste – they will have to view the source code on a newspaper’s site, search through the HTML and javascript to find the text of the story and its micro-formats. Once the thief has gone to this trouble the purloined story will call home to report where it is being re-printed, via a Web Bug url embedded in the story. Only then would The News Registry even be aware of this use."
Ars Technica: DRM for news? Inside the AP’s plan to “wrap” its content
Wednesday, 29 July 2009, 00:14
"AP is simply relying on a newly-developed microformat called hNews. … In what way does this scheme 'wrap' and 'protect' the news? It doesn't; it simply marks it up, and adding tags expressing a content creator's wishes on reuse has no bearing on someone's rights under US copyright law. … You'll be forgiven if you find it difficult to square the reality of hNews with the AP's pronouncements about it."
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."
ZDNet.com: Between the Lines: AP eyes news aggregators; Risks exposing its lack of value add
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 22:17
Larry Dignan: "I’m not going to sweat AP’s search for rules of engagement for one simple reason: I link to the real source material, which more often than not is a press release. On any given day you can easily bypass AP. And if the AP wants to find a better subscriber business model it needs to adhere to two words: Add value."
BusinessWeek: Can the AP Out-Google Google?
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 07:42
"[The] AP plans to build an online destination where it hopes Web users can easily find and read its news stories and those of other content creators. When it comes to compiling online news, the AP wants to out-Google Google. The Web search giant "has a wacky algorithm" for collecting news stories, AP Chief Executive Tom Curley says in an interview."
Silicon Alley Insider: Desperate AP May Launch Its Own Google News (Which Will Be Dead On Arrival)
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 07:40
Not so sure about this argument: "The AP may build a news portal of its own, one that leads people to "authoritative sources," AP CEO Tom Curley told BusinessWeek. They can build it. But will people come? Keep dreaming."
ReadWriteWeb: Hitwise: News Sites Need Search Engines and Aggregators
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 07:35
"According to Hitwise, the Drudge Report is the largest single source of visitors to news and media sites. Google News (1.5%), CNN.com (1.4%) and Yahoo! News (0.8%) also drive relatively large amounts of traffic, but it is interesting that no single site really holds anything close to a monopoly here."
