Monday Note: Read, Share and Destroy
Monday, 25 April 2011, 16:42
Frédéric Filloux: "In recent months, we’ve seen a flurry of innovative tools for reading and sharing contents. Or, even better, for basing one’s readings on other people’s shared contents. In Web 2.5 parlance, this is called Social Reading…
Currybet: News innovation isn’t just about writing code, it is about how we use that code to tell stories
Friday, 1 April 2011, 14:00
Martin Belam: "on the web you can find newspapers being accused of failing to invent all manner of digital services, including Google, Facebook, Quora, Craigslist and The Huffington Post. Personally, I’m unconvinced that this isn’t akin to ask…
Nieman Journalism Lab: To build a digital future for news, developers must be able to hack at the core of old systems
Monday, 14 March 2011, 11:23
Matt Waite: "[Online journalism] experimentation takes place almost entirely outside the main content management system. Story here, news app there. A blog? A separate software stack. Photo galleries? Made elsewhere, embedded into a CMS page (mayb…
Martin Moore: Data journalism – shorthand for coping with information abundance
Wednesday, 9 February 2011, 18:23
"Data journalism is shorthand for being able to cope with information abundance. It is not just about numbers. Neither is it about being a mathmo or a techie. It means being able to combine three things: individual human intelligence, networked in…
Nieman Reports: A Message for Journalists: It’s Time to Flex Old Muscles in New Ways
Thursday, 5 August 2010, 10:44
Ken Doctor: "In this hybrid era of straddling print and digital publishing, the role of the gatekeeper has markedly morphed. It’s shifted from 'us' to 'them,' but 'them' includes a lowercase version of 'us,' too. Gatekeeping is now a collective pursuit; we’ve become our own and each other’s editors. … The attitude—as well as the mechanics—for attracting readers has to change. It’s no longer 'take my judgment on the day’s news or good luck finding another local daily.' And even though readers are no longer captive to what an editor decides, people still want some help when it comes to deciding how and where to look for the news they value."
Folio: What Kind of Online Editor Are You?
Tuesday, 6 July 2010, 17:14
"At b-to-b publisher Questex Media, manager of search Alison McPartland and her team have developed a strategy that includes defining key areas certain editors are good at, and trying to apply those lessons to other editors within the group. … Below are four benchmark classifications for online editors that McPartland and her group developed: Acquisition Expert … Optimization Editor … Retention Writer … Engagement Enhancer…"
Marc Reeves: Speaking truth to power: my speech to the CBI
Monday, 7 June 2010, 10:29
"I spent the last 15 years of my newspaper career regularly attending industry conferences in which the threats and opportunities of the internet were endlessly discussed and analysed. Pretty much everything that has come to pass was predicted, but what did the big newspaper groups do? Very little that was right, it turns out. … Newspapers are still trying aspiring to the revenue levels of the old days … but it’s only a problem if you’re trying to make an online revenue stream pay for a newsprint cost base."
The Atlantic: How to Save the News
Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 09:30
James Fallows: "after talking during the past year with engineers and strategists at Google and recently interviewing some of their counterparts inside the news industry, I am convinced that there is a larger vision for news coming out of Google; that it is not simply a charity effort to buy off critics; and that it has been pushed hard enough by people at the top of the company, especially Schmidt, to become an internalized part of the culture in what is arguably the world’s most important media organization."
Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog: How much is an article worth? ‘Dead tree’ thinking could hinder digital content economy
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 22:28
Patrick Smith on unnbundling, the ever-present elephant in the room during digital content discussions: "But to reach a competitive pricepoint, [Rupert Murdoch] and other publishers will have to massively realign the value of each piece of news and comment from its current-day, paper value of one or two pence to fractions of pence."
YouTube: Newswipe S02E02 at 5:09
Saturday, 30 January 2010, 13:16
Heather Brooke on Newswipe on attribution and sourcing and accountablity in British journalism.
Your Right To Know: When Brooke met Brooker
Saturday, 30 January 2010, 12:51
Heather Brooke on Charlie Brooker's Newswipe: "I’m talking here about the way journalists grant public officials anonymity for no good reason. By the very definition of their role, official spokespeople have absolutely no reason to be anonymous yet one of the more dubious practices of the British press is the way reporters collude with officials by granting anonymity."
Nieman Journalism Lab: Play Paywall!, the new web game sweeping the newspaper industry
Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 17:49
Genius way to illustrate the conundrum facing every news executive thinking of raising a subscription barrier: "Paywall!, our revenue game … allows you to explore the situation at the [New York] Times or at any other news site. …"
Guardian: The Hugh Cudlipp lecture: Does journalism exist?
Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 08:49
Alan Rusbridger: "My commercial colleagues at the Guardian … can't presently see the benefits of choking off growth in return for the relatively modest sums we think we would get from universal charging for digital content. Last year we earned £25m from digital advertising – not enough to sustain the legacy print business, but not trivial. … They've done lots of modelling around at least six different pay wall proposals and they are currently unpersuaded."
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Jeff Jarvis’s cockeyed economics
Saturday, 23 January 2010, 19:19
Paul Carr defends the New York Times metered access plan with reference to economist Hal Varian's "versioning" of digital goods: "Different consumers may have radically different values for a particular information good, so techniques for differential pricing become very important … [One] particular aspect of differential pricing [is] known as quality discrimination or versioning … The point of versioning is to get the consumers to sort themselves into different groups according to their willingness to pay."
