Facebook: Most Shared Articles on Facebook in 2011
Wednesday, 30 November 2011, 17:41
“We recently looked at the most shared articles in the US on Facebook over the past year. The stories range from cute to thought provoking and represent the type of news people have been sharing and discovering with friends in 2011.”
New York Times: European Ventures Seek to Fill a News Void
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 12:34
"Worldcrunch, a Web-based start-up in Paris, offers English translations of newspaper articles from around the world. Presseurop, another new site edited from Paris, does something similar for European newspapers, translating articles into 10 lang…
New York Times: All the Aggregation That’s Fit to Aggregate
Tuesday, 15 March 2011, 11:16
Bill Keller: "'Aggregation' can mean smart people sharing their reading lists, plugging one another into the bounty of the information universe. It kind of describes what I do as an editor. But too often it amounts to taking words writte…
bit.ly blog: Announcing bit.ly Pro
Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 13:08
"The Pro service provides custom short URLs powered by bit.ly. Publishers and bloggers will be able to use their own short domain names to point to pages on their sites. … Users and publishers benefit from the additional transparency that this private-label service provides. When you see a short URL like nyti.ms, you know the destination web site before clicking on the link. "
Nieman Journalism Lab: How The Huffington Post uses real-time testing to write better headlines
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 22:54
"here’s something devilishly brilliant: The Huffington Post applies A/B testing to some of its headlines. Readers are randomly shown one of two headlines for the same story. After five minutes, which is enough time for such a high-traffic site, the version with the most clicks becomes the wood that everyone sees."
Mail Online: Plans revealed to bulldoze Central Park to make way for airport on New York’s Manhattan Island
Wednesday, 22 July 2009, 13:56
Don't let the headline fool you. Paragraph 3: "Although the project and the Manhattan Airport Foundation are both a hoax (the company is registered anonymously and has offices on a non-existent 58th floor of Manhattan's Woolworth Building, which only has 57 floors) it has been convincing enough to fool even the Huffington Post, which published details of the satirical plan earlier this week."
Slate: Hey, journalists! Stop getting all huffy about the Huffington Post’s “lifting” of stories
Saturday, 18 April 2009, 17:48
Jack Shafer: "Borrowing, sponging, lifting, scrounging, leaching, pinching, and outright theft of other publications' work is firmly in the American journalistic tradition."
The Observer: New era? It’s all Huff and puff
Sunday, 11 January 2009, 13:06
Peter Preston: "Take a closer look at where the lifeblood news on which they comment comes from. … Dig a little deeper among individual strands, moreover, and you wonder how on earth either Huff or Beast could get by without the Associated Press and New York Times… The medium-term weakness of all the bright new websites, in short, is that they need grist as well as glitz. But that basic commodity has to be jackdawed together day by day. They can't afford to uncover it for themselves. They have to skate over the surface of commenting on other people's work."
Friday, 19 October 2007, 17:53
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PC Magazine has a slideshow of websites that are disaggregating the bundle of news that US metropolitan dailies used to provide. The situation’s a bit different in the UK, but it’s worth looking at.
