Research notes: A completely arbitrary list of takeaways from two unconferences
Wednesday, 25 January 2012, 14:22
Matt Waite on the trouble with finding budding journalist-developers: “I think the problem with finding these students starts with reward structures. Students are told from even before they walk on campus that being a journalist means Being a Good Writ…
SearchEngineLand: Pages With Too Many Ads "Above The Fold" Now Penalized By Google’s "Page Layout" Algorithm
Friday, 20 January 2012, 14:13
“Google has announced that it will penalize sites with pages that are top-heavy with ads … The change — called the “page layout algorithm” — takes direct aim at any site with pages where content is buried under tons of ads.”
yelvington.com: What newsrooms should learn from Kodak
Friday, 13 January 2012, 10:46
Steve Yelvington: “So Kodak, the company that invented amateur photography in the 19th century and invented digital photography in the 20th, is on the ropes. There are obvious lessons for newspapers and newsrooms. Here are a few of them….”
Nieman Journalism Lab: The newsonomics of the long goodbye: Kodak’s, Sears’, and newspapers’
Friday, 13 January 2012, 10:44
Ken Doctor: on digitally disrupted companies’ “long goodbye”: “data shows 44 percent less newsprint usage (and about 75-80 percent of all newsprint usage is attributed to newspapers) over the past four years, according to The Reel Time Report. … I’…
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: ABC responds to CSG industry complaint – Coal Seam Gas: By The Numbers
Thursday, 15 December 2011, 11:07
“The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) lodged an official complaint about the ABC’s website, Coal Seam Gas: By The Numbers. Following is the ABC’s public response to that complaint. …”
Sydney Morning Herald: New form of journalism must adhere to old rules
Wednesday, 14 December 2011, 16:27
Pollster Mark Textor: “Too often, data journalists suddenly pretend to be experts. But a journalist is a not a mathematician or statistician. With data journalism that is exactly what they pretend to be. They imagine they are something way beyond the p…
Guardian: Riot theory is relative
Wednesday, 14 December 2011, 14:52
Philip Meyer: “After personal computers with user-friendly software became common, using a computer wasn’t such a big deal. But the term CAR, for computer-assisted reporting, is still used today to describe what I prefer to think of as the application …
How Vogue monetizes old content | Felix Salmon
Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 13:13
Felix Salmon: “[Vogues'] archive will cost you $1,575 per year, but the price point makes sense to me. The value here is in the index: even if you had a full archive of Vogue back-issues sitting on your bookshelf (something many fashion-industry profes…
New York: The Cut: Vogue’s New Archive Site Costs $1,575 for a Yearly Subscription
Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 13:09
“Vogue’s much-hyped archive website goes live today, and as promised, it contains every single page from every issue dating back to the magazine’s American debut in 1892. According to Vogue’s press release, the site is searchable by decade, brand, desi…
Europa Press Releases: Digital Agenda: Turning government data into gold
Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 13:04
“The [European Commission's Open Data Strategy for Europe is] to lift performance EU-wide is three-fold: firstly the Commission will lead by example, opening its vaults of information to the public for free through a new data portal. Secondly, a level …
Financial Times: Statistics chief’s warning over misuse of figures
Friday, 9 December 2011, 10:51
“Ministers, officials and journalists need to be on their guard when misusing statistics after [Andrew Dilnot,] the new chairman of the UK Statistics Authority warned he would name and shame offenders. … Speaking to MPs on Tuesday, he cited a calcula…
The Verge: Drone Journalism Lab takes reporting to the sky
Sunday, 4 December 2011, 11:44
“The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications is starting a lab to educate students on what it sees as one of the new frontiers for newsgathering and reporting: drone journalism. The lab will look at the ethical, l…
dataist: Interactive: The 100 richest people in Finland
Friday, 2 December 2011, 12:19
Jens Finnäs: “Every year in the beginning of [November] the [Finnish] tax records from last year are published. In other words: you get to know who made the most money. Every year the Finnish media outlets do a very conventional presentation of this m…
The Other Sociologist: “69 Billion Friendships” on Facebook – How Sociology Can Make This Meaningful
Thursday, 1 December 2011, 17:23
“Facebook’s research tells us about the links between a large sub-group of humanity – but it doesn’t say anything about what these connections mean.”
