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’…
Economist: Online newspapers in India: Papering over the cracks
Thursday, 17 November 2011, 11:34
“The strength of India’s print press is, however, in part down to the weakness of its online offerings. This is hardly surprising. For all the country’s vaunted IT prowess, only 6.9% of Indians regularly surf the web. Apart from a smattering of web-exc…
Nieman Journalism Lab: NPR’s Infinite Player: It’s like a public radio station that only plays the kinds of pieces you like, forever
Thursday, 17 November 2011, 10:54
“This week, NPR unveiled Infinite Player, a web app that mimics the simplicity of radio, but with a personalized twist. Press play to hear the latest NPR newscast, followed by a never-ending playlist of random feature stories. It doesn’t stop till yo…
NYTimes.com: Romenesko Taken to Woodshed for, um, Not Much. And Then Resigns.
Friday, 11 November 2011, 15:43
David Carr: “Out in the civilian world, [Romenesko's] departure is, um, less than seismic. But to those of us who read and followed him, it seemed like an ill-advised way to end a run that was remarkable in all aspects: He was a proto-blogger, helping …
The Awl: The Intolerable Evolution of Poynter’s "Romenesko+"
Friday, 11 November 2011, 11:09
Choire Sicha: “Romenesko’s entire practice was about giving credit, in ways that virtually no other blog has been, a position that “Romenesko+” does not embrace as strongly. Poynter has worked systematically to erode a fairly noble, not particularly mo…
Lost Remote: ‘WSJ Live’ coming to Google TV, Roku and more
Monday, 7 November 2011, 13:07
“The Wall Street Journal’s video service, WSJ Live, has expanded aggressively beyond its iPad debut in September. This week, WSJ announced it has inked distribution deals with Google TV, Roku, Apple TV and Daily Motion. Earlier, it expanded to Boxee …
TheMediaBriefing: The new wave of digital media CEOs taking over old media companies
Monday, 7 November 2011, 11:56
Peter Kirwan: “We’re now starting to witness a long overdue exit for [media industry] chief executives of the Baby Boom generation. … We’re also witnessing the rise of a new generation of managers who got their big breaks in the online world from…
Runway Girl: Video: How Flightglobal covers big shows all over the world
Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 15:20
How FlightGlobal covers aviation industry shows.
New York Times: 2 Long Island Weeklies Wonder About Spike in Sales
Friday, 30 September 2011, 20:04
“[The Suffolk Times and The Riverhead News-Review], which originally printed a combined 8,620 copies for newsstand sales, had to print 5,500 more to keep up with the demand, which seemed to come almost entirely from two customers buying up every availa…
The Washington Post: Ask The Post – An ongoing conversation between Post readers and The Post newsroom
Friday, 30 September 2011, 10:18
“Engaging readers with our journalism”. Nice idea for a newsroom blog; also on Twitter at #askthepost
AP Enterprise: UK tabloid paid spies for scoops
Thursday, 29 September 2011, 17:04
“Interviews with three more former journalists and published accounts suggest that [the News of the World] engaged in a pattern of payoffs aimed at rival newspaper employees. … Although accusations that the paper hacked into phones and corrupted poli…
Nieman Journalism Lab: The newsonomics of WSJ Live
Monday, 26 September 2011, 10:37
"WSJ Live is a tablet product — or more precisely a “lean-back” product, available not only on your iPad or your Galaxy Tab but aiming to get in early on 'connected TV' platforms. If you want WSJ news video, you can access it on WS…
