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.”
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 …
Runway Girl: Video: How Flightglobal covers big shows all over the world
Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 15:20
How FlightGlobal covers aviation industry shows.
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
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…
ReadWriteWeb: How Tumblr is Changing Journalism
Friday, 16 September 2011, 16:57
"ShortFormBlog uses a mix of Tumblr and Wordpress as its publishing platform. In particular, a plugin called Tumblrize. As Smith explained, Tumblrize "allowed me to take the WordPress backend (which I had invested a lot of work into customizi…
paidContent: What Publishers Can Learn From Online Retailers
Thursday, 8 September 2011, 18:37
FT panel looks at what online retailers and online publishers can learn from each other. Social media still trumped by other referral sources; email personalisation is vital; testing small UI changes can have huge benefits for conversions …
American Journalism Review: The Romenesko Revolution
Thursday, 25 August 2011, 18:00
"Jim Romenesko, who essentially created the world of media news aggregation, announced his semi-retirement today from his influential and widely read blog on the Poynter Institute Web site."
Propublica: The Opportunity Gap
Friday, 1 July 2011, 11:57
An amazing project: ProPublica's investigation into access to advanced courses in US secondary education includes a database of schools allows users to log in with Facebook to look up their school. There are individual pages for each state, distri…
Online Journalism Blog: What I learned from the Facebook Page experiment – and what happens next
Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 08:16
"It suits emotive material … With most blogging it’s quite easy to ‘just do it’ and then figure out the bells and whistles later. With a Facebook Page I think a bit of preparation goes a long way – especially to avoid problems later on. …
