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	<title>Martin Stabe &#187; Online</title>
	<link>http://www.martinstabe.com</link>
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		<title>SearchEngineLand: Pages With Too Many Ads &quot;Above The Fold&quot; Now Penalized By Google&#8217;s &quot;Page Layout&quot; Algorithm</title>
		<description><![CDATA["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."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinstabe.com/2012/01/20/searchengineland-pages-with-too-many-ads-above-the-fold-now-penalized-by-googles-page-layout-algorithm/</link>
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		<title>Economist: Online newspapers in India: Papering over the cracks</title>
		<description><![CDATA["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...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinstabe.com/2011/11/17/economist-online-newspapers-in-india-papering-over-the-cracks/</link>
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		<title>Nieman Journalism Lab: NPR’s Infinite Player: It’s like a public radio station that only plays the kinds of pieces you like, forever</title>
		<description><![CDATA["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...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinstabe.com/2011/11/17/nieman-journalism-lab-npr%e2%80%99s-infinite-player-it%e2%80%99s-like-a-public-radio-station-that-only-plays-the-kinds-of-pieces-you-like-forever/</link>
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		<title>NYTimes.com: Romenesko Taken to Woodshed for, um, Not Much. And Then Resigns.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinstabe.com/2011/11/11/nytimes-com-romenesko-taken-to-woodshed-for-um-not-much-and-then-resigns/</link>
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		<title>The Awl: The Intolerable Evolution of Poynter&#8217;s &quot;Romenesko+&quot;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinstabe.com/2011/11/11/the-awl-the-intolerable-evolution-of-poynters-romenesko/</link>
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		<title>Lost Remote: ‘WSJ Live’ coming to Google TV, Roku and more</title>
		<description><![CDATA["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 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinstabe.com/2011/11/07/lost-remote-%e2%80%98wsj-live%e2%80%99-coming-to-google-tv-roku-and-more/</link>
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		<title>Runway Girl: Video: How Flightglobal covers big shows all over the world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How FlightGlobal covers aviation industry shows.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinstabe.com/2011/10/19/runway-girl-video-how-flightglobal-covers-big-shows-all-over-the-world/</link>
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		<title>The Washington Post: Ask The Post &#8211; An ongoing conversation between Post readers and The Post newsroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Engaging readers with our journalism". Nice idea for a newsroom blog; also on Twitter at #askthepost]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinstabe.com/2011/09/30/the-washington-post-ask-the-post-an-ongoing-conversation-between-post-readers-and-the-post-newsroom/</link>
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		<title>Nieman Journalism Lab: The newsonomics of WSJ Live</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#34;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 &#039;connected TV&#039; platforms. If you want WSJ news video, you can access it on WS...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinstabe.com/2011/09/26/nieman-journalism-lab-the-newsonomics-of-wsj-live/</link>
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		<title>ReadWriteWeb: How Tumblr is Changing Journalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#34;ShortFormBlog uses a mix of Tumblr and Wordpress as its publishing platform. In particular, a plugin called Tumblrize. As Smith explained, Tumblrize &#34;allowed me to take the WordPress backend (which I had invested a lot of work into customizi...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinstabe.com/2011/09/16/readwriteweb-how-tumblr-is-changing-journalism/</link>
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		<title>paidContent: What Publishers Can Learn From Online Retailers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinstabe.com/2011/09/08/paidcontent-what-publishers-can-learn-from-online-retailers/</link>
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		<title>American Journalism Review: The Romenesko Revolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#34;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.&#34;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinstabe.com/2011/08/25/american-journalism-review-the-romenesko-revolution/</link>
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		<title>Propublica: The Opportunity Gap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An amazing project: ProPublica&#039;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...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinstabe.com/2011/07/01/propublica-the-opportunity-gap/</link>
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		<title>Online Journalism Blog: What I learned from the Facebook Page experiment – and what happens next</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#34;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. ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinstabe.com/2011/06/28/online-journalism-blog-what-i-learned-from-the-facebook-page-experiment-%e2%80%93-and-what-happens-next/</link>
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		<title>The Washington Post: A Gay Girl in Damascus and Lez Get Real: The lessons we learned</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#34;As journalists ... We were taken in by both MacMaster and Graber, but we also tracked down the truth about both of their identities. What did we do wrong and what did we do right? Here are some of the lessons we learned.&#34;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinstabe.com/2011/06/24/the-washington-post-a-gay-girl-in-damascus-and-lez-get-real-the-lessons-we-learned/</link>
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		<title>The Electronic Intifada: New evidence about Amina, the &quot;Gay Girl in Damascus&quot; hoax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#34;In a comment on that post, Paula Brooks, executive editor of LGR, gave two IP addresses which she said had been used by Amina to access LGR’s servers. The whois records for these IP addreses both have descriptions that indicate they are allocat...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinstabe.com/2011/06/13/the-electronic-intifada-new-evidence-about-amina-the-gay-girl-in-damascus-hoax/</link>
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		<title>The Washington Post: ‘A Gay Girl in Damascus’ comes clean</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#34;The Post on Thursday contacted Scott Palter, a board game creator from Minnesota who corresponded regularly with Amina on a Yahoo message group called “The Crescentland.’’ In a telephone interview, Palter said that he asked her several year...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinstabe.com/2011/06/13/the-washington-post-%e2%80%98a-gay-girl-in-damascus%e2%80%99-comes-clean/</link>
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		<title>NPR: The Two-Way: &#8216;Gay Girl In Damascus&#8217; Turns Out To Be An American Man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#34;The revelation came hours after NPR approached Britta Froelicher, his wife, with some evidence that connected her with Gay Girl In Damascus. Other news organizations appeared to be zeroing in on the couple, too. Over the past week, we&#039;ve bee...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinstabe.com/2011/06/13/npr-the-two-way-gay-girl-in-damascus-turns-out-to-be-an-american-man/</link>
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		<title>New York Times: &#8216;Gay Girl in Damascus&#8217; Blogger Admits to Writing Fiction Disguised as Fact</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Tom MacMaster, a 40-year-old graduate student ... explained that he had initially created Amina, his Arab lesbian character, as “a handle” he would use when he wanted to contribute comments to online discussions. His aim, he said was to use t...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinstabe.com/2011/06/13/new-york-times-gay-girl-in-damascus-blogger-admits-to-writing-fiction-disguised-as-fact/</link>
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		<title>New York Times: Case of a Gay Girl in Damascus Blog and Sifting Syrian Fact From Fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#34;[After] it was widely reported by news organizations that the blogger, who writes as Amina Abdallah Arraf, had been snatched off the street in Damascus on Monday, doubts were raised about whether the author of the blog had, in fact, been detained...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.martinstabe.com/2011/06/10/new-york-times-case-of-a-gay-girl-in-damascus-blog-and-sifting-syrian-fact-from-fiction/</link>
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