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…
Project for Excellence in Journalism: Navigating News Online
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 12:11
"the findings suggest that there is not one group of news consumers online but several, each of which behaves differently. These differences call for news organizations to develop separate strategies to serve and make money from each audience.
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NYTLabs: Project Cascade
Monday, 25 April 2011, 16:42
"Cascade allows for precise analysis of the structures which underlie sharing activity on the web. This first-of-its-kind tool links browsing behavior on a site to sharing activity to construct a detailed picture of how information propagates thro…
BuzzMachine: Press as Facebook & Foursquare
Wednesday, 1 September 2010, 15:56
Really innovative new media redefine the very meaning of news, Jeff Jarvis notes while reading some history: "I was among those who scoffed when Mark Zuckerberg dubbed his algorithmic aggregation of personal updates a 'news feed.' I was wrong."
Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog: RSS feeds beat any branded iPhone or iPad news app
Tuesday, 1 June 2010, 11:12
Patrick Smith: "despite their convenience, apps are a limited way of publishing information. The self-constructed, community-based, open, Google-able news eco-system gives the serious media consumer a better all-round experience than the closed off system represented by the iPad and App Store, and all it takes is a little effort to make the most of it."
Seeking Alpha: iPad and the New Five-Fingered Exercise
Friday, 2 April 2010, 09:39
"[Marc Frons], CTO of the New York Times, tells me he assesses the first rank of iPad products to be on the right-wing of publishing — essentially re-purposed products of the existing, conservative order. In the center, the web, a hodgepodge of somewhat repurposed print, spiced with still-awkward multimedia mixings. On the left, a hazy future, as digital newsy media comes into its own, with its own look and feel."
Seeking Alpha: iPad and the New Five-Fingered Exercise
Friday, 2 April 2010, 09:39
"[Marc Frons], CTO of the New York Times, tells me he assesses the first rank of iPad products to be on the right-wing of publishing — essentially re-purposed products of the existing, conservative order. In the center, the web, a hodgepodge of somewhat repurposed print, spiced with still-awkward multimedia mixings. On the left, a hazy future, as digital newsy media comes into its own, with its own look and feel."
Nieman Journalism Lab: The right information, the right way, at the right time
Monday, 1 March 2010, 17:12
"At 5:30 a.m., I got a text message from one of my local television stations alerting me that my kids’ school was closed because of an impending snowstorm. This was a valuable bit of information. …. This TV station gave me the specific information I wanted the way I wanted it and when I wanted it. …"
Wired.com: Twitter URL Service Bit.ly Says No to Ads, Yes to Data-Mining News
Monday, 10 August 2009, 14:59
"[Bit.ly is] going to mine those links to create a real-time news service that would work somewhat like Twitter trends, except that it would track the hottest links rather than the most-used words. The result would be a Digg-like news service comprised of links determined to be important by bit.ly’s analysis engine."
Spiegel Online: Chris Anderson on the Economics of ‘Free’: ‘Maybe Media Will Be a Hobby Rather than a Job’
Thursday, 30 July 2009, 08:19
Chris Anderson: "I read lots of articles from mainstream media but I don't go to mainstream media directly to read it. It comes to me, which is really quite common these days. More and more people are choosing social filters for their news rather than professional filters. We're tuning out television news, we're tuning out newspapers. And we still hear about the important stuff, it's just that it's not like this drumbeat of bad news. It's news that matters."
CNET News: Debate: Can the Internet handle big breaking news?
Monday, 29 June 2009, 11:42
"It happens time and time again: when news breaks, the Internet slows. …"
Micro Persuasion: The Amazon Kindle is the Great White Hope for Monetizing Print Media
Monday, 9 March 2009, 14:20
Unfortunately, I think Steve Rubel is wrong about this, because mobile devices will evolve into web-browsing devices: "The Kindle, like the iPod, overcomes the hurdle required to get people to pay for content. The secret sauce is easy and instantaneous delivery of content as soon as it ships. This need not be limited to daily, weekly or monthly publication schedule but also for breaking news."
Charles Arthur: Newspapers: why fungibility means they’re really really really really really REALLY screwed
Saturday, 28 February 2009, 11:44
"Nick Carr sets it out very clearly: there’s an oversupply of news, and the market is correcting it ruthlessly. News is pretty much fungible (one of my favourite words – it means that if you have a pipe and stuff some of your supply in one end, what comes out at the other is indistinguishable. Sugar, oil and wheat are fungibles. And so, now, is news."
Google Maps: Britain’s independent local blogs
Monday, 23 February 2009, 12:26
Justin Williams' map of independent local news sites in the UK.
