Advertising Age: The New Yorker Decides Facebook ‘Like’ Is Good Enough
Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 10:51
"If, for a limited time, you go to The New Yorker's Facebook page and "like" it, you will gain access to a new essay from [Jonathan] Franzen that is also available to paying print and iPad subscribers. … Facebook has become vital …
CJR: What it’s Like to Be The Wall Street Journal’s Friend
Friday, 16 July 2010, 14:48
"Several news organizations have started their own Foursquare accounts in order to push their online content to users based on their physical location. … Having your Foursquare-augmented-reality experience curated by a brand you know and trust might not be so bad. There’s a lot of noise out there; if I’m using Foursquare to augment my reality anyway, maybe I would like to have my pop-ups limited to the things I actually care about. Like, say, information about interesting historical buildings, or a feed of recent news stories linked to the physical locations where they happened."
New York Times: The Tell-All Generation Learns When Not To, at Least Online
Monday, 10 May 2010, 06:45
"the Pew Internet Project has found that people in their 20s exert more control over their digital reputations than older adults, more vigorously deleting unwanted posts and limiting information about themselves."
Reuters social media guidelines
Thursday, 11 March 2010, 16:55
"The recommendations … offer general guidance with more detailed suggestions for managing your presence on the most popular social networks."
VentureBeat: Facebook helps the news industry, but it’s no white knight
Thursday, 4 February 2010, 11:44
Slight odd article. Who ever suggested Facebook could be the "savior" of the "traditional news media"? Still, some interesting points: "Facebook’s Pages encourage loyalty to specific media brands and publications. … This is a contrast to Google’s search model, in which users look for content around a specific topic and are presented with millions of possible choices. … If it becomes as significant as Google in terms of driving traffic, it will provide a counterweight against the search giant, and possibly give publishers — a teeny, tiny bit — of leverage."
BuzzMachine: Content farms v. curating farmers
Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 01:07
Jeff Jarvis: "I think we may see search fall as the sole or even key means of discovery and filtering of quality content. I see three rings of discovery today: search (Google); algorithms (see: Google News, Daylife); and humans (see: Twitter). Note again that Bit.ly alone causes as many clicks a month—one billion—as Google News. Human power rises again. That’s what Fred Wilson says today when he argues that social beats search, because 'it’s a lot harder to spam yourself into a social graph.'"
Observer: Facebook now has 350m users – and there’s no point in advertising to them
Sunday, 6 December 2009, 12:38
John Naughton: "Facebook is the most glaring example of an unsolved puzzle: how to convert social networking into a sustainable business. … The truth is that investing in social networking represents the triumph of hope over experience. The optimism comes from a feeling that it's impossible to gather, say, 350 million people in one place and not somehow make money…"
New York Times: ESPN Limits Employees’ Social Networking
Wednesday, 5 August 2009, 10:50
"[On-air] talent, reporters and writers are prohibited from having sports-related blogs or Web sites and that they will need a supervisor’s approval to discuss sports on any social networking sites. They will also be restricted from discussing internal policies or detailing how stories are 'reported, written, edited or produced.'"
Techcrunch: Wall Street Journal Creating New “LinkedIn Killer” Called WSJ Connect
Sunday, 2 August 2009, 07:27
"They’ve been working on a new social network, to be called WSJ Connect, we’ve confirmed. … WSJ Connect is still in the planning/conceptual stages…"
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."
currybetdotnet: ‘Local Newspaper Week’ – Advertising
Thursday, 14 May 2009, 07:44
Martin Belam makes a very important point that usually isn't mentioned in discussions of online ads' effect on local newspaper advertising: "One of the traditional areas of revenue generation for the local newspaper was the 'announcements' page, where people paid to publicly announce births, deaths and marriages. This is a business model that is under a great deal of pressure from online social networking."
VentureBeat: WordPress’s BuddyPress is the web’s social network in a box
Saturday, 2 May 2009, 10:04
"Blogging platform company Automattic already has millions of people using WordPress, its simple and effective blogging software (we’ve been pretty happy using it so far). Now it has opened up BuddyPress, its long-awaited social network for blogs."
Media Money: Mr Dacre, I’ve got a gentleman from the marketing department on the line for you…
Tuesday, 24 February 2009, 22:31
Peter Kirwan: "[H]ow does the Mail’s attack dog coverage [of Facebook] square with its demographics? … Facebook is now the Britain’s second most-visited website after Google UK. As Hitwise attests, social networking sites now account for over 10% of all Internet visits. This is one hell of a constituency to alienate — both numerically, and in terms of relative attractiveness to advertisers."
Andy Dickinson: iherald – Newspaper group clones Facebook
Thursday, 12 February 2009, 08:50
"The Plymouth Herald had launched its own social networking site called iHerald … The first thing that struck me was why? … It seems a weird duplication of effort."
