New York Times: Small-Town Gossip Moves to the Web, Anonymous and Vicious
Thursday, 22 September 2011, 11:55
"Topix, a site lightly trafficked in cities, enjoys a dedicated and growing following across the Ozarks, Appalachia and much of the rural South, establishing an unexpected niche in communities of a few hundred or few thousand people — particular…
Howard Owens:Why nobody clicks on your home page links
Sunday, 1 March 2009, 19:10
"… newspaper.coms are foolish to let aggregation sites such as Topix display all of their headlines and leads. Topix is in the business of creating a substitute home page for your community news. … Compare Topix, however, to a site like Google News. Google News drives a significant amount of traffic to news sites. Why? Because it has one primary purpose: to drive traffic to news sites."
Friday, 19 October 2007, 17:53
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PC Magazine has a slideshow of websites that are disaggregating the bundle of news that US metropolitan dailies used to provide. The situation’s a bit different in the UK, but it’s worth looking at.
On the (Citizen) Media
Saturday, 13 October 2007, 08:48
NPR’s On the Media has an excellent summary of the state of the art in networked journalism in the form of its report from last week’s Networked Journalism summit in New York.
There’s nothing terribly new here, but the nine-minute package is a great introduction to the topic for the uninitiated. Have a listen:
The crowdsourced story in Ft Myers comes up, plus more about the concept of “crowdsourcing” from Wired’s Jeff Howe, who coined the term.
Robin Hamman talks about the flood of material that the BBC receives and how it needs to be careful to specify that it does not want people send in pictures of fluffy kittens.
Also mentioned are local news aggregator, Topix, Jay Rosen on AssignmentZero and why it didn’t work as expected, Mark Potts on why Backfence failed, a discussion of Talking Points Memo’s crowdsourcing of the US attorney documents as an example of a rare networked journalism project not linked in some way with a large news organisation, and and Jeff Jarvis on why experimenting with innovative collaboration between amateurs and professionals is the way forward — and essential for the latter.
Update: On Jeff Jarvis’s Buzzmachine blog and elsewhere, Jay Rosen responds at great length to the reference to AssignmentZero in the OTM package. OTM’s Bob Garfield has replied to Rosen’s criticisms.
Friday, 5 October 2007, 12:02
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"Topix – a 25 person company that is 80 percent owned by Gannett, Tribune and McClatchy – … is now getting 60 percent of its content from user generated posts."
Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 06:50
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"Maybe mass media was just a temporary phenomenon," mused Rich Skrenta, co-founder and CEO of news aggregator Topix, noting that mass media arose as a consequence of controlled distribution and captive consumer attention.
