Category Archives: huffington_post

New York Times: European Ventures Seek to Fill a News Void

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"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 languages, including English. ... Using freelance journalists, Worldcrunch plans to publish several dozen English translations of articles from newspapers like Le Monde, Die Welt and La Stampa every week."

New York Times: All the Aggregation That’s Fit to Aggregate

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Bill Keller: "'Aggregation' can mean smart people sharing their reading lists, plugging one another into the bounty of the information universe. It kind of describes what I do as an editor. But too often it amounts to taking words written by other people, packaging them on your own Web site and harvesting revenue that might otherwise be directed to the originators of the material. In Somalia this would be called piracy. In the mediasphere, it is a respected business model. "

bit.ly blog: Announcing bit.ly Pro

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"The Pro service provides custom short URLs powered by bit.ly. Publishers and bloggers will be able to use their own short domain names to point to pages on their sites. ... Users and publishers benefit from the additional transparency that this private-label service provides. When you see a short URL like nyti.ms, you know the destination web site before clicking on the link. "

Nieman Journalism Lab: How The Huffington Post uses real-time testing to write better headlines

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"here’s something devilishly brilliant: The Huffington Post applies A/B testing to some of its headlines. Readers are randomly shown one of two headlines for the same story. After five minutes, which is enough time for such a high-traffic site, the version with the most clicks becomes the wood that everyone sees."

Mail Online: Plans revealed to bulldoze Central Park to make way for airport on New York’s Manhattan Island

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Don't let the headline fool you. Paragraph 3: "Although the project and the Manhattan Airport Foundation are both a hoax (the company is registered anonymously and has offices on a non-existent 58th floor of Manhattan's Woolworth Building, which only has 57 floors) it has been convincing enough to fool even the Huffington Post, which published details of the satirical plan earlier this week."

The Observer: New era? It’s all Huff and puff

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Peter Preston: "Take a closer look at where the lifeblood news on which they comment comes from. ... Dig a little deeper among individual strands, moreover, and you wonder how on earth either Huff or Beast could get by without the Associated Press and New York Times... The medium-term weakness of all the bright new websites, in short, is that they need grist as well as glitz. But that basic commodity has to be jackdawed together day by day. They can't afford to uncover it for themselves. They have to skate over the surface of commenting on other people's work."