Category Archives: aggregation

NYTimes.com: Romenesko Taken to Woodshed for, um, Not Much. And Then Resigns.

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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 to define the form; an arbiter and observer of the great unwinding of journalism; and an eerily fair aggregator of other people’s work."

The Awl: The Intolerable Evolution of Poynter’s "Romenesko+"

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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 money-making thing as it works to boost "engagement" and whatever other (highly transitional!) web "best practices" are being touted at the heinous "online journalism" conferences that regularly go on. Charitable with links and naming bylines, and producing even more links when grubby reporters would come emailing with "but I posted that memo just now tooooo!", the intention underlying Romenesko's work has always been directing readers to reported material."

Information Weapons: Extreme News Analytics From RecordedFuture

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"RecordedFuture ... has developed a platform for providing momentum and sentiment ratings around two conceptual abstractions: events & entities. Its system is continually scanning 'thousands of high-quality new publications, blogs, public niche sources, trade publications, government web sites, financial database, and more,' then making that available via the Recorded Future News Analytics API."

Monday Note: Flipboard: Threat and Opportunity

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Frédéric Filloux: "Every media company should be afraid of Flipboard. The Palo Alto startup epitomizes the best and the worst of the internet. The best is for the user. The worst is for the content providers that feed its stunning expansion without getting a dime in return. ... For the reader, Flipboard provides the ultimate comfort: no ads. ... No media outlet should be allowed to complain about Flipboard. First, there is a now well-established pattern in the increasing fight between old-fashioned publishers and 'inexperienced' Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs. The latter always invent things that the former should have been first to come up with."

The Cutline: Jim Romenesko gets back to reporting

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"After aggregating for a dozen years, I decided to shift gears a bit and do some reporting too. It's a good change of pace," Romenesko [said]. "Also ... when I started aggregating for Poynter in 1999, there were only a few journalism 'town criers' on the Internet; now with Facebook, Twitter, etc., there are millions. I just felt I needed to adjust to the world of social media."

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. "

New York Times: News Is Power in Washington, and Aides Race to Be Well-Armed

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Tales of professional news curators: "[Bobby] Maldonado, 26, is one of the dozens of young aides throughout the city who rise before dawn to pore over the news to synthesize it, summarize it and spin it, so their bosses start the day well-prepared. Washington is a city that traffics in information, and as these 20-something staff members are learning, who knows what — and when they know it — can be the difference between professional advancement and barely scraping by. "

psmith, journalist: Blog to get a job in journalism: build a community, promote yourself and get networking

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Patrick Smith: "I remember those internal debates at [Press Gazette] very well and it really was a change in mindset from 'why should we send readers elsewhere?' to 'aggregation is a service'. A small example of how far B2B journalism has come a looong way in the last five years."