Media Guardian: Charlie Brooker to focus on news in BBC4 Screenwipe spin-off

Posted on 29 January, 2009 by Martin Stabe

Something tells me this is going to be one of my favourite things on TV: "Charlie Brooker is to take a satirical look at the news media in a spin-off from his BBC4 show Screenwipe."

Scobleizer: Why Google News has no noise

Posted on 20 May, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"I like the noise. Why? Because I can see patterns before anyone else. I saw the Chinese earthquake happening 45 minutes before Google News reported it. Why? Because I was watching the noise, not the news."

TweetWire.com Twitter News

Posted on 19 May, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"TweetWire.com is a neo-newspaper that grabs the freshest links posted to Twitter. Get the most out of citizen journalism with Twitter and TweetWire."

Loic Le Meur Blog: If the news is important it will find me: my social map (Seesmic du jour 115)

Posted on 2 April, 2008 by Martin Stabe

Loïc Le Meur looks at how important news finds him via the various social tools he uses online. This is how geeks and young readers find information. Advice to publishers: understand this now. (via Adam Tinworth)

Strange Attractor: ‘Working at the speed of news, not the speed of the press’.

Posted on 21 December, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"The internet allows both immediacy and depth. Breaking news does not have to be exploitative or sensationalist. You don't have to engage in 'breaking rumour', as some of my former colleagues at the BBC called it. Credibility is still our greatest asset."

Read/Write Web: The Blogosphere Gets a Newspaper in The Issue

Posted on 15 December, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Brooklyn, NY-based The Issue aims to bring the best of the wider blogosphere into focus via a daily, human edited online newspaper that aggregates quality blog content in a single place."

Stumbling and Mumbling: Noise, signal & news

Posted on 30 October, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Chris Dillow: "'News' is a mere artefact. It's defined not by any standards rooted in epistemology or information theory, but is merely a commodity produced where journalists happen to be..."

OJR: New RSS aggregator maps the European news landscape

Posted on 25 October, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Imooty.eu, launched in August 2007, is a compendium of news stories from across Europe. By clicking on a map, readers can look at a particular country’s major and minor papers and blogs in English and local languages."

Joho the Blog: The front page is dead, but not yet quite reborn

Posted on 1 October, 2007 by Martin Stabe

David Weinberger: "the new front page is distributed across our day and our network. Much of it comes through our inbox. It consists of people we know and people we don't know recommending items for our interest."

Google Maps Mania: 35,000 World News Videos on a Google Map

Posted on 26 September, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"MediaScrape, the "Internet TV News Network" has just launched integration with Google Maps to help users find breaking news videos from around the world."

Pew Research Center: Summary of Findings: Internet News Audience Highly Critical of News Organizations

Posted on 12 August, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"some of the harshest indictments of the press now come from the growing segment that relies on the internet as its main source for national and international news."

Virtual Economics: AP and Asap

Posted on 1 August, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Seamus McCauley: "For news consumers, news fulfils a number of discrete functions that traditionally happen to be packaged up as a newspaper or broadcast. ... "

What’s Next: Innovations in Newspapers: The Sunday logo trend

Posted on 22 July, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Juan Antonio Giner: "Sunday neewspapers sell. And they sell more copies with editions where features rule over the news."

Strange Attractor: Newsvine and news as a social object

Posted on 25 June, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Kevin Anderson: "Newsvine isn't like most news community sites, but it has features that more news sites should adopt. To encourage participation and community, news sites need to highlight the participation to encourage participation."

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