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Monday, May 5th, 2008
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The New York Times has a story about that traces how IDG, one of the largest tech news publishers, turned InfoWorld from a failing print magazine into a wildly profitable online-news operation.
There's two things that stand out to me from this piece:
how incredibly "duh" much of what the ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
The Modern Journalist reader TJ, webmaster for WWJ 950 in Detroit, instant messaged me a story about the top eight Ohio newspapers sharing content with each other.
It seems the top papers, which are spread geographically far enough that there is little competition between them, have set up an Intranet ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Robin Hamman over at the BBC kludged together a very cool Yahoo Pipes tool which -- much like Twitter TV -- allows people to see content tagged by areas on a Yahoo Map. The UGC Finder, as it's dubbed, works like this, according to Hamman: I've set up ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Just because I think this is the coolest thing out there and I want one. Microsoft's table-top computer, brought to you by the Silicon Valley Insider.Check it out here.
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
CBS Interactive announced that it would reorganize its management structure on April 17 in order to build a better interactive experience for its users.One of the more telling moves, I think, is that Byron Rubin -- who worked in mergers & acquisitions (M&A) -- moves from CBS corporate to CBS ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
There's a wonderful piece at Poynter today about the work required to build a community-driven, online news operation within the confines of a newspaper.Once you start building an online community, it's difficult to wrangle them in the same direction -- and keep everyone updated as to what citizens are covering. ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
That's the quote that jumped out at me while I was reading (the first page) of The New Yorker article by Eric Alteramn.
It's a scathing review of the industry, which is exactly the kind of review the industry needs. This week alone I've had a half-dozen new media types instant ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
In 2006, newspapers were patting themselves on the back for partnering with Google and Yahoo (I believe) to help sell advertising in both print and online.
At the time, I was winding up my time at Technology Review; however, I was adamant that we not look into similar deals for magazines. ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
One of the big drivers of traffic to news websites is traffic and weather (along with breaking news), but that may soon go the way of the classified ads thanks to Global Positioning System devices that can transmit data (uh oh, there's that word again. The bane of all newspaper ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
I've written about traditional media companies looking for a way to compete with Yahoo, Microsoft, Google and soon America Online, but it's starting to look like the strategy some of the traditional giants are deploying may be the wrong tact.
Some have joined ad networks that aggregate content from several sources ...
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