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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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
My buddy Dan, who wrote a great book called We the Media, posted a blog about sustainability in citizen journalism.
His point is this: sustainability doesn't mean that one project goes on forever; instead, it's a series of ad-hoc projects continually spring up depending on the issues of the day. He ...
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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
This via Dave Thomas, my good friend and long-time game journalist who is also on The Modern Journalist mailing list.
Seems a SXSW attendee had his Xbox 360 stolen while he was attending the big Austin confab. The police weren't helping out, so our intrepid investigator turned to Digg and Twitter ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
There's a lot of talk these days about community building, platforms for social networks and business/customer relationships.
These three seem to be the Holy Grail for newspapers. Tap into communities, give them tools to talk with each other and monetize the outcome. It's great in theory. It's absolutely wrong in practice.
You ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
There's been much chatter on Twitter recently about the nature of the mobile Tweet platform.
If that sentence just confused you, be thankful I haven't brought up the Great Color War of 2008. But I digress.
The point is this: Twitter, the mobile social network, is largely made up of the digerati, ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
I've written quite a bit about Twitter in the newsroom today. It's an obvious addition that should appear near immediately -- and by that, I mean sometime in the last 15 months since it's been released.
The instant, mobile, social networking software is absolutely the best way to get live, up-to-the-second ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Four major newspaper chains and 26 newspaper companies have formed a massive, online advertising network.
The move comes as print revenues have flattened out, local advertising had flatlined for the last two years and keyword and search revenues become the engine for online ad growth. More and more, newspaper chains have ...
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
A new research poll found that 70 percent of people believe traditional media is out of touch and nearly 50 percent of people now rely on the Internet to get their news.
The story doesn't clarify exactly what going to the Web for information means, though, which makes it impossible to ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
I'm looking at comScore's Top 50 properties for Jan 2008. I'd link directly to them, but it's impossible because it's a Flash pop-up. However, I'll give you the rundown:
Yahoo: 184 million uniques
Google: 134 million uniques
Microsoft: 119 million uniques
AOL: ...
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