"My fear as a Washington Post subscriber and reader of washingtonpost.com is that, when the folks running the organization turn things around (and I believe that it is not an impossibility or even a long-shot), what emerges will be not only a news organization that is a shadow of its" [...]
"Since we first announced captions in Google Video and YouTube, we've introduced multiple caption tracks, improved search functionality and even automatic translation. Each of these features has had great personal significance to me, not only because I helped to design them, but also because I'm deaf. Today, I'm in Washington," [...]
"Today, YouTube is launching a new application that looks to make this easy for all media organizations. Dubbed YouTube Direct, the new open source application will allow news orgs to integrate a video upload tool directly into their sites, where they can accept and review user uploaded footage. The new" [...]
“The new fan experience involves Twitter and YouTube and has made the game story even more obsolete than it was five years ago,” says Jason McIntyre, founder of the blog The Big Lead. “I usually hunker down for the NFL on Sunday or College Football on Saturdays with the TV [...]
"Dasari said Web video's growth is being stifled by the lack of content available at Hulu and other sites. For example, there are only a handful of feature films available at Hulu. Crackle.com, Sony Pictures' Web service, only posts a fraction of its vast library of films on the Internet," [...]
"If you’re a personal brand, or are looking to build your personal brand, you can use Twitter lists as well. Here are some easy things you can do to get noticed."
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Perhaps most significantly, blog posts now have a longer life span. In 2007 tracked posts saw 94% of engagement within the first day and 98% of that first day's engagement happened within the first hour. In 2008 that number fell to 83% within the first day and in 2009 it [...]
"Abandoned by floundering media conglomerates, thousands of neglected newsracks command valuable real estate on busy street corners across New York City, remnants of diminishing demand and a disintegrating economy. Many have already been reclaimed and transformed by urban alchemists, whether as canvases for stickers and paint or clever conceptual works" [...]
"The AP focused intently on Wikipedia in a document describing its "Protect, Point, Pay" digital strategy, noting, "Its pages are designed to catch traffic, provide key information and then send users on their way to deeper engagement on the subjects they're interested in." So the AP wants to create something" [...]
"Each day more and more people are opening up their email inbox to find an invite to Google Wave (Google Wave). With that shiny new invite comes the inevitable quest for ideas about to how to put the medium to good use. Should you happen to be one of those" [...]
"In TV ads, Verizon is trying to sell its new Google-powered phone by highlighting everything the “Droid Does” that the iPhone doesn’t. But the Droid will be able to do much more than Verizon is telling you. For example: free tethering, iPhone-like multitouch and CPU overclocking. Similar to the jailbreak" [...]
"And Jon Stewart and his outstanding team of "Daily Show" producers and writers not only "get" the importance of media manipulation and propaganda, but they can take it a step farther because they also have something that most bloggers do not --resources. Their access to large film libraries is what" [...]
"The authors present their analysis from three main perspectives -- that of shareholder, journalist and economist -- and urge traditional news organizations to pursue a three-pronged survival strategy over the next five years: * Shedding legacy costs as quickly as possible * Re-creating community online -- in an attempt to" [...]
"Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis, who used to work for Murdoch’s Digital Chief Jonathan Miller when the two were at AOL, posted a video last week (embedded below) with a simple suggestion: Not only should Murdoch de-index from Google, but he should get Bing to pay him for the exclusive right" [...]
"Congress is now legislating on three important issues: health care, financial regulation and energy policy. In a series of reports called "Dollar Politics," NPR is using that legislation to examine the role of lobbying and money in Congress. One of the first stories, which aired Thursday, focused on 200 people" [...]
"The most radical shift to media in recent years is that we now have a central real-time hub that serves to enhance every other content platform on the web. Sure, we could always use RSS for blogs, and sign up to follow a person’s activity on a video or photo" [...]
Multimedia Super Hero, Western Kentucky University Professor, Fulbright Scholar and Multimedia Immersion Teacher, Josh Meltzer, sends word about one of his projects coming up in January, [...]
"Twitter’s official spokesman Mark Logan recorded a video of himself responding to common user complaints about the popular service. In it, the man bluntly tells users that the company doesn’t really care whether you leave or not."
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"Google’s Chrome OS project, first announced in July, will become available for download within a week, we’ve heard from a reliable source. Google previously said to expect an early version of the OS in the fall."
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"I have wanted to work for a forward-leaning digital company for a long time," said Moor, who has been deputy managing editor/digital for two years at the News. "Part of this is recognition that newspapers have limited resources, they are saddled with legitimate legacy businesses that they have to focus" [...]
"Imagine this: you visit one of your favorite news sites and the homepage displays a notification that an article you read yesterday has been updated with new information, and a story you read last week has been corrected. The notification enables you to click on a link and read the" [...]
"We're excited to say that support for watching 1080p HD videos in full resolution is on its way. Starting next week, YouTube's HD mode will add support for viewing videos in 720p or 1080p, depending on the resolution of the original source, up from our maximum output of 720p today." [...]
"...if you look at the NYT story you see (or at least I saw) exactly what Megan describes in her post at CJR: a story that repeats a lot of known information about the Great Garbage Patch, with very little of the human side of Lindsay’s story. I found her" [...]
"Beyond news sites, video is now the fastest-growing segment of the Internet advertising market. Digital video amounted to $477 million in revenue in the first half of 2009, up 38 percent from the same time period in 2008, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau. With an estimated $5 billion in" [...]
“Local advertising pays the bills in most cases and local advertisers want to reach people who can actually come to their stores,” said Serra Media CEO Mark Briggs, author of “Journalism 2.0,” and the upcoming book “Journalism Next,” in an e-mail interview. “And, as national news has become a commodity, [...]
"Sunlight Labs, one of my new favorite data groups, has partnered with Google, RedHat, Mozilla, and several others to get the open source community involved in open government projects. They're calling it the Great American Hackathon and it's happening December 12-13."
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"My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple’s policies. I respect their right to manage their platform however they want, however I am philosophically opposed to the existence of their review process. I am very concerned that they are setting a horrible precedent for other" [...]
“The Daily Show,” which has become one of the media’s prime monitors when it comes to calling out misuse or manipulation of video, caught the Fox News Channel and one of its hosts, Sean Hannity, Tuesday night, in what appeared to be a blatant example of doctoring a report with [...]
"As reproduced below, an incredible 75% news execs think switching off their websites will drive people to their newspapers. Readers, however, are saying they would go to another local website, with other prominent alternatives including regional and national websites, TV and radio (note that news execs also feel that ‘local" [...]
"The report identifies four areas of potential exploration: techniques for data transformation and pattern discovery in investigative reporting; a digital “dashboard” for journalists; new social and technical structures for interactions among readers and reporters; and sense-making advances from other disciplines. All are interesting and worthy, but to me the first" [...]
"The case in question is that of a man who has been in jail for more than 30 years, convicted of killing another man. Student journalists in Protess' investigative journalism course have said they have new evidence that exonerates Anthony McKinney. The judge scheduled a hearing on the matter; Alvarez" [...]
"The savior of print, this likely is not, but it wouldn’t surprise me to see this model used from time-to-time as a way of pushing users to buy the print edition of a magazine, especially when the content on the other end is something unique and exclusive (in Esquire’s case," [...]
It comes down to this: The faster the news accelerates, the slower I’m inclined to believe anything I hear — and the harder I look for the coverage that pulls together the most facts with the most clarity about what’s known and what’s speculation. Call it slow news. Call it [...]
"Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald, co-founder of Augmented Reality browser company Layar, was interviewed by CNN today and took the opportunity to claim that AR on phones is going to be so big in the future that only voice will be more popular."
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"For months (years?) Rupert Murdoch has been waving his jowls around and shouting that Google is stealing from him by not paying to index his material. And all along, we've been saying, "Pffft, right. If you don't like it, just add a robots.txt file that tells Google not to index [...]
"And to all those people who go around wringing their hands and saying what are we going to do when the "real newspapers" all die and we have to get our news from Gawker and HuffPo and TechCrunch? Friends, I think we're going to be just fine. Part of it" [...]
"The article comes to the conclusion that each individual newspaper needs to figure out the networking sites that work best for it. Depending on things such as location, circulation, subject-specific media, and relevance, different newspapers require different sites to increase their traffic. Stories about technology or quirky subjects more easily" [...]
"Keller's list: 1. Where are we going with topics pages? 2. What is the best strategy for community? 3. How to spread the gospel of integration more fully in the newsroom? 4. How do we have the best possible relationship between technology, product, and the newsroom? 5. How do we" [...]
"Several other researchers have found Twitter skewing younger in 2009. Sysomos reported that in May, 66% of users who disclosed their age were under 25, and another 15% were ages 25 to 29. And comScore Media Metrix found that 13.5% of Internet users ages 18 to 24 visited Twitter in" [...]
"Instead, the meme within the industry is something I’ve long supported: Let’s keep most of our news content online free, so that we don’t lose advertisers and high reader numbers, and maintain our “googlejuice,” but let’s create more “premium” content and services that we can charge for … and people" [...]
"Today I returned to the Verizon store where yesterday’s quest began, looking to get my hands on one of the nifty docking stations that turns your Droid into a desktop clock/multimedia station. And while I expected a handful of other customers to be in the store, I was taken aback" [...]
"Jeremy Rue, multimedia training instructor for the University of California-Berkeley graduate school of journalism, posted a great slideshow on social networking for journalists."
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"Anyone who has ever talked to just about any spokesperson at Apple will immediately relate to what Mitchell is saying. If Apple contacts you about something, they’re really contacting you to make you do what they want. If you don’t, there is often the threat of repercussions of some sort." [...]
"Today is Droid day. In just a few hours Verizon stores will open and the first customers will get their hands on their very own Droid. And I promise you, if you are one of the people waiting in line, you will have a much lower than average amount of" [...]
"Twitter’s new Lists feature is all the rage right now. There are probably already millions of lists, and that number is growing by the minute (or second). So what are people using all these lists for? Are people creating lists just for the sake of creating lists? Savvy individuals are" [...]
"Significantly, the Microsoft unit is also launching a new MSN Local Edition, which will exist as a stand-alone Web site, but also feature prominently on the relaunched MSN home page. The renewed focus on local content resulted from internal MSN research, which found that such content -- from local news" [...]
"Earlier this year, we had a discussion on the changing nature of sports beat reporting in the internet era, and one of the points we made is that there really is an awful lot of overlap and duplication in effort in some cases (such as the NY media). And yet," [...]
"Two still mythical tablet devices, the Microsoft Courier and the Apple Tablet, are probably the hottest and most coveted devices that do not yet officially exist. To further fuel the anticipatory gadget lust, Gizmodo has scored an in-depth look at the former’s user interface and overall design. As we were" [...]
"Today, Google News is making it even easier to follow the latest stories on whatever subjects interest you. We are happy to announce our Custom sections directory, which gives users of some of our English-language editions the expanded ability to create comprehensive sections to put on their Google News home" [...]
“Digital access is essential to first class citizenship in our society. Without digital, you lack full access to information, you are second class economically and even socially,” Ibargüen said. “If a job application at Walmart or McDonald’s must be made online, how can we pretend that we have equal opportunity [...]
"I'm not ashamed to admit it: The first time I saw Twitter, I thought, "What's the point?" Maybe you did too, or maybe you're just more perceptive than I am. Even Twitter's founders have said they didn't know exactly what it was when they started working on it. (Biz Stone:" [...]
"The Hotseat software allows students to use either Facebook, Twitter, Myspace (MySpace), or SMS to post messages during classes, or they can simply log in to the web site to post to and view the ongoing backchannel. Right now it’s only being pilot tested in two courses, but has already" [...]
"Make no mistake about it, you will recognize the ideas behind these trends. Although this list isn’t a drastic departure from what was popular in 2009, it marks different trends that will be expanded upon and made better as a result. As you think of how you will incorporate new" [...]
"A ton of technologies are ripe for further development in the coming few years. Social media and related apps are definitely going to be at the forefront of the Web for a long time. But plenty of other technologies are on the verge of becoming mainstream, either because of more" [...]
— Directory: detailed information on 242 elected officials including all statewide offices, state legislators, and the congressional delegation. Pages for individual officials show their Twitter feed (if any), their personal financial statements, contact information, election history, and detailed information about their district. The directory is available also as an iPhone [...]
# There is a lot more to blogging than just publishing a post. You need to know how to make a post get read by other people.
# The platform(s) we choose to publish on are always changing with new updates, features and 3rd party modifications. It's up to us to [...]
"Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that's evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that" [...]
"A friend of mine once told me that he thought I made good points in my blog posts, but that they were just too damned long. "You need an editor," he said (no argument here). And maybe a year later we were chatting and I mentioned I was reading Neil" [...]
"The Chicago Tribune and other Tribune Co. newspapers plan to utilize as little content from the Associated Press as practical during the week of Nov. 8. The goal, as the papers review costs and needs, is to see whether severing ties with the news cooperative next fall is a viable" [...]
"A series of articles that appeared in Sunday's Detroit Free Press about Medicare open enrollment probably didn't seem unusual to readers amid the national health-care debate. But the idea for the articles didn't come from an editor or reporter at the newspaper. It came from health insurer Humana Inc., which" [...]
"We don’t need government support of this kind. It will lead us down a path that media reformers will rue: licensing of journalists, picking of winners and other pernicious outcomes. Government surely does have a role, no question. But it should be to create the fundamental communications infrastructure on which" [...]
"Big newspapers, big magazines, big radio and TV… these are industrial age creatures. Some will persist in the new age that is coming upon us. But they will need to adapt to the new networked environment, where everybody can contribute. That environment is very new. Think of today as a" [...]
"This is the last in our series on Social Media Time Management, but you’ll really find that these are less ideas about managing just social media and more ideas for managing online life in general. It’s a balancing act. And ultimately, you’re in the driver’s seat."
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"In recent months the search giant has released a dangerous trio of local services that newspapers and local publications should begin planning their counterattack (or their partnership agreements). Each new feature is a clever integration of an existing Google service localized to maximize advertising revenue. Make no mistake, Google is" [...]
"Like "groups" in other clients, Twitter Lists enable users to follow collections of breaking news feeds, news outlets, specific journalists, niche sources, or any group of related Twitter users -- perhaps those with geographical ties or connections to a specific event."
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"The Pet Holdings Network boasts 12 million uniques a month and does 1 billion page views every four months. Those numbers are astounding for a 26-person, user generated content company built largely on frivolity. We all know about Cheezburger, which surpassed 1 billion page views last month. But FAIL blog" [...]
9. Headlines should tempt, not tease.
Make people want to know what’s on the other side of the link not just wonder what the story is about. Headlines should be straightforward, making a promise, not baffling readers because they are scanning for specific facts.
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"Your friends and contacts are a key part of your life online. Most people on the web today make social connections and publish web content in many different ways, including blogs, status updates and tweets. This translates to a public social web of content that has special relevance to each" [...]
"There are several reasons as to why circulation keeps dropping, aside from former readers who have kicked the print edition to the curb. Publishers have been purposely pulling back on certain types of circulation, including hotel, employee and third-party sponsored copies. No longer are they distributing newspapers to the outer" [...]
"Worried that too many tweets are mere pointless babble? So is Australia’s Griffith University, who recently made Twitter education part of the mandatory courseload for journalism students. According to a senior lecturer at the University, “Some students’ tweets are not as in depth as you might like.” The solution? Make" [...]
"Here's a startling conclusion by Perry Drake of database marketing firm Drake Direct: Facebook accounts for 25% of U.S. online pageviews. Perry's analysis was prompted by a study showing that the figure in the U.K. is 1 in 7. He pulled some Compete charts and concluded that the number here" [...]
"He also ticked off seven “questions that loom largest to us at the moment”: 1. the future role of Times Topics and other “living articles” 2. openness of Times content, integration of non-Times content, and social media 3. integration of print and digital operations, particularly for department heads 4. improved" [...]
"Far from resisting the transition to digital news delivery, nearly half of all print newspaper journalists think their newsrooms are moving too slowly, a report from Northwestern University's Media Management Center (MMC) finds. And while their publishers and sales directors may worry about how to replace dollars from print advertising" [...]
"Beginning Wednesday, most of Newsday.com content will only be available to subscribers of Optimum Online, Newsday, or those willing to pay for it. Those who are not customers of Optimum Online or the newspaper - both owned by Bethpage-based Cablevision Systems Corp. - will have to pay a $5 weekly" [...]
"Armstrong, who joined AOL in March after a stint as head of sales at Google, said that recently the company has increased its roster of journalists from 500 to over 3,000, and that over 3,000 pieces of content are posted every day to AOL properties. It's also now creating three" [...]
"Chase Carey, News Corp. deputy chairman suggested in comments he made at the OnScreen Summit, that it's just a matter of time before Hulu, the video service founded by News Corp and NBC Universal, launches a subscription service." "I think a free model is a very difficult way to capture" [...]
"Highlights • Any sponsored communication is subject to regulation. • Any relationship between blogger and advertiser must be disclosed i.e. a blogger must identify when he is speaking on behalf of an advertiser. The FTC equates an influencer who has been given consideration to a paid review or review by" [...]
"CNN.com, one of the top 25 websites in the US, just announced a radical redesign of its service at a press event in New York City. The new CNN.com homepage will be split up into three parts. On the left, CNN will now highlight breaking news stories, the middle section" [...]
"Former top editors of The Chicago Tribune and other journalists, backed by a public television station and a major foundation, on Thursday announced formation of a non-profit news organization in Chicago, which will provide pages of local news for a Chicago edition of The New York Times, to be launched" [...]
"Mere hours after today’s announcement that Twitter would now be integrated with Microsoft’s Bing search engine, Google has annouced that it too will include Twittter updates in its own search results."
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"USB 3.0 is fast enough to allow uncompressed 1080p video (currently our highest-definition video format) at 60 frames per second, says Jeff Ravencraft, president and chair of the USB-IF. That would enable a camcorder to forgo video compression hardware and patent licensing fees for MPEG-4. The user could either stream" [...]
"Yahoo! started out as a hand-curated directory of links and will now recognize the value of manual curation again in a new project to be run by respected online journalist Andrew Golis. That according to Golis himself, who comes from Talking Points Memo - a site widely recognized as one" [...]
"Earlier this year, the Associated Press, together with the Media Standards Trust, introduced hNews, a new microformat for describing news content. HNews allows publishers to easily attach machine-readable news semantics to content on the web. Today, the AP announced the completion of the first draft of hNews. In addition, TownNews," [...]
"... through a firmware update due to arrive in the first half of 2010, the [5D Mark II] SLR will be able to shoot 1920x1080 video not just at today's rate of 30 frames per second, but also at the 25fps rate used in European TV and the 23.976 fps" [...]
