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“It became immediately obvious to Reuters that if you are going to be a plausible news operation then you have to mix professional and amatuer photographers” – Mark Jones, Reuters global communities editor.
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Matt Locke: know who you want to have a conversation with and how your community talks to itself, be clear about the structure of your conversation, not everything has to be out in the open and make open innovation networks IP-free spaces
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Usability testing tool: tracks usage of your sites, lets you watch videos of how users interact with your sites, and groups similar users together.
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Personal ads: “So what’s the big difference between web-native Craigslist and the newspapers’ online version of their print cash cow? Craigslist is an open platform.”
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“DoubleClick has signed up 35 Web publishers, advertising networks, agencies and advertisers to test the system, which should be up and running in the third quarter.”
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“Seven national cable networks tested the exchange over the last month, and executives at those networks decided it went too far in removing humans from the ad sales process”
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New del.icio.us Firefox add-on: “The biggest change is that we now integrate all your bookmarks right in the browser. From the new sidebar you can sort and search your bookmarks instantly, view tag intersections, and even modify your bookmarks.”
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Google My Maps: “You can add placemarks, draw lines and shapes, and embed text, photos and videos — all using a simple drag and drop interface”
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“a lack of standards for placing podcast ads or measuring audiences has hobbled ad spending, which only hit $80 million last year.”
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“The concepts below were inspired by GTD, and might be considered blaspheme by GTD fundamentalists — they’re what I started doing after I read two of his books, and they work for me.”
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“eight of the fired reporters have started up their own local news site, Santa Barbara Newsroom, to compete with the News-Press.” [Via Martin Stabe]
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“A football correspondent who launched his own local football website after losing his job on a regional paper is planning to franchise his site to other journalists… the two-man operation has achieved £3,000 a month in revenues”
links for 2007-04-07
7 April 2007 · 2 Comments
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Hello. I'm David Black. I work as Group Director of Digital Publishing at Trinity Mirror plc. This personal blog includes links on the trends transforming newspaper and classified businesses online. 
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Stewart Robinson // 9 April 2007 at 6:51 pm |
Hi Dave,
if you’d like to know more about project red stripe Dave, then let me know. I am sure we’d be happy to meet with you.
Stew
David Black // 9 April 2007 at 9:46 pm |
Great to hear from you – I should’ve known you’d be behind this! Look forward to speaking to you soon.