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“The problem with all the thinking on hyperlocal is that it’s focused on what we think people need, i.e. more local news reporting, not what they want, i.e. help getting things done”
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“Backfence’s real legacy may be that it was a laboratory that helped pave the way for newspapers to seriously pursue hyper-local solutions that, notably, are not centered around local news (which it turns out, is not always very compelling).”
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Netimperative covers my new job as group director of digital publishing.
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“It’s not yet a totally satisfying change, because with the likes of Google you want to somehow measure relevancy and with blogs you want to measure engagement. “
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“The key question is – from an economic pov, how much long-run value is Facebook really creating?”
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“Given the current state of debate about intellectual property, can you imagine modern publishers being willing to sell one copy of a book and then have the owner let an unlimited number of strangers borrow it?”
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“What makes Facebook such an attraction? Some theories…”
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“I’ve become completely enchanted by what I think of as the Facebook small town Twitter stream–aka status updates–that flow of one-sentence bulletins posted by people who are connected to me.”
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“Hopefully de-emphasising pageviews will discourage bad design practices developed to inflate pageview figures, such as photo galleries where pictures are posted on separate pages with buttons herding users through endless refreshes. Good riddance.”
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Newspaper site audiences ranked by minutes rather than page views.
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David,
Congratulations on the new position. I just wanted to drop you a note to hi and thanks for a great 3 years working with you.
See you around soon
Si