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To Save Themselves, US Newspapers Put Readers to Work – Wired
Gannett: “By March 2006, the pieces were in place. The Web was to become the primary vehicle for news, with frequent, round-the-clock updates. The newsroom would be rechristened the Information Center,…”
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Weekend Sherpa offers e-mail model for online start-ups – OJR
“Launching a new Internet news publication? Don’t forget the possibilities of e-mail in a rush to get on the Web.”
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What Will The Metro Newspaper Look Like In 2020? – Online Spin
Dave Morgan, Chairman, Tacoda. “Our news and information products won’t be large, comprehensive and “averaged” for mass consumption as they are today in a newspaper. Consumers will get best-of-breed information services from many different providers.”
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Google Shift on Handling of News – New York Times
“Google is playing host to articles from four news agencies, including The Associated Press, the company said Friday, setting the stage for it to generate advertising revenue from Google News.”
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Google Begins Hosting News on Its Site – Forbes.com
“It could diminish Internet traffic to newspaper and broadcast companies’ Web sites where those stories and photos are also found – a development that could reduce those companies’ revenue from online advertising.”
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Google and the wires torpedo newspapers – mathewingram.com/work
“In a sense, the deal with Google News puts wire services such as Reuters and AP into competition with the newspapers that are its members and customers”
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Google Now Officially Competing with Newspapers; So is AP – Dan Gillmor
“The most interesting part of this deal is that the Associated Press is one of Google’s news providers. Yet the AP is owned by the news organizations.”
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Twitter Blocks: Public Timeline
Looks a bit like an old Commodore 64 game. “Blocks are recent statuses from users and the people they follow (and the people they follow…)”
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Embed Flickr Slideshows within Your Site – flickrSLiDR
“flickrSLiDR allows you to easily embed the classic flickr slideshows on your website or blog. All you need to do is enter the flickr URL address of the user, photo set or group you would like to embed along with some options.” [via mickturner]
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Want to see a great 3D model of London online? Ordnance Survey says no – Technology, The Guardian
“A scheme to make urban planning in London more democratic has been scuppered by the usual suspect: Ordnance Survey” [via plasticbag]
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Images resized just how you’d like – Technology , Guardian Unlimited
Amazing video on image resizing with automatic editing. Watch this. [via plasticbag]
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Online Video on the Rise – Searchviews
“AOL’s Advertising.com found that 62% of US Internet users watch video content online, of which, 69% prefer to watch short-format news clips.”
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reCaptcha: Stop Spam, Read Books
“reCaptcha improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of captchas for humans to decipher.”
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[pdf] Future of Media Report, July 2006 – Future Exploration Network
“Its intent is to provide a variety of perspectives on the future of media, particularly internationally, that will spark conversations, and hopefully new ideas, strategies, and initiatives.”
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[pdf] Future of Media Report, July 2007 – Future Exploration Network
“This year we have brought together entirely new content for our Future of Media Report, again to provide a starting point for discussion at the Future of Media Summit, and to offer value to the broader media community who are not able to attend”
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Study shows video playing big role for newspaper sites – Newsandtech.com
“Newspapers are increasingly mining video and multimedia to boost their online traffic, according to a recent study from The Bivings Group. The study said 92 percent of the largest 100 U.S. newspaper sites are offering video, a 31 percent jump from last y
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Still Partying Like It’s 1999 – Recovering Journalist
“Web users these days are fluent and comfortable with such Web 2.0 tools as social networks, user-generated content, blogs, etc. But many of these features are still slow to be adopted, much less exploited, by newspaper sites.”
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[pdf] American Newspapers and the Internet: Threat or Opportunity – The Bivings Group
” The Bivings Group conducted the following study to evaluate how well American newspapers
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Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalianism! – OUPblog
“One question I often field in my capacity as OUP’s editor for American dictionaries is, ‘What’s the longest word in the dictionary?’”
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Google News Hosting Wire Service Stories Diminishes Value Of Duplicate Content – Publishing 2.0
“The wire version of a story used to be a valuable resource for a print newspaper. Online, it’s now a commodity, and Google has just completed the process of commodification.”
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Google hosts wire stories: Meh – William M. Hartnett
“Were people on The Internets beating down the virtual door of your localnewspaper.com looking for the latest, already-available-everywhere updates on big national and international stories?”
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Big is over, portals are past – BuzzMachine
“If you buy 10,000 impressions, aka eyeballs, you can buy them on a big site or a bunch of small sites, it doesn’t matter. Big brings no advantage other than convenience and it also brings some disadvantages like inefficiency and price.”
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US: Print ad sales hit 10-year low – Reflections of a Newsosaur
“So, let’s get one thing straight: Improving online sales, while a good thing, won’t help an industry whose primary revenue base has been eroding at an ever-quickening rate for six straight quarters.”
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News now is all about time – howardowens.com
“On the web, there is no lead story. There is only now.”
links for 2007-09-03
3 September 2007 · Leave a Comment
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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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