Daily Archives: 10 September 2007

“Eric Kearley from Television New Zealand… advocated “brands not shows”. That is, you create a brand (like “Big Brother”) that exists in multiple media (TV, online, print, figurines, interpretive dance), attempting to reuse your work as much as possibl

“Hollywood movie producers had a record summer, crossing $4 billion mark in ticket sales — an apparent contradiction to their claims about the industry falling part under attack from unfair copying by online sources and other pirates.”

New launch from Rafat’s ContentNext.

“The larger importance of Adblock is its potential for extreme menace to the online-advertising business model. Wladimir Palant, developer of the open-source Adblock Plus project… estimated there were 2.5 million users of Adblock Plus around the world.

“Adblock Plus, the Firefox browser plug-in that erases advertisements from web pages, is a killer of a killer app – or at least it could be if it ever becomes widely popular. Right now, it sits like a coyote at the edge of the net…”

“Marketers have to figure out how to make “ads” that benefit consumers – not impose nuisance costs on them. In a world where control shifts inexorably, ineradicably, irreversibly to consumers… there is no other possible outcome for marketing.”

“I just finished writing an essay for the World Association of Newspapers answering their question: What will newspapers be in 2020? And I see that my friend Dave Morgan is writing an essay answering the same question for the Newspaper Association of Amer

“By 2020, we had better hope that newspapers aren’t just papers anymore but are valued members of larger networks that enable their communities to gather, share, and make sense of the news they need.”

“Online traffic to classified sites, meanwhile, has grown 23 percent, to more than 46 million unique visitors in July, up from about 37 million a year earlier, according to the market research firm ComScore in Reston.”

“Regional newspaper web sites are well-represented on the shortlist for the prestigious Association of Online Publishers Awards… Gazette Live, which won website of the year at the Press Gazette Regional Press Awards, is nominated in four categories.”

“USAToday.com widgets allow you to view, read, and interact with your favorite USAToday.com content on your social network, blog, personalized page, or Web site.”

“As had been rumored for a while now, the social news site reincarnation of Netscape.com, about 14 months old, is now about to go dead, as the site reverts back to being a mainstream news site (essentially mirroring the AOL.com homepage).”

In tomments: “Oh, please. I think it’s because they have nothing else to do over there. Here is what I associate with the Netscape brand ever since AOL acquired it: beta testing” new ideas for AOL, a “guinea pig” brand used for market research for AOL…”

Hmmm: “The peer-to-peer solution has got unique issues with the Mac platform because we can only give our programming away for seven days for free and that’s quite a difficult rule to implement… so we would be looking at a streaming solution for the

“The Telegraph has launched a new on-demand video news service featuring the paper’s own reporters. The service, called Telegraph News Now, provides a seven-minute bulletin of stories that can be viewed as individual clips or in one sequence.”

“Ownership of their own personal information… Control of whether and how such personal information is shared with others… Freedom to grant persistent access to their personal information to trusted external sites.”

“Hopefully the discussion will push social networks in the direction of creating more open systems that let users have better access and control over the information and attention data they create.”

“As news organizations look for innovative ways of helping people consume and interact with the news, many are turning to Twitter.”

“What people are beginning to realise, I think, is that you can’t create decent media for nothing. You just can’t. So maybe there’s a sweet spot, one where editors and users come together to jointly create (or curate) something.”

Guardian’s new video section.

“A month ago Google News started to allow any person mentioned in a news story that they index to email in their comments for posting… Over the last 30 days or so, Google has posted a grand total of 104 comments.”

On the New York Times’s e-edition: “the Times Reader feels like a B-movie version of the genericized RSS content with better special effects”

Anthony Burrill: ‘Work Hard…’ (Second Edition), Letterpress poster [via plasticbag]

“At an architectural level, having a clean site hierarchy and an easily understood navigation structure also benefits both usability and SEO… What I want to emphasize here is one key point: Usability comes first, and SEO comes second.”