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“‘So there we go - a nice big debate about the issues, which is a good thing,’ writes Donnacha DeLong over at the NUJ’s New Media blog. And he’s right, the debate is being picked up by several bloggers.”
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“I have stood back for too long from the digital debate raging within the National Union of Journalists. But postings by Jeff Jarvis and the Daily Telegraph’s Shane Richmond cannot be ignored.”
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“The Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe (IAB Europe) and the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA) announced today a new joint initiative designed to establish the first ever standard international definitions for interactive audience mea
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“Jeff Jarvis challenges news organizations to define the role of editor in the 21st century, i.e. Editor 2.0. Jeff connects a number of dots that involve a significant, even radical shift in the traditional editorial role, such as new search/tag editor po
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“Connect these dots to create the job description of the 21st century editor:”
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“The resignation of Roger Alton, the award winning editor of The Observer, has thrust into the open a long running feud over the direction and profitability of the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper.”
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“In the twelve weeks since my last report, the site has grown to 11,000 members. A third of these have started a blog - down from a half after eight weeks - the rest are commenters and users of My News.”
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“A much-hyped, much-anticipated and much-delayed, very “Web 2.0″ regional newspaper portal is finally set to launch late this evening in Germany.”
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“The New York Times likes open source — so much so that, as it gradually moves more of its print operations online, it is nurturing a Web development team that has released two of its own open source projects.”
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“A blog about open source technology at The New York Times, written by and primarily for developers. This includes our own projects, our work with open-source technologies at nytimes.com, and other interesting topics in the open source and Web 2.0 worlds.
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“A whole mythology is emerging around the idea of “users” — consumers, fans, regular average folk — creating content that media companies and brands can leverage. It’s a compelling idea — but it’s a myth.”
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“Likewise, with Facebook, there are tens of thousands of ways to interpret, use, and re-distribute the data entered into your profiles and related data fields into useful and entertaining ways - and 100% of the active userbase is involved in the content c
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“there’s no question that social media is built on the idea that there’s plenty of talent out there that traditional media isn’t letting you see.”
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“So what is Guardian America, what makes a British newspaper think that Americans will want to imbibe its view of America and the world, and why, having decided to undertake such an improbable project, would the paper place it in my hands?”
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“Finally Aftonbladet has started to automatically link to blog posts linking to its articles.”
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“With the Web reshuffling how the most avid users of news get their information, editors’ roles are changing - not vanishing, but definitely being challenged.”
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“Welcome to the new look MediaGuardian website, on the day we relaunch in a new format.”
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“I’m trying to come around to APML, because so many folks tell me it’s not only necessary for advertising and marketing on the web to evolve, but there’s a large amount of movers and shakers saying it’s the ‘Next Big Thing’.”
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Directory of open source content management systems.
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“Early on, the Mercury News saw the Web threat coming. It’s still struggling to survive.”
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“Print ads are shrinking and layoffs are legion, but there remains much to cheer in the troubled newspaper business, argues Fortune’s Richard Siklos.”
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“Metadata facilities in the mobile automatically combine all the information the device has about the context for the story - location, time, date.”
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“One million pages of text from 19th century publications went online last night as part of a British Library project to digitise its journals.”
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“As news organisations inexorably shrink along with their audiences, revenue and staffs, I believe that one way for journalism itself to expand is through collaboration with the communities it covers.”
Entries from October 2007
links for 2007-10-29
29 October 2007 · No Comments
Categories: Daily links
links for 2007-10-28
28 October 2007 · No Comments
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“‘So there we go - a nice big debate about the issues, which is a good thing,’ writes Donnacha DeLong over at the NUJ’s New Media blog. And he’s right, the debate is being picked up by several bloggers.”
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“I have stood back for too long from the digital debate raging within the National Union of Journalists. But postings by Jeff Jarvis and the Daily Telegraph’s Shane Richmond cannot be ignored.”
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“The Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe (IAB Europe) and the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA) announced today a new joint initiative designed to establish the first ever standard international definitions for interactive audience mea
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“Jeff Jarvis challenges news organizations to define the role of editor in the 21st century, i.e. Editor 2.0. Jeff connects a number of dots that involve a significant, even radical shift in the traditional editorial role, such as new search/tag editor po
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“Connect these dots to create the job description of the 21st century editor:”
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“The resignation of Roger Alton, the award winning editor of The Observer, has thrust into the open a long running feud over the direction and profitability of the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper.”
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“In the twelve weeks since my last report, the site has grown to 11,000 members. A third of these have started a blog - down from a half after eight weeks - the rest are commenters and users of My News.”
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“A much-hyped, much-anticipated and much-delayed, very “Web 2.0″ regional newspaper portal is finally set to launch late this evening in Germany.”
Categories: Daily links
links for 2007-10-22
22 October 2007 · No Comments
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“rather than just having reporters gather facts and fuse them into a “blob” that is unreadable by machines (aka, a news story), Holovaty wants to also see news organizations compiling that information into a database format that can be easily browsed”
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“When I published the news diamond model, a number of commentators from Brazil and Portugal compared it with João Canavilhas’ ‘Tumbled Pyramid’ model, which looks at online reading patterns and suggests a new way to structure online journalism.”
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“The popularity of the online versions of the UK’s leading national newspapers has increased at three times the rate of overall UK internet growth, a survey has concluded.”
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“Local newspapers celebrated today as the BBC abandoned plans to introduce an ultra-local TV service on satellite.”
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“In order to attract new generations of local news viewers, significant investment is planned in developing an online broadband multi-media interactive offer, MyLocalNow, subject to approval by the BBC Trust.”
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“You can see Facebook updates and photos with a click, scroll through Flickr photos, drag and drop your own photos on a friend in your People sidebar to share them, post something to a blog and even use your sidebar as a notebook for future blog posts…”
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“The Post is aiming to bridge the cultural gulf by bringing 20 print people over to the website for a few days. The aim is to communicate the difference between mediums… By comparison, USAToday has moved to integrate the print and online operations.”
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“According to panelists at the Web 2.0 Summit on Thursday, startups that fight to be the next “It” platform probably won’t survive the Web 2.0 era. Startups that fight to be a part of the platform have a far better chance.”
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“Consider this my first attempt at a photoblog entry.”
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“That’s the essence of Web 2.0. Data has limited value locally, or walled off on a single site. But pool that data, and the whole becomes much greater than the sum of its parts, allowing everyone who puts data in to take much more value out.”
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“This is my attempt at live-blogging the ONA panel on the future of news at the CBC in Toronto with Leonard Brody of NowPublic, Rahaf Harfoush, who did research for Don Tapscott’s book Wikinomics, and Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur.”
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“I’m in Toronto for the annual Online News Association conference. I’m one of the early members of ONA but haven’t been at one of these gatherings in some time. Lots of heavy hitters from online news organizations here.”
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“Anil made this astute observation, ‘Journalism is the culture of infallibility.’ Josh said, ‘The fear of failure can stall innovation’.”
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“Carr et al also ignore the economic reality of Google and the link becoming the new means of media distribution. If you hide your stuff, it cannot be found. And so long as you are hidden, your competitors will grab that distribution and marketshare…”
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“Last month, the New York Times discontinued TimesSelect, the program that required readers to pay a subscription fee to read popular columnists and access the paper’s archives”
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“Both the subscription model then, and the advertising model now, were likely to have been reasonable choices. Free online access makes more sense now… because the online advertising market has matured.”
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“Using new micro data from Washington, DC, I estimate the relationship between the print and online papers in demand, the welfare impact of the online paper’s introduction, and the expected impact of charging positive online prices.”
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“Online media can take advantage of network effects which offline media cannot… the Times’ opinion pages, possibly the best raw material for blogging and online discussion, didn’t participate in that virtuous cycle for the past several years”
Categories: Daily links
links for 2007-10-21
21 October 2007 · No Comments
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“The real question is how long it will take newsrooms around the world to teach their editors and journalists how to write for the web, automatically implying an element of SEO.”
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“If the BBC is looking for cuts in its online operations, there are a few areas that are perhaps a little too ’specialist’”
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“hen I asked Backfence’s Mark Potts what he/we most need to get to the next level, he replied, ‘a business model.’ No one has a good business model for this stuff — let alone for the future of news. “
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“It found that the average UK visitor to social networking sites spent 5.8 hours per month on those sites and made 23.3 visits in August. This was a significantly heavier usage level than in France, which averaged 2 hours per month and 16.8 visits per vis
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New UK Harvard Business Review site. Seems to be lacking an RSS feed.
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“What if Google had to design their user interface for Google?”
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“Among its decisions about the future of the BBC yesterday, the BBC Trust also approved the launch of BBC.com - which will mean international users of our website will see advertising on selected pages in the near future.”
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“Newspapers should, in fact, invest themselves in the success of the local blog ecosystem because doing so is good for them. Trying to build a sexier walled garden is unforgivably stupid.”
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“Northcliffe Media has appointed Mike Rowley to the newly created post of Director of Digital Publishing.”
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“To be truly alive, truly new, truly part of the life of its readers, a newspaper needs to be on the live web and not just the static one. It needs to flow news, and not just post it. It needs to flow rivers of news, or newsrivers.”
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“Listening to some of the speakers at the J-Lab’s workshop, absorbing the talk at last week’s Networked Journalism Summit, and adding what I’ve learned from doing PressThink, the model I see emerging would combine…”
Categories: Daily links
links for 2007-10-18
18 October 2007 · No Comments
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Our new site for the Daily Record, with more web-only content, interactivity and multimedia, and a new design.
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“The Daily Record has relaunched its website with a stronger focus on interactive, multi media and user-generated content.”
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“Its new website was soft-launched last week and the result is very pleasing indeed. Easy on the eye and easy to use. Plenty of bells and whistles. It is a terrific improvement and will surely attract an audience.”
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“Trinity Mirror Regionals is to launch a crowd-sourcing pilot project at one of its Liverpool newspaper titles.”
Categories: Daily links
links for 2007-10-15
15 October 2007 · No Comments
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“Online ad spending remains strong on both sides of the Atlantic, but two reports examining growth rates shows U.K. edged out the U.S., based on the pace of spending, during the first half of 2007.”
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Bruno Patino, Vice President of Le Monde: “In France, the small size of the market made it interesting to include revenues from a limited amount of subscribers, unlike the huge English-speaking market.”
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“What we should be doing instead, of course, is moulding media to new technology. We should be asking what new we can do on this new iPhone.”
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August Netratings stats: “The ten most popular national newspapers in the UK in terms of audience size, growth and the time spent on the sites, according to new data from Nielsen//Netratings.”
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Presentations from last week’s AOP conference.
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“But at the same time there’s a growing sense that elements of social networking is something all good sites should have, not just dedicated social networks.”
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“Companies tend to make use of them to draw users’ attention to their latest products. And users literally can’t stand them, because splash pages usually take a long time to load and provide (almost) no navigation options — except of “entering the
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“Came across a new UK news service this morning via a Technorati link back to this blog - SaysWho?, a new service that aggregates bloggers who have commented on stories from a (currently small) selection of UK newspaper websites.”
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“Talking Back to the Press”
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“This process is happening via several major movements: The rise of APIs; The proliferation of vertical applications that run on top of existing data; An increase in classic Semantic Technologies and Microformats; The spread of RSS as an information deliv
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“We’ve praised news sites for adding reader commenting…However… Readers of news sites (and blogs) go to those specific destinations to read news in the voice they expect — not to see a public argument from commenters.”
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“…the Toronto Star reportedly abandoning (E&P) its afternoon PDF TorontoPM on grounds that ‘time moves on, technology advances, and new, improved products replace old ones’.”
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“Increasingly, they say, too much media depends on advertising as the only source of revenue. With new players from software makers to cable operators also trying to cash in, the dollars simply may not stretch far enough.”
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“the big problem is not that ad spending is drying up, it’s that the bulk is concentrated in a few sites. Citing the IAB, Reuters points out that the top 50 websites in the U.S. took in more than 90 percent of the revenue from online ads in H107″
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“people online generally are more actively engaged in doing things and probably have less inclination to view ads, even more targeted ones. Advertisers instinctively know this. So I wonder if ad spending will ever catch up to the amount of time spent onli
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“We are reaching a point where the number of inputs we have as individuals is beginning to exceed what we are capable as humans of managing… Human attention does not obey Moore’s Law.”
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“Search is the leading edge of this second wave of consolidation — what we might call the consolidation of “attention allocation,” to give it a larger frame than search.”
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“The proliferation of blogs written by scientists (biology blogs being the most popular, followed by physics and climatology) means that the scientific discourse that used to take place behind lab doors is now open to everyone.” [via Martin Stabe]
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“The reshuffle means that teams responsible for managing ABC’s print-based media members will now take charge of all multi-platform content produced by these groups.”
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“In the last four years, the share of time devoted to viewing Content online has experienced the greatest growth, increasing from 34% to 47% of time spent, outpacing all other activities. There are a number of factors contributing to Content’s rapid rise.
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“As a group, they’ve experienced 30 per cent growth which is particularly impressive considering the online audience itself has grown by just more than 9 per cent in the same period.”
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“I want del.icio.us to look at my bookmarks and recommend not just other URLs I might be interested in, but also other users whose tastes are similar to mine.” Wonder when del.icio.us will finally get features like this?
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“Neuromarketers use sophisticated brain-imaging technology to test consumer response and help clients fine-tune their strategies”
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“So contrary to all the reporters’ claims Burton did not find that there were 9 scientific errors in An Inconvenient Truth, but that there were nine points that might be errors or where differing views should be presented for balance.”
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“Journa-list is an independent, not-for-profit website that makes it easy for people to find out more about journalists and what they write about.” [via Phil Gyford]
Categories: Daily links
links for 2007-10-10
10 October 2007 · No Comments
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Our new Scottish business site launch.
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“Trinity Mirror’s multi-media ambitions have taken a positive step with the launching of a Scottish business news website and an accompanying weekly free newspaper. The Business7.co.uk site certainly looks good, with a clean design.”
Categories: Daily links
links for 2007-10-08
8 October 2007 · No Comments
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“Internet advertising revenues for the first half of 2007 reached nearly $10 billion, setting a new record representing an increase of nearly 27 percent over the same period last year, according to a new report from the IAB and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.”
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“Internet advertising revenues (U.S.) for the first six months of 2007 were nearly $10 billion, setting yet another new record and representing a nearly 27 percent increase over the first half of 2006.”
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Full report on US internet advertising revenues for H1 2007.
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US: “Ad revenues remained ‘concentrated with the ten leading ad-selling companies, which accounted for 70 percent of total revenues in the second quarter of 2007, down slightly from 71 percent reported for the second quarter of 2006,’ according to the IAB
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“Nobody worries much about production values [for contributed content] right now, but this will become a bigger deal. As time goes by we get hungry for higher quality. I think you’ll see a rapid improvement.”
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“Based on the total ad revenue per reader, in Q2 Bank of America estimates that on average, newspaper publishers generated about $25 to $38 of ad revenue per daily online reader compared with $70 for each print daily reader.”
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“Distributed journalism means letting go of one asset - content - to build another: community. It means cultivating contacts, not just a contacts book. It means understanding communities, and sometimes being led by them.”
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‘Reinforcing the Blockbuster Nature of Media’: The Impact of Online Recommenders - Knowledge@Wharton“Recommenders — perhaps the best known is Amazon’s — tend to drive consumers to concentrate their purchases among popular items rather than allow them to explore and buy whatever piques their curiosity”
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“What I found most surprising about their work was that, in their simulations, a recommender algorithm that did compensate for bestseller bias (called r4 in their paper) still reduced diversity.”
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“news organizations need to get their content and services to where the young people are. That Facebook allows you to do this (while MySpace, as yet, does not) should be viewed as a huge favor bestowed on you.”
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“There’s no need for professional reporters to fear user-generated content. Someone needs to lead the Web’s content communities, and journalists make the ideal candidates.”
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“While I agree wholeheartedly that newspaper journalists should engage as leaders in the community conversation, I think it would be a mistake to overlook the shortcomings and handicaps we inherit from our past.”
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“Slideshows at NYTimes.com account for an amazing 10 percent of all traffic to the site, according to its general manager, Vivian Schiller.”
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“APML allows users to export and use their own personal Attention Profile… The idea is to compress all forms of Attention Data – including Browser History, OPML, Attention.XML, Email etc – into a portable file format”
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“A portable Attention Profile would allow a user to own (and optionally submit) a meta view of their interests to create instant relationships with “attention aware” products and services. This creates an instantly customized user experience.”
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“it’s fair to say no one has really done anything with [it]attention.xml]. One of the aspirations… of the APML Workgroup is to produce something that is ready to be implemented in the consumer space rather than build specifications and formats for the
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Potted summary of the AOP conference from Tim Elkington.
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1. The Internet is the Enemy. 2. We must display all of our site’s content all over the homepage. 3. People will pay for content online. 4. We can’t compete with Craigslist and other classifieds providers. 5. Websites are complicated”
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“Our web sites should be web sites, not newspaper sites. The daily dump doesn’t help us either in print or online and probably hurts us a lot more than we realize.”
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“Economist.com is profitable, Micklethwait says, although it might not be if the contributions of staff paid by the print edition were removed. The internet version includes blogs, but there are still no bylines”
Categories: Daily links
links for 2007-10-07
7 October 2007 · No Comments
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“Winner: GazetteLive.co.uk, Trinity Mirror - Sets a new benchmark for local news sites… we felt that we were part of that community.” Yay!
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“Teesside’s Evening Gazette was a double winner at last night’s AOP Online Publishing Awards, scooping two top prizes for its website GazetteLive.co.uk.”
Categories: Daily links
Consumer website of the year!
6 October 2007 · 1 Comment
We won Consumer Website Of The Year and Best Online Community for GazetteLive and Gazette Communities at the Association of Online Publishers’ awards on Wednesday night.
We had some great feedback from the AOP’s judges, who said that GazetteLive “sets a new benchmark for local news sites” and that our Teesside hyperlocal sites were “a cut above the other community sites - a great example of how to make local news feel real, with relevant interactivity.”
A fantastic result - congratulations to all of the team involved for the innovation and hard work that has gone into making this a success.
Categories: Awards · News
Tagged: Awards, Newspapers, newspapersites, community, aop, teesside, hyperlocal, gazettelive
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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