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“I learned — the hard way — some truths about grassroots content and online community. This is my attempt at preventing you from going through similar business heartache. “
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“To put it bluntly, if you need information on a subject, would you rather rely on the edited and proofread opinion of an expert, or the misspelled musings from some guy sitting in his basement?” Depends on who it is and what they have to say…
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“I don’t agree with the premise at all — citizens’ media has never been more robust or reliable — but here is a new meme beginning to make the rounds.”
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“Facebook is viewed as ‘real identity’, whereas MySpace is ‘fantasized identity’.”
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“The critique of convergence is placed within the context of rising local online ad revs, projecting growth of 47 percent this year to $8.5 billion and 44 percent to $12.5 billion in 2008. The implication being that on its own, local online advertising wi
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“This is a very dangerous position, because it keeps local television in a continued state of denial and ignorance. As long as stations believe that convergence advertising is the holy grail of Internet revenue, there is no incentive to learn of the new w
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“One in four internet users read consumer-generated reviews online, which then have a big impact – affecting not only what they purchase offline but also how much they are willing to pay for it, according to a new study conducted by comScore with The Kels
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“Las Ultimas Noticas has been using Web metrics tools to get a better understanding of their readers and have really tried to engage their readers in many innovative ways. “
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“This is a paraphrased collection of feedback provided on the blog www.joannageary.wordpress.com to the post “Anyone want to help design the Birmingham Post website?” I have tried to give a flavour of what was on the site (and elsewhere) in ten points
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“We are spending more and more time consuming information online. Logically, since time is finite online advertising spend should follow a similar trajectory with marketers allocating their ad budgets in proportion to where people are spending their time.
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“This prompted me to take a look at a typical weekday’s composite daily usage curve for Morris websites, which I hadn’t done in awhile. It looks like this…”
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“Absolutist declarations of the form ‘______ is dead’ are a cheap way to get links, and universally they are nonsense. Steve Boriss’ declaration that ‘citizen journalism is dead’ and ‘expert journalism is the future’ is an example.”
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“For Geotagging functionality to be anything more than a cool widget, it must also: Let users to define and save multiple areas of interest, Support physically defined regions, Account for more than just the hyper-local or the global scope…”
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“My question: why wait? What’s to stop us from doing cool things with geotagged news with Drupal or other existing free software tools?”
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“We’ve long wanted our team aggregator and media analyzer Managing News to automatically geotag the news that it tracks. But getting this to happen presented some interesting questions and challenges.”
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“This is a simple webservice that helps you in tagging textual content on and off the web.”
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“My Location is a new beta technology from Google that uses cell tower identification to provide you with approximate location information, so it will work on phones without GPS.” Just tried it. Right area but it thinks I am a few streets away, so not bad
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“we decided to follow the same design patterns and coding conventions used in Rails when we built our MVC framework. Yes that’s right we’ve built Perl on Rails. This isn’t quite as insane as it might appear.”
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“BBC Worldwide Chief Executive John Smith said he was initially hoping to make at least 10 percent of its total revenues from the Internet, but has now realized this target is too low.”
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“Adding more users to a social network increases the probability that it will put you in an awkward social circumstance… As more users flock to it, the chances that the person who precipitates your exodus will find you increases.”
links for 2007-12-03
3 December 2007 · 1 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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[...] links for 2007-12-03 By David Black “We’ve long wanted our team aggregator and media analyzer Managing News to automatically geotag the news that it tracks. But getting this to happen presented some interesting questions and challenges.” … David Black – http://david-black.org [...]