-
Our new Birmingham Mail site.
-
“The Birmingham Mail has relaunched its website to include more unique material, video, blogs and interactive content.”
-
“A new, title-specific website has been launched by the Birmingham Mail - with more unique content than ever before. “
-
“The Birmingham Mail newspaper has launched a new standalone website.”
Entries from January 2008
links for 2008-01-30
30 January 2008 · No Comments
Categories: Daily links
links for 2008-01-28
28 January 2008 · No Comments
-
“Our annual snapshot of the emerging shape of business.”
-
“Below, predictions on what to expect from citizen journalism in 2008, and the industry precedents behind them. “
-
“Digital media is not about scarcity and never will be. That’s the old media game. Online it’s about ubiquity, about being part of the conversation, about links, authority, page rank, and if you are a news organization like the WSJ - its about…”
-
“Last year was supposed to be the Year of the Widget, according to Newsweek, but only in the last few weeks has the beginning of a real monetization story emerged.”
-
“Here’s an edge principle: open beats closed. The converse is: you only have to close when your DNA isn’t quite there yet; when the way you manage things still kind of sucks. “
-
“Internet advertising will attract only $70 million in ad spend related to the summer Olympics, out of a total $1.5 billion in expected expenditures for the Beijing event, according to Lehman Brothers analyst Doug Anmuth’s Internet Inside Weekly report”
-
“BurstMedia found that more than seven out of 10 adult US Internet users surveyed had viewed online video content.”
-
“All five the national newspaper websites that publish their ABCe audits ended 2007 with substantial year-on-year readership gains despite slumping in December, typically a low-traffic month.”
-
“For many months, I’ve wanted to play around with setting up a vertical search engine using Google Custom Search. Today, I finally got around to it.”
-
Media vertical search engine from Howard Owens using Google Custom Search.
-
“Advertisers are pushing more ad dollars online, but the number of sites to house them are growing even faster.”
-
“Higher CPMs and strong growth in global consumer spending will contribute to a 34 percent EPS rise among major internet names in 2008, according to JPMorgan analyst Imran Khan. “
-
Smashing Magazine’s recommended books on usability and interaction design.
-
“Uttered by Dave Killeen, the word “geek” has no pejorative sense. Hachette Filipacchi’s digital director uses it as a compliment.”
-
“The New York Times announced today a text messaging service that will deliver the latest news, features and columns from the newspaper as well as features from The Times Magazine to cell phones and mobile devices.”
Categories: Daily links
links for 2008-01-25
25 January 2008 · No Comments
-
This is my local newspaper, called The Villager. If you live in Greenwich Village, NYC, you probably read The Villager. But there are several problems with The Villager (which was voted NY State’s “Best Community Newspaper”).
-
“So the Independent has relaunched its website. At first glance there’s nothing spectacularly new or innovative, but a deeper look reveals some intelligent changes - particularly on the business side of things.”
Categories: Daily links
links for 2008-01-24
24 January 2008 · No Comments
-
“Having been due to launch before Christmas, The Independent has today gone live with an attractive makeover that is modelled on its parent’s Irish Independent site and emphasises navigability, more commercial services and greater prominence for columni
-
“The Independent has revamped its website with an emphasis on more video and audio content.”
-
“now we’re delighted to have a new site that will not only match the best in terms of reliability, but also enable us to bring even more online”
-
“It’s often quite natural for people to comment on other comments within blogs, but the delay in comments appearing can make these ad-hoc conversations hard to follow, and repetitive comments.”
-
The online advertising industry should consider a TV-style watershed ban to restrict the marketing of products including alcohol on the internet, according to a report… by Deloitte’s technology, media and telecommunications practice.”
Categories: Daily links
links for 2008-01-23
23 January 2008 · No Comments
-
“Mail Online, BBC.co.uk, Telegraph.co.uk and Guardian Unlimited and Times Online (in that order) got the majority of their traffic from outside their native UK in November, comScore reports.”
-
“Foreign visitors now outnumber UK readers for five of the UK’s news websites, according to figures releases today.”
-
“The team behind the project has now attempted to satisfy some of the criticism thrown its way by responding to what it considers the main thrust of the argument against it.”
-
What people are doing online, and who participates.
-
“Still, that single sentence is worth another book. I won’t write it, but I’ll bet someone else does.”
-
“We doubt it will satisfy all our critics, but we hope that it shows that we take their comments seriously – and that these are not issues which we have simply not considered.”
-
“The fundamental different between print publishing and web publishing is that print distribution is a linear process, while web-native publishing is dynamic and non-linear, particularly when publishing on a web-native CMS like a blog”
-
“OpenID 1.0 is largely about authentication. OpenID 2.0 adds several important new capabilities: directed identities, attribute exchange, support or large requests and responses, robust support or extensions, support for XRIs”
-
Burst Media report: “While marketers have always found a way to get themselves in front of a largely captive audience, whether through TV commercials or banner ads, advertising on streaming videos is presenting some particular challenges”
-
“Can we find ways to monetize this engagement? Where is the value?”
-
“I fight Resistance every single day, and I thought you might be interested in some of the ways I fight and beat Resistance, daily.”
Categories: Daily links
links for 2008-01-22
22 January 2008 · No Comments
-
“Advertising over the next 11 years will be more of the same - online growth and a retreat from print - according to Advertising Association’s Long-Term Advertising Expenditure Forecast, compiled by WARC.”
-
“The report, by the Advertising Association and the World Advertising Research Centre, found that the shrinking of the newspaper market could occur despite the overall UK ad market growing by anything between 16.8% and 38%, depending on economic condition
-
“A worst-case scenario shows adspend rising over the next twelve years by just 16.8% to £18,600 million. But there’s also a much cheerier vision: if the economic sun shines, spend will soar 37.9% to £22m. “
-
“Las Vegas Sun. Whoa. I liked it a few days ago when I looked at the homepage and an article page or two, but I keep going back and it keeps growing on me.”
-
“I want to congratulate my friends over at The Las Vegas Sun for the release of that newspaper’s new site. It is awesome.”
-
New Las Vegas Sun
-
“Under the plans outlined by Griffee, 60 websites will be launched covering the BBC’s regions in Britain and Northern Ireland, including 40 in England. Griffee demonstrated how text, audio and video news could be navigated using a map of a specified regio
-
“Through a variety of methods, newspaper professionals can enlist consumers in evaluating their websites’ designs.”
-
“‘If only newspapers had charged for online access to the news when this whole Interweb thing got started, they wouldn’t be in such a mess right now’… This, my friends, is a false assumption.”
-
“But what really opened my eyes was how people are finding this blog. RSS feeds, tags, Goggle Reader, blog rolls, and links from other social networks. It’s about sharing.”
-
“Whenever I write about the need for journalists to start blogging in order to really get online journalism, some journosaur pops up with some snark about blogging and how journalism hasn’t changed because of the Web.”
Categories: Daily links
links for 2008-01-21
21 January 2008 · No Comments
-
“With the ever-growing popularity of social media, major media sites have come to understand the importance of audience participation”
-
“Major media sites have started to get the religion of audience participation, but there’s been one big hitch”
-
“XKCD has come up with an ingenious new solution to moderating online communities… The solution? A robot that automatically blocks any poster whose last comment wasn’t completely original”
-
“In trying to measure blogs, a lot of people put a great deal of stock in inbound links. It might not be going too far to say that inbound links have become the standard by which the influence of a blog is measured.”
-
“we should stop obsessing about technology and process and concentrate on content: how best to tell stories and reach audiences, using the most suitable tools across a multiplicity of platforms.”
-
“The goal is to make everyone in your community start talking about your newspaper and your Web site… Tear up your news hole. Destroy it… Do it fast and furiously, as if your life depended on it. Because it does.”
-
“There are now a range of local forecasts in the market, some more bullish and some more conservative. But all generally agree that locally targeted ads in search, display (including video) and classifieds are growing at rates faster than overall online a
-
“With all the doom and gloom hovering over the economy right now, analyst reports heralding brighter days for the future of internet ad spend continue to be released. “
-
Carl Fremont, Digitas: Premium content that marketers want to be associated with will get a higher CPM. But I believe something like 70% of streaming video inventory is still unsold.”
-
US: “Newsday’s online traffic edged past The Wall Street Journal Online in the month of December, according to the latest data from Nielsen Online”
-
Nielsen: “From October 2006-2007, the online population has aged from 35.7 to 37.9 years, with the share of 55+ year olds increasing from 16 per cent to 19 per cent.”
-
“But seriously, newspapers should break and update news online, as I’ve said before. However, after the initial crush of the story, you have to hone the piece. Don’t let sloppy writing stand.”
-
Slideshow on US presidential election campaign logos.
-
“At the Guardian Media Group’s online offsite yesterday, I watched a live demonstration of the benefits of following Howard Owens’ dictum for nonwired journalists.”
-
“Online Community Building has evolved since the days of forums, messageboards, listserves, and chatrooms. Blogs and Social Software create new types of communities which are decentralized and require additional community building strategies.”
-
“Which got me thinking about what citizen/networked journalism might learn from the battle that systems like Digg (which accepts anonymous users) and Google (which interprets open linking on the web) have waged against gaming.”
-
“Because we live in an age when social media sites are our daily bread, it seems natural to turn to them as resources for writing a story.”
Categories: Daily links
links for 2008-01-18
18 January 2008 · No Comments
-
“David Muir, CEO of WPP’s The Channel, gives the agency’s ad share projections for the UK. Online is now at 25% (far ahead of the U.S., by the way) and they predict it will surpass TV — and all other media — next year.”
-
“Advertising budgets took bigger cuts in the final quarter of 2007 than at any time in two years, according to the latest Bellwether report, the quarterly measure of the health of the marketing industry.”
-
“There are at least five simple things (and none of them require a huge time commitment once started) you can do to help your site grow traffic. All of them are ethical, both from an SEO perspective and an SPJ perspective.”
-
Media career 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0.
-
“Following this week’s post about Archant’s experiences with geotagging, Andrew Williams looks at how the BBC is using the technology in its prototype hyperlocal web service. “
-
“The magic is not in the invention, but in the execution, the singular focus on user experience. Apple’s innovation is aggressively outsourced. Smart integration of other people’s ideas has transformed the entire company.”
-
“That’s the opportunity. Perfect existing technologies — make them work for people on the web.”
-
“Here are OJR’s top tips from this year, to help you and your news organization create a more engaging news website.”
-
Rachel Sterne: “2008 is upon us—what better time for a progress report on citizen journalism? Over the past twelve months, investors shelled out, mainstream media perked up and thousands mobilized to share their news with the world.”
-
“From a number of different sources, we have rounded up 10 key trends that we think are the ones to watch out for in 2008. “
Categories: Daily links
links for 2008-01-17
17 January 2008 · No Comments
-
On jourgnostics: “What did it say? I paraphrase here, suggested that you cant teach the web so if people are not embedded in it all ready – in that culture – then they weren’t worth training. They had chosen to leave themselves behind.”
-
“Could 2008 be the year geotagging breaks through?”
-
“UK real estate portal Propertyfinder.com has appointed former MSN UK MD Gillian Kent as its new CEO”
-
“Trinity Mirror plc is pleased to announce the acquisition of The Career Engineer Limited, an online job board specialising in the engineering profession”
-
“I’ve been quoting Neil McIntosh of the Guardian to my students this week, saying he expects job applicants to have a blog.”
Categories: Daily links
links for 2008-01-14
14 January 2008 · No Comments
-
“What we’d like your magic wand to do, news industry people kept telling me, is change the culture at our company and in our newsroom, because it’s holding us back and ensuring our ultimate failure.”
-
“If WSJ.com were to go free, it would require a twelve-fold increase in traffic to compensate its losses from subscription revenues, according to a report by Bear Sterns analyst Spencer Wang.”
-
“Earlier today, Peter Horrocks, the Head of BBC Newsroom, gave a presentation at the Broadcast News and the Active Citizen conference taking place at the University of Leeds Institute of Communication Studies.”
-
“In a speech I gave earlier today at the University of Leeds’ Institute of Communications Studies, I discussed some of the issues about what is termed “user-generated content”. The text of my speech is below, and I’d be interested in your thoughts about t
-
“The Daily Telegraph has quietly dumped Telegraph PM, the daily printable pdf version of the paper.”
Categories: Daily links
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. 
Subscribe (RSS)
