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“The cartograms below show the world through the eyes of editors-in-chief, in 2007. Countries swell as they receive more media attention; others shrink as we forget them”
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“Quotably may be the best third party Twitter-related service so far. That’s because it reformats Twitter messages into threaded conversations, making it significantly easier to follow actual discussions that are occurring on Twitter.”
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Easter facts – you’ll need to scroll up and down a bit. [via currybet]
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“Bloggers school publishers on the wild ways of the Web.” [via MartinStabe]
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“Relevancy, accuracy and up-to-datedness of content are key problems that websites face today. You don’t need a redesign to address these issues.”
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“This month, the company introduced a search-within-search feature that lets users stay on Google to find pages on popular sites like those of The Washington Post, Wikipedia, The New York Times, Wal-Mart and others.”
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“Unlike circulation figures for newspapers, which are calculated as a daily average, website unique users are cumulative. So there is some merit to the theory that numbers suffered because February was a short month..”
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iReport.com: “Susan Grant, executive vice president of CNN News Services, answered some questions about the new site via e-mail:”
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Steve Dyson: “While I’m out of town, I challenge you all to write better page 1 splash headlines than appear in the print edition of the Birmingham Mail each day from Monday March 24 to Saturday March 29.” [via Martin Stabe]
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Hadn’t spotted this before – Press Gazette is using Disqus to power the comments on its articles.
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“Clay Shirky points out that much of the confusion we face in contextualising blogging and other so-called ‘user generated content’ comes from misunderstanding the grey area that the Internet has created between broadcast and communications media”
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“Mapping and geosearch infrastructure provider MetaCarta has launched GeoSearch news, which locates news stories on a map. One can search by keyword or browse by category in a location.”
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Geotags and maps news stories.
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“How does the feed concept scale — without forcing people to hire their own netops team to watch the feed. And I’ve come to two rough conclusions…”
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“Ponyfish is a FREE web-based tool that allows you to create your own RSS feeds from almost any web page.”
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“What is demographic bidding? It’s a feature that helps you target your ads to users of a particular age group (such as ages 18-24), by gender, or to combinations of those groups.” [Adwords
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"From a widget analytics perspective, I would of course always consider the grab rate... number of times the widget has been shared and whether or not those new placements of the widget are staying active or churning off." [via Ilana_Fox]
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“eMarketer predicts that, despite the economic rough patch, US online advertising will continue to grow through 2008. Online ad spending will rise by 23%. “
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Jeff Jarvis: “Will big media brands, Google’s ad network or an open network win more of the online ad market?”
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“Aggregate everything into one easy to monitor dashboard, take action automatically on critical things that I’ve told the dashboard it can take action on, and organize the rest of the notifications in a way that I can deal with.”