David Black

“My brief was, well, brief. What local newspapers are doing. The snapshot of that activity is here for you to share, use, add to, comment upon or otherwise consume.”

Presentation on UK regional and local newspaper online activity from Sarah Hartley.

“In the podcast we describe some of the methods and technology that we use to build guardian.co.uk.”

“Anyway, the whole issue got me thinking about steps I think media companies should take to improve their comments sections, short of requiring people to post using their real names.”

“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again (and again): Managing comments on newspaper Web sites isn’t exactly rocket science. But newspapers seem to keep thinking that it is.”

“To provide a common framework for the diverse participants, we introduced two “value network maps”; one of the old newsroom and the other of the emerging news ecology, along with a description of Value Network Mapping and Analysis.”

“To U.S. exports like blue jeans, iPods, and Iron Man, add the newspaper industry’s mantra of local, local, local. But Latin American dailies are launching hyper-local papers for reasons that differ interestingly from their U.S. peers.”

“Nearly 15 million UK internet users visited newspaper websites during March, according to the latest figures from web measurement firm ComScore.”

“Set up as a means for readers to publish their opinions, sites such as My Telegraph raise questions at the heart of the online debate”

Videos from Google Zeitgeist ‘08 Europe.

“News cannot continue to think of itself as a destination. It has to think of itself as a feed that goes to where you are.”

“the art of effective tagging consists in selecting a comprehensive enough set of keywords that organically describes the specific content while offering enough relevant hooks for this to be picked up by user searches.”

Oliver Luft on the Liverpool Daily Post’s liveblogging day and editorial conference webcast.

“Thomson Reuters has released a new version of its semantic tagging tool Open Calais along with plugins for several blogging and content management systems.”

“Emily Bell, director of digital for Guardian News and Media, told Journalism.co.uk that participating in online discussions is now seen by the paper as another ‘multimedia skill’ that journalists working online will need.”

iPhone-friendly version of Techmeme

Around 40 journalists responded when I asked for comments on the subject of making changes to archived stories. With few exceptions they said that amendments should be visible.”

“Introducing News Spectrum! It is a visualization of the words used for two topics in the latest results from Google News.” [Via Adrian Monck]

“Decker said that, moving forward, Yahoo would use visits rather than unique visitors as the most relevant metric for tracking the relative success of Yahoo sites… Ha! Let me bask in the light of a swift moment of ‘I told you so’.”

“One of the coolest areas of innovation on the web over the past several years has been in the realm of mapping and geolocation. So we’re excited to introduce two new plugins for Movable Type”

“Steve Moore invited me to answer the question: What comes next? In my case, I was supposed to talk about the future of newspapers.”

“TweetWire.com is a neo-newspaper that grabs the freshest links posted to Twitter. Get the most out of citizen journalism with Twitter and TweetWire.”