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"There's a lot of time being spent these days chasing old ideas for the online news business that seem new to some people. Meanwhile, lots of smart folks are doing some very good work in truly inventing the future of online news."
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"In Part 1 of this series, I took a look at what traditional news organizations are doing to push the envelope in online innovation. But not surprisingly, some of the more advanced work in this area is being done by small startups that can be more nimble and aggressive than their mainstream counterparts."
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'I was talking to another group of students about their assignments and encouraging them to consider a kind of check list, based on the tried and tested 5 W’s, when they where starting off on a story."
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"Carpe diem on any duplicate content worries: we now support a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL. If your site has identical or vastly similar content that's accessible through multiple URLs, this format provides you with more control over the URL returned in search results."
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"Newsgathering, production and distribution are often the same thing in an online environment The point is clear. Thanks to networked technologies – and RSS in particular – there is no reason why newsgathering cannot also be news production, or news distribution."
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"Where does news come from? The answer, much of the time, is from newswires."
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"Not all businesses will figure out the transition from marketing site to media property — and not all that do will be good at it (writing and producing video is hard). Media production is simply becoming a skill that separates mediocre businesses from great ones. Companies that have the creative skills to attract an audience with quality, independent content are excelling."
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"Many (arguably most) news and media websites now include social bookmarking buttons, which allow users to add their favourite stories to sites like Digg, Delicious, Reddit, StumbleUpon and Facebook, but the Telegraph’s widget takes things a little further"
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"the following is a quick outline of various strategies for finding people of interest on Twitter."