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"How can and should news organizations and others add value to the new news ecosystem that is being used in the Iran story?"
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"Welcome to the Future of Journalism on Open Salon."
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"Mobile advertising revenues in the US and Canada will grow from $208 million in 2009 to $1.5 billion by 2013, despite possible early consumer resistance to mobile ads, according to new research from Parks Associates."
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"On the open web, services get built on top of services… As we move up the aggregation stack, we start to assemble larger audiences… The new media is a disaggregated medium, where the channels themselves may be small but the microchunks that flow out of them can be very large."
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"What really distinguishes mobile is immediacy and location. You want news and info you can use immediately to make a decision—to reroute your trip home because of a traffic jam, to find out about a fast-breaking story or sports score, or to search and find a restaurant, an entertainment venue or a local business."
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"MediaShift’s Mark Glaser has some different suggestions for newspapers."
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"Craigslist, the “free classifieds” site that offers community advertising in 570 markets worldwide but charges only for a tiny percentage of its ads, will generate $100 million in revenue in 2009, the AIM Group / Classified Intelligence estimated today. That’s an increase of more than 23 percent from Craigslist’s estimated revenue of $81 million in 2008"
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"The consensus as of late seems to be that while ad sales have been down, they are stabilizing. Benchmark Capital analyst Clayton Moran says not so fast."
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"In essence, Sinha expects Q3 to remain slow, with the possibility for growth returning for the Q4 holiday season."
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"People often state that one advantage an online newspaper has over the printed edition is unlimited space. Whilst this may be true about the number of individual articles we publish, it isn't true about our online navigation."
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"Web developer Antone Roundy posted an intriguing YouTube video on his blog last week about how he's using the free Google Trends service to create online news content that draws massive traffic to his Net Pulse News project."
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"It soon will be – if it not already is – known as the Twitter revolution in Iran. But I’ll think of it as the API revolution. For it’s Twitter’s architecture – which enables anyone to create applications that call and feed into it – that makes it all but impervious from blocking by tyrants’ censors."
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"Reaction on Twitter and blogs was fast and furious, quite literally, in some instances to the proposals coming out of the Digital Britain report. "
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"You can’t please all of the people all of the time – sure enough, Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report is drawing a mixed response, if one slightly warmer than met the January interim version…"
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"Communication minister Lord Carter’s final Digital Britain report wants to fund nationwide low-speed broadband and new multimedia news consortia from the BBC’s digital switchover funds, and truly high-speed networks from a levy on old phone lines."