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The New York Times extended the TimesPeople social networking features across the site last night, adding a layer of Digg-esque recommendation and rating to its news stories. It's a free service designed to encourage users to spend more time on the site and drive up the number of ad page views.
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This took me to Umapper.com which has to be the best map service I've come across. It's excellent!
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"But as the Blogosphere grows in size and influence, the lines between what is a blog and what is a mainstream media site become less clear. Larger blogs are taking on more characteristics of mainstream sites and mainstream sites are incorporating styles and formats from the Blogosphere. In fact, 95% of the top 100 US newspapers have reporter blogs"
Archive for September, 2008
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"In a post on his blog, Stay N Alive (via Mashable), developer Jesse Stay says that while Project Beacon never really went away, Facebook may be readying it for a bigger comeback. Beacon, which shared details about member purchases as part of the news feed, stopped accepting new marketers last fall after an outcry from users and privacy advocates."
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10 Social Media Steps is a guide to how people with very little experience get get engaged with social web tools.
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"Far from turning teenagers into anti-social loners, video games help them engage with friends and community, says a report."
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In a nutshell, just add rel="tag" as an attribute in your tag hyperlinks. This may prove useful some time in the near future.
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Advertisers and readers of high-tech publications have moved online more swiftly than other audiences, so I.D.G. may offer a glimpse of the future of publishing. Yet the transition at I.D.G. came only after years of investment, upheaval and changes in its practice of journalism.
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"the most important difference between the top site and all the other sites, is that this top site — Drudge — has nothing but LINKS."
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Google Labs application that allows you to search for key phrases in videos of American politicians. I can't wait to see this being used in a wider context.
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The NCTJ said that the changes have been designed to address what it called "the general industry view that pre-entry trainees need to have a mindset for convergent journalism."
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"I really am beginning to think that the ideas that will redefine media, news and information in a digital age will not come from legacy companies. They are in the awkward position of trying to build a new business to support the old, and I increasingly think that two motivations are mutually exclusive."
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"I don't mean to denigrate the thousands of newspaper Web producers, editors, designers and programmers who are working their butts off every day to put out online versions of their printed newspapers. But that's the problem: They're usually putting out online versions of printed papers. They're still pasting newspapers onto a screen–and the state of the online art has moved way past that."
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"While I haven't always been very impressed by the NUJ of late, this latest bit of campaigning is spot on."
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"The way to fight Google is to stop feeding it and to start competing with it."
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"In any market when there is little (or no) economic benefit to providing quality, cr*p drives out good quality products, and it gets even worse. This is a fairly well known economic law. In this case, as everything is near free if it is uncritical and on message, its clear that "hard" and "off message" stuff will wither on the newsvine."
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"If the mainstream media had its reationship with the audience right then it would be highlighting the good stuff from the ‘average citizens documenting the events from their communities’ as a matter of course."
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Epic 2015? "The World Association of Newspapers has today asked competition authorities in Europe and North America to block an advertising agreement between Google and Yahoo on anti-competitive grounds. "
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"MEN Media is to close up to six local newspaper offices around Manchester."
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"Just because we have these tools does not mean we need to use them."
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"Embed a Dynamic Feed Control on your web page and let your users see customized views of the feeds. Customize how the dynamic feed control should be displayed, and this wizard will write the code for you."
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"Northcliffe Media will launch 45 local websites tomorrow, taking the number of online news sites it publishes as part of its "This is" network beyond the number of newspapers it prints."
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"The Politico will partner with several newspapers to deliver political news in exchange for ad placements. The Politico will also sell ads to national advertisers that will be placed in partner newspapers and sites in return for a share of revenue. Early partners include the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Philadelphia Inquirer, Denver Post, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "
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"Among the crimes reported to police but not disclosed were 49 robberies, 41 sexual offences, 310 burglaries and 452 violent incidents.
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"I was trained by ITN and BBC News to produce, film and edit as a lone-working video and audio reporter. Although I'm one of the first generation of journalists who are multi-skilled in this way, in the long-run it is likely to be the way most of us work."
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"Trinity Mirror is to close seven local papers and nine satellite offices in north Wales and the north west."
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"The problem with going after Google is that unlike Microsoft or earlier monopolies, the industries Google affects handed it its dominance on a silver platter."
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"There is, in other words, a clear conflict of interest for a public service broadcaster forced to be either more commercial or to elbow aside commercial competition. But it is simply the BBC confronting reality."
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This collaboration includes CNBC integrating LinkedIn's community and networking functionality into CNBC.com, enabling users to share and discuss news with their professional networks.
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"Basically it looks as if they have ripped it, chopped the bit they want and then reposted it to their own site (have a look at a screengrab).
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"The temptation to hire in one's own image for most managers is as irresistible as it is subliminal – which is why there are a lot of opinionated women working in digital management at the Guardian, and why we all need targets to remind us to look beyond the mirror."
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My experience is that if a journalist is doing research on a board they identify themselves and ask if they can contact some of the posters for possible inclusion in the article. I feel it's inappropriate to quote someone without their permission, even if it is a pseudonym. Am I overreacting? Do you think this is violation of board etiquette or journalistic ethics?"
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Be a subject-matter expert. You should know your beat better than any of your sources. This will help you avoid he-said, she-said stories, allowing you to write stories with real depth, and give you the confidence to add perspective. You will also uncover more and better stories.
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"As an internet reader, I’m increasingly suspicious of journalists who don’t link. Yes, if they quote an official that gives me a sense of the source. But why not link to original source material? It also allows me to dig more deeply into the story if I want without having to turn to Google.
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"In the UK, digital accounts for about 20% of the total marketing budget, whereas in most of the world it's an afterthought,"
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"Great journalism, like great art, often isn’t economically viable. But it’s just as important."
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LAYOFFS AND BUYOUTS AT U.S. NEWSPAPERS: 2008 total: 9,245+ jobs
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The ambient nature of Twitter (via Adam Tinworth)
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"Here we are, flocking to these sites in search of work in the journalism world. But there isn’t any. Instead, these chancers who know we’re a bunch of wannabe hacks desperate for work, will look at these other non-journo positions, see the salary (40k for that proposal writer), and go ‘oooooh!’ and that’s it. Another potentially good journo lost."
Joanna Geary 
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