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Beet.TV: Attention Publishers: Know Your Audience to Succeed with Online Video.....Take a Page from the Obama Campaign

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:57:07 -0500

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WASHINGTON, DC -- To succeed with monetizing online video, media companies need to better understand their audiences -- but they don't, said Caroline Little, former CEO of Washington Post/Newsweek Interactive, who is now CEO of the Guardian News & Media, North America.

And, they need to build targeted audiences with strong' [...]

CyberJournalist.net: ‘Doonesbury’ Writer Lampoons Tweeting Journalists : NPR

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:42:36 -0500

NPR: Roland Hedley, a fictional Fox News correspondent created by cartoonist Garry Trudeau, has attracted more than 14,000 followers since he began “tweeting.”Trudeau’s Doonesbury is still a daily cartoon strip, but he tweets as Hedley in real time.

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Online Media Cultist: Blog Focus: Dell’s Twitter Success

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:03:52 -0500

At the beginning of the year, Twitter was already a big deal in the geek community and was already well on its way to becoming a leading social media service.

How do we know how it's doing at the close of 2009? Check this: Dell Inc. claims to have earned [...]

Journerdism: Official Google Blog: Exploring a new, more dynamic way of reading news with Living Stories

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:00:11 -0500

"The idea behind Living Stories is to experiment with a different format for presenting news coverage online. News organizations produce a wealth of information that we all value; access to this information should be as great as the online medium allows. A typical newspaper article leads with the most important" [...]

Journerdism: Google Living Stories

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:49:54 -0500

"The Living Stories project is an experiment in presenting news, one designed specifically for the online environment. The project was developed by Google in collaboration with two of the country's leading newspapers, The New York Times and The Washington Post." [...]

Social Media: Geeks on a Train

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:47:20 -0500

The Traveling Geeks can’t stop recording their every movement, especially on the Paris Metro

I am still highly amused by the volume of photography and video that’s going on at the Traveling Geeks event in Paris (explanation, silly video). [...]

Smart Mobs: Circles as nodes in a network

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:27:31 -0500

A mob of circles connected in just the right way can create a pattern from which meaning emerges. In Vasily Kandinsky’s great 1926 painting “Several Circles” shown above there are implied connections. The small orange circles connect diagonally across the big blue ones, and to all [...]

The Praized Blog: LeWeb D-Day Minus One: Some Backstage Pictures

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:55:29 -0500

LeWeb’s official bloggers got a personal tour with Loic Le Meur of Le 104, the venue where the conference is being held. Interestingly enough, the building used to host Paris’ morgue but is now a beautiful expo/conference hall. Loic showed us every public and private rooms (including some secret ones I can’t mention!) and the backstage section. The [...]

Beet.TV: The New York Times' Saul Hansell Goes to "Seed"

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:50:24 -0500

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Saul Hansell, the veteran technology reporter and columnist for The York Times has left the paper to join AOL's new "Seed" unit, a mostly automated news site.

The site been getting some mixed notices lately from some media watchers.

Saul is the first "live" journalist to join the new venture. [...]

The Praized Blog: TellMeWhere: Europe’s Foursquare?

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:22:03 -0500

This morning, I had the chance to sit down with Gilles Barbier, CEO and co-founder of TellMeWhere (Dismoiou in French), a Paris-based European social Yellow Pages service. As with any ratings/reviews service, people can find places (see Le Louvre profile page for example), read the basic information, [...]

Social Media: Radian6 and the Yellow Brick Road for brands

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:13:37 -0500

A chat with the CEO of Radian6 from JD Lasica on Vimeo.

CEO Marcel LeBrun on how companies should listen, monitor and engage with customers

I’m still getting out from under the atomic dustbin that is my home office. It’s [...]

Somewhat Frank: "If you come to a fork in the road, take it."

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:12:00 -0500

“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

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Yogi Berra

Love that quote. Makes you go… hmmm.

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MediaShift: 5 Tools to Help Automate Local Advertising

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:05:57 -0500

Promises of whiter teeth, IQ quizzes, and digital dancing people clutter online ads these days. At the same time, experts at future-of-journalism conferences are declaring that news will never again be solely supported by advertising. Neither one tells the full story of the present and future of online advertising [...]

Beet.TV: "Early Adopters" are Migrating from Social Networks to Cool Websites, Hitwise's Bill Tancer

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:12:44 -0500

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What's the next big thing in new media?To answer that question, I turned to Bill Tancer, author of of Click and the research guru at online audience measurement firm Hitwise.

Tancer shared some exclusive insight for New Media Minute viewers into where the online trendsetters who made Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr [...]

Somewhat Frank: Google launches Chrome Web Browser for Mac I just installed it....

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:58:26 -0500

Google launches Chrome Web Browser for Mac

I just installed it. Seems to be very light and airy. Will follow-up with other details soon.

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Content Bridges: Digital Do-Over Time: Consortium Aims to Get the Next Generation Right

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:40:39 -0500

Many of us shared the three-minute Sports Illustrated tablet video over the last week, and now watched at least a quarter million times. It was an ah-ha moment, amid the rat-a-tat-tat of daily digital news, moves and announcements. We could see a different kind of news reading future, one [...]

cnewmark: Making gov't work again, a huge step

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:23:53 -0500

Today, the White House announced the Open Government Initiative, which basically means a huge commitment to:

listening to all Americans, hearing what they have to say telling people what's going on in gov't, like where the money goes

This is an ongoing announcement, more later, but here's the gist:

today we are [...]

Somewhat Frank: Googling Popeye Today Google is sporting one of my favorite...

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:21:48 -0500

Googling Popeye Today

Google is sporting one of my favorite cartoon characters today Popeye, to honor creator E.C Segar’s birthday.

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BuzzMachine: Is journalism storytelling?

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:12:40 -0500

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It’s accepted wisdom in the news tribe that journalism is storytelling. They have become synonymous. Journalists are storytellers. I hear that over and over again, especially in discussions of journalism education, and when I do I see everyone’s head nod. Lately, I’m not necessarily nodding.

I’m not so sure [...]

BuzzMachine: MediaTalk USA

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:50:16 -0500

Here’s the December edition of the Guardian’s MediaTalkUSA.

I give myself much credit for bravery for having somebody who really knows radio — Laura Walker, head of WNYC — and somebody who’s funny — Baratunde Thurston of the Onion — on the panel as I’m not good at either. [...]

mathewingram.com/work: Go ahead: Ask me a question

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:49:33 -0500

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Experimenting with something called Formspring, which is basically a way of automating a question-and-answer post, and will also (if I understand it correctly) cross-post the responses to a Tumblr blog, Facebook, Twitter, etc. So go ahead, ask me a question and I will do my best to answer.

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E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: AOL hired 150 journalists in 2009

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:34:42 -0500

AOL Media has hired 150 journalists this year, its President Bill Wilson said in an interview with Media Bistro. They have also increased their staff of freelancers by over 3000, from 500 to 3500, he added.

And their memo to new staff [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: Google integrates real-time social network updates into search results

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:32:13 -0500

Google announced Monday that it will now be streaming updates from social networking sites in real time as search results. When a term is typed into a Google search, the lead result will now be a section of constantly updating social network, news site, and blog [...]

rexblog.com: Rex Hammock's weblog: Announcing the Not-Hulu for Digital Magazines

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:55:16 -0500

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By the end of the day, you may be reading or hearing about something that may be described as “the Hulu of Magazines” or the “iTunes Store of Magazines” or something like that. By the time the news, first reported by PaidContent.org, makes it into the general media, the [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: Murdoch's praise of future journalism veils paywalls

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:54:10 -0500

In an article in The Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch is optimistic about the future of journalism in this age of newspaper cutbacks and the overwhelming concerns with bottom-line budgets rather than quality journalism.
Despite closures and scale backs, Murdoch [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: Telegraph gets readers involved with app contest

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:39:07 -0500

The newest version of the Telegraph iPhone app allows users to contribute breaking stories or average everyday happenings to telegraph.co.uk.
Every day for seven days (December 4th - 10th), a story uploaded via the [...]

John Battelle's Searchblog: Google's Real Time Rolling Out

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:09:00 -0500

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Google's real time search integration, announced at Web 2 in October, is rolling out (good coverage from SEL). It'll be integrated as "Latest results." I'll be watching how this effects the traffic referral ecosystem across the web - that's the key. Will Twitter grow? Will [...]

John Battelle's Searchblog: Google Wants Your Small Biz To Barcode Itself

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:56:00 -0500

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Google has launched a "Favorite Places" program to jumpstart its local search business. I like the moxy, but the ecosystem is lacking a clear dose of "Why Should I Do This," at least from the point of view of the business. Or the customer, for that [...]

ContentBlogger: Endgame/New Game: Google Search Moves Focus on The Moment of Highest Content Value

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:56:00 -0500

In a typical game of chess, there are three distinct phases of play: the opening, in which a handful of chess pieces stake out strategic territory on the chessboard, the middle game, in which the positions of many pieces are used to jockey for control of [...]

E-Media Tidbits: How AOL Hopes to Make Its New Content Push Work

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:52:37 -0500

AOL's attempt to become one of the world's leading content-producing companies includes a big and underreported push to bring new efficiencies to the editorial process that its executives claim will let reporters and editors concentrate on making good [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: Job cuts at Thomson Reuters

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:37:22 -0500

Thomson Reuters is in the news again. On the same day as its new-look website went live, which features increased political coverage and comment in a bid to attract a more general audience and more advertising revenue, Reuters made another announcement. The agency plans [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: A lesson for newspapers in the history of tabloids?

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:12:02 -0500

In a recent post on Poynter Online, Paula Morton has looked at the lesson that newspapers could take from the history of their generally trashier, less respected cousin, the tabloid.

"A tabloid story sells," she writes, "I admit: when I am caught" [...]

/Message: Researchers Say the Social Web Improves Kids' Literacy (Geeks Say 'Duh') - euansemple's posterous

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:07:00 -0500

According to a recent survey of around 3,000 kids, those who text, blog and use social sites such as Facebook have better writing skills than their less technologically inclined counterparts.

via readwriteweb.com

via euansemple.posterous.com

Wow. So surprising what surprises people.

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Reflections of a Newsosaur: Thin ranks of top women editors get thinner

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:00:00 -0500

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The upcoming exit of two of the longest-serving female editors-in-chief in the country will leave only two women leading newsrooms among the 25 largest newspapers. The already thin ranks of top women editors will be depleted at year’s end by the departure of Sandra Rowe at the Portland Oregonian (the [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: Personalised news in print: Niiu's aims and advertising strategy

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:57:25 -0500

At the 16th World Editors Forum in Hyderabad, India, Oliwia Serdeczny explained the concept behind Niiu, the personalised newspaper project based in Berlin, and the publication's advertising strategy. Serdeczny is Niiu's director of international partnerships. For more on Niiu see here and here.
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loose wire blog: Social Netquirks

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:50:12 -0500

Each social network has its quirk. I want to fix them. Here’s how.

Skype, for example, won’t let you be invisible to certain people. You’re either visible to all your buddies, or none at all. So if you have a contact who thinks a [...]

cnewmark: Making gov't work again, one small step

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:07:00 -0500

The deal is to get ideas from the rank and file, starting with good simple ideas.

First step, experiment, while getting something real. We're talking simple, real stuff.

Check out the White House SAVE experiment:

Christie Dickson from the Social Security Administration in Alabama calls for saving time and money by allowing people to [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: Hyperlocal publishing thrives in New York

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:20:17 -0500

In good news from New York, publisher Manhattan Media has defied industry trends, with a fivefold increase in revenue since 2002.

Its secret? No, it hasn't found a loyal base of online subscribers. Instead, the company runs several hyperlocal publications, which cater to niche' [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: The Netherlands: Government to finance 60 new jobs for young journalists

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:56:49 -0500

In an innovative project from the Netherlands, the Dutch Minister for Education, Culture and Science has managed to gain support from the Parliament for more funding for journalism.

It's not in the form of government subsidies for newspapers, though, which have been criticised by various [...]

MediaShift Idea Lab: A Case Study in Collaboration: Spot.us, the SF Public Press, and McSweeney's San Francisco Panorama

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:55:55 -0500

I spend a lot of time talking about the notion of "collaboration." So whenever I have a good example of the value of collaboration, I try to highlight it.

Only one month after a Spot.Us-funded project was also published in the New York Times, we have another great example [...]

/Message: Google Favorite Places

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:25:00 -0500

Google is sending out 100,000 decals to popularly searched “restaurants, bars, and hangouts” nationwide. The QR barcodes can be scanned for reviews, coupons, and other online materials about the place. Interesting…

via blog.deleteyourself.com

I haven't seen one yet.

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E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: Persgroep to cut 131 positions

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:16:10 -0500

Persgroep Publishing, a Belgian newspaper group is to cut 131 jobs at its de Volkskrant and Trouw newspapers, reports Dutch News.

Persgroep took over the PCM newspaper group earlier this year as the company faced serious debt issues. The deal made Persgroep the [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: New York Times does not meet buyout goal; must resort to layoffs

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:25:52 -0500

The deadline for the previously announced New York Times optional buyouts was yesterday and according to a memo sent out by editor Bill Keller last Friday, the paper will be far short of meeting its goal of having 100 staff accept the offer. This will force [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: Job cuts at the Miami Herald, Las Vegas Sun

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:24:11 -0500

More job cuts have been announced at newspapers across the U.S., adding to the news that USA Today and the Washington Times plan to cut staff.

The Miami Herald plans to cut 24 positions across its company, including six in the [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: U.S. Federal Trade Commission will consider government subsidies for newspapers

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:44:03 -0500

Government aid for newspapers is in the spotlight again, The Wall Street Journal reports. The head of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the U.S. has announced plans to examine whether subsidies and regulatory changes should be implemented.

Speaking at its workshop last week, FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz [...]

E - Editors Weblog - Editorial solutions for the newspaper renaissance: Hearst Corp. update on e-reading device/service

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:13:51 -0500

Hearst Corp. have been particularly secretive about their plans in the e-reading domain, but last Friday the public were given a little glimpse into the upcoming launch of 'Skiff', its e-reader device/service.

Previously named 'First Paper', Skiff is a service and digital store that [...]

Social Media: Yaniv Golan Calls Twitter “The 140-characters Netscape”

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:13:27 -0500

Yesterday I attended Jeff Pulver’s 140 Conference in Tel Aviv. I really enjoyed @thekotel’s presentation, which unfortunately I didn’t film — go to the twitter profile and check it out. Alon Nir is doing a remarkable job there.

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Matt McAlister: Links for 2009-12-07 [del.icio.us]

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:00:00 -0500

1.3 Radically opening up data and promoting transparency
government’s public data principles Speech on Smarter Government | Number10.gov.uk
every citizen will from next year have access to all information on the performance of our public services showing how, and in great detail, hospitals schools and all our public services [...]

Martin Stabe: WSJ.com: CNN Invests in Neighborhood News Feed Outside.In

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:42:29 -0500

"CNN.com is investing in Outside.In... CNN.com declined to say how much of a new, $7 million fund-raising round came from its own coffers." [...]