EveryBlock works with New York Times
January 29, 2009
EveryBlock has partnered with The New York Times to expand its New York City site with a new section on political news items. Read more »
The Policy Wiki: A social experiment
January 29, 2009
Canada’s Globe and Mail launched a site called the Public Policy Wiki several weeks ago. Read more »
Warning: Dependence on Facebook, Twitter Could Be Hazardous to Your Business
January 29, 2009
PBS MediaShift reports that over-relying on Facebook and Twitter can be dangerous. Read more »
Who Will Win the Super Bowl? Point – Counterpoint
January 27, 2009
NYTimes.com has created an interactive video in which Times editors make their cases for why the Pittsburgh Steelers or the Arizona Cardinals will win on Sunday. Watch the videos and vote for your favorite team.
Online Advertising Rate Prices Take a Tumble
January 27, 2009
Advertising Age reports: “Cost-per-thousand ad impressions for online publishers are generally off about 20%, according to several people on both the buying and selling side, and sell-through rates are dropping. And where publishers used to unload 60% of their inventory, some are now able to sell only 30%.” Read more »
Can SEO’s and Journalists Really Be Friends?
January 26, 2009
Search engine optimization (SEO) makes journalists groan if my experience of a busy newsroom in a national paper is anything to go by. Journalists will bristle at the idea of ‘stuffing keywords’ into their copy, while managers who often don’t understand SEO themselves rail about falling circulation figures and the need to get the extra traffic good search rankings could bring them. These two sides often line up in a messy battle that can easily be avoided. The truth is that there are many parallels between SEO and journalistic writing and that SEO really can be a journalist’s best friend. Read more »
This post was submitted by Rachelle Money.
Inaugural Words – 1789 to the Present
January 20, 2009
Interactive Graphic from NYTimes.com: A look at the language of presidential inaugural addresses. The most-used words in each address appear in the interactive chart, sized by number of uses. Words highlighted in yellow were used significantly more in this inaugural address than average.
WTSP-TV Uses Skype to Broadcast Live Shot
January 8, 2009
Al Tompkins reports that Monday morning, WTSP-TV anchor/reporter Janie Porter was on TV, reporting live from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., on the run-up to this week’s national college football championship game without a big live truck an engineer tuning in a shot. Read more »
How the newspaper industry tried to invent the Web but failed
January 8, 2009
Jack Shafer writes a wonderful piece looking at how the newspaper industry has tried to adapt to and fight new technological developments ever since radio was invented. Read more »
Foreign Policy relaunches Web site
January 7, 2009
Washington Business Journal reports that Foreign Policy magazine is relaunching its Web site. ForeignPolicy.com will offer daily news and information about global politcs, economics and ideas, the magazine’s editors said in announcing the site’s relaunch Monday.
