Blog Scan: Elsewhere Online
Citizen Media Business Issues: Traffic Rankings, Search Engines, and Search Engine Optimization 5 Jun 2009, 1:39 pm
(This is the seventeenth in a series of postings about citizen media business issues. See the introduction here. All of these entries are considered to be in “beta” and will be revised and refined. […]Source: Center for Citizen Media | Ryan McGrady
Citizen Media Business Issues: Web Statistics 3 Jun 2009, 11:59 am
(This is the sixteenth in a series of postings about citizen media business issues. See the introduction here. All of these entries are considered to be in “beta” and will be revised and refined a. […]Source: Center for Citizen Media | Ryan McGrady
Investigative Blogger Raising Funds 23 Apr 2009, 12:13 pm
Firedoglake is raising money to pay for investigative blogging.Source: Center for Citizen Media | Dan Gillmor
Post Super Bowl: Ads, ads and more ads 8 Feb 2010, 12:49 pm
It's tempting, as a media reporter, to become incredibly cynical as the Super Bowl rolls around each February. Endless pitches, endless studies, endless clips sent by email in the days leading up the. […]Source: MediaFile | Paul Thomasch
Can Toyota Digg its way out of recall crisis? 8 Feb 2010, 9:51 am
As Toyota careened from one recall crisis to the next, the contrast was almost funny.Source: MediaFile | GlobalPost
Gmail Creator says he is not working on new email platform 5 Feb 2010, 2:18 pm
With nearly 400 million users, Facebook is increasingly challenging the traditional Web overlords like Google and Yahoo on all fronts.Source: MediaFile | Alexei Oreskovic
Shut Off Google? C'mon, Mark Cuban 8 Feb 2010, 10:46 am
I can understand why Mark Cuban said newspapers should keep "blood-sucking vampires" like Google from indexing their content. But his argument falls short in a few key ways, I believe.Cuban said newsp. […]Source: E-Media Tidbits |
Licensing Delay Complicates Decision Between Open Source and Proprietary Video Players 8 Feb 2010, 7:55 am
RELATEDThe Future of Web Content -- HTML5, Flash & Mobile Apps In at least a short-term boon for HTML5 proponents, the consortium of groups that own the patents for the H.264 video-encoding codec. […]Source: E-Media Tidbits |
Google's Real-Time Search Raises Importance of Link Sharing Via Social Networks 1 Feb 2010, 6:55 am
One of the most important ways for blogs to get good traction in search used to come from links on other highly linked blogs and Web sites. The exchange of links from blog to blog created "link love,". […]Source: E-Media Tidbits |
How Digital Marketing Helped 'Avatar' Break the Box Office 8 Feb 2010, 3:03 pm
Do you remember August 21, 2009? Moviegoers in more than 100 IMAX 3-D theaters worldwide watched 16 minutes of footage from a new James Cameron movie. That same day, Ubisoft debuted a trailer for a vi. […]Source: MediaShift |
Rent vs. Own: The Streaming Music Debate Continues 5 Feb 2010, 10:00 am
The exponential growth of Internet bandwidth combined with the ability to significantly compress digital audio has impacted the music industry in numerous ways, for better and worse. Just as file trad. […]Source: MediaShift |
4 Minute Roundup: Facebook as News Reader; Engadget Comments 5 Feb 2010, 7:35 am
This episode of 4MR is brought to you by GoDaddy, helping you set up your own website in a snap with domain name registration, web hosting and 24/7 support. Visit GoDaddy to learn more. Here's the lat. […]Source: MediaShift |
Outside.in Partners with Publishers for Hyperlocal News 4 Feb 2010, 4:00 pm
Since launching its hyperlocal platform for publishers last summer, Outside.in has formed partnerships with The Miami Herald, Dow Jones Local Media Group, the New York Post, the St. Louis Post-Dispatc. […]Source: Editor And Publisher - Online |
Kibboko Expands Scout's Personalized Reading Suggestions 4 Feb 2010, 4:00 pm
Toronto-based Kibboko Inc. has introduced its Scout, a new release of its content-personalization system for publishers, which features a new interface and goes beyond articles to suggest books and e-. […]Source: Editor And Publisher - Online |
Access of Mobile News Rises 500% 3 Feb 2010, 4:00 pm
More people are accessing local news through mobile phones -- more than 8 million readers, a 500% increase year-over-year, according to new stats from Verve Wireless.Source: Editor And Publisher - Online |
Writing skill is no longer enough to sustain journalists
By Robert Niles: [A reminder: We're taking applications for the 2010 News Entrepreneur Boot Camp. Please consider applying if you're looking for better training on how to make your online news publish. […]Source: OJR |
Have you talked with a customer recently?
By Robert Niles: To encourage OJR readers to apply for our 2010 News Entrepreneur Boot Camp, I'm writing again on some of the things you need to know, and skills you might need to develop, to become t. […]Source: OJR |
Will Apple's iPad save the news industry?
By Robert Niles: Will Apple's new iPad help the news industry?Sure. Any new device that encourages people to read and watch more information will help publishers. With a larger screen than Apple's iPo. […]Source: OJR |
Nexstar, LSN Strike Local Mobile Pact 9 Feb 2010, 9:01 am
Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced Tuesday (Feb. 9) an agreement with LSN Mobile Local Wireless to bring its 33 local community Web portals to mobile users.Source: Mediaweek - Digital Downloads |
SportsFanLive Launches Olympic Twitter Page 8 Feb 2010, 9:01 am
The sports fan community/social networking site SportsFanLive has launched an official OlympicTweets page, which will aggregate live Twitter chatter from various athletes participating at the Winter O. […]Source: Mediaweek - Digital Downloads |
NBCU Fights Olympics Piracy 6 Feb 2010, 10:05 pm
For the 2010 Winter Olympics, NBC is de-emphasizing its focus on streaming the games live on the Web in favor of short highlight clips. And it’s doing its damnedest to make sure that fans can. […]Source: Mediaweek - Digital Downloads |
Facebook Pulls Lexicon Analytics Tool 9 Feb 2010, 2:04 am
Facebook has taken its promising Lexicon tool down from the site. Perhaps this happened when they pushed their new redesign. Lexicon, like Google Trends, provided limited yet interesting data on. […]Source: Trimmed MicroPersuasion |
Trust in Friends Declines, Trust in Experts Rises - Social Media and PR Still Win 8 Feb 2010, 10:52 am
Last week Edelman, my employer, published our tenth annual Trust Barometer study. You can read the full report here. One of the more juicy statistics that Advertising Age and others noted is that trus. […]Source: Trimmed MicroPersuasion |
Facebook Will Centralize the Social Web 8 Feb 2010, 7:31 am
Michael Arrington laments about about the decentralized nature of social content on TechCrunch today... "The online social landscape today sort of feels to me like search did in 1999. It&rsq. […]Source: Trimmed MicroPersuasion |
Making the move from enabler to empowerment 8 Feb 2010, 6:21 am
By Matt Neznanski Newsroom activists have to do a lot of arm-waving and hand-holding to get reporters to try new ways to tell stories. Sure, newsroom culture and fear have sunk many a well-intentioned. […]Source: Journalism 2.0 | Mark Briggs | A conversation about journalism and technology | Mark Briggs
Sorting through the Texas debate spin — in real time 29 Jan 2010, 11:27 am
By Jake Batsell Candidates will be slinging their share of tall tales and fudgy facts at tonight’s GOP primary debate in the Texas governor’s race. And on the real-time Web, it’s more challengin. […]Source: Journalism 2.0 | Mark Briggs | A conversation about journalism and technology | Mark Briggs
News:rewired coverage and new revenue models for news 20 Jan 2010, 7:32 am
Just a couple of quick highlights that you don’t want to miss: News:rewired: If you weren’t in London last week for this one-day conference, fear not, they’ve got you covered. The fo. […]Source: Journalism 2.0 | Mark Briggs | A conversation about journalism and technology | Mark Briggs
Google’s Buzz(machine) 9 Feb 2010, 11:21 am
I still need more time to get my head around Google Buzz, which will enable users to post and share updates, links, photos, videos with the world or with friends tied to geography via the web, mobile. […]Source: BuzzMachine | Jeff Jarvis
What Toyota should do 9 Feb 2010, 8:19 am
Including my parents, we own four Toyotas in my family; over time, we’ve probably owned eight or 10. Will we ever buy another? Depends. Depends on whether we can trust the company given its perf. […]Source: BuzzMachine | Jeff Jarvis
Stop selling scarcity 8 Feb 2010, 5:27 am
If you are selling a scarcity — an inventory — of any nonphysical goods today, stop, turn around, and start selling value — outcomes — instead. Or you’re screwed. Apply t. […]Source: BuzzMachine | Jeff Jarvis
If news orgs & journos won’t provide local civic news, who else could? 9 Feb 2010, 8:00 am
As I read through the Knight Commission report, “Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age,” I was struck by how little it had to say about how professional journalist. […]Source: News Leadership 3.0 | amy@gahran.com
Entrepreneurship 101: Setting priorities 8 Feb 2010, 2:40 am
Are you an entrepreneur with limited resources? So is Julia Scott. Scott don’t have a lot of dollars to invest in her everyday finance blog BargainBabe.com, but she does have time to spend. Give. […]Source: News Leadership 3.0 | amy@gahran.com
Promising community news sites - An update 4 Feb 2010, 3:06 am
The list is growing—This week we’ve added “new traditionals” sites that employ professional journalists and rely on relatively big budgets as wells as entrepreneurial “mi. […]Source: News Leadership 3.0 | amy@gahran.com
Google's social side hopes to catch some Buzz 9 Feb 2010, 11:00 am
Facebook and Twitter are the darlings of the social-media world, not Google--which hopes to change that with Buzz, betting it can organize your online social life.Source: CNET News.com |
Netflix has Blockbuster on the ropes 9 Feb 2010, 8:21 am
As Blockbuster suffers through another round of layoffs and its stock trades for less than a postage stamp, one has to wonder when Netflix will deliver a knockout.Source: CNET News.com |
Tweeting a book by its cover 9 Feb 2010, 8:21 am
An indie magazine in Brooklyn has launched a Twitter account that broadcasts what books people are reading on the New York subway--an attempt to show that e-readers have their voyeuristic disadvantage. […]Source: CNET News.com |
Sergey Brin Used Google Buzz To Write His NYT Op-Ed On Google Books 9 Feb 2010, 11:54 am
During the Q&A session today following the Google Buzz event, Google co-founder Sergey Brin revealed something both humorous and interesting. When asked a question about practical uses for Google. […]Source: TechCrunch | MG Siegler
Screenshots: Google Buzz In Action 9 Feb 2010, 11:17 am
Now that the Google event is over, the company has started turning on Buzz for Gmail users. Here are some quick screenshots of it in action.Source: TechCrunch | MG Siegler
If Google Wave Is The Future, Google Buzz Is The Present 9 Feb 2010, 10:40 am
See our live notes from today's Google Buzz event here. Google has a problem. Despite having their hands in just about everything online, they've never been able to tackle what is a key part of the fa. […]Source: TechCrunch | MG Siegler
