Harvard launches Media Cloud news tracking site

The Berkman Center has launched a cool new tool called Media Cloud designed to help track how news stories spread through mainstream media and blogs.

Old growth media and the future of news

In a speech at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Steven Johnson says that “steady transformation from desert to jungle may be the single most important trend we should be looking at when we talk about the future of news.”

Seattle paper shifts toward aggregation

The Stranger says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer plans to shift toward a site that emphasizes aggregation of regional news.

The future of print, e-books and ‘The Printed Blog’

Here are three special reports from PBS MediaShift covering the future of print, e-books and “The Printed Blog,” a newspaper that aggregates blog content.

Tool will find the online context of your article

Journalism.co.uk reports on: Slovenian start-up Zemanta:

Can SEO’s and Journalists Really Be Friends?

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 [...]

The SFGate friends Facebook Connect

SFGate is one of the first news sites to utilize Facebook Connect.

New York Times creates alt home page with aggregated links

The New York Times has launched an alternate view of its home page that includes links to other news sources under its headlines.

Start a neighborhood blog

Neighborlogs is a free blogging and advertising platform designed specifically for the neighborhood blogger. Click here to register for the private beta.

Seth Godin: Lessons from The New York Times’ mistakes

Seth Godin says The New York Times had a shot at “inventing the future” and blew it, and offers some lessons to be learned from its mistakes.