Google News tests new design

Google News is experimenting with improvements to its design, showing more images, videos, quotes and highlighting popular stories, the Google Operating System blog reports.

July 29, 2008 by
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How to Save Local Newspapers: Cellphones

The mission of Verve Wireless, which powers mobile versions of 4,000 newspapers from 140 publishers, is to save the local paper by making it mobile, The New York Times’ Claire Cain Miller says.

July 28, 2008 by
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Debating the future of online video

Beet.TV hosted a discussion at Stanford University recently about the state of online video among leaders from the technology industry, the venture capital community and media.

July 28, 2008 by
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Google launches Wikipedia rival

Google has launched a rival site to Wikipedia, called Knol. The big difference between the two is how Knol is handling authorship.

July 23, 2008 by
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Lessons From One Year of Blogging

Guest Post by Craig Stolz (Contribute your post to CyberJournalist.net here) One year ago I launched this blog with a notion but no clue. The notion was that I wanted to make sense of the baffling, bad but somehow occasionally powerful stuff that was emerging under the aegis “Web 2.0.” [It has lately been usefully [...]

July 15, 2008 by
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Blogosphere = a giant wire service

Clyde Bentley, a Missouri School of Journalism professor who researches user-generated news, suggested at a Future of News conference that editors should treat the blogosphere like a giant wire service. What a great way of looking at it.

June 25, 2008 by
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BBC News’ journalists converge

BBC’s online journalists have moved into the newly configured BBC Multimedia Newsroom, next to their TV and radio counterparts, and the newsgathering teams who deploy the BBC’s news reporters, BBC News website editor Steve Hermann says.

June 18, 2008 by
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How to get into business school

BusinessWeek.com has launched a new MBA blog for aspiring business school students called “Getting In.”

June 16, 2008 by
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Most influential blogs: Vanity Fair’s Blogopticon

Vanity Fair has produced perhaps the definitive blog matrix, placing the most prominent and influential blogs on a vertical axis of news to opinion (Consumerist to PostSecret) and a horizontal axis of scurrilous to earnest (TMZ to SCOTUSblog). With eye-catching, clickable icons and brief pop-up descriptions of each blog, it’s pretty and practical. And CyberJournalist.net [...]

June 14, 2008 by
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Rating business sections of top newspaper sites

Douglas A. McIntyre of 24/7 Wall St. has rated the financial sections of the top 25 online newspaper sites. The commentary on what the individual sites do well is worth reading. The top site, he says, is nytimes.com.

June 4, 2008 by
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