links for 2006-11-12
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 12 November 2006 at 17:19
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“Google: mate or menace? That is the burning question of the week — heck, probably of the year — for ye olde media companies.”
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links for 2006-11-11
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 11 November 2006 at 17:18
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AOL has bought Relegence, a search company specialising in finding financial news and information.
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The US media hardly noticed the Stern report on climate change, the Columbia Journalism Review’s blog notes.
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Amy Gahran has more details on the copyright suit against Google Video. It was filed in France (surprise!) by a group called Landmark Education.
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David Phillips warns that PRs are likely to attempt to game newspapers’ social media efforts - and will be found out.
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There is a new Dreamweaver plugin for automating Google Maps creation. As Matt Waite says, it won’t do ChicagoCrime.org, but it can’t be long until similar tools automate more advanced Google Maps work.
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US intelligence agencies are creating Intellipedia, a wiki for those with clearance. According to WaPo columnist Frank Ahrens, it has 28,000 pages and 3,600 registered users and is being used to draft a report on Nigeria.
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Find Flickr photos in London.
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links for 2006-11-10
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 10 November 2006 at 17:20
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“A few thousand people are making their living by blogging, according to David Sifry, founder of Technorati.”
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Guardian Media Group’s Simon Waldman has said legislation might be needed to make seach and aggregation services pay for content.
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Stunner Zoe, from London, loves the Sun’s new “citizen journalism” initiative.
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links for 2006-11-09
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 9 November 2006 at 17:25
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“Two BNP activists have won a vital round of a quest for libel damages over serious allegations made in a [Searchlight Magazine] article.”
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Blogosphere growth slowing according to Dave Sifry’s latest report, but perhaps the reduction of splogs on Technorati means that real blogs are growing faster.
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Business 2.0 has launched its experiment with tying reporters’ pay to the traffic generated by their blogs. Editor Josh Quittner explains to NPR’s On the Media.
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Bloggers and YouTube had a major role in documenting voting problems in the US congressional election, the New York Times reports
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Kevin Marsh responds to PG’s article about his SoE speech: “! wasn’t actually aware of slamming anyone or, for that matter, revealing anything. I was there to talk about the journalist of tomorrow and the learning we (the industry generally) need to offer
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links for 2006-11-08
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 8 November 2006 at 17:23
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“Google is a reality. Arguing about whether it is friend or foe will do no more good than sitting back and watching it do what you should be doing.”
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MEN editor Paul Horrocks has made his inaugural speech as the new president of the Society of Editors.
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The Glasgow civic dinner for the Society of Editors at Kelvingrove event was picketed by council workers protesting changes to their pay structure.
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“The BBC wants to extend the hand of friendship to news-papers and even pay them to provide news content, director-general Mark Thompson said yesterday.”
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Germany’s Axel Springer, publisher of the redtop Bild, is to launch Second Life’s first tabloid - in English. And it will have an in-game editorial office.
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Mathew Ingram of Canada’s Globe & Mail says it is no wonder newspapers are in trouble when editors like Andew Neil are “still clueless” about how Google works.
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Seth Sutel of the Associated Press has put together a useful primer on RSS>
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links for 2006-11-07
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 7 November 2006 at 17:26
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“The BBC could begin paying local and regional newspapers for stories, says director general Mark Thompson.”
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Dave Sifry has released his latest State of the Blogosphere report.
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“Google’s desire to move into newspaper ads — which it apparently thinks are a better fit than magazines — is yet another signal of its unquenchable thirst for ad inventory of any kind.”
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US local news aggregator Topix.net has raised $15m from existing backers Gannett, McClatchy Company and Tribune Company.
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“With a slew of big-city newspapers on its side, Google sets out to reproduce the success of its online ad programs—offline”
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New research from the UCL Constitution Unit: “Freedom Of Information: History, Experience And Records And Information Management Implications In The USA, Canada And The United Kingdom”
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links for 2006-11-06
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 6 November 2006 at 17:23
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When media execs wonder why people watch their copyrighted material on YouTube instead of the exact same clips on their own branded sites, well, it’s because their players don’t hold a candle to YouTube.
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links for 2006-11-05
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 5 November 2006 at 17:24
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Surveys written up by a postgraduate journalism student at Northwestern University look at the skills used in online journalism jobs.
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Denmark’s Nordjyske Stiftstidende is the most futuristic newspaper in the world, according to Newsplex head Dietmar Schantin.
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“Google has rubbished claims that it has been forced to pay a €34m (£22.7m) fine because it failed to act quickly enough to satisfy a court ruling.”
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With two fun charts, the editor of the News & Record in Greensboro, North Carolina looks at how an editor thinks his newsroom works — and how it actually works. YouTube-surfing and flirting figure more than expected.
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links for 2006-11-04
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 4 November 2006 at 17:23
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“The Sun, from a relatively slow start, is really starting to show how Web 2.0 should be done online.”
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I’m off to Glasgow. See you there.
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links for 2006-11-03
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 3 November 2006 at 17:25
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Some things, our columnist David Banks reserves for his own blog. And then, suddenly, months later, they become relevant again.
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“Al-Jazeera will not be broadcast in Australia, despite the imminent launch of an Asia-Pacific bureau and an English-language channel.”
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“In the era of convergence, the notion that newspapers would be ’scooping themselves’ by posting exclusives first is passé. But are there exceptions to this rule?”
