Archive for September, 2008

ASBIS ROMANIA AWARDED FOR LARGEST SALES OF MICROSOFT OEM PRODUCTS

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 0:00

Press-release: ASBIS Romania has been recognized for the largest OEM sales during the fiscal year 2008.

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WASHINGTONPOST.COM’S POLITICAL BROWSER USES THE NEWS JUDGMENT OF JOURNALISTS TO FILTER THE POLITICAL WEB

Monday, September 29, 2008 3:03

washingtonpost.com has launched a new politics page called Political Browser, which features, wait for it… links to the most important and interesting political news around the web. That’s right, the Washington Post, one of the paragons of original political reporting, has dedicated a page to help you find the best ...

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LINK JOURNALISM IN ACTION: VOLS GAME COVERAGE ROUNDUP MOST VIEWED AND COMMENTED ON GOVOLSXTRA.COM

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 4:18

Yeah, fine, so Drudge gets lots of traffic for links, but we’re not Drudge, so it won’t work for our news site, right? Wrong. Here’s a case example from Knoxnews.com’s sports site GoVolsXtra.com. This roundup of links to coverage and commentary on the Vols’ loss to Florida was the MOST VIEWED ...

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WHY ISN’T FACEBOOK MAKING MORE MONEY? (HINT: ADVERTISER VALUE AND USER VALUE ARE NOT ALIGNED)

Monday, September 22, 2008 20:40

I happened to visit Facebook’s Business Solutions page, and was struck by how, at least on the surface, these advertising formats seem like exactly the kind of innovation that should be helping Facebook achieve Goolge-style revenue — which is of course what Facebook’s $15 billion valuation assumes will happen. And yet ...

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HOW NEWSPAPERS ABDICATED THE FRONT PAGE’S INFLUENCE AND HOW THEY CAN GET IT BACK BY LINKING

Monday, September 22, 2008 0:56

The front page of the newspaper used to set the news agenda. Extra, Extra, read all about it! But that influence has steadily waned through the TV and Cable News era, and the web now threatens to obliterate it entirely. So who sets the news agenda now? One significant influence is ...

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ADVERTISER ONLINE NOW, GET A FREE AD IN PRINT

Thursday, September 18, 2008 4:52

Just saw this house ad on NYTimes.com: A print ad offered as added value for online advertising. Now THAT’S a reversal. Here’s more: NYT is trying to reverse the economic polarity of its business. Is this kind of offer a trend? Tweet This Post  Share on Facebook

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EXPLAINING THE FINANCIAL CRISIS: CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED NEWS AGGREGATION IN ACTION

Thursday, September 18, 2008 3:11

Scott framed his previous challenge to news sites in general terms: like Drudge, any site could use continuously updated aggregation to become a “destination for links to news of what’s going in the world.” But this kind of aggregation can be just as powerful when applied to specific stories or ...

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WHY EVERY NEWS SITE SHOULD PUT A CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED NEWS AGGREGATION ON THE HOMEPAGE

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:36

My post on Drudge beating all other news sites on engagement was an aha for many, which is interesting because the lesson of Drudge has been around for a decade. But the lessons of web publishing are all so utterly counterintuitive that I suppose they take a while to sink ...

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DRUDGE REPORT: NEWS SITE THAT SENDS READERS AWAY WITH LINKS HAS HIGHEST ENGAGEMENT

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 1:38

There are two main reasons why news sites are reluctant to send readers away by linking to third-party content. First, you shouldn’t send people away or else they won’t come back to your site. Second, a page with links that sends people away has low engagement, which doesn’t serve advertisers ...

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SPINEWATCH: CAN LINK JOURNALISM CHANGE HOW THE MEDIA COVERS THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN?

Monday, September 15, 2008 3:09

Jay Rosen of PressThink has started a meme called “spinewatch,” which he’s pursuing on Twitter with the #spinewatch tag and on the Publish2 Spinewatch Newsgroup that he created, where he offers this description: Spinewatch is a newsgroup and link bank for campaign 2008 stories of a certain narrowly-defined type. Here, we ...

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EVOLUTION OF THE NEWSWIRE ON THE WEB

Thursday, September 11, 2008 16:43

Jeff Jarvis has post today worth reading, about the emergence of the web as the new newswire and the trend away from traditional newswires like AP: The old syndication model in the old content economy just won’t work today when all the world needs is one copy of a story up ...

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GATEHOUSE MEDIA SEEKS TO DISRUPT PRINT-ONLY BATAVIA NY NEWSPAPER MARKET WITH ONLINE-ONLY INNOVATION

Monday, September 8, 2008 2:33

Newspapers face the challenge of ensuring that their websites don’t cannibalize more lucrative print audience and revenue — even as more and more people get their news online. Then there’s the challenge of  shrinking editorial staffs having to put out both a print paper and a website. It’s enough to ...

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PUBLISH2: THE WEB’S NEWSWIRE

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 21:45

The web has become the vanguard of reinventing news distribution in the digital age. And while newspapers have often lagged in seizing new opportunities on the web, they have a golden opportunity to lead the charge in reinventing a foundation of the news ecosystem — the newswire. Newswires have traditionally been ...

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ASBIS INKS DEAL WITH ABBYY SOFTWARE HOUSE FOR DISTRIBUTION IN RUSSIA

Tuesday, September 2, 2008 0:00

Press-release: ASBIS Group and ABBYY have announced the beginning of distribution partnership in the market of the Russian Federation.

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