Press-release: ASBIS Romania has been recognized for the largest OEM sales during the fiscal year 2008.
Archive for September, 2008
ASBIS Romania Awarded for Largest Sales of Microsoft OEM Products
washingtonpost.com’s Political Browser Uses the News Judgment of Journalists to Filter the Political Web
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 of OTHER news organization’s political [...]
Why Isn’t Facebook Making More Money? (Hint: Advertiser Value and User Value Are Not Aligned)
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 with 100 MILLION users, Facebook’s [...]
How Newspapers Abdicated the Front Page’s Influence and How They Can Get it Back By Linking
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 a guy with nothing but [...]
Advertiser Online Now, Get a Free Ad In Print
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?
Explaining the Financial Crisis: Continuously Updated News Aggregation in Action
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 topics.
For example, you might have [...]
Why Every News Site Should Put a Continuously Updated News Aggregation on the Homepage
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 in.
That said, a number of [...]
Drudge Report: News Site That Sends Readers Away With Links Has Highest Engagement
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 well.
But if you actually look [...]
Spinewatch: Can Link Journalism Change How the Media Covers the Presidential Election Campaign?
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 keep track of reporting from [...]
Evolution of the Newswire on the Web
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 in the cloud with links [...]
GateHouse Media Seeks to Disrupt Print-Only Batavia NY Newspaper Market With Online-Only Innovation
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 kept many newspapers from innovating [...]
Publish2: The Web’s Newswire
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 based on a number of [...]
ASBIS Inks Deal with ABBYY Software House for Distribution in Russia
Press-release: ASBIS Group and ABBYY have announced the beginning of distribution partnership in the market of the Russian Federation.




Link Journalism in Action: Vols Game Coverage Roundup Most Viewed and Commented on GoVolsXtra.com
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 article today on GoVolsXtra.com.
You could [...]