Most newsrooms have utterly narcissistic Twitter accounts. The worst offenders (which unfortunately is the majority) use services like Twitterfeed to automatically tweet links to the newspaper’s own content. Here’s our RSS feed on Twitter! Don’t get enough of our content on our site or through RSS? Now get it on Twitter, too!
Some newsrooms are slightly [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Newsrooms Can Grow Twitter Followers By Using Twitter For Link Journalism
October 30th, 2008 |
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Guardian Launches Full RSS Feeds, First Media Company Not To Suppress RSS Adoption
October 29th, 2008 |
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On the eve of The Guardian’s launch of full text RSS feeds, Matt McAlister, Head of Guardian Developer Network, pinged me looking for examples of other mainstream media companies that have full text RSS feeds. Surely this many years into the age of syndication, Guardian couldn’t be the first mainstream media company to adopt full [...]
Mainstream News Organizations Entering the Web’s Link Economy Will Shift the Balance of Power and Wealth
October 17th, 2008 |
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The New York Times published an article this week about mainstream news organizations embracing link journalism and news aggregation. Gawker and others scoffed that they are late to the game, which they are, but that misses (predictably) the BIG story.
If news orgs like the NYT, Washington Post, and hundreds of newspaper sites start linking to [...]
ASBIS Opens Access to Online Marketplace for Turkish Customers
October 15th, 2008 |
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ASBIS Group has opened a dedicated website with online E-Shop for its customers in Turkey.
Nervous About Link Journalism? Ignore Web’s ‘Cesspool’ And Tap Its ‘Natural Spring’
October 13th, 2008 |
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There are several reasons why most mainstream news organizations have been slow to embrace link journalism.
First, news orgs typically act as though other news orgs don’t exist (blame long-standing notions of “owning” the news, and more recent unjustified fears of sending readers away). Second, news orgs had few mechanisms for breaking out of that walled-garden [...]
Will Algorithms Make Human Editors Obsolete? Not If Journalists Collaborate
October 9th, 2008 |
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Will algorithms replace human editors on the web? It’s a bogeyman question on one level, but ask any news site about the percentage of traffic they get from search engines — and what the trend looks like — and you’ll realize that algorithms are increasingly deciding what we pay attention to, what is important, what [...]
The New AP
October 8th, 2008 |
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Matt Thompson and Jeff Jarvis have been doing some important thinking on how news coverage needs to change in the Internet Age. They argue that a flow of shallow, time-dependent stories no longer works as a foundation for helping readers understand the world.
Thompson started a blog devoted to exploring an alternative. He writes in the [...]
False Steve Jobs Heart Attack Report on CNN’s iReport Is a Failure of Open Systems
October 4th, 2008 |
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Someone posted a false report that Steve Jobs had heart attack to CNN’s citizen journalism site iReport. The fallout (which could include an SEC investigation) lead to the inevitable question of whether this is a failure of citizen journalism.
It’s not. It’s a failure of open systems.
As Sarah Perez points out at ReadWriteWeb, ANYONE can become [...]