What happens when you mix blogs with spam, you get splogs. A primer, from Wired: “Like email spam, splogs use the most wonderful features of networked communication – its flexibility, easy access, and low cost – in the service of sleazy get-rich-quick schemes. But whereas email spammers try to induce recipients to buy products, sploggers… Continue reading Splogs
Month: September 2006
A Fundamental Shift in Journalism
Adrian Holovaty has a follow up to the recent Bivens report for Tips to Improve Newspaper Websites: “…more fundamental shifts need to happen for newspaper companies to remain essential sources of information for their communities. One of those important shifts is: Newspapers need to stop the story-centric worldview. Conditioned by decades of an established style… Continue reading A Fundamental Shift in Journalism
Web Trends
Two new reports out: Current demographics of internet users Online Classifieds Increase in Popularity; Category Visitation Surges 47 Percent in the Past Year Greg Sterling offers his thoughts on state of classsified: “Obviously newspapers have to make some bold moves online (beyond their existing vertical relationships) to build their destination consumer traffic and/or find additional… Continue reading Web Trends
Google Releases Newspaper Archive
Google has launched a search archive of 200 years worth of newspapers. From The New York Times: “This symbolizes a major moment,” said Allen Weiner, a research director at Gartner, a market research firm. Google has reached an accommodation with the content companies that will benefit both sides, he said.” What is interesting is how… Continue reading Google Releases Newspaper Archive
Be Gentle with the Social Media
A couple follow ups to yesterday’s post on social media, and hiding behind a screen name: Jeff Jarvis lays down the law in terms of journalists hiding behind screen names Pete Blackshaw from Advertising Age worries about marketers undoing social media
Newspaper Battle for Online Marketshare
The BBC looks at people’s expectations when it comes to the words “news” and “free”: “This is a generation who grew up with the world wide web. They usually get their news delivered to them in their e-mail inboxes or at the click of a button. It is difficult to persuade young people that news… Continue reading Newspaper Battle for Online Marketshare
Innovation in Social Media
Facebook added some new features to its website. Some commentary on both sides. First the postive from Michael Arrington: “It’s interesting because Facebook clearly gets the idea of an attention metastream, where page views aren’t the currency that matters but rather how effectively the service allows users to communicate. Facebook users will now have a… Continue reading Innovation in Social Media
Media Reach: Print & Web
The Audit Bureau of Circulations is working on a new way of reporting media’s reach by “…combining the publication’s print readership with a day’s worth of its Web site traffic.” Steve Rubel would like to see it taken a step further: “It seems to me that advertisers would benefit from having a similar system to… Continue reading Media Reach: Print & Web
Collaborative Journalism, Take Two
Collaborative journalism seems to be taking steps forward online, thanks to wiki’s. One entrepreneur created a website and originally hired freelancers to create articles. However: “To his surprise he found that many of the entries generated by Internet users — free — were more informative than those written by freelancers.” Is this the same as… Continue reading Collaborative Journalism, Take Two
The Recommendation Engine
A few weeks ago, I discussed how the value of expert opinions was dwindling. Well, The New York Times profiles an online music company that extends this theme: “All told, music consumers are increasingly turning away from the traditional gatekeepers and looking instead to one another — to fellow fans, even those they’ve never met… Continue reading The Recommendation Engine