Online Journalism Review shares some interesting findings on writing for the web: “What if you could engage users in a story for about half the time, yet have them remember about 34 percent more of the content? That’s exactly what one test showed. Spending less than two hours rewriting and reformatting a story about New… Continue reading Writing for the Web: Increasing Engagement
Author: Dan Blank
The Difficulty of Breaking into the Search Engine Market
Read/Write Web and Search The Web 2.0, look at the long tail of the search engine market. The top market share is locked up with the following brands, but then drops off pretty severely after that. www.google.com www.yahoo.com www.msn.com www.ask.com www.aol.com www.digg.com http://del.icio.us Some compelling charts are also posted.
Print Readers Want to Know: “What’s in it for Me?”
CBS News reports on the changing landscape for newspapers and print editors. Some of the ways they are adapting: Pushing readers to go to their website for ‘breaking news.’ Focusing stories on how national news affects their community. Creating more articles from each topic. In terms of catering to the needs of local audiences, Samir… Continue reading Print Readers Want to Know: “What’s in it for Me?”
Twitter: Always Feel Important
Twitter is suddenly the big news for their creation of a new way to look at communicating on the web. Mashable describes Twitter this way: “…short, to-the-point messages that let your friends, family and the world know exactly where you are and what you’re doing, every second of the day.” On the speed of adoption:… Continue reading Twitter: Always Feel Important
When Your Sources Go Directly to Your Audience
Doc Searls looks at how the web has changed journalism. “The Net is a giant zero. It puts everybody zero distance from everybody and everything else. And it supports publishing and broadcasting at costs that round to zero as well. “It is essential for the mainstream media to understand that the larger information ecosystem is… Continue reading When Your Sources Go Directly to Your Audience
Write Once, Publish Anywhere and Everywhere
Fred Wilson has some interesting thoughts on how feeds and widgets play into the online publishing model: “One of the biggest changes out there is the world of distributed media. Feeds, widgets, embed codes, apis, and other tools that allow the publisher to make their content available on other pages. You have to do this,… Continue reading Write Once, Publish Anywhere and Everywhere
Why You Never Make it to the Digg Homepage
Scott Karp tells you why your article never makes it to the Digg homepage: “As with everything else, it’s all about who [you] know. Digg, to its credit, is fundamentally social. The success of Digg users in getting stories to the homepage presents as a long tail in no small part because of the power… Continue reading Why You Never Make it to the Digg Homepage
Mashups: Remixing Data
TechCrunch looks at 5 services that allow you to “mix, rip, and mash your data.” A review: Yahoo PipesA GUI web app that lets you create new data feeds by remixing syndication feeds (RSS, Atom, RDF.) Teqlo You build mashups by dropping specialized widgets onto the canvas and specifying interactions between them. ProtoUsed to join… Continue reading Mashups: Remixing Data
6,000 Words About Time Magazine
New York magazine has a 6,000 word piece on Time magazine: past, present and future. It is an eery tale of one brand’s journey from old media titan wading the waters of the online world.
Social Software: Always Collaborating
Fred Wilson posits that all software should be social: “I can barely use software that doesn’t have other people in it. I want profiles and faces and connections. I want to see what others are doing with the software. I want to connect and be connected… a huge social net that’s made up of millions… Continue reading Social Software: Always Collaborating