Posted in blogging, advertising, social media, RSS on Aug 30th, 2006
Just a few interesting articles:
There has been a ton of talk online about Google’s foray into Microsoft Office’s territory, with their “Google Apps for Your Domain” announcement. Chris Anderson has the most interesting theory about how this will affect the web.
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A rant about why RSS is not such a big deal
Yahoo’s service “shows that […]
Jeff Jarvis started an interesting discussion on how to categorize and tag news. Some of the comments he received are interesting:
“…tags are crap. I tried to get analysts to do it, and it didn’t work (good luck with reporters). The reasons are that “your taxonomy isn’t my taxonomy” and it requires a discipline that most […]
Posted in social media, marketing on Aug 29th, 2006
Advertising Age reports on the growing importance of user-generated reviews:
“Product reviews written by real people are perhaps the most underappreciated slice of the consumer-generated-media universe, the explosion of which has captivated the advertising and media worlds.”
In related news, Fred Wilson introduced me to a few phrases that scare me: shopcasting and social commerce. Because what […]
Posted in journalists, blogging on Aug 29th, 2006
Malcolm Gladwell recently wrote a piece in The New Yorker about the US pension system. On his blog, he has been clarifying statements, and responding to comments that contest points in his article.
In his most recent post, he makes some clarifications about what it means to be a journalist, and “report,” as opposed to actually […]
Posted in journalists, media, social media, newspapers, marketing on Aug 28th, 2006
An interesting piece in the Boston Globe got me thinking about some of those “most popular” story listings on sites like CNN.com and the dangers of social news sites. The Globe’s article looks at the oversaturation of John Mark Karr coverage on television news:
“`It’s an embarrassment,” says Tobe Berkovitz, associate dean of Boston University’s School […]
Posted in newspapers on Aug 28th, 2006
The New York Times profiles the fall of Knight Ridder, the newspaper giant. A cautionary tale for publishers in the Internet age:
“The real story of the fall and decline of Knight Ridder is… the notion that you can continue whittling and paring and reducing and degrading the quality of your product and not pay any […]
Posted in newspapers on Aug 28th, 2006
A new study takes a look at which newspapers have the greatest reach:
“When we look at individual markets, the general trend is that the online audience is growing — not by leaps and bounds — but growing [while] the print audience is on a slow and steady decline,” said Gary Meo, senior vice president, print […]
Posted in Publishing, magazines on Aug 28th, 2006
Paul Conley has a few interesting comments about publishers who are shy about including links within stories that take you to other websites:
“It seems Crain Communications has decided that its Web sites are, in fact, part of the Web. The company has begun using external links in its articles.”
In another entry, he finds fault with […]
Posted in journalists, newspapers, public relations on Aug 27th, 2006
Robert Scoble has a long rant on public relations, and how bloggers have changed the way stories break, and whether A-list journalists should get the scoop first:
“The thing is people in the new word-of-mouth network are figuring out it really doesn’t matter WHO you talk to first, as long as you talk with a diverse […]
Posted in social media, newspapers on Aug 27th, 2006
The Washington Post profiles someone who submits stories to social news sites. These online hunters “neither reports nor writes the news, but he submits stories he finds interesting.”
“This is a new field, in some ways, a new talent pool,” said Jason Calacanis, general manager at Netscape, a division of AOL. “They have a different skill […]
