Posted in newspapers, innovation, journalism on Dec 22nd, 2006
Mark Glaser takes a look at the embrace between the Wall Street Journal and the web:
“But much has changed in the past year as the American business-news leader has launched blogs , boosted its podcasts , and even dabbled in regular video reports , with 50 new clips added per week. And what started as […]
Posted in advertising, newspapers on Dec 22nd, 2006
Alan D. Mutter reports on how the web is affecting traditional media:
“Employers spent more money on Internet recruitment advertising than in newspapers in 2006, making this the first time any of the traditional newspaper categories has been surpassed by the digital media.”
The article continues:
“All the newspaper revenue sources are under increasing pressure.”
…and then digs deeper […]
Posted in advertising, online video on Dec 22nd, 2006
CNET is reporting on a recent court judgement preventing deep linking to webcasts. This case in particular deals with linking directly to supercross motorcycle videos, bypassing the sponsors who paid to be on the official site with the videos. The article looks at a few sides of the issue, and other recent legal cases involving […]
Posted in Google, content, aggregation on Dec 21st, 2006
As aggregation and licensing grows with content providers online, there are some questions around how Google handles duplicate content across domains. The article reviews the following:
What is duplicate content?
What isn’t duplicate content?
Why does Google care about duplicate content?
What does Google do about it?
10 ways to proactively address duplicate content issues.
Posted in Google, content, aggregation on Dec 21st, 2006
As aggregation and licensing grows with content providers online, there are some questions around how Google handles duplicate content across domains. The article reviews the following:
What is duplicate content?
What isn’t duplicate content?
Why does Google care about duplicate content?
What does Google do about it?
10 ways to proactively address duplicate content issues.
Posted in innovation on Dec 21st, 2006
Read/Write Web has their 2007 Web Predictions. Some highlights:
RSS will go mainstream in a big way.
The use of widgets will grow.
Web Office continues to ramp up.
Rich Internet Apps will be a major force in 2007.
Semantic Web products will come of age in 2007.
Expect some shakeups in the online advertising market next year.
Mobile Web may be […]
Posted in social media on Dec 21st, 2006
The Wall Street Journal looks at Conde Nast’s development of a social networking site to rival MySpace.
What I like about the article, is its subtlety:
“With readers migrating to the Web in droves, all magazines are under tremendous pressure to come up with Internet strategies, or face oblivion.”
But it gets better. Conde Nast is:
“…taking steps to […]
Posted in journalists, Google, media, search, news on Dec 21st, 2006
Search Engine Watch takes a look at Google’s list of top searches in 2006, as well as Yahoo’s.
One key finding is that news searches and general web searches differed greatly. Two possible reasons:
Demographics and/or psychographics.
Situational intent.
However, they do reach a valuable conclusion for journalists and media companies:
“If you are looking for news search terms, you […]
Posted in online video on Dec 21st, 2006
Andy Dickinson offers some tips for newspaper websites when adding video content to their arsenal. He suggests:
Start small.
Bulletins… start your video content with a short bulletin or news round-up.
Keep it short.
Link content.
That last tip is crucial. I see so many sites create new areas for multimedia that are so separate and so hidden, that their […]
Posted in user-generated media on Dec 21st, 2006
Digg.com has rolled out some new features this week:
Interface Design, Digg Goes Widescreen
Top 10 Stories/Videos
Videos Enhancements
Podcasting
Profile Enhancements
However, they continue to find the balance between being open to a user-generated content website, and being a gatekeeper:
“Digg continues to crack down on users who plant phony stories on behalf of marketers, recently deleting a user who posted […]
