Twitter is the modern equivalent of skywriting

August 18, 2009

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What did you do before when you needed to send something of little consequence or urgency to a bunch of people who may or may not want to see it? The only thing that comes to mind is skywriting.
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Brutal genius.

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Real-time search battle: Can Facebook beat Twitter?

August 17, 2009

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For the last year, Twitter has had no major rival in real-time search. But last week, that all changed when Facebook launched its real-time search engine. Not only can it search status updates, but it also tracks photos, notes, videos, and more. Can Facebook, with its larger userbase and recent talent acquisition, [...]

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How simple, real-time streaming information will eventually replace the traditional CMS models

August 14, 2009

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…blogging platforms need to evolve from the hierarchical content-management systems of today to more fluid, free-flowing, more socially relevant and real-time lifestreaming systems.
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A key component of adoption is ease of use. Lowering barriers to entry allows more people to participate. As it stands, many local media companies are powered by complex content management systems.
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Journalism Online vastly overestimating value of content, willingness of users to pay

August 14, 2009

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Journalism Online, the company that plans to help publishers monetize content, has signed 176 dailies as affiliate partners. In total, more than 500 newspapers, magazines and other sites have agreed to join Journalism Online representing more than 90 million monthly unique users.
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I’m not optimistic about this venture in the slightest. If there is one [...]

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Recommended: Dan Zarrella on the science of retweets

August 13, 2009

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The future of hyperlocal: Is it simply convincing others that hyperlocal is the future?

August 13, 2009

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Hyperlocal seems like a can’t-miss proposition. “There is real demand for good information about our neighborhoods, our children’s schools, our streets, our blocks,” says Jay Rosen, an NYU journalism professor and media blogger. Except for one thing: Success remains perpetually around the corner, constantly predicted yet never fulfilled.
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‘Hyper-local’ is a buzzword, bandied about by [...]

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Twitter will play an increasingly smaller role in newsrooms

August 12, 2009

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In the month of July, according to the latest estimates from comScore, Facebook attracted 87.7 million unique visitors in the U.S., which was 14 percent higher than in June, 2009. Twitter, in contrast, only saw 21.2 million unique U.S. visitors to its Website, a 6 percent rise compared to the month before. In [...]

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Do multimedia interactives pose a problem for resource light media companies?

August 12, 2009

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This great interactive piece from Arkansas Online shows off some of the things you can do with multimedia, from ‘behind the scene’s footage, to map mashups.
But I can’t help but think that the effort that goes into a project like this is incredibly hard to justify from a financial standpoint. How many hours went [...]

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Internet before breakfast

August 10, 2009

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This is morning in America in the Internet age. After six to eight hours of network deprivation — also known as sleep — people are increasingly waking up and lunging for cellphones and laptops, sometimes even before swinging their legs to the floor and tending to more biologically urgent activities.
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Internet use is occurring earlier [...]

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Former newspaper editor argues for the continuance of newsroom ’star system’

August 7, 2009

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Newsrooms should operate on a star system. And the best do just that. Not all reporters are created equal.
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Star systems are fine if your stars are legitimate. I like the list of ’star qualities’ at stillanewspaperman.com.

What I think can hurt an organization is if the star system is not based on a meritocracy. Or [...]

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