Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been turning the Online Journalism Blog into a group blog. For our first project we have taken Jo Geary’s news interactivity index, and applied it Europe-wide, creating an ‘interactivity index’ of newspapers across European countries – at the moment: the UK, Spain, Portugal, Macedonia, Hungary, Poland and Switzerland… Not just that, but we’ve
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Matt Wardman has an interesting post on the Economist having its PageRank cut by Google (translation: Google punishes Economist for unknown transgression by giving its website less importance and therefore, probably, lower ranking). Here’s what he says:
Image by Sid05 via Flickr This weekend’s tool-to-play-with is Yahoo! Pipes. Chances are you’ve heard of Yahoo! Pipes (it’s been around for over a year and I’ve blogged about it before) but if you’ve not played with it yet, now is the time to have a go. Pipes is essentially a mashup tool, particularly useful for doing things with RSS
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In his first post for the OJB Wilbert Baan looks at sorting news by systems The website as we know it is breaking apart. Widgets, API’s and feeds take information to other places outside the domain. In a network culture we like to take our information with us. Your mobile phone, desktop, widgets, websites, digital television, everywhere. For the EN
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Dennis’s online-only (and hugely successful) magazine Monkey is set to launch another website next Wednesday (at MonkeyMag.co.uk) with a focus on the social. It’s “for readers”, you see. A press release says the website “will be centred around the same type of great video found in Monkey, while also encouraging readers to interact with the site by posting their own
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I was due to take part in the 9th Journalism Leaders Forum next Tuesday, but sadly have had to pull out. I’m especially gutted because Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine and author of “The Long Tail“, will be there via video link. Another time perhaps…
From Google-commissioned NAA research. Translation: “print newspaper advertising is great! Google advertising is great!”
There’s the image, here’s the post. (via SteveBridger)
Seven psychological complaints of bloggers and social media addicts
In my capacity as amateur psychotherapist to the blogerati, I have discovered a new raft of complaints as social media addicts adapt to the demands of new technologies and fluctuating social structures. The syndromes identified include: Comment Guilt Patients complain of an overwhelming regret that they are not commenting more on other people’s blogs, and ‘engaging with the online community’.
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online journalism, twitter • Tags: aggregator, Clients, comment guilt, facebook, Feed Readers, foocamp anxiety, friend collecting disorder, LinkedIn, rss reader sisyphean complex, social media, twitter, twitter rage, twitterhoeia, WWW • Comment feed RSS 2.0 - Read this post