The Daily Mail and Daily Mirror have joined the Daily Telegraph in scrapping their bans on other websites linking to them without prior written consent.
This afternoon I will once again be working with a group of editors as we look at business models for online news. To their credit, the micropayments/paywall issue rarely comes up – and then only as a ‘devil’s advocate’ question. But it seems others have been asleep for the past 10 years. To those and the unfortunate souls having to
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How widely is Yahoo! Pipes used in newsrooms? Could it be better used? Is there a way us Piping Journos could exchange best practice, ideas, and support? I’d like to bring journalists using Yahoo! Pipes together, so I’ve created a little Twitter group. Hope you can join, and we can find some ways to help each other out. If you’re
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London’s ‘morning’ Metro newspaper goes to press so early that it failed to report on Arsenal’s penalty shoot-out win over Roma last night
Five newspapers order people not to deep link to them in their terms and conditions
One of those rather dry-sounding reports on TechCrunch that some-company-has-raised-some-investment-for-some-technology caught my eye recently, because in par 2 comes this: “Conveneer is building a mobile platform called Mikz, which will be able to assign a URL to your mobile phone, making the content on your phone accessible on the Web. In essence, it turns each mobile phone into a Web
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In case you don’t know of danah boyd – the online communities academic who recently joined Microsoft – you should. She recently made a presentation to her new colleagues which manages to combine a potted history of social media, insights into how adults and youth use them differently, and how society is being shaped by the above. It’s well worth
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I ran the last 10 posts in the Community Editors series through Wordle. The larger words are those used most frequently – clearly reflection is uppermost (“Think”), and discounting mentions of the media, news, journalists and journalism, “People” and “Twitter” feature most strongly. You can see it in full here.
Will 2009 be the year news organisations finally went open? Barely a month after the New York Times allowed users to build on 28 years of content with its articles API (with immediate results), The Guardian is opening up over a million articles to developers for free as part of its own ‘Open Platform‘.
Chris Deary, Community Editor at Hearst Digital, adds his 3 things he’s learned about community management to this ongoing series. 1. Know your audience Understand your audience and give them community tools that are designed to meet their needs. There is a tendency to want to throw as many community tools as possible on to a site without considering what
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