AOL is making plans for its post-Time Warner life that show just how news could be organised if you started with a blank canvas and two words: user data: In December, when it becomes a stand-alone company, AOL will begin to tap a new digital-newsroom system that uses a series of algorithms to predict the types of stories, videos and
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These questions were submitted to me in advance of the next AOP meeting, on ‘Microlocal Media’, and have been published on the AOP site. As usual, I’m republishing here as part of my FAQ series. Q. How can publishers compete with zero-cost base community developed and run sites? They can’t – and they shouldn’t. When it comes to the web,
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More questions from a student that I’m publishing as part of the FAQ section: 1. If News Corp starts charging for news stories, do you think readers would pay or they would just go to different newspapers? Both, but mostly the latter. Previous experiments with paywalls saw audiences drop between 60 and 97%. And you also have to figure in that
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Here’s another collection of questions from a University of Montana student that I’m answering here as part of my FAQ section: Q: What do you see is the future for investigative journalism? Do you still see it as having a home at newspapers? I think the future of investigative journalism is already here – it’s just unevenly distributed,as William Gibson
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Dan Bull is clearly a star in the making…
An open letter to Peter Mandelson regarding the newly announced Digital Economy Bill.
And an interesting use of video, whatever your view.
Combating information overload in the Internet age can be a tricky thing. The reader is often overwhelmed with the plethora of Web sites and news portals, and the publisher has to come up with a way to retain loyal users who will stick to their brand even while they are taken from hyperlink to hyperlink through an endless loop of
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Ever had to modify a WordPress theme, and struggled to find your way around the CSS or template files? Or, have you ever had to update a theme, just to lose all you modifications? Use child themes to modify your blog design. For the recent redesign of the theme used here on the Online Journalism blog, a child theme was
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This morning there is a story on the Torygraph website about remuneration of Directors in companies in the Stock Exchange 350 index.
This morning there is a story on the Torygraph website about remuneration of Directors in companies in the Stock Exchange 350 index.
Nicholas Moerman has put together an impressive collection of graphs showing a general decline over the past year in visits to mainstream websites across a raft of categories, from content and commerce to portals and porn. The only sites that buck the trend? I’ll let you guess. He doesn’t know why this is (or even if he’s seeing things), which
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