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Traditional Media Companies Getting into the Ad Network Business (Finally?)

We see the music business waking up to the file sharing model. Now media companies have "seen" that ad networks can mean revenue. Remember the joke about the beautiful but blind horse? The horse "no look so good." In this case, the MSM companies didn't look so good in...

created by biverson | 1 year ago
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Penguin Using Google Maps as it Moves from "Book Publishing" to "Storytelling"

Noteworthy. I'm looking up some links from the 1990s with hypertext novels and such and will write more about this. This is interesting because Penquin has been experimental in the past. Shane Richmond says the story itself is a bit weak, but it is an intriguing idea to...

created by biverson | 1 year ago
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Magnitude 7.2 - XINJIANG-XIZANG BORDER REGION Earthquake in China

From Scoble via Twitter, I got a link to this information about an earthquake in China. Magnitude was apparently 7.2. "230 km (140 miles) SE of Hotan, Xinjiang, China375 km (235 miles) ENE of Leh, Kashmir615 km (385 miles) ENE of Srinagar, Kashmir3105 km (1930 miles) W of...

created by biverson | 1 year ago
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MSN news websites are not just like the print version; Some Young Folks are C...

Interesting news brief about a comscore survey posted by Jack Loechner:"Based on their heavier than average visitation across most key news sites, those who do not read print versions of newspapers are not necessarily light news consumers. In fact, they show a high propensity...

created by biverson | 1 year ago
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State of the Media 2008 Suggests Opportunities, Directions for New Ventures

"Younger audiences, it turns out, are interested in news. But they want it from new platforms that can deliver it in new ways and on the consumers’ new terms."That sounds like opportunity knocking to me. Every year, the Project for Excellence in Journalism completes a...

created by biverson | 1 year ago
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Digital coverage of We Media Miami 2008

We Media 2008 conference had a nice mix of big panels of "experts," unveilings of way-cool projects and technologies, unconference sessions, and a bit of time to network with everyone who attended. They have collected a link to most of the digital coverage of the conference,...

created by biverson | 1 year ago
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"Following Facts, instead of stopping short out of Fear"

Robert Niles nails it in his recent OJR piece on how to keep your journalism job. Niles is exactly right when he says that readers want reporters who follow the "...facts where they lead, instead of stopping short out of fear that someone doesn't like that." As one who has a...

created by biverson | 1 year ago
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Connecting across borders and cultures: Iranian ex-pat journalist analyzes Ir...

Citizen journalism serves up local and hyperlocal news very effectively. Its role as a communication tool across cultural and geographic distances is important, too. Omid Habibinia lives in Switzerland because he had to flee Iran. I met him at the 2005 Citizen Journalist...

created by biverson | 1 year ago
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Clear discussion of property rights vs. copyright

Timothy B. Lee writes about how and why we need to distinguish between property rights and copyright, though some people equate them today. Clear and concise, this is a quick but useful read"The copyright system...

created by biverson | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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It ain't over til its over department

I was struck by how the MSM was ignoring the caucus in Texas which will determine the fate of 67 delegates. Here is what I found out. The Democratic race in Texas has a two parts. The outright election and the caucus. In the regular election par of the primary, Clinton, with...

created by biverson | 1 year ago
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Nails Tapping into Radiohead Model for Music Distribution

As Radiohead went, so goes Nine Inch Nails. And NIN is going one better, by allowing users to mashup their tracks, at least for non-commercial use. Out in the world there is a ten year-old nascent musician who will mess around with computers, music, and mashups, post his or...

created by biverson | 1 year ago
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Testing Coveritlive so I can blog about Tippett & Cohn at WeMedia

Pro-Am with Michael Tippett and others

created by biverson | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Regicide is Painless: Killing the idea that content is king

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Regicide is Painless: Killing the idea that content is king

Very interesting blog, Print is Dead, and particular post by Jeff Gomez. He will be a speaker at wemedia next week and I am looking forward to live blogging the session. This dovetails nicely with today's Joh...

created by biverson | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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TV strike seems to push video on web

I have personally been watching more video on the web because I got a beta invite to hulu for one thing, and it is a no-brainer that video that is organized and searchable is going to be more attractive than having to search for one's own (at least for a digital immigrant...

created by biverson | 1 year ago
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George Polk Award Winners include Josh Marshall of TPM

This is from editor and publisher.com but I like Steve Yelvington's take on the issue of blogger vs. reporter. I got the tip about what Steve wrote via my Twitter client, snitter, as an interesting side note. Those 140 character "tweets" are especially useful in snitter...

created by biverson | 1 year ago
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