These are the links from my reading list that got the most clicks in August (along with any notes I wrote on the link, or sometimes a quote from the linked article).
Topix is not necessarily your friend: “Publishers get quite worked up about Google and Yahoo “stealing” their news, but for the most part, and […]
Howard Owens has a solid post about five attributes necessary for newspapers to continually cope with the changing information landscape. Number four is my favorite:
Fourth, measuring success won’t be a matter of dollars and sense only. I think Hagel is right on this point: We need to develop metrics that help us gauge our ability […]
If I had any numbers on how many bloggers out there have filed a FOIA, well, that would make this post more interesting. No matter. The folk at the popular Boing Boing say they’re doing the FOIA-dance on behalf of some detained-by-TSA air-travelers. This will very likely make FOIA’s popular in the a-list blog crowd, […]
Laura Carlson is a familiar name in my inbox. I’ve been reading the Web Design Update for at least five years, and Laura’s the one that puts that email together every week. She works for the Information Technology Systems and Services at University of Minnesota Duluth. The email keeps me up with what’s going on […]
The Bivings Report ranked the top ten newspaper web sites in the United States. The Denver Post’s site (which I work hard on most every day) came in at number five. Five! Only the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today and Houston Chronicle ranked higher. Check out what they wrote (I added links to […]
Google announced this week it would allow people mentioned in news articles to address misquotes and add information to those articles. I wouldn’t call this a shot across the bow of newspapers, because Google’s been firing at local papers for a while. This would probably affect mid- and large-market newspapers the most (according to […]
I added a category to JoeThink just now, “Cool Jobs,” spurred by this posting from www.ThisAmericanLife.org. It’s not an awesome gig, but they tell great stories and you can work it from home.
We’re looking for someone to run ThisAmericanLife.org along with other aspects of our web presence, including our MySpace and Facebook profiles. It’s […]
Newspapers have a significant opportunity to enhance their coverage. It’s called context, and it’s information that helps readers make better decisions and observations about the news and their community. The internet makes it possible to dynamically build context for the news that newspaper-dot-coms publish, which can make news matter more.
Much of news aims at the […]
It’s cute that the Post wrote a story about its new ‘hyperlocal’ effort (
In Push for Local Readers, Post Unleashes LoudounExtra.com). But, in an article clouded by links on a page cluttered with them, nowhere is there a link to the site-in-mention, LoudounExtra.com.
Now I’m not saying everybody oughta be perfect. But, with one of the […]
Backfence, the hyperlocal startup that couldn’t, is closing its doors. Some newspapers continue testing the interactive online-community waters. What’s the big picture here? “Action.” The action-oriented internet. One thing the internet does well is make previously difficult actions much easier. Newspaper-dot-coms haven’t quite clued into this, which is why articles are still the primary way […]