result in a sea change in the way consumers encounter the Web. Not only will people see customized advertising, they will see different versions of Web sites from other consumers and even receive different discount offers while shopping — all based on information from their offline history.
The nature of the media landscape has changed 'beyond recognition' with the advent of online publishing and new technologies,
Tools that were exclusively held and kept by a certain group of professionals are now owned by all of us, we are all content makers," he said, urging students to embrace this new 'democratic market' by becoming experts at everything.
"If you want a job you have to create something that's special about you,prospective journalists should look to specialise and think of how to make their work relevant to the consumer,
I'd say their chances of acquiring significant volumes of content with commercial value -- where value is largely driven by timeliness -- are slim to zero,It's hard to get sufficient awareness to stand even the remotest chance that the next punter to witness a newsworthy incident will have heard of Demotix, and know how to submit a photo or video quickly...Demotix (or Scoopt in its day, or any similar site) will always score well when they get a big hit -- but otherwise?"
Demotix will have to move beyond being a destination site for citizen photos and put itself where amateurs will be taking the shots and uploading them.
For those of us of a certain small-but-growing subset— the blogging, commenting, techno-savvy, early-adopting, extreme-news consumers, it’s sometimes easy to forget that most people don’t live like we do. They don’t use RSS. They don’t Twitter. They don’t read twenty blogs a day. They (some 100 million or so) still actually pick up the newspaper and read it.
some hyperlocal sites are doing so well that I am now getting queries about how journalists can ‘help’ hyperlocal sites from folk who are journalists or manage papers.
one day to find a nice shiny shrink-wrapped journalist on your doorstep with passable modern media skills and all the classic attributes a journalist should have
To state the obvious, the new site emphasizes search and trend tracking, and de-emphasizes orienting users new to the service. It looks the homepage for a search engine. This strikes me as a mistake. While I certainly use Twitter trends and search, the main reason I use Twitter is for the community of people I follow and who follow me. This social component of Twitter sort of gets lost in this version of the homepage.
It would be commercially funded through a mixture of: “Display and (a reduced volume of) classified advertising, sponsorship, product placement, retailing, copy sales, by selling news services to regional and national providers and by providing local media services.”but as the site rightly says
it is a big question mark whether the market can sustain local news in any format without at least some public subsidy.
There's clearly a lot of "healing "to do - not least between the BBC and the Zimbabwe government, as well as between the different factions in Zimbabwe itself.
In time, I hope we may be able to open a bureau in Harare, and we can report from Zimbabwe as we do from most other places around the world.
For now, we're pleased at being able to operate openly in Zimbabwe once again - our presence there this week, is a welcome, constructive, and important first step.
A tenant who used the micro-blogging service Twitter to complain about mould in her Chicago apartment is being sued.
Horizon Group Management filed a lawsuit that has accused Amanda Bonnen of defaming the company with her tweet.
She sent out a message that said "Who said sleeping in a mouldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it's okay."
Nichepapers aren’t a new product, service, or business model. They are a new institution. They’re a living example of the institutional innovation that is the key to 21st century business. They’re not the same old newspaper, sold a different way. They are 21st century newspapers, built on new rules, that are letting radical innovators reinvent what “news” is.
with 20% of respondents over the age of 65 saying that they thought newspaper and magazine subscriptions were a necessity. In addition 23% of this age group thought that pay-TV was essential.
The deals will use the BBC’s branded player, with a superimposed BBC logo and BBC.co.uk linkbacks; videos are geoblocked to UK users only. The clips “must not be directly connected with any advertising on third party websites – for example, pre or post roll advertisements will not be permitted”,
In truth, it’s probably more of a significant step for the BBC than for us.
We just think it’s a neat way of getting more toys on the site.
The makings of a global community do not rest on fast access to international content-sharing websites or the immediate gratification of creating a blog housed for free by Google. Without context, knowing an unlimited amount of information is just a mouse-click away does no more to enhance your sense of community than purchasing a used Christmas ornament on eBay.
while bloggers reach to effect change, and hope to shift the “ways citizens and politicians practice politics” simply by changing the model of sharing information, their work is rarely read outside small circles of fans and vehement detractors.
advised that newsrooms should be the last department cut. When cutting costs, newsroom cuts are by far the most damaging to revenues – and the longer the reductions occur, the greater the acceleration of damage.
after Katy Cowan, the 30-year-old that set up Boomerang, was inspired to initiate the project thanks to the power of Twitter.
“Talking to other businesses and freelancers on Twitter, it became apparent that there was a need for an online community for creatives.
"We will continue to communicate with our Twitter followers to see how the magazine should evolve.
"We’d eventually like to include a forum and members page where people can network, share ideas, secure new business and submit their own editorial content."
its Endemol-produced flashy new website has completely free video content while search marketing and creative agency deals are designed to win over fans worldwide
In short, there are no excuses. "This is not a decision we took lightly and it is a source of real regret to us,.
This was just one of the host of difficult decisions we have had to make in recent weeks. Newspapers and media groups are facing the most difficult trading conditions imaginable. Not only are we suffering from the catastrophic fallout from the credit crunch in terms of severely reduced advertising revenues but, additionally, our industry is undergoing structural change which is causing enormous disruption."
Hacking into celebrities’ mobile phones. Signing checks to sources for scoops. Paying others to keep quiet. British journalists have all the fun — as long as they stay out of jail.and then asks the question
Has Fleet Street’s freewheeling past prepared British newspapers better than others for the anything-goes ethos of the Web?and concludes that
they have not suffered from one problem that plagues their counterparts in the United States: a loss of scoops to the blogosphere.
56% of adult Americans have accessed the internet by wireless means, such as using a laptop, mobile device, game console, or MP3 player. The most prevalent way people get online using a wireless network is with a laptop computer; 39% of adults have done this.
African Americans are the most active users of the mobile internet – and their use of it is also growing the fastest. This means the digital divide between African Americans and white Americans diminishes when mobile use is taken into account.
we live in a complex, confusing, technologically-challenging world. We are never quite sure how fresh is the food that we eat or how pure is the air that we breathe. We lie awake at night and worry: do I know enough, understand enough, to make the right decisions for myself and my family?
We scour the newspapers and sit glued in front of the TV or radio, hoping to learn something that will help us understand. Should I be eating more eggs, or fewer? Should my children drink more fruit juice, or less?
“Respect for press freedom has improved markedly in recent years in Cameroon and blind repression of journalists seems to be a thing of the past, but journalists still often suffer at the hand of overzealous police officers or corrupt judges or as a result of score-settling between politicians,”
It works like this: on top of the page you have a Google Map; enter any location, and choose a radius below, from 1 to 50 miles. Then, adjust the number of tweets you want to see – from 5 to 25, and type in a keyword. The result is a very useful app, if you know what you’re looking for.
For example, let’s say you want to know of a good cocktail bar in Miami. Type in Miami in the map, choose a radius, type in “cocktail” as the keyword, and you’re bound to find something of interest. Since this is real people giving us very current information, searching for the same thing on Google (Google) doesn’t even compare. As a bonus, on the right side GeoChirp gives you a list of the most popular tweeple in the area you’re currently looking at.
software to each article that shows what limits apply to the rights to use it, and that notifies The A.P. about how the article is used.and
Tom Curley, The A.P.’s president and chief executive, said the company’s position was that even minimal use of a news article online required a licensing agreement with the news organization that produced it.
Murdoch’s papers have relentlessly assaulted common truth and decency, but their most successful war has been on journalism itself
When sales of the Sun fell by almost 40 per cent on Merseyside, Murdoch ordered his favourite editor to feign penitence. BBC Radio 4 was chosen as his platform
Most pundits on foreign affairs who clog up our comment pages have three things in common. They do not speak or read foreign languages. They dislike Europe or, if on the left, the United States. They tend to be former editors of national newspapers or magazines.
He is fluent in German, Polish and French. That may explain why he is the only British writer on foreign affairs who is translated and taken seriously in Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Poland as well as the US.
The question of how you monetise those 900,000 [followers] is deeply interesting, but that's not my job - I do think you've got those 900,000 people coming voluntarily - you've got to think what would they pay for?" he said.and as Judith continues
"Who would those 900,000 technology people most like to spend time with? Let's say it was Steve Jobs. Is he the most interesting man in technology, I don't know, but let's say he is.
Providing specialised information and journalism in the online community, is a way forward he believes: "I don't know if they're [Guardian journalists] experts, but they're specialists, and I absolutely think the role of specialists on the Guardian is crucial,"
Hundreds of competing lawmakers screamed and wrestled in South Korea’s parliament Wednesday as a rivalry over contentious media reform bills descended into a brawl that sent at least one to a hospital.
Lawmakers from the ruling Grand National Party occupied the speaker’s podium in a bid to quickly pass the bills aimed at easing restrictions on ownership of television networks…
The opposition strongly opposes the proposed media reforms that would ease restrictions on large businesses and newspapers owning stakes in major broadcasting stations. They claim the move is a ploy by the government of President Lee Myung-bak to get more sympathetic media coverage by allowing large conservative newspapers to get into the broadcasting business.
Firstly, Google will rank a page more highly if it includes more outgoing links.
Secondly, people will return to your site more often if they know they can expect useful links.
IMMIGRANTS who can barely speak English will be used to man the phones at emergency swine flu call centres, it was revealed yesterday.
As ministers prepare to launch a virus hotline this week, staff at the centres last night laid bare the chaos behind the preparations.
They said hundreds of people with few English language skills and no medical training will join the 1,500 team taking calls from the public.
Unbelievable
The working class "masses" were on the move, leading eventually to the middle class becoming the nation's dominant social class.
By the late 1980s, entrance to journalism was also increasingly dependent on academic qualifications that ensured that almost everyone needed a university degree.
This was not such a problem until, say, the middle 1990s, because working class entrance to tertiary education improved year by year.
"I tagged along with three students and the driver was texting. It's not often we as journalists are allowed into someone's personal life.
"Is it safe? Probably not, but as journalists we are not here to judge or direct, only to observe and to tell the story"
A south-west county's council is scrapping its free monthly newspaper after spending almost £700,000 on it in 11 months.and
Cornwall Council said it was important to accept what was and was not working after the 'Your Cornwall' magazine ran £250,000 over budget.
Many people in Cornwall have campaigned from the beginning against what was nothing more than a propaganda newsletter for the council. It has been a total waste of council tax. I cannot understand why the authority and others in the country for that matter, cannot accept that fact.
The days of infinite margins, 1,000% productivity gains, and growth of market throughout the universe are long over. Internet companies now should be treated, at best, like utility companies that get bought at about 10 times earnings and sold at 13 times earnings.
Even then, I'm not sure I would give the Internet sector the same respect as the monopoly-protected utility sector.
most exclusive middle-class professions of the 21st century;
"The older generation of today's professionals, who were born in 1958 like me, came from families whose incomes were 17% above the average. The younger generation of today's professionals, who were born in 1970, came from families whose incomes were 27% above the average. Today's generation of doctors and lawyers, on average, came from families that earned two-thirds more than the average family."
the accelerating disintegration of the media assures that no one ever will emerge again as a single, almost-universally trusted source of straight-up, down-the-middle information during great moments of national trauma and euphoria – and all the ordinary days in between.
Audiences today have fragmented among countless cable networks and interactive venues scrambling for ratings and clicks. Like so many petulant toddlers, the vast majority of the modern “news” venues are stomping, screaming and spinning themselves crazy in the hopes of gaining attention.
archive documents seen by the Financial Times reveal that, from the inception of the licence fee in 1928 until 1962, up to 12.5 per cent of the licence fee went straight to the Treasury as part of its general revenue.
Richard Collins, professor of media studies at the Open University, said that, in addition to the Treasury’s share of the licence fee, around 8 or 9 per cent was kept by the Post Office, which collected the licence fee on behalf of the BBC.
Businesses of all shapes and sizes are clamoring for a spot on the social media landscape, opening accounts and buying domain names at a furious pace and then trying to figure out how to use them and who to outsource to or purchase training from.ad concludes that
the return on my relatively minimal investment of time and energy in social media has resulted in a profit.
but he adds
Technology is a scary word. It means new and expensive. These words can spell death for a business or organization who is thinking of trying new things .
Social Media is not new and it doesn’t need to be expensive (though, it can take time when done right). The point is, forget about technology.
An Amazon spokesman, Drew Herdener, said in an e-mail message that the books were added to the Kindle store by a company that did not have rights to them, using a self-service function. “When we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers’ devices, and refunded customers,” he said.
[A]s satiated as I am with the enormous and varied flow of available information, I’ve concluded there’s one outlet that should be abandoned: those comment forums at the end of articles on newspaper websites.
…these forums are insidiously contributing to the devaluation of journalism, blurring the truth, confusing the issues, and diminishing serious discourse beyond even talk radio’s worst examples.
“We are working on it and watch this space, but we’re all going to crack it, either when the advertising market recovers or a combination of advertising and micropayments which is 50p a time or 25p a time to watch it.
We may move in time, in the medium term, to micropayments, the same way you pay for stuff on your mobile phone. I think we can make that work extremely well.”
Quality drama may have a shelf-life and an audience willing to pay for it, but a water cooler moment from reality TV? Not likely.and that
after all, if you offer someone a free donut, he/she is going to take it because the price is zero, right? Well, not exactly. In the online world, there’s another equally important currency: availability. It can be defined by the number of steps it takes to do something or download some content. The bigger the number of steps, the bigger the cost of the product/service.
because it’s just a transitional phase in the history of the Internet. The current trend, where everything seems to lose value, and the price of all digital content seems to inevitably spiral towards zero, will reverse
but there is also ease of use, the quality of the user experience, availability, the time it takes to do something.
The business of selling words to readers and selling readers to advertisers, which has sustained their role in society, is falling apart.”
prevent abuses of power, to expose immoral, unethical or illegal behaviour by agencies or individuals.and to
provide analysis, to explain a complicated event or process in a comprehensible narrative.
A far better path forward is for news organisations to focus on what makes their brand different from the rest.whilst finding a platform for charging for content
Without new revenue streams, quality journalism will wither. We should be under no illusions about the price we would pay as a result. It would not be measured in terms of jobs alone, but something more enduring and valuable. Journalism forms part of the lifeblood of free societies Journalism is not perfect, nor was it ever meant to be. By its nature, it is often uncomfortable, especially for those in positions of power. But it matters - and I will defend it to the last.
Hairspray paint sold in goody bags by a local newspaper during a festival may have been used to daubed graffiti around the town.
The bags were on offer at Midsomer Norton's Mardi Gras festival and contained copies of the Somerset Guardian and Standard newspapers, along with some brightly-coloured hairsprays.
However, it appears the paints might have been used to daub some graffiti around the town, forcing the council into a hasty clean-up operation ahead of a visit by Britain in Bloom judges on Monday.
Our assumption going into this research was that commercials on social networks were almost purely national. We’re estimating that local advertisers will account for about $641 million of nearly $3.3 billion this year trying to reach consumers via these sites.
That oh-so-worthy broadsheet's campaign against the News of the World poses a potentially far greater threat to liberty and press freedom than anything the tacky Sunday tabloid might have done.arguing that
If journalists did not sometimes break the law then the truth would remain hidden
The point about the News of the World's activities is that they were not investigating high crime and misdemeanours. They were not exposing police corruption. They were not acting in the public interest.
What O'Neill needs to grasp is that unprincipled and trivial journalism by the News of the World puts serious, inquiring journalism on the back foot.
Cuts in spending on search-engine advertising are accelerating even as the rate of decline in overall marketing outlay slows, according to a report by the Institute of Practitioners in Advertisingsays the report adding that at least up to now
Search advertising has hitherto held up better than any other part of the marketing mix.
marketing professionals are cutting search spending by about 5 per cent, the IPA says, making this the only category to see an increased rate of decline.
Modern media celebrates consumption, not deprivation, and focuses on celebrity and personality,
in another way, and for the first time in history, the poor are no longer invisible at all, or at least don't have to be. We have instant access to information about virtually everything today -- as close as the computer on our desk or the phone in our pocket - and that includes access to who is hurting, left out, left behind, and why. In just a few minutes on Twitter one can link to everything from statistics to eyewitness accounts,
Social media can't ensure social justice. But it can affect the invisibility that is the first barrier to achieving it
If we define journalism as a rag bag of what we cannot do then we will define ourselves out of a job.The words of the Guardian's Kevin Anderson speaking at last Friday's News Innovation.
getting people so pissed off that they get enragedInstead a
sustainable model will centre around relevance and relationshipFood for thought for today's journalists?
new news journalists will need the flexibility to cope. They will need to network with the audience as much as they do with their colleagues. The audience is becoming a vast but still untapped news source. The most go-ahead journalists are using social networking tools to help find information and interviewees.
journalists will need changed culture, changed organisation and an improved understanding of the modern tools of journalism – audience insights, blogging, Twitter, multimedia production. It sounds like being pretty challenging...But I suspect that the public may well appreciate a journalism that puts serving their information needs at its heart, rather than one which is about organising the world in the way that journalists prefer.'
It will also be interesting to see if Tweetdeck can come up with a way to monetize its software; perhaps creating white-label versions for businesses.
The third most popular activity is social networking, which is also not a surprise given the stereotype that women just love to talk. The fact that both of these activities are very popular with women means that there is also some cross-over issues to consider. If women like to shop online, they’re likely to talk about that online and there are probably certain kinds of marketing tactics that will work better with them.
to capitulate to inevitability due to a lack of forward thinking is unforgivable in the digital age. The print medium is sitting on true firepower: brand loyalty, killer lists and well-established communities. In today's age of community-based, social marketing, no medium has more underutilized assets than newspapers and magazines. They have communities of readers that offer marketers the real power to have one-to-one relationships with interested and motivated consumers. Yet they are not using the new metrics and database tools to tap into that there gold.
British journalism needs to raise its standards to ward off the danger of statutory regulation. The self-regulatory Press Complaints Commission should be transformed from a passive fielder of complaints to an authoritative setter of standards, a forum for debate within and outside of journalism, and an ombudsman for members of the public individually, and the public interest as a whole. Journalism faces many pressures: its survival as a necessary democratic actor depends on confronting its faults. These are many, but not incurable.
Lots of companies are hiring bloggers these days, ranging from huge media concerns like Reuters to small start-ups. Pay can be good, and there’s no real difference any more between what a full-time blogger gets paid and what a full-time journalist gets paid. The work can be hard, and the blog can end up eating your life, but at the same time there can be an enormous sense of freedom when you’re given a blog of your own.
people want to hire bloggers, not hire journalists and then cross their fingers and hope that it turns out those journalists can blog. All to often, in such cases, they can’t.
“Hi Andy it’s Sue. The Guardian have called again. I told him you had no comment. But he says he’s going to stand outside CCHQ and call every hour until you say something. Just thought you should know.”
“Andy it’s me. DON’T forget the milk on your way home. And remember it’s no Blackberry night tonight. Luv ya Peachy.”
“Rupert here. You’d better call.”
“Hello Andy it’s Paul Livers calling from C-Rap PR. Hope you’re sitting down ’cause we’ve got a Grrreat story for your Bizarre column….”
“Andy, look, I’ve seen the photos of Dave and, alright, they’re not the most flattering. But I don’t see what you think I could have done. I’m not bloody watching over the shoulder of every picture editor in this place. And the idea that I’m going to order them to use only pictures of his left hand side…look, give just give us a call. I’m around this evening.”
“Andy, it’s Peter here. The Telegraph are damn well at it again. They’re obsessed with this one blasted claim I made four years ago, really very boring, the wife insisted on getting the damn thing. I can’t believe it will make a story, it’s dashed dull and the fees office didn’t even give me the money for it. But, just in case, it might be worth me talking you through it.”
If, as the Guardian claims, between 2,000 and 3,000 people were targeted and had their privacy breached in various ways, then some of the names already mentioned could get together to mount a multi-million pound class action against the Murdoch company. Just starting that process would almost certainly unseal the documents. Then more than the cat would be out of the bag ... and the potential damages unlimited.
David Cameron finds himself caught up in a war between two media tribes following the revelations about the phone hacking at the News of the World during Andy Coulson’s editorship. On the one side, there’s The Guardian—whose scoop it was—and the BBC; for the BBC this episode is a chance to both make an ideological point against tabloid journalism and the Murdoch press as well as gain some revenge for the fun that The Sun and The Times had with the BBC’s expenses. On the other is News International with other newspapers that have used similar methods looking nervously on from the sidelines.
Instead of having a single wehttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifbsite divided in sections which often replicate the sections in the print newspaper, we could have many different sites each focusing on a specific topic of interest to our communities
In other words, it would look more like Twitter, Facebook or FriendFeed rather than a collection of newspaper articles.
“digital exclusion” needs to be revisited because people are using technology in increasingly sophisticated ways, particularly around social media and social networks. The danger is that a large portion of the population will have less access to jobs, private records and digital databanks if they’re not conversant with social media.
“If you’ve never used these empowering technologies, they can seem pretty alien.”
How can you blame gays for broken heterosexual marriages. You really have lost the plot.
Do you really think that there is some vast, underground conspiracy by gay groups to convert the rest of us? Can you point to any evidence at all for this?
Children from fractured homes do worse in general in every single area of their lives
That is wrong, I am 12 and I am top in my school of 800 people, I have been moved up 2 years and all of the people that I know who feel at home in a library don't have married parents.
1.Consumers perceive that content produced by news organizations is valuable to them.
2.Consumers will actually make content purchases when they are confronted with many free options.
3.Publishers can exert their influence in the marketplace through laws and public policy, both of which could change.
4.Publishers will invest in emerging technologies that establish new work rules, new systems for organizing content and new designs for packaging editorial and commercial content.
5.News organizations can make the leap from an advertising-centered to an audience-centered enterprise.
US mutual fund Vanguard, which announced its arrival to the UK market in February, has a Facebook page with more than 2,300 members. Its ‘Simple Truths’ section includes videos offering tips on saving, while the firm also provides links to its Vanguard Blog, careers section and future events such as webcasts.
Managers in the US and Europe are prohibited from posting material that could be deemed as giving financial advice. This, in turn, has an effect on what messages can be relayed via social networking sites.
With consumers spending more and more time online, analysts say Internet companies and ad agencies have no choice but to work together to develop ways to make money from digital media.says the paper.
The aim with interactive collaborative maps of this kind is to weave together all of the salient issues, positions and arguments dispersed through the community into a single rich, transparent structure – in which each idea and argument is expressed just once – so that it’s possible to explore all perspectives quickly and gain a good sense of the scope and perceived merits of the different arguments
The point I was trying to make was that there didn't seem much point having RSS icons in your header (Express) or by your search box (Mirror), or offering a brilliant RSS mashup feature (Guardian), or having RSS icons by each section of your news area (Independent) etc etc - but not doing anything to educate people about what they could do with all this.but recognises that
RSS is great - I use it. It doesn't run itself as some people seem to think. But it should still be available for people who want to use it, whether to monitor output or to create mashups or whatever.
The world of the media is changing as fast as everything else. A politician makes a speech ignored by the conventional media and it gets 1 million hits on utube. The world of Blogs forces a resignation of a chief government adviser before the daily newspapers know what is going on! The new social media is challenging the conventional news elites as never before. Politicians and their established lobbies are running scared. The new social media has blown a hole through the existing elites. What does this mean for the future?
Has anyone else suffered Guardian rage from strangers? While queueing to buy the paper recently I was accosted in one shop by a lady in trousers cut from a plaid horse blanket who insisted on detailing all the illegal hunting activity in my area, and in another accused by a Mervyn King lookalike of personally driving the country to economic ruin. More worrying was being shouted at by an old lady for having it tucked under my arm while buying the Big Issue. Glancing back as I fled, I saw her buying a copy of the magazine and chatting with the seller. So it was definitely the newspaper that upset her. Are we to be reduced to carrying it home in shame and a plain brown wrapper?
John Brooke
Bewdley, Worcestershire
The consequence of all this insider chat is that fewer and fewer people can follow extremely important goings-on. People are tuning out what is the most important story of our lives, which is being delivered incrementally by a number of very smart people, nearly all of them working exclusively online, to a small audience of people who are financially educated enough to understand. So do your part and educate me, please.
Its twist is that it encourages and enables anyone to be a reporter and uses an in-house system to rate would-be journalists on popularity and credibility.
Allvoices, which is operating on $4.5 million in funding from Vantage Point Venture Partners, has started paying its most popular reporters. They can earn anywhere from 25 cents to $2 per thousand page views.
Contributors are free to post almost anything. Credibility is rated by people who read postings and by the in-house algorithm, which is designed to help measure postings against traditional media and other sources.
As a device of freedom, the internet has done more to chronicle the aspirations and interests of people than anything since the printing press. While the last age of communications including, of course the television, helped bring us more together as a world, too much in the way of devices and equipment went into those vehicles to put them into the hands of the people. They were -- and are -- as much as the monks on whom the world once relied for all its texts.
Both Twitter and RSS should compliment each other.After all it is zero cost for both and the the more exposure the better,surely.
In these difficult times for the media,every avenue should be used to promote content
For the general public, RSS feeds are a mystery. If they subscribed to one from a newspaper, they would soon be overwhelmed by the quantity of items in their RSS reader.
at a 'round table' on whether 'with forgotten wars and murdered reporters, international journalism still serves the cause of democracy and human rights'.and concludes that
Sometimes international reporters have assuredly helped the cause of human rights. Sometimes they have not. My sense is that this pattern remains still true today.
Rolling 24 hour news channels drive the news agenda. They are on permanently in newsrooms, government and business offices. Every country used to have an airline as a symbol of national pride, now they have a news channel.
By the time it got on air was much more like Sky News and within a year it was entirely the same.
technology, culture, business, and audience tastes are always in flux, making it the job of writers young and old to grab the best available tools and get to the business of chronicling thejavascript:void(0) world.
The barriers of entry into the journalism business have been battered down, making it easier than ever to enter the profession. That will read as small consolation to the journalists who have had their publications shot out from under themand he continues
if the downside of the battered-down barriers to entry is less pay and lower status, the potential upside is that a flood of new entrants into the field could portend a journalistic renaissance.
you’re watching a movie in the theater and need to take a restroom break, but you don’t want to miss the best part. The RunPee iPhone app has a timer letting you know when it’s safe to take a break, and gives you a summary of what you missed upon your return.
It also lets you know whether you should stay till the end of the credits, since movies like Iron Man include bonus footage afterwards. You start the timer when the movie begins, and safe break-times are scheduled throughout.
bloggers have grown in importance to corporations, measured by the increased outreach by businesses and their PR people. And the vast majority of these bloggers want companies and their PR people to reach out to them. While awareness of social media releases avaries from market to market, among those who know what they are, they’re perceived favorably.
this makes tremendous sense, given the disdain bloggers expressed for traditional press releases and their preference for incorporating images, video and audio into their posts. Social media releases (among many other things) make it easy to cherry-pick and embed multimedia assets into posts which, in turn, makes it easy for a blogger to customize the post to his audience rather than regurgitate the same text-based release that everybody else is copying and pasting.
The public closely tracked the sudden death of pop superstar Michael Jackson last week, though nearly two-in-three Americans say news organizations gave too much coverage to the story. At the same time, half say the media struck the right balance between reporting on Jackson’s musical legacy and the problems in his personal life.
About two-thirds of the public (64%) said news organizations gave too much attention to the death of the 50-year-old performer,. About three-in-ten (29%) say the coverage was the right amount. Only 3% say there had been too little coverage.
In a memo, (via Allmediascotland), JP management warn reporters that “a recent review” found more than half of the company’s entire outbound traffic is to Facebook so it has no choice but it stop people visiting. the Memo reads: “Journalists who require access should seek approval from their departmental head, who should contact the Group Helpdesk to have the permission restored.”
Just like Friends Reunited before it, Facebook has become a standard reporting tool for many local and regional reporters—one JP journalist told me recently they couldn’t imagine working without it.
The warm weather (all right, hot - it certainly feels pretty hot on the Tube) is causing the usual heatwave hysteria, whipped up by the media as if there'd never been such weather before, whereas of course we've always been prone to the odd heatwave in this country - and that's the worst we have to cope with. In India just now the temperatures are in the 40s (according to the Continental system), whereas we have barely reached 30 degrees. Think of all those suffering such heat without benefit of air-conditioned ooffices or homes - and think of those sons (and daughters) of temperate Britain in far-flung torrid zones before air-conditioning was heard of. Think, indeed, of Rudyard Kipling, whose sparse autobiogarphy Something Of Myself, written when he was in great pain and knew he was dying, gives such a vivid picture of his seven years in Lahore, where he arrived at the age of 17 to work for the Civil & Millitary Gazette - seven years that formed him as a writer and as a man, and the memory of which is the beating heart of the book. Here he is recalling the hot - the really hot - season:
“In those months - mid April to mid-October - one took up one’s bed and
walked about with it from room to room, seeking for less heated air; or
slept on the flat roof with the waterman to throw half skinfuls of water on
one’s parched carcass ... often the night got into my head and I would
wander till dawn in all manner of odd places - liquor shops, gambling and
opium-dens, wayside entertainments such as puppet shows, native dances or in and about narrow gullies under the Mosque of Wazir Khan for the sheer sake of looking ... one would come home just as the light broke in a hired carriage which stank of hookah-fumes, jasmine flowers, and sandalwood.”
In the offices of the Gazette, sans air conditioning and clad always in three-piece suit and tie (like my own grandfather, never seen in anything less), Kipling toiled away ("..there is, or was, a tablet in my old Lahore office asserting that here I ‘worked.’ And Allah knows that is true also"), sustained in those barely tolerable conditions by endless chota pegs, a weak mix of a little whisky in a lot of soda. This was Churchill's all-day tipple too - the drink that won the war. Cheers!
at home not all licence fee payers were impressed. "There is far too much coverage of BBC presenters," came one post on the BBC website. "Does the BBC have to pay extra to show more of the actual festival performers?" There was much consternation that, after putting Bruce Springsteen on the cover of Radio Times, the BBC had failed to live up to that pre-publicity by showing only limited amounts of The Boss’s performance and of the similarly hyped Neil Young.
producing 111 hours of TV coverage, 60 hours of radio and 57 hours of online video, from muddy fields in Somerset, is a huge logistical task that requires 160 technical staff, plus a further 130 short-term contractors, including security guards to watch over the expensive broadcasting kit that produces output for a TV audience of 16m, up 2m on last year.
It’s true that stupidity and malevolence do sometimes play a role in the disruption of industries. But I’ll argue that even smart and good organizations can fail in the face of disruptive change, and that there are common underlying structural reasons why that’s the case.
Unfortunately for the newspapers, there’s little they can do to make themselves cheaper to run.adding that
The problem is that your newspaper has an organizational architecture which is, to use the physicists’ phrase, a local optimum. Relatively small changes to that architecture - like firing your photographers - don’t make your situation better,
some of the forces preventing change are strongest in the best run organizations. The reason is that those organizations are large, complex structures, and to survive and prosper they must contain a sort of organizational immune system dedicated to preserving that structure.
