Good on you Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis has been doing some thinking on his Buzz Machine blog recently.

Firstly his post The speech the NAA should hear seems to have hit the nail right on the head

You blew it.
You’ve had 20 years since the start of the web, 15 years since the creation of the commercial browser and craigslist, a decade since the birth of blogs and Google to understand the changes in the media economy and the new behaviors of the next generation of - as you call them, Mr. Murdoch - net natives. You’ve had all that time to reinvent your products, services, and organizations for this new world, to take advantage of new opportunities and efficiencies, to retrain not only your staff but your readers and advertisers, to use the power of your megaphones while you still had it to build what would come next. But you didn’t.

Then in an angry but constructive response to the AP threats he says that

The problem today is that aggregators favor freshness, but the latest story in a topical cluster is often the 87th rewrite of the news and it’s usually from the Associated Press, which cuts off links and credit to the original journalism (for all its bluster, the AP is actually the biggest problem newspapers have online, but more on that in a minute).

New York Times attacks the news aggregators

The New York Times' David Carr has written quite a scathing attack on the news aggregator sector.

Writing in yesterday's paper he says as one of his solutions to the problems of the media industry

No more free ride to aggregators. Google announced that it would begin selling ads against Google News, with almost no financial accommodation to the organizations that generate that news. The book industry — of all Luddites — has extracted cash from Google, as did the wire services. Google, The Huffington Post and Newser have built their audiences and brands on other people’s labors.

adding that

Most aggregators are not promoting newspaper content; they are repurposing it to their own ends. Newspapers’ audiences are harvested and sold divorced from the content that attracted them in the first place.

The Huffington Post's

CNN aims to be the No 1 news wire

Over at Content Bridges Ht-Richard Sambrook,Ken Doctor looks at CNN's strategy of making itself the best and the most important news wire service.

Back in September 2007 Ken reminds us that

CNN terminated its multi-million contract with Reuters. That was a key signal: it would stop receiving one of the world's major wire services and embark on the road to becoming one.

Now to ne launched in December the news service will publically set out its vision for the future.

It may be a fortuiotoes time to launch as Ken notes

The relationship between those newspapers and AP has never been more tenuous -- the perfect time for an interloper to move in.

but he also asks

Is it really prepared to move from being a news medium to becoming a vendor, with all the to-be-built-out infrastructure and ongoing customer service that requires

RSS has reached a peak

I happen to think that RSS is one of the best tools that a journalist can have so I was surprised to read that its use may be recahing a peak

According to research by Forrester

Nearly half of interactive marketers use RSS, but consumer adoption has only reached 11%. Of the consumers who haven't adopted RSS, most don't understand how RSS is relevant to their lives and the way they seek information. If marketers expect to reach a critical mass of consumers by using content syndication, then they must take on the burden of education

Mind you as Micro Persuasion says

Still, while feed adoption may have crested the idea of online opt-in communications is just getting going. The Facebook newsfeed, Twitter and Friendfeed are perfect examples of opt-in vehichles that bring content you care about to you. In each case, you're total in control. You can unsubscribe from individuals or groups and tailor the stream so that what you want finds you.
RSS is only one form of opt-in communications. The potential is bigger when you look more broadly to social networking. This larger promise still holds and as the technologies become more invisible the newsfeed could even one day subsume RSS.

500 European newspapers to choose

Via Journalism .co.uk

A site that I haven't come across before,the European Journalism Aggregator site that now has over 500 newspapers from across Europe feeding onto its site.

From the Bristol Evening News to the Westmorland Gazette in the UK and from Der Standard in Austria to Upsala Nya Tidning in Sweden

The site is updated every 20 minutes

Whose blogging about what?

Thanks to Martin Moore for highlighting a useful link.

Journalisted.com gives a measure of how many bloggers are linking to articles in the news media.I have blogged about this site before which links to articles by individual journalists.

But now it has this new feature

As Martin says for journalists

you can see who is saying what about an article. So you can get a little more context around an article and, hopefully, so you can find out more out about a subject.

Press Gazette launches new aggregator blog

Press Gazette have this morning launched a news blog,the Wire which attempts to aggregate in the words of Dominic Ponsford

a new cross-media service aimed at providing a comprehensive, intelligent aggregation of every story we can find about journalism

Dominic continues

The Wire will provide a highly-searchable index of journalism stories culled from a plethora of sources across the internet and other media

. adding that

Online is where the action is for news, and The Wire is our attempt create a sort of mega-blog which keeps us and our readers on top of all the big stories about journalism all the time - without diverting limited editorial resources away from the print edition.
And it provides us with the material for a handy page of digested news in the magazine which should become essential reading for anyone who needs to keep up with the fast-changing world of journalism.

Google taking on the world

A Fair amount of debate in cyberspace over the announcement at the end of last week that Google's news site will become the publisher for 4 international news agencies.

For those that missed it,Press Association, Associated Press, Canadian Press and Agence France-Presse will allow Google to scan their news stories and omit those that are duplicated versions from the news agencies that other sites host.

The initial reaction is the worry that Google is taking over the world ,as always,and that it may be the first step to Google actually putting news on its own site .

A good post from Ryan Sholin who gives three reasons why this is a good move.

And from Steve Borris who says

perhaps a bigger obstacle to Google News is that people simply don’t live their lives consulting search engines every time they need to make a decision

Steve,I belive is correct because people like to go to the original site and this additional platform can only give further exposure to original journalists copy.

Update Media Guardian 10th Sept from Jeff Jarvis