Facebook Workers Try to Spend Less Than 1 Second Determining Whether Content Is 'Appropriate' From The Atlantic's piece on an article by Emily Bazelon' - a good glimpse inside the beast that is Facebook "Sullivan cycled through the complaints with striking speed, deciding with very little deliberation which posts and pictures came down, which stayed... Continue Reading →
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John Paton: “There will always be a bigger advertising pie than a subscription pie, always” A while ago, someone who shall remain nameless said to be, about a colleague, "he'll never change". It seems to me that is about the most insulting statement you can make about another person - and also the most inaccurate.... Continue Reading →
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Should journalists quote from your Twitter, Facebook posts without permission? This is an interesting question from the Post and Courier, Charleston. Do you notify someone if you're going to use their tweet? Industry sites sometimes embed my tweets and I get a surprise when I see them - but I take the view that I've... Continue Reading →
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Commenters, We Want You Back - TechCrunch dumps Facebook sign-in for comments The Daily Post website is getting Facebook sign-in later this year for comments. So... this , from TechCrunch, was an interesting read: " The bullies and asshats left our comments sections, but so did everyone else. Now, several years later, after dozens of... Continue Reading →
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Facebook's Graph Search v Google+: two icebergs on a collision course "What do we know about Google+? Google launched it in June 2011, amid much fanfare; the problem was that it looked very like a social network - in which you'd put people into Circles to indicate their intersection with your interest. So you could... Continue Reading →
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Disruptive Trends to Watch in 2013 -Harvard Business Review tags: disruptive trends innovation The New York Times’ Plan to Save the Banner Ad "Inside the NYT’s Idea Lab, a team of 10 works to save the banner ad. The lab itself is an offshoot of NYT’s Tk, which was set up to come up with... Continue Reading →
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Changes in web-user behaviour | Web Usability Fascinating study of web users and usability - especially around how people are accessing content directly via search. Raises some interesting questions around how we design our home pages (and the diminishing relevance of home pages) among other things. "It seems to me, that for at least for... Continue Reading →
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NYT Paywall Working Better Than People Expected, But That Doesn't Mean It's Working | Techdirt "A solution based on giving people the same thing for a new, higher price only opens you up to disruption. A solution based on providing more value for your users that keeps them loyal to you is going to last... Continue Reading →
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Q&A: Frank Rose on digital storytelling and media immersion "People have always wanted to involve themselves in great stories. With industrial-age media you could only involve yourself in a limited way - you could read Charles Dickens or Scott Fitzgerald and imagine yourself in the worlds they described. But each new medium has seemed more... Continue Reading →
Emerging markets… in Journalism?
A new, uh, spin on corporate communications reached me via The News Hook's post How HSBC uses journalism to reach new customers. Essentially, HSBC bank has found a niche in the knowledge market - in this case, how to expand into emerging economies - and is filling it with niche content. The article explains: HSBC’s tack... Continue Reading →
Alison Gow | Building the New 