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 →
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TV station firing renews questions about whether journalists should respond to critics online This issue of having reporters respond to critics online is, says Jeff Soderman, one of courage and trust for publishers. I agree. You cannot cheerlead for your staff to get out on social media, and then bust them over the head the... Continue Reading →
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Gloom and jokes as Financial Times Deutschland laid to rest "German business daily Financial Times Deutschland (FTD) bade farewell to its readers on Friday in a final edition packed with gallows humour cartoons and melancholy musings on the revolution in the media industry that sealed its fate. Publisher Gruner + Jahr decided to shut the... Continue Reading →
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Leveson inquiry report (full document) Embedded document on Telegraph website. Plus Guardian's more reader-friendly digest of the report http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/nov/28/leveson-inquiry-report-essential-guide tags: Leveson press freedom freedom+of+the+pressPosted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Kon*Fab wants to break the filter bubble by finding location-based news " Kon*Fab, a new project funded by the Knight Foundation, which aims in some small way to inject serendipity, conversation, and physical space into news. "tags: geolocation Kon*Fab Live Blogging- Digital Journalism's Pivotal Platform? A case study of the production, consumption, and form of... Continue Reading →
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» Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users "For some time now, newspaper people have been insisting, sometimes angrily, that we readers will soon have to pay for content (an assertion that had already appeared, in just that form, by 1996.) During that same period, freely available content grew ten-thousand-fold, while buyers didn’t. In fact, as Paul... Continue Reading →
Alison Gow | Building the New 