tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45932608227237383272011-11-12T12:39:10.639+01:00Beyond the Printed Word is the annual World Digital Publishing Conference dealing with all aspects of cross-platform publishing from the newspaper publisher's point of view. This blog is their platform for exchange of thoughts and ideas. The posted articles represent the author's opinion. We reserve the right to delete comments that have inappropriate content.Gordon Steigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17392271681144815264noreply@blogger.comBlogger821100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-82920051284815870962007-12-06T13:31:00.000+01:002007-12-06T13:37:11.427+01:00

Yahoo! India has launched a new Hindi news and current affairs site with the publishers of India's most-read newspaper and news site.The deal with Jagran Group, whose Dainik Jagran news site accounts for 80 per cent of India's online audience, will combine news and current affairs content from the media group with Yahoo!'s messenger, mail and search features on the rebranded Jagran Yahoo! India

Al Nims Medianoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-62661071833484981042007-12-01T00:45:00.000+01:002007-12-04T13:52:07.227+01:00

Someone asked me at the Beyond conference if I could point to a recent success story from our multimedia publishing strategy. One that i forgot to mention had to do with some very poignant videos a reporter shot of the grieving parents of some of the six cheerleaders killed at the beginning of last summer in Fairport, NY. That's some of the best, most sensitively done and touching news video I

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The Financial Times Digital Business has its podcast since November 28. The first edition has a 'funny' commentary from Nicholas Carr on the contrast between formal business software applications and informal social networks like Facebook and MySpace. "It seems increasingly clear to me that the social networking phenomenon will, in some yet-to-be-determined form, invade corporations. If you

Valériehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705637948928830400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-79809796376993136032007-11-22T09:25:00.000+01:002007-11-22T14:08:40.300+01:00

I just read that the e-reader from Amazon is already sold out. Either people really love the device and the idea of paying 399 dollars plus 9.99 dollars each book, or they didn't have many available in the first place.Update: There are some interesting viewpoints in the comments on Dan Kennedy's article.

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As most of you will know, Amazon has launched its e-reader device "Kindle" on Monday, which gives you the opportunity to directly download books, subscribe to newspapers, magazines and even blogs, without the need of a hotspot as it uses the high-speed data network EVDO. Newsweek took the opportunity to publish an article on The Future of Reading, which is worth reading, just like the comments on

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A research study conducted by the German association for telecommunications and new media called Bitkom, has revealed that 21 percent of the Germans are reading news online. The study further showed that until the end of 2007 the 20 most visited news web portals will record about 4 billion hits. This is an increase of 25 percent compared to the previous year (see left side of graphic). Amongst

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Ifra's magazine, "newspaper techniques," will be presenting an article in its next edition about the "perfect website," with tips and services that any good website should have already, and a few case studies from newspapers that have also managed in their own way to present a perfect site to their audiences and community, much like those at Beyond the Printed Word. The question we have presented

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Good news for developers (and users, in the long run): Google has released the first version of their SDK for Android, the open-source mobile operating system planned to be launched next year. To raise the motivation, Google has set up the "Android Developer Challenge", where the best applications will be awarded a total of 10 million dollars. A very good first look is provided by Engadget. Click

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This post goes especially to participants of the Beyond the Printed Word 2007 Conference. We aim to provide the best conference of its kind, so please help us get better. Choose one of the answers below and use the comments to tell us what you liked and also what could be improved for BTPW 2008 in Budapest. Thank you. Poll Survey - Take Our Poll

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President of Sanoma Digital in Finland, Liisa Kotilainen, was presenting the digital strategy of her company and gave examples of platforms they created to give more service to their users, like a price comparison service.This presentation was the last of the show, if you wish to reflect on this year's "Beyond the Printed Word" conference, you can do that in different ways: review the blog posts

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Mark Lawlor, Managing Director of The Independent from Ireland, spoke about digital citizens and how his company is trying to reach them by recreating their brand and transferring it from print to the digital world.

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Melinda Gipson, Director of Internet Publishing at GateHouse Media, USA, is talking about how her company is buidling partnerships to create Web 2.0 services. GateHouse specialises in buying local newspapers, where they put in practice a web first strategy with a high level of user participation, including ideas like local advertising based on recommendations. Being one of our authors here on

Gordon Steigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17392271681144815264noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-37016676225595016822007-11-09T11:03:00.000+01:002008-12-09T07:09:01.509+01:00

Hooi Chong Ooi, General Manager of the web portal Sinchew-i.com, showed examples of the different ad models they use. The website belongs to the Sin Chew Media Corp. from Malaysia, which publishes one of the largest chinese newspapers outside of China.

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Michael Heipel (on the photo) continued with a presentation of the winners of the 2007 Ifra XMA Cross Media Awards, honouring the efforts that newspaper operations undertook to build communities online, via mobile and print. He handed over to the Director of Content at PrisaCom from Spain, Mario Tascon Ruiz who explained El Pais' winning project.

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Michael Heipel, the first speaker today and Ifra Director of Exhibitions, started his presentation with a quick poll via SMS provided by MINDS asking the audience if they had carried out community projects last year. Only 70 percent answered yes ... I bet Elan Lohmann was one of them.

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Elan Lohmann and Meredith Artley just kicked off the second day by summarising the conclusions from the presentations of yesterday. newspaper techniques is providing summaries of these presentations here.

Gordon Steigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17392271681144815264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-14902793731186687862007-11-09T01:19:00.000+01:002008-12-09T07:09:03.073+01:00

We have just returned from the Guinness Storehouse, where we had a tour through the exhibition followed by dinner and a few drinks with the most impressing night view over the city of Dublin. Very nice event and chats with interesting people.

Gordon Steigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17392271681144815264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-4146191004627168042007-11-08T18:33:00.000+01:002008-12-09T07:09:03.296+01:00

Ole A. Werring, TV Manager of the newspaper group Dagbladet from Norway was showing several examples of TV and video clip integration on their website dagbladet.no. His presentation was the last for the first day, summaries will be available from tomorrow morning on. We hope you enjoyed our posts today and will hopefully be back tomorrow, as Ifra has organised an evening event at the Guinness

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Atsushi Sato, the Deputy Manager of the digital media division of Asahi Shimbun, the second largest newspaper in Japan. The market seems to be a bit different there, as they sell around 12 million print copies each day. Nevertheless, the sales are decreasing and they have discovered the mobile as a means to extend their reach.

Gordon Steigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17392271681144815264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-13790014011227064152007-11-08T17:02:00.001+01:002008-12-09T07:09:03.638+01:00

Coffee break time at the conference is commercial time on the Beyond blog: newspaper techniques, Ifra's print and online magazine, is reporting with a realtime ntmultiblog from the conference halls. ntmultiblogs are a development based on the moblogging idea, featuring short interviews with and videos of participants and speakers. On the photo you see Editor in Chief Dean Roper (right) and Ifra

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Start of the second session about the diversification of news: Ian Davies, Director of Business Development, Archant, UK, is explaining the importance of localness for society and in consequence users - despite the globalness of the web.

Gordon Steigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17392271681144815264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-88188863048968563552007-11-08T16:17:00.000+01:002008-12-09T07:09:04.134+01:00

Rowan Barnett is talking about Second Life and the virtual newspaper project "The Avastar", which is only published there. He is giving a lot of background information explains the benefits and why Bild.T-Online.de is exploring this medium. Barnett (picture above) is Editor in Chief of The Avastar. Below: Meredith Artley and Elan Lohmann listening to his presentation.What do you think about

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Petar Pavic, Director Research and Development of Europa Press Holding in Croatia just finished presenting the case study of his company's Web 2.0 initiative - very illustrative and funny presentation.

Gordon Steigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17392271681144815264noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-61051679422125500872007-11-08T15:50:00.000+01:002008-12-09T07:09:04.346+01:00

Participants and speakers using the lunch break for discussions and exchange of ideas.

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If you are interested in seeing the slides of his presentation - Matthew Buckland has put them up on his blog matthewbuckland.com.

Gordon Steigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17392271681144815264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-75988582667116264262007-11-08T13:52:00.000+01:002008-12-09T07:09:04.909+01:00

Danny Dagan, Head of Online Communities of News Group Digital, gave tips on how to handle user generated content on news sites, also from a legal point of view.

Gordon Steigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17392271681144815264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-90619116625707071602007-11-08T13:23:00.000+01:002008-12-09T07:09:05.008+01:00

Moderator Meredith Artley, Executive Editor of LATimes.com, arrived late this morning due to a flight delay - as you can tell from the picture, she took it with humour (on the picture with Elan Lohmann left and Matthew Buckland to the right).

Gordon Steigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17392271681144815264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-65006687589373845782007-11-08T12:23:00.000+01:002008-12-09T07:09:05.175+01:00

Matthew Buckland, General Manager of Mail & Guardian Online, South Africa, is the first presenter after the coffee break. He explains how his company managed to integrate and encourage users to use their platform. He recommends to use the best of both the media model and the blog model to generate content for the web and also newspaper. Summaries of the conference presentations will be online

Gordon Steigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17392271681144815264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-5960088579888940832007-11-08T12:14:00.000+01:002008-12-09T07:09:05.294+01:00

Prof. Dr. Jo Groebel, director of the German Digital Institute, just finished his very lively and interesting presentation about the major changes in the consumption behaviour of users/readers. Questions and comments welcome, use the link below this post.For a short video excerpt of his presentation click image below.

Gordon Steigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17392271681144815264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-31979130387905121782007-11-08T11:31:00.000+01:002008-12-09T07:09:05.692+01:00

Reiner Mittelbach, CEO of Ifra (small picture) kicked off the conference by introducing future initiatives of Ifra and the Moderator Elan Lohmann from Capetown, Publisher of NEWS24. We also would like to know what you think about the presentations and the conference in general, so please feel free to comment by clicking the link below each entry.Picture below shows Elan Lohmann at his

Gordon Steigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17392271681144815264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-80866765857259030752007-11-08T11:05:00.000+01:002008-12-09T07:09:05.811+01:00

We'll be blogging right from the conference "Beyond the Printed Word" today and tomorrow. The conference will start in a few minutes with more than 410 delegates from all over the world. Here a view from the registration and coffee break area.

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Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google Inc., announced the launch of a Linux-based open source operating system for mobile phones call "android" yesterday. The software will "create a whole new mobile experience for users with new applications and new capabilities that we couldn't imagine today," Schmidt stated, and will feature a web browser with full functionality. Android will give adopters flexibility

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In his latest post on his personal blog www.matthewbuckland.com, Matthew Buckland tells his readers what his presentation at the Beyond conference will be about: I’ll be presenting on some of the new online products we have launched in the Web 2.0 sphere recently. I still wince every time I use the word Web 2.0, but regardless of its origins it is a useful term that captures a new spirit and

Gordon Steigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17392271681144815264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-19914677589730531532007-11-05T16:14:00.000+01:002007-11-05T16:23:25.747+01:00

A new project called www.newassignment.net is trying to spark innovation in journalism by building a network of editors, reporters and users. The goal is to "produce high-quality work that serves the public interest, holds up under scrutiny, and builds trust." Sounds very promising.

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Just one week from today the Conference "Beyond the Printed Word" will take place in Dublin, Ireland. 400 delegates, media experts from all over the world, have signed up so far, so we are looking forward to interesting presentations and lively discussions in the conference room, during the breaks and at the evening event at the Guinness Storehouse. We will be blogging from the event and giving

Gordon Steigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17392271681144815264noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-23103356911178547162007-10-29T15:24:00.000+01:002007-10-29T15:55:51.743+01:00

The long-awaited regional news portal for the western part of Western Germany called DerWesten.de was finally launched yesterday. The portal merges the former separate websites of the regional papers of the WAZ Mediengruppe into one website for the region near Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund. Aiming at a younger audience, DerWesten will incorporate user-generated content and articles from about 900

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Looking at the decreasing click rates at Technorati, fewer visitors, less links and lively commenting only happening from time to time, some of the (former) major bloggers in Germany are thinking aloud of quitting their blogs or having a break. Bloggers writing for the audience and not for themselves are experiencing the decreasing interest in blogs as the big hype is over and the watchers are

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Press release dated today:"Fairport, New York. October 23, 2007 - GateHouse Media, Inc. (NYSE: GHS) announced today that it has signed a definitive asset purchase agreement to acquire several daily and non-daily publications from Morris Publishing Group for a purchase price of $115 million. The transaction is expected to close before the end of November and is subject to regulatory approval and

MelindaGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180655948992413965noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-10092721317852068342007-10-22T19:51:00.000+02:002007-10-22T19:54:50.713+02:00

Or, so it would seem from the complete absence of posts to my query below. I'll be out of the office from Oct. 24 until Beyond, so we've blown the opportunity to explore your own experiences to date. But it begs the question, are there no comments posted because none of the Beyond participants actually read blogs, or because no successful partnerships have been forged?

MelindaGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180655948992413965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-11386826479909792232007-10-18T15:08:00.001+02:002007-10-18T15:22:44.699+02:00

... read a summary of her speech about hyper-local websites she held at the ONA conference on www.poynter.org.

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Howard Owens, my colleague as GateHouse Media's digital media director, sent an interesting email today to our online editors offering them hope that we're on the right track with our local sites. As he puts it, we've embarked on an effort to evolve the model of "journalism as a conversation" with our WickedLocal network of smaller communities in the Northeast. "That involves both creating a

MelindaGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180655948992413965noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-22749484196820609432007-10-17T17:47:00.000+02:002007-10-17T18:36:23.279+02:00

Jean-Luc Marty, chief editor for the French edition of the monthly magazine Geo was frustrated by the amount of material (audio, video, photos, notes...) that he could not use on his print edition and were so precious to understand the investigation work of the journalist. So he had this wonderful idea of creating a sort of making-of on the Web for some great stories, you can see the result here

Valériehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705637948928830400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-85969999949700229132007-10-15T19:02:00.000+02:002007-10-16T11:41:35.246+02:00

Roanoke Moves Beyond TimesCast In his Oct. 10 blog announcing that the Roanoke Times would cease it’s TimesCast news “Web cast” after two years, John Jackson raises many unanswered questions. Was it too large of a staff commitment for limited commercial return? (The year one anniversary photo depicts a staff of 11.) Was it too much a reflection of “your father’s” newscast — an

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At an Ifra workshop on citizen media in Kuala Lumpur Steve Yelvington from Morris Communications was interviewed about the importance of community building for news organisations. Click to watch the video.

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There is a global buzz about creating facebook applications and widgets since they released their ground-breaking API concept. Media companies are looking at a parasitic "can't beat em, join em approach" - particularly in markets like South Africa where Facebook is growing like wildfire.Tim O'Reilly's recent report, The Facebook Application Platform, has revealed some hard truths. Not all

Elan Lohmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15077129610044798624noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-13324666995912757272007-10-08T15:54:00.001+02:002007-10-08T15:54:13.454+02:00

I'm delighted to join the "faculty" of Beyond the Printed Word as a keynote speaker in Ireland. But the topic of crafting win-win partnerships with Web 2.0 companies is a bit daunting and I'm going to need your help to do it properly.Many of you have heard from me for years, and in some ways it feels a bit like I'm saying the same thing I was in 1998, but more people in the audience are nodding

MelindaGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180655948992413965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-71967290713061558032007-10-08T15:01:00.001+02:002007-10-08T15:09:01.232+02:00

It's a very interesting development that msnbc.com’s first acquisition in its 11-year history is Newsvine.com. It indicates a future where traditional publishers cannot ignore citizen voices and their valuable contribution. I think it's a great move on the part of MSNBC. Well done.

Elan Lohmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15077129610044798624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-52512307031762059852007-10-08T12:43:00.000+02:002007-10-08T12:48:52.655+02:00

This week most of the contributors to this weblog are busy helping out at Ifra's annual exhibition, the IfraExpo 2007 in Vienna, so posts will be less frequent until next monday.

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The CEO and Publisher of the Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, Caroline Little has announced a major relaunch of the website www.washingtonpost.com scheduled for spring 2008 yesterday at the AOP Conference in London. The website will feature widgets and tools enabling the readers to talk to each other. More information here and here.

Gordon Steigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17392271681144815264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-23609056060800139002007-10-02T14:52:00.000+02:002007-10-02T15:31:45.298+02:00

According to FT.com, Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun and Nikkei have announced the creation of a joint website to attract young internet users. “We want to increase the influence of newspapers in the world of the internet,” Kotaro Akiyama, Asahi chief executive, told a joint news conference.Despite the fact that the Japanese market has highest rates of readership worldwide and sales remain steady,

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The Reuters blog Mediafile reports that David Hiller has plans to add about 100 people to the LA Times digital operations. He also said that a lot of them will be people from the printing side of the business. Link to the full article.

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"It seems unlikely that Google's planned $3.1 billion takeover of online advertising specialist DoubleClick is in for an easy ride in Europe. The European Commission announced yesterday that its stance toward the controversial deal - which is shot through with thorny competition issues - is unlikely to be announced before October 26. If on that date the Commission opts for a full review, Google

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Since Facebook's traffic is expanding fast, those who have been ambushed on their respective markets by the sudden rise of the social networking site will be interested to know this info: “Microsoft is weighing up taking a stake in Facebook in a move that could value the social networking site at more than $10 billion and trigger a bidding war, according to reports. The world’s largest software

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Belo Corp. and Mochila, Inc. announced on september 24 a strategic partnership whereby Belo will become a premier content syndication partner in the Mochila marketplace. In addition, Belo has made an investment in Mochila to help drive Mochila's future growth.Belo will participate in Mochila's AdMatch program, creating new revenue opportunities via the Mochila marketplace while expanding the

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September 24, the Nielsen Company announced it has opened up a new social networking Web site called 'Hey! Nielsen' (www.heynielsen.com) to the public.The site gives lovers of pop culture a place to react about TV shows, music or movies. It has been tested internally within the Nielsen Co. for the past few months. Nielsen also plans to launch a Spanish-language version of the site, 'Oye! Nielsen'

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“Teens who enjoy social media are intensive users and highly engaged,” said Jason Lee, media analyst, Nielsen//NetRatings. “They are venturing onto multiple networks to experience new features and broaden their connections.”A large portion of the social networking community jumps back and forth between different sites, found Nielsen – particularly teens. For example, 80 percent of Facebook

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"As the inverted pyramid was partly a result of the increasing role of the telegraph in the news industry, and dominant cultural ideas of empiricism and science, the news diamond attempts to illustrate the change from a 19th century product (the article) to a 21st century process: the iterative journalism of new media; the story that is forever ‘unfinished", writes Paul Bradshaw in his Online

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The "2007 Online Journalism Awards" Finalists were recently announced. And our co-chairman for this year's Beyond the Printed Word conference, Meredith Artley, Executive Editor for the Latimes.com (http://www.latimes.com/) can be proud to have joined a team which has been nominated as one of the finalists in the category "Outstanding Use of Digital Media" for : Los Angeles Times, Altered

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According to Comscore the average length of online video is 2.7 minutes. Does that mean that all of our video needs to be less than three minutes? ask Andy Dickinson, Digital and Online Journalism teacher (How long is your video?)If you shoot an interview that is 10 minutes long, don’t just hack it down to 2.7 minutes. (Although a short version is a great idea). Hack it up in to 2.7 minute blocks

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A report says: The New York Times announced Monday it would stop charging for access to certain articles and archives on its web site, reversing a marketing plan implemented two years ago.The widely read newspaper, also known as the "Old Gray Lady," said it was cancelling the pay-for-access system to some columnists' work and back articles because of the greater potential for revenue from online

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Matthew Buckland, General Manager of the Mail & Guardian Online, will be talking about the "integration of web 2.0 services into news sites" at this year's Beyond the Printed Word conference. Besides his main job and lecturing at conferences all over the world, he writes a very interesting monthly column for The Media Magazine called "Net savvy" and host his own blog about "new media, technology

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'Old-World Media Start to Feel the Pain' writes Matthew Creamer from Advertising Age in an attempt to analyze why U.S. ad spending fell for the second quarter in a row (a first time since 2001) : "Depressing as it might appear, it's a trend you might want to get used to, though not for the business-cycle reasons you might expect...Simply put, American companies are shifting more and more

Valériehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705637948928830400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-42632105192759114962007-09-14T11:39:00.000+02:002008-12-09T07:09:06.695+01:00

eMarketer projects that local online advertising spending in the US will reach $2.9 billion in 2007. Interestingly, that is still only 13.4% of the total Internet ad market.

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If you're in mobile marketing, then you should read this article from Enid Burns : "Google Ports AdWords Listings to Its Mobile Search Product" (http://www.clickz.com/3627007) :"A year after it began testing paid listings on its mobile search product, Google has opened AdWords generally to Google Mobile Search. Keyword management is integrated with the existing AdWords interface, and advertisers

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Marchex, a local online advertising company and publisher of local content, has just released 'Unlocking the Potential of the Local Internet,' a 12-page primer that combines a detailed overview of the local search market opportunity with concise and easy- to-reference charts covering the industry's key players and online destinations. The report, which features analysis of the specific challenges

Valériehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705637948928830400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-62631160824624179612007-09-13T12:27:00.000+02:002007-09-13T12:45:27.698+02:00

Mobile advertising is expected to generate $895 million worldwide this year, though it is anticipated to grow to $14.6 billion in 2011, according to Gartner Inc. Still, no mobile phone users can reasonably feel enthusiast at the perspective of receiving ads on their mobile phone. So, here’s an interesting media, reaching consumers on the move, where they are and around the clock…but advertisers

Valériehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705637948928830400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-55507832250514621032007-09-12T13:16:00.000+02:002007-09-12T13:56:45.727+02:00

Canandian scientists have developed a new technology using photonic crystals to produce coloured flexible e-paper displays, as MIT's Technology Review reports. The co-founder of Opalux, the company that commercialises the so-called "P-Ink" technology, states that the colours are much brighter and intense. As other E-Ink technologies, this one is also most likely not to replace TFT display

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http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/ reports on LePost.fr, the Web 2.0 experiment (still a Beta version) from the interactive unit of France’s Le Monde newspaper: "Separate from the flagship paper and its LeMonde.fr website, LePost.fr offers a mixed, continuous flow of news from both reader-contributors and staff reporters. In true Web 2.0 shades of pink and blue, the left half of the page is home to a

Valériehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705637948928830400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-64346313586075533112007-09-11T11:41:00.000+02:002007-09-11T13:05:35.341+02:00

There is a crucial debate since a few months about the issue of click fraud. In a very interesting article, Jennifer LeClaire (http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=02300243EWSR) details what is at stake and what the industry is doing. "While Google and Yahoo are trying to curb pay-per-click fraud, some say their solutions are not enough. In the meantime, quality publishers are taking

Valériehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705637948928830400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-63902279986652833702007-09-10T14:35:00.000+02:002007-09-14T09:00:48.997+02:00

Dave Morgan from onlineSPIN has pre-published some thoughts of his essay on what U.S. newspapers will be like in 2020 and got some interesting feedback. Jeff Jarvis published his whole essay "Newspapers in 2020" dealing with the same question on his blog Buzzmachine . While Jeff is very careful with his prediction, Dave concludes with: "Newspaper companies are very likely not to be winners. The

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Flickr Set Manager (author David Wilkinson : http://www.dopiaza.org/flickr/setmgr/) allows you to automatically create new sets on Flickr based on various criteria such as interestingness, date posted and tags, or even from a random set of photographs.Click on the link below to start. Before you can start using it for the first time, you will be taken to the Flickr web site and asked to grant

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In his article "A patent improvement" (The Economist, Sep 6th 2007, http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9719020), Andy Oram, editor at O'Reilly Media, writes : "The number of applications has soared in recent years, but patent offices have been unable to keep up—resulting in huge backlogs and lengthy delays. Standards have slipped and in America the number of lawsuits

Valériehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705637948928830400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-75563953518062903402007-09-07T12:55:00.000+02:002007-09-07T13:16:46.219+02:00

If you're not yet familiar with Drupal but keep hearing that word in the tech guys discussion, you might want to join the Newspapers on Drupal forum.This wiki page : http://groups.drupal.org/node/5790 answers some of the basic questions of how Drupal may be used for powering a newspaper website. "The intended audience is newspaper people who have just heard about Drupal, and want to know a bit

Valériehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705637948928830400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-44645129799042448652007-09-07T12:11:00.000+02:002007-09-07T12:47:09.268+02:00

Then you might want to know how Rob Curley handles its job descriptions at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. This summer, he offered in his blog www.robcurley.com, some tips :"The topic that it seems I’m getting asked the most about right now is “will I share our job descriptions?” That’s a hard one for me because if you ask those who have worked with me, we really don’t have set job

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On September 2, Etaoin Shrdlu ("the very interesting blog for McClatchy editors and others to talk about creating a 21st century news company"), published this post from Howard Weaver, VP news for the McClatchy Group : "You'll see a lot on the wires and in the blogosphere in the next few days about an arrangement that lets Google host AP and some other wire stories on its own pages. That means

Valériehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705637948928830400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-33300259243562468072007-09-06T15:57:00.000+02:002007-09-06T16:48:42.321+02:00

The Gannett Co. owned newspaper USA Today has launched a new service that allows bloggers and website owners to include news widgets on their pages. At the moment, visitors of www.usatoday.com/community/widgets/index.htm can select between three different widgets related to travelling, choose their blogging platform and copy the code into their website. Four others are about to follow.Besides

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For its 15th edition, the Beyond the Printed Word international conference will be co-chaired by Elan Lohmann (in the picture) who, at just 31 years of age, is responsible for the most popular newspaper website in South Africa: News24.com. But above all, he personifies the young generation that is passionately driving the cross-media strategies of newspaper groups. newspaper techniques journalist

Mari Pickfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08311001514976520990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-78233058477212041852007-09-05T16:52:00.000+02:002007-09-06T09:39:20.145+02:00

This video found on YouTube shows another future scenario that is not too far from what we have already seen in EPIC 2015. The publishers of "Prometheus", Casareggio Associati from Milan, Italy have drawn an outline of a possible development in the media landscape predicting the end of newspapers and broadcast TV for the year 2015, and copyright illegal. A daring approach, but worth a view ...

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There was a time when leading English dailies of India went ballistic and boasted of having an e-paper in addition to their regular online presence. To rub salt to the wound, they began charging for the e-paper services, aping the success of their counterparts in Europe and US. That was the time when India was, slowly but steadily, getting into the ‘e-mode’ with faster connectivity and broadband

Al Nims Medianoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-22965219265506709902007-09-03T13:22:00.000+02:002007-09-06T09:41:07.862+02:00

Last friday Google has announced that they will be including a feature called "duplicate detention" to better find original stories from news publishers, including news agencies like Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, UK Press Association and the Canadian Press. This might lead to less traffic on newspaper websites, as users have the option to read the whole original text in Google News

Gordon Steigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17392271681144815264noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-49197978439040817202007-08-21T09:49:00.000+02:002007-09-06T09:43:44.142+02:00

For a movie that was shown at last year's BTPW conference, Ifra has interviewed people about their news consuming habits on the streets of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in spring of 2006 and Frankfurt, Germany during the Football World Cup in summer of 2006. Very interesting insights ...

Gordon Steigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17392271681144815264noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593260822723738327.post-81192592025210898882007-07-13T08:50:00.000+02:002007-09-06T09:45:00.081+02:00

This video is for quite a while on YouTube, but it illustrates very well how the web has developed and brought up ideas and applications that have changed the way we communicate.

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