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Who loves Google, who doesn’t, and other stories

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

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Axel Springer in Germany likes Google and wants to build a one-click option for readers to pay for news: Instead of separate pay walls around individual newspaper Web sites, Mr. [Christoph] Keese [Springer’s head of public affairs] wants publishers and Internet companies to work together to create a “one-click marketplace solution” for their online content. [...]

Copyright, findability and other ideas from #ndf

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

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I was at the National Digital Forum conference in Wellington earlier this week mingling with people involved in digitising and curating New Zealand’s cultural heritage material – people from museums, galleries, archives, libraries. I was struck by a few commonalities between the cultural heritage sector (known as GLAM – Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) and the digital [...]

21 ways to subsidise/profit from news

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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Jay Rosen, journalism teacher at NYU and long-time blogger on new media, has collected a list of ways news production can be subsidised. He differentiates between business models and subsidies because he notes that news production has always been subsidised in one way or another, whether by a wealthy owner or advertisers. Here are the first [...]

Links: data.govt, temporariness, paywall wait

Monday, November 9, 2009

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Data.govt.nz launches Great to see that the government, via the Ministry of Internal Affairs, has launched data.govt.nz, a website that aims to pull together all manner of non-personal government data in formats suitable for developers to work with. This is what the people at Open.nz.org were pushing for and it looks like the site is off [...]

‘Your main newspaper can’t dictate the future’

Sunday, November 8, 2009

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John Temple, formerly editor and publisher of the now defunct Rocky Mountain News in Denver, the US, wrote a great post discussing the lessons he learned from the experience of the Rocky. (Thanks to Mirko for pointing me to it.) Temple talks a lot about missed opportunities and not understanding at first that the web is [...]

NY Times makes right noises on newsroom integration and serving under-35s

Monday, October 26, 2009

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Nieman Labs’ Zachary Seward ran an interesting post on the New York Times last week discussing comments made by executive editor Bill Keller in a meeting to digital staff. There were a few points that I was heartened to see. The first was this: The single best advice we’ve gotten, I think, is to spend some time [...]

Isaac Mao and Bernard Hickey are coming to Wintec

Friday, October 16, 2009

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Next week’s a doosy at Wintec because we’ve got two very interesting people coming to speak to students: financial journalist Bernard Hickey and China’s first blogger, Isaac Mao. Bernard Hickey, editor of interest.co.nz, has caught a fair amount of attention for the way he tirelessly promotes the site through his blog, Twitter and beyond. He has [...]

More than 2bn iPhone/iTouch apps downloaded

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

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More than 2 billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s app store for iPhones and iTouch devices, Apple announced yesterday. There are now more than 85,000 apps available to the more than 50 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide and over 125,000 developers in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program. Today, iPhone and iPod touch customers in 77 [...]

NY times runs online courses for its readers

Saturday, September 26, 2009

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Here’s one way to add value for readers above and beyond the daily news – and add a revenue stream at the same time. The New York  Times runs online courses for its readers, which include sessions with the paper’s columnists. Nieman Lab reports: They’re offering week-long, largely online courses for Times readers who pay between $125 [...]

WashPo trials a visual commenting system

Monday, September 21, 2009

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Patrick Thornton has reviewed the Washington Post’s new visual ‘WebCom’ commenting system on Poynter online. It’s not being used site-wide, only on “Flash-based video features such as onBeing and Scene In.” [Steven] King [the site's editor of innovations] said the site will start using WebCom on other videos later this year. There are no plans to use [...]

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