Journerdism

“Smart businesses like 37 Signals, Whole Foods and, to a lesser extent, Craigie on Main, are beginning to produce content that’s less about their product and more about topics that their customers…

“Will this save journalism? A form of it, perhaps. The big-city dailies have been retrenching from the suburbs for years. But Patch is hiring one journalist per town, to cover local news with a heavy…

“A common theme that arises from each #collegejourn chat is a general dissatisfaction with college professors’ unwillingness to think forward. Put simply: j-professors are stuck in their ways. And…

Wow. How is a complex URL showing up in Google Trends? Are people really copying and pasting that URL into their search bars? (The video is of that woman going crazy in Hong Kong missing her flight)…

“With IPTV, Cerf explained, most people assume streaming is the way of the future, but he’s not convinced. “I’m still thinking that as we get higher and higher speed access to the Internet that…

“So here’s the message: I’ve been watching the convergence/morphing/disappearance of media for the past five or six years. What you are seeing is momentous - historic. Nothing like this has…

“With all the doom and gloom about the end of the old-media world, the New York Times notes that there’s one media that is still thriving: TV. Newspapers are drying up — books aren’t selling…

“Facebook’s terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore. Now, anything…

“Watch the dollars with us ShovelWatch is a joint project of the non-profit investigative outfit ProPublica, the morning news program The Takeaway and WNYC, New York’s flagship public radio…

“The 52nd Annual World Press Photo of the Year has been awarded to Anthony Suau for a photograph shot for Time magazine related to the economic crisis in the U.S. taken in Cleveland, Ohio. The…

“The New York Times just released an interesting new online product that tries to recreate the experience of spreading out the newspaper on Sunday morning. The new ‘article skimmer’ gets back to the…

“Apple has issued a strident defense of iPhone DRM, calling it a business model issue that the Copyright Office has no business intruding upon. The EFF begs to differ. Welcome to another installment…

“From time to time, publishers ask us what they can do to improve their listings in Google News. The following are eight of the most frequent, and useful, pieces of advice we give out. Why eight?…

“The announcement from Yahoo!, Live & Google that they will be supporting a new “canonical url tag” to help webmasters and site owners eliminate self-created duplicate content in the index is, in my…