Publish2 Publish2 Gets Funded Read Publish2’s funding announcement over at the Publish2 Blog. (Yes, you’ll have to click over to find out the details.)
Facebook Decommoditizing Social Networks By Connecting User Profiles Via OpenSocial Why isn’t Facebook a founding member of the OpenSocial Foundation, along with Google, Yahoo, and MySpace? Because Facebook is threatened by OpenSocial’s ultimate aim of connecting user profiles and enabling users to easily manage and port their data across any social network.
Google How Search Has Transformed News Consumption On The Web We all know that news consumption is no longer passive, whether it’s reader comments on a blog post or news article, or individuals starting a blog to have a voice of their own — the evidence is everywhere. Less evident is how search has
Aggregation JPMorgan Buys Bear Stearns: Following A Breaking News Story On The Web Nothing like the biggest business story in recent memory — JPMorgan buys Bear Stearns for $2 (a share) — breaking on a Sunday to bring into sharp relief the difference between news on the web and news in print — not to mention differences in how news
Digg Radical Idea For News Sites: Show What's New On Your Homepage What’s the most obvious sign that a traditional news brand is merely reproducing online what they do in print, instead of publishing in a way that makes sense for the web? They way news is organized on the homepage. Let’s compare three
Distribution Channels Reinventing Local News Distribution On The Web Last month, four major newspaper companies announced a joint ad sales venture to “let national advertisers place ads on local Web sites with a single phone call.” When I read that, I realized suddenly why local newspapers are having so much trouble adapting to
Aggregation Digital Transition: From Redundant News Coverage To Original Link Journalism The Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal is undoubtedly a big story, which every media outlet is covering, so I suppose it’s not surprising that Google News currently shows 2,580 versions of this story. But when you stop and think about, you have to
Aggregation Local Link Journalism: Pulling Together The Threads Of Local Blogger Reporting How can newsrooms do more online with fewer resources? By leveraging the reporting that bloggers in their communities have ALREADY published on the web. Using “local link journalism,” reporters can seek out and link to reporting on a story that’s been published across
Newspapers Why I Subscribed To The Washington Post Sunday Print Edition The Washington Post didn’t respond to my print circulation marketing challenge, but I just subscribed to The Washington Post Sunday print edition anyway. Why? I don’t think print newspapers are dead — they just need to radically evolve. But evolution is a process
Innovation Fixing Obsolete Newspaper Circulation Marketing: A Challenge To The Washington Post I received the following “offer” from The Washington Post in the mail today — I’m going to pick on the Post just because I happen to live in the DC metro area, but I’m sure almost every newspaper is sending out circulation marketing
Aggregation How Networked Link Journalism Can Give Journalists Collectively The Power Of Google And Digg The link journalism meme seems to have legs, based on the number of smart people who picked it up. Now it’s time to kick it up a notch, with the concept of NETWORKED link journalism, which can give journalists, collectively, the power of
Advertising ROI Why It's Good News If Google Is Vulnerable To A Recession Tech bloggers and analysts had a collective cow yesterday over the news that January 2008 comScore data suggest clicks on Google’s paid search ads have stopped growing, which implies that Google may be vulnerable to a US recession already underway. Fred Wilson had
Advertising ROI Microsoft Announces Engagement Mapping ROI Black Box, Technology Companies Taking Over Advertising Industry Microsoft announced today that they are going after the holy grail of advertising: integrated ROI measurement and tracking. The big problem with online ROI measurement that Microsoft is targeting is the inability to assign quantifiable value to brand advertising, e.g. banner ads, and
Link Journalism How Link Journalism Could Have Transformed The New York Times Reporting On McCain Ethics I was reading the New York Times public editor’s rebuke of the NYT McCain ethics piece that alleged an affair with a lobbyist, when a line at the end reached out and grabbed me by the collar (bold is mine): The pity of
Facebook Creating Customized Social Networking Applications For Business I wrote a while back that Facebook is not for business, i.e it’s not clear how an application designed for socializing among students could be used — without any customization — by professionals. There a bit of data and more buzz coming out that
Aggregation Reinventing Journalism On The Web: Links As News, Links As Reporting A cornerstone of journalism has always been reporting what key sources say, put in context and given perspective, alongside reported facts. It’s time to reinvent that process on the web — make it dynamic — using the fundamental mechanism for connecting information and people: the
Innovation The Pace of Innovation in Journalism How long does it take to launch an innovative new feature on a newspaper site? About 48 hours — that’s the standard set by innovative editors like Jack Lail at Knoxnews.com, Tom Meagher at Herald News, and Mark Briggs at Thenewstribune.com. About
Book Publishing The Evolution From Linear Thought To Networked Thought I was thinking last night about books and why I don’t read them anyone — I was a lit major in college, and used to be voracious book reader. What happened? I was also thinking about the panel I organized for the O’Reilly
Aggregation Publish2 Election News Network Update Jack Lail, an editor and journalist with a deep understanding of the web, big vision, and a “let’s do it” innovator’s spirit, set out to publish “the best Tennessee election coverage that can be found on the Internet” — he rounded up a
Microsoft What Microsoft Buying Yahoo Really Means Perhaps you don’t need any more explanations of the significance of Microsoft’s offer to buy Yahoo, but I don’t want to lose my media/tech blogger license, so here’s mine. Microsoft’s acquisition of Yahoo is akin to newspaper industry
Aggregation Join the Publish2 Election News Network Publish2 is organizing a network of newsrooms, journalists, freelancers and network-affiliated bloggers to aggregate the best news coverage of the “Super Tuesday” February 5 U.S. primary elections, leading up to it and after. Publish2 is still in private beta, but we’re going
Distribution Channels Influentials On The Web Are People With The Power To Link In the networked web era, influentials may not be people with a particularly connected temperament or Rolodex, or people who control and influence monopoly distribution channels (e.g. newspapers), but rather people who influence the network by leveraging the most powerful force on the
Online Journalism Simplicity Drives Technology Adoption I was talking to a newsroom last week about adopting Publish2 as an editorial platform for creating news aggregation features for their website — there was a lot of excitement about sketching a big vision, thinking about all of the possibilities. But in a follow-up
Online Advertising WSJ.com Remains A Paid Site And Bets On The Value Of Its Niche Audience Of all the reasons given why Rupert Murdoch decided to keep the WSJ.com paid subscriber wall in place, the one that I find most interesting is that advertisers are willing to pay a premium for WSJ.com’s audience. If the WSJ went
Digg Digg Demonstrates The Failure Of Completely Open Collaborative Networks Digg is a great experiment in web “democracy” — a site where ANYONE can submit links to content and vote on links to their favorite content. The positive outcome of the Digg experiment has been demonstrating the power of “networked human intelligence” to filter the