Dec
8
Even though it’s Saturday, the newsreader still fills up with interesting stuff.
- Learning Flash is not the answer. There’s much, much more to new media storytelling than throwing yourself into a complex, powerful program, Mindy McAdams writes.
- Newspapers hope for online growth in ’08. Newspaper publishers are looking ahead to American elections, maturing of their deal with Yahoo and more journalists trained for online work as ways of turning online viewing increases into more ad dollars.
- Economist’s research confirms that ad-support online model works best today for larger newspapers. Interesting academic study of the value of paid “circulation” news sites vs. ad-supported sites. Ad support wins for larger newspaper, but there may be room for paid models in other markets and mediums, Ben Compaine reports.
- Mobile Ideology: Nokia N95 vs iPhone. The Nokia N95 is at the heart of the Reuters mojo experiment; the iPhone is…well..the iPhone. Fascinating look at the different approaches taken by the two companies.
- WordPress as a cms for journalists. Earlier this week Alfred Hermida wrote about using WordPress for a university publication. Turns out Andy Dickinson does, too.
- Quantity and quality. A Google News blog entry about a couple of tweaks made to their newsgathering algorithms to make the results better by paying more attention to local content and latest updates.
