Aug
21
Somehow Wednesday got away from me. Among my 68 open browser tabs/windows are these:
- Fear of Preroll Ads Eases. Survey puts the loss of online video viewers due to preroll ads at as little as five per cent, which is good news. Personally, I don’t mind prerolls, but I greatly prefer no more than 15 seconds.
- Blatchford pines for the monologue. Ah, dueling columnists, in this case Christie Blatchford and Mathew Ingram, both of the Globe & Mail. I have some sympathy with Christie (follow the link to her column), but not a lot. Mathew quite nicely dissects the illogical statement at the centre of it all.
- Allvoices: Get 1 Million Views, Make $10,000. Len Witt has details on an online media company’s bid to attract writers by paying on a per-pageview basis.
- Drum Roll. Kevin Drum is on the move, from the Washington Monthly to Mother Jones.
- Yahoo News’ Original Content Efforts, Again. Another go at providing some content, this time in cooperation with Politico.com. They also have their own reporters at the Olympics, apparently.
- 5 ways the newspapers botched the web. At Valleywag, a fond look back at the stumblings of the big newspaper companies in the early (and not-so-early) days of the web.
- Report: People Spending Less Time with Newspaper Web Sites. Uh-oh.
- When Twitter beats local news outlets. Steve Outing thinks newsrooms should be following the local Twitter stream the way they once followed the local TV and radio stations.
- Bloggers post Health Canada climate change report on the web. When the Canadian government didn’t post a federally-funded report online, some bloggers did. Question: Why the bloggers and not the watchdogs of the media?
- Newspaper Stories We Tell Ourselves. Ken Doctor’s piece on the new realities of the newspaper business should be required reading. (Don’t worry, it’s not that long.)
- What print bosses want. Top of the list, according to a new survey, is good writing, which is the knee-jerk answer. More interestingly, multimedia skills were judged somewhat or very important by 90 per cent of those surveyed.
