Washington Post using Apture for article links

The Washington Post has teamed up with Apture to add embedded links into its news articles. Washington Post articles, video content and Google maps will be linked to using the technology, which, according to a press release, requires only a single line of code to make the links appear.

Information from WaPo’s Congressional Votes Database will be linked to congress and senate members’ names when they appear in articles, as part of the new design.

WaPo content will now be available to other media and political sites that sign up to Apture. Articles already allow readers to view who’s linking to that content in the blogosphere.

Apture’s technology has previously been used by BBC News as part of its inline links trial and its use by WaPo follows the launch of the New York Times’ link aggregation service TimesExtra last week.

Tags: Apture, BBC, Linking, the New York Times, The Washington Post Company, Washington Post

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Publishing 2.0: Newsrooms can grow Twitter followings with links

Newsrooms should use Twitter accounts to link out to interesting online content and not just back to their own sites, says Scott Karp on the Publishing 2.0 blog. "This is a perfect example of how mainstream news orgs got so far behind on the web — they see the web as just another distribution channel for their own content. Open the chute and shovel the content in." Full story...

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MSNBC on hyperlocal plans for interactive coverage of US election voting results

Msnbc.com has plans for interactive coverage of voting results on a hyperlocal level, Charlie Tillinghast, president and publisher told Beet TV in this interview.

• Visitors to the site’s map will be able to click on states and counties to find results on national and local races.

• Msnbc.com will stream live events, on air coverage by the network and NBC affiliates.

Tags: Charlie Tillinghast, Geotagging, Linking, Local, msnbc.com, us, us election

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Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk - Three rules for online linking

Linking: Online Journalism Review's Robert Niles has three rules for when links should be used in an article: for attributing sources, providing context and to explain the inexplicable. Here's a link to Niles' full article on linking in articles. Tipster: Laura Oliver. To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use this link - we will pay a fiver for the best ones published. Full story...

Tags: Linking, Online Journalism blog, Robert Niles

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Editor&Publisher (via AP): Washington Post’s new online political section links to rival newspapers

The Washington Post has launched a new web section that links readers to the best of political coverage, including that of their rivals. Full story...

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Pop + Politics: Where does aggregation stop and plagiarism start?

Journalists discuss the difference between good aggregation of news and when the practice becomes plagiarism. Full story...

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NYTimes innovation plans: Widgets, iPhone, APIs

Silicon Valley Insider talked to Marc Frons, chief technology officer of NYTimes digital, about the projects he’s working on and the development that they’ll be rolling out in the near future. Here’s a brief overview:

Things we have already covered:

• Those APIs: the plan is to eventually let developers outside of the Times play with its content and create new sites or services.
• Times People: expect more development so it’s not just a browser plug-in.

The shock of the new:

• Widgets: Customisable box of Times stories, video, slideshows and the rest on your blog or social network page? Yes please.
• Aggregation: It bought Blogrunner an eternity ago and uses it now just to pull content from partner sites into NYTimes – think PaidContent, CNET stuff on the Tech pages. But ‘bigger plans’ are afoot – Frons won’t say more though.
• Apps: Yes, NYTimes.com is working on apps for Apple’s forthcoming iPhone store.

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Belgian newspaper group to take European Commission to court again after its first challenge over news aggregator fails

Belgian newspaper group Copiepresse – yes, the one that’s in that legal wrangle with Google – is about to re-enter a copyright battle with a second online publisher – this time it’s the European Commission.

Copiepresse will attempt to sue the EC for a second time after it had its copyright infringement case against the EC’s news aggregation services NewsBrief and NewsExplorer thrown out by a Belgian court.

The group took the case on the same grounds as its Google case, that the use of the material without newspapers’ permission was an infringement of their copyright.

According to Out-Law.com, Belgian press reports said the case was thrown out of the Court of Seizures in Belgium after a report produced for the court backed the Commission and because there was a jurisdictional problem with the case. Iy added that the group would not appeal against the throwing out of the case but would re-submit it to Belgium’s civil court.

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Innovations in Journalism - Zemanta will find the online context of your article

We give developers the opportunity to tell us journalists why we should sit up and pay attention to the sites and devices they are working on. In the spotlight this week is Slovenian start-up Zemanta.

1) Who are you and what’s it all about?
We are a young start-up from Slovenia, building a global tool to help online authors with their writing process.

Our product recognises what they are writing about through semantical analysis and as they are writing starts to suggest related pictures, links and articles they can include in their post to make it richer and more appealing.

It currently works for all major blogging platforms, but we envision providers of content management systems and publishers using our service as well.

Click here to see how Zemanta works with Wordpress.

2) Why would this be useful to a journalist?
To publish content online today means: after you write your story, you still need to add links and images, and tag it properly.

Your readers expect rich content, next generation semantic web applications require it, and we want to make it simple and fun to produce this high quality web content.

Our service utilises the power of advanced machine-learning and natural language processing algorithms, so that you don’t have to do repetitive tasks and can just be creative.

3) Is this it, or is there more to come?
We will be adding a lot of new releases, such as personalization of suggestions, linking to own old posts and tools for additional media formats. [Since this interview Zemanta has added a reblogging function allowing bloggers to quote from others' sites with correct attribution]

4) Why are you doing this?
We want to solve the problem authors are facing trying to create interesting online content that their readers will appreciate. It is becoming increasingly hard to produce rich, web articles as the amount of content available is rising.

5) What does it cost to use it?
It’s free for non-commercial use and for a reasonable amount of requests per day. We will keep it free for bloggers.

6) How will you make it pay?
We will be suggesting affiliate links and earning commission on them. We will also offer our extended API for commercial applications.

Tags: API, blogging, content management, content management systems, content online today, Innovations in Journalism, Linking, media formats, natural language processing algorithms, online authors, online context, posts and tools, semantic web applications, Slovenia, web articles, web content, young start-up

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Mashable: Reddit get a redesign

Social news aggregation site Reddit has today gone live with a redesign.

The revamp appears to make parts of the site more visible to its users by bringing some features to its navigation bar that weren’t there previously.

Most controversial news - those getting good and bad reviews - has been moved here to make it easier to access.

Links for creating your own Reddit and submitting links are also easier to find.

Users can now easily customise the site by selecting topics they want to have on their own home page.

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