Christian Van Thillo talks about the new forms of journalism publishers need to adopt to survive at the Digital News Affairs (DNA2008) conference in Brussels today.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nZtoIUsINA]Gawker associate editor Maggie Shnayerson, who was fired by boss Nick Denton on Sunday night, says Denton’s role as editor and publisher of the media gossip site creates ‘a conflict of interest’.
Shnayerson said Denton was trying to make the site too mainstream.
“Gawker shouldn’t be a depository for the latest viral video,” she told Fishbowl NY
In this article Chris Mooney sees similarities between grievances in the recent Writers Guild strike in Los Angeles and problems facing bloggers.
The strike after all, he writes, was about the impact of online on the screen and television writing industry: writers seeking compensation for their work as its disseminated across a range of platforms.
Could a Bloggers Guild be set up and put to action in similar circumstances?
The Chicago Tribune explains why it has shut down comment boards on its web site for all political news stories.
…We want to hear from you. Designing search-engine friendly, fast-loading websites that meet best practice for accessibility, adhere to all the latest standards and display consistently across the widest possible range of browsers without awkward hacks is tricky enough. Creating sites that also meet the multi-faceted demands of a news organisation is a higher order of challenge altogether.
But we know you are out there. Whether you be design agencies, or lone guns, get in touch and tell us about your success stories. If you impress us and we think you will impress our readers, we will showcase your work on Journalism.co.uk. Hell, we might even hire you…
Drop me an email – john (at) journalism.co.uk or leave a comment.
Part one in a look at the services and usability of web TV offerings from English language broadcasters.
‘AOP has announced its support for the visit duration metric. Alongside unique user count and page impressions, the standard will help to paint an ever clearer picture of user activity.’
Someone has spoofed breaking CNN news headlines on twitter – http://twitter.com/cnnbreaking [thanks to Ryan Sholin for the tip].
In case it gets pulled, my favourite is: “Democrat Hillary Clinton cries. Nobody buys it.”
Yesterday was a day of thirds for me. Two thirds good, one third not so good. In the first two thirds, I attended a roundtable discussion on RSS hosted by MediaFed, a provider of RSS feed tools and services.
It would have been topped off with an excellent three-course meal had I not had to leave for another meeting after the starter (so only one third of a lunch for me, and those that know me well will appreciate how I grieved for the loss of that sticky ginger pudding).
Ahem, but I digress. The purpose of the first discussion was to get some representatives from the UK publishing industry around a table to discuss their current implementation of RSS feeds and how they expect the platform to develop in the future. Before I summarise the points of the discussion, I think it would be useful to summarise what I think are the key RSS requirements from both readers and publishers.
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Widgety Goodness 2007 was right on our doorstep today in Brighton, so I popped down to check out if there was anything new and interesting from an online publisher’s point of view.
We heard about widgets that automatically deliver content tailored to you and your friends’ Facebook profile, and we heard about widgets that overlay full-screen internet TV, to provide additional information about the video you are watching or just so that you can chat to your friends online.
We even heard the burgeoning widget universe being described as a Darwinian disco (© Steve Bowbrick), which conjured up for me a vision of a lot of middle-aged publishing execs trying to get on down with the young things on the dancefloor and dancing out of time like deranged orangutans.
Naturally, we heard a lot of pitches. But also a helpful dose of scepticism, as the following video sample from Russell Davies of the Open Intelligence Agency, shows:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ouqpn9WKAqA]Not good news for glossy magazine publishers then. Those perfume ads help pay for a lot of people’s wages.
Laura will update with more tomorrow, but bottom line, widgets will be getting smarter, cheaper and more ubiquitous in 2008. As long as publishers and marketeers don’t forget to put the user in control, they can be a good method of delivering personalised content across a number of social and local platforms.