Rachel Sklar highlights key trends, and especially the rise of curation and qualitative filters. Brilliant analysis:
"Audiences are done with SEO-baiting and bait-and-switch headlines; we’re going to get more choosy with our clicks. And with our eyeball-access. So you’d better be trustworthy, because I don’t let just anyone curate for me. Because while news will always be the killer app, who it’s delivered by will matter just as much."
Rachel also mentions that finding easily our communities of interests does not mean the end of exploration. Qualitative filters should provide exactly the opposite :
"While we’re opting to follow curators who deliver to us the news we wish to receive, our most trusted sites are automatically giving us what they think we want to see — or, taken dystopically, what they want us to see. Eli Pariser dubbed this “the Filter Bubble.” Things are only getting more customized, tailored, targeted, and algorithm-ized, but in 2012 we will see clear pushback on that."
Making the web more meaningful by connecting community of interests while encouraging discovery of great content is truly the values Scoop.it encourages. Algorithms are cool. Humanrithm is definitely cooler.
Via axelletess 
Apple will be holding a product event later this month in New York, Kara Swisher is reporting, and we've confirmed independently with a source. 
The fact that the news is now a process rather than a finished product that can be printed and shipped to readers makes it even more important that newspapers adopt a "digital first" approach, and think about the news the way bloggers do. The New, Convoluted Life Cycle Of A Newspaper Story... 
Adult tablet owners spend almost four and a half hours on the internet each day, compared with three hours for non-tablet owners in the same age 18-64 group. Via gdecugis 
Chevrolet’s latest spot shows photos of old Chevies being held up against modern-day backgrounds. It’s lovely and leverages the brand’s history, but some are alleging the concept is stolen from the popular blog Dear Photograph. Brian Moritz asks a question you face in almost every newsroom addressing the challenges of digital journalism: How do you "convert" the curmudgeons? We've been hearing a lot of depressing news in recent years about the dire financial prospects for big daily newspapers, including the one you're now holding. Or watching. 
Even the most twisted ethicist would have detected a looming conflict of interest. Not Arrington. Because he is one of most arrogant pricks in this business.
Dave Winer says journalism as we know it is "obsolete" because everyone can do it. Is he right? Yes and no. One thing is for sure: journalism is being transformed by the web and by real-time publishing. 
WaPo to Shutter Nearly All Regional Bureaus... 
A paywall plan that understands online readers?: Reuters blogger Felix Salmon is already on record as a supporter of The New York Times’ five-month-old paywall, and this week he detailed exactly why he thinks it’s so effective. |
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When you write about whizbang tech startups and their million-dollar valuations, why wouldn’t you dream about giving up the keyboard to go where the action is? 
Earlier this week I posted on smart markets, a challenge for companies conditioned and organized to broadcast agendas. The post focused on the need to make the market smarter about your product, your organization and the way you do business. 
Eli Pariser is concerned that web personalization is only showing us content we "like," and not content we need. But he proposed some solutions at the Mashable Media Summit. 
Insider Resources for Marketing a Business Online... In the furiously expanding, highly competitive and often conflicted hyperlocal space, some pieces appear to be coming together. 
Old school SEO pros cover your ears, or be prepared to adapt your craft: Search engines are changing, and social media is a huge part of that change.
Bing, Google, and an increasing swath of nimble little search engines like Blekko and DuckDuckGo are incorporating social data into their results. This is potentially great news for new businesses trying to achieve visibility in search. It’s less great news for sites that rely heavily on link buying. Both Bing and Google admitted in interviews that their search results are positively affected by social signals, such as tweets, Facebook Likes, and +1s.
“The links that you build through social media, the references, the authority — all can have an impact in various ways on how you are ranked and listed even in ‘regular’ search results,” says Danny Sullivan, Editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land, in an email interview. “Social media allows for people to provide more trusted signals.”.... [read full article http://j.mp/nAZrnG] Via Giuseppe Mauriello Judges have been pullling the teeth and claws out of copyright troll Righthaven for months. And now comes yet another crippling extraction -- a key customer bolts.
"The new chief executive of MediaNews Group, publisher of the Denver Post and 50 other newspapers, said it was “a dumb idea” for the nation’s second-largest newspaper chain to sign up with copyright troll Righthaven.
"The Denver-based publisher’s year-long copyright infringement litigation deal with Righthaven is terminating at month’s end, said John Paton, who replaced Dean Singleton to lead the company on Wednesday.
“The issues about copyright are real,” Paton told Wired.com in a telephone interview. “But the idea that you would hire someone on an — essentially — success fee to run around and sue people at will who may or may not have infringed as a way of protecting yourself … does not reflect how news is created and disseminated in the modern world.” Via SBAnderson 
The Winnipeg Free Press's cafe has increased reader engagement, helped social media efforts, and apparently made some fine sandwiches. I am afraid I am operating under the impression that Google, Groupon, Apple, Facebook and Twitter, new media startups and scores of garage entrepreneurs are out innovating newspapers on a daily basis. I am afraid I find little newspaper innovation breath-taking. I guess I am convinced that risk-takers without the mindset boundaries of newspapering are legitimate threats to newspaper survival.
If you believe I have a point I hope you’ll consider that if journalism is to be saved by newspaper practitioners, the hand cuffs must come off. We can’t think like newspaper people anymore.
We have to have the open minds of entrepreneurs. We have to have the innovative imaginations of liberated explorers. We have to embrace risk like bungee jumpers. We have to listen to young people as if they are our saviors, because they probably are.
If journalism is to be saved by newspaper practitioners who bring the right values of truth-telling, minimizing harm, independence and accountability, then newspaper mindsets must escape the prison of day-to-day crises spawned by business troubles.
-- Tim McGuire, ASU School of Journalism, former editor, Minneapolis Star Tribune. Via SBAnderson |
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