Posts under ‘News’

Digg has new features: a video by co-founder Kevin Rose explains some of it.

The New York Times “public editor” writes of the paper’s tentative steps into having journalists speak directly with the readers: There should be even greater reader interaction ahead. Mr. Landman told me in September that further interactive features are being contemplated. One possible feature he mentioned: allowing readers to comment on every story on the […]

UPDATED It’s fitting, and somewhat overdue, that Time Magazine’s person of the year is “You” — as in all of us. Don’t get me wrong here. The cover story and the supporting articles are a terrific bunch of pieces. They capture well what has been happening for the past few years in the democratization of […]

UPDATED You may have noticed that our home page was going to a blog deep inside the site, as opposed to the regular page. UPDATE: We’ve got part of that fixed, but are still having other difficulties… Also, if you posted a comment in the past day it may have been lost due to another […]

The sometimes correct prediction-makers at Gartner suggest that blogging will peak in 2007, AP reports: Could blogging be near the peak of its popularity? The technology gurus at Gartner Inc. believe so. One of the research company’s top 10 predictions for 2007 is that the number of bloggers will level off in the first half […]

Carl Bialik at the Wall Street Journal, aka, The Numbers Guy, torpedos the nutty claims about a video that a marketing firm estimated had been viewed 900 million times: But the Viral Factory’s rankings, commissioned to publicize the launch of a U.K. television show composed of popular online clips, were little better than a guess […]

You can hear the ice breaking up from here. Global warming, or just relations between blogs and newspapers warming up? First, McClatchy has bought Fresno Famous, the community site founded and operated with great flair by Jarah Euston. And GateHouse, whose October IPO made it the most valuable newspaper company in the nation, has rolled […]

NY Times: Open-Source Spying. For the intelligence agencies to benefit from “social software,” he said, they need to persuade thousands of employees to begin blogging and creating wikis all at once. And that requires a cultural sea change: persuading analysts, who for years have survived by holding their cards tightly to their chests, to begin […]

NewsTrust, where people rate the quality of news stories, has launched a beta site. The potential of this approach is terrific: community involvement in understanding how well journalists — including bloggers — do at their jobs (whether it’s a professional or amateur activity or something in between). Clearly, this is an early iteration. But the […]

Earlier this week I posted this piece about video news releases (VNRs) and their undisclosed use by TV “news” programs. I loathe the practice, but worry more about the negative consequences of federal intervention, which some favor, than the good it might do. Diane Farsetta, senior researcher at the Center for Media and Democracy, one […]