March 2012
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Facebook wird zur neuen Startseite des Internets →
Zwei von drei Internetnutzern steuern laut einer Umfrage die Startseite ihres Netzwerkes (FB, Xing, YouTube) häufiger an als die von Homepage von Google. Das weiß auch Google selbst: Bei einer Sitzung des Bundestags-Unterausschusses Neue Medien sagte ein Google-Anwalt, Facebook sei ein wichtiger Konkurrent.
“Viele Leute, die Facebook nutzen, nutzen Facebook als Einstieg ins Internet”,...
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... and the new favorite Tumblr award goes to: CNN... →
Tumblr-discovery of the week. If a blog can make you laugh at business news and posts pictures of cats waiting for Facebook’s IPO, it’s a must follow.
February 2012
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“TKTKTK billions line up to enter glass cube, emerge $200 poorer”
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That’s the dummy headline Apple beat reporter Dave Goldman, who is off Friday, put on the b-matter he left prepped in the CMS for those of us who will be covering tomorrow’s on-sale launch of the iPhone 4S. I suspect the published copy will run with a different headline. -Stacy (via...
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“The winning film this year is, in essence, a story about how technology killed a...”
– The irony of the Academy Awards, as described in Forbes magazine.
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“Social media has become a second home page for everything we do.”
– New York Times developer Aron Pilhofer at the journalism conference NICAR, according to participant (and former professor of mine) Rich Gordon. Pilhofer said integrating Facebook into an application that lets readers pick their own Oscar-favorites doubled traffic to the piece.
Also, there were...
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Broadcaster versus Engager →
Thanks for this thoughtful post, Jen. I think of these two approaches - broadcasting and engaging - like tiers in social media. Broadcasting is the easier, sometimes the beginner step. Real engagement is much more difficult, and not only because it requires more time and effort. It also requires us journalists to think differently about our audience. We have to think of them as contributors and...
“Not only do smart people ask questions when they don’t understand something, but...”
– Awesome, awesome blog post: What I’ve Learned About Smart People
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“It wasn’t just that he was better or faster, or that he spoke Arabic, or that...”
– From a tribute to journalist Anthony Shadid, who died in Syria this week. He won two Pulitzer Prizes for his reporting, for an article from 2003, “A Boy Who Was ‘Like A Flower’”, and a collection of stories from Iraq in 2009.
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WatchCBS’ 60 Minutes profile of daily deal company Groupon holds some interesting information - for example, the company has about 10,000 employees, more than three times as many as Facebook. It also asks whether Groupon’s much-criticized business model is sustainable without the accounting tricks.
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Chasing the three-minute news cycle
As news breaks everywhere around us, from reports on Twitter and postings on Facebook, the news cycle is accelerating. The retiring president and chief executive of the Associated Press, Tom Curley, said that the time journalists have to report breaking news has shrunk to only hours, and in some cases minutes.
The AP’s answer is to speed up their reporting process and keep reporters from...
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7 ways social media editors, Web staff and... →
Great tips and Jeff writes what’s on many people’s mind. A lot of cool projects happen simply because two people look at each other and say, “let’s do this.” Once you have that foot in the door, more will follow.
That’s not to say workflow isn’t still a huge issue. Many newsroom processes need to be retooled with new areas and input in mind - web...
A Newspaper, and a Legacy, Reordered →
The changing times of journalism: A look at tensions inside the Washington Post as the newspaper undergoes a dramatic reorientation toward digital products. “Just because The Washington Post used to be a certain way doesn’t mean The Washington Post has to be that way in the future,” executive editor Marcus Brauchli says.
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This man wants to kill QR codes. →
I often wish there was a way to merge the reading experience on print with a layer of social sharing. Right now, when I read an awesome article in a magazine that I want to share, I have to search for it online first. This technology removes that step: It allows users to take a picture with their phone and instantly connect their print piece with the digital world. It’s not clear to me...
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“For this year’s first Knight News Challenge, we intend to harness the momentum...”
– John Bracken, Knight Foundation. Announcing the Knight News Challenge: Networks.
The News Challenge will be open for applications starting February 27 and close March 17. Info at the link above.
(via futurejournalismproject)
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“Every day it has been getting worse here and there. No one is coming for us and...”
– Heartbreaking.
Syria uprising is now a battle to the death | World news | The Guardian
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WatchGreat video by the Guardian that gives a sense of how many different things voters are concerned with and how open the race for the GOP nomination still is.
One man he would like a candidate who’s half Newt Gingrich and half Rick Santorum, showing how uneasy some voters still are with the four candidates in the running.
(via Minnesota primary voters tell how they made their decision -...
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"Digital wird Leitmedium der Welt-Gruppe"
Meedia: Was ist konkret damit gemeint, Wenn Sie, Herr Peters, sagen, das Digitale werde zum Leitmedium aller tagesaktuellen Welt-Titel – verliert die gedruckte Welt an Bedeutung?
Jan-Eric Peters, Chefredakteur der Welt: Wir leben ja schon seit einigen Jahren konsequent unser Motto „Online first“. Spätestens im Herbst gehen wir den entscheidenden nächsten Schritt: Das Digitale wird den Takt unserer journalistischen Arbeit bestimmen, es wird zu einer Art Leitmedium der Gruppe. Es geht dann nicht mehr wie bisher darum, Print-Artikel ins Netz zu stellen noch bevor sie gedruckt worden sind. Es geht darum, dass künftig praktisch alle Texte originär für Online und andere digitale Kanäle verfasst werden und aus diesen Geschichten später dann auch noch Zeitungen entstehen.
meedia.de/print/das-digitale-wird-zum-leitmedium-der-welt-gruppe/2012/01/31.html, via macomber.de
“Lately it seems that not a day goes by without a Republican presidential...”
– German correspondent for the weekly DIE ZEIT writes a patient Op-Ed in the Washington Post to Republican presidential contenders explaining that “Europe is the European Union, a modern entity of 27 democratic countries” and no longer the Soviet Union.
Everyone should read this. As...
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Bürger sollen sich online an Politik beteiligen →
“Wie wollen wir zusammenleben?” fragt Angela Merkel seit einigen Tagen Bürger auf einer Webseite. Über 2 Millionen Menschen haben sich bereits bei diesem “Zukunftsdialog” beteiligt.
Und was wollen diese Menschen so? Der Tagesspiegel hat die Vorschläge durchgesehen und schreibt, Mitdiskutierer fordern günstigere Krankenversicherung und ein Ende des...
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Unemployment down in U.S.
ryking:
“January’s jobs report is welcome news for the president. The unemployment rate dropped 0.2 percentage points to 8.3 percent; 243,000 new nonfarm jobs were created in the past month. More important than the numbers is the trend: It’s the seventh-straight month of job growth over 100,000, as well as a marked increase from December when the economy added 200,000 jobs.
— January jobs...
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“In the long view of history, it is really today’s conservatives who are...”
– Is it really Romney who’s too moderate, or has the Republican party become too right-wing compared to its own history? That’s the argument made in a new book called “Rule and Ruin” which Nick Kristof reviews in the New York Times.
January 2012
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The Bain of Romney’s candidacy →
Good summary of Romney’s weaknesses, looking beyond Florida where he’s currently leading Gingrich by 8 percentage points. From the Washington Post.
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“For young journalists, especially, I think the growing demand on reporters is...”
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Kim Bui, social media editor and co-founder of the Twitter chat #wjchat, discusses what causes journalists the most anxiety about the future of journalism with Latoya Peterson.
I also love this answer on what Kim would do with a million dollars to improve media:
“Hire some ad/business...
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“Das Web 2.0 wird bald Geschichte sein. Es stellt sich nur die Frage, wie viel...”
– Dies schreibt der CDU-Bundestagsabgeordnete Ansgar Heveling in einem Gastbeitrag für das Handelsblatt. Darin kritisiert er, dass geistiges Eigentum im Internet nicht ausreichend geachtet werde und prognostiziert einen Kulturkampf der Netzgemeinde mit den “realen Menschen”. Ein Kampf, den...
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In Nonstop Whirlwind of Campaign, Twitter Is a... →
The election teams of all candidates* are watching the social media service closely, from spotting early reactions at events to using it as an early warning mechanism when something isn’t going the way they wish. The Romney campaign even tracks reporters’ messages to ferret out perceived bias, reports Ashley Parker for the New York Times.
“Twitter has changed the whole way that...
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“Internet users are sending a message most media companies aren’t ready to hear:...”
– Great article by Poynter’s Jeff Sonderman on the new media environment. Food for thought (Also, how meta that I’m sharing this on Tumblr.)
Newsroom policies: Why my social influence fell at... →
Matthew “producermatthew” Keys shares his different experiences building his own social media presence while working at an ABC station and now at Reuters, which he recently joined as a social media editor.
I’m thankful Matthew is saying openly what many journalists experience: It can be a struggle to explain the mindset of the social web to some colleagues and bosses with a...
“Only 6 percent are undecided, but 32 percent say they might change their mind by...”
– Reasons why polls confuse me: See above. Apart from that, this Quinnipiac University poll taken Wednesday and released Friday points to a win for Mitt Romney in the Florida primary. That is, unless those 6 or 32 percent of likely voters change their mind.
How to verify social media news content is... →
The awesome Dani writes down what I meant to write, but better. Thanks! Read the whole post at her blog daniscalifornia.
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“Vielleicht ist unsere Sprache nicht mehr zeitgemäß. „Das geht weg wie warme...”
– Bei diesem Einstieg von Simon Frost im Tagesspiegel-Bericht zu den Quartalszahlen von Apple musste ich lachen. Apple hat die Erwartungen von Beobachtern übertroffen. Das Unternehmen gab Umsätzen in Höhe von 46,3 Milliarden Dollar an, der Aktienkurs stieg sofort um mehr als sechs Prozent.
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How sharing disrupts media →
Great article by Felix Salmon on the new distribution model of sharing, and why journalists sometimes have trouble getting on board.
Sites like Tumblr make sharing easy, with the result that many blogs are focused almost exclusively on sharing others’ content while creating little original posts. That’s a good thing, says Salmon. I also think it points to something else: The skill of...
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