Blog posts about the BostonGlobe.com announcement. Andy Boyle is keeping track of all the blog posts about the launch, along with publication date and time, word count, and whether the writer did an interview for the piece. More analytics about information.
As someone with Franzendentalist roots and Epiphinator tendencies, who consumes too many hours of social media, I keep sensing some serious hurt feelings from the older-media side — “Why would you love that thing instead of me?” They act like my wife would if I brought home a RealDoll. But it’s not like that. I don’t think people love Twitter or Facebook in the same way they might love Parks and Recreation or Twilight. Rather, we like the beer and tolerate the bottle. And even if we have those other browser tabs open, we’re still hungry for endings.
Paul Ford — Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings?
Hyperlocal Post-Mortem: Lessons Learned From InJersey. Fantastic pragmatic takeaways from Ted Mann. Highlights: local advertisers don’t like self-serve, build your site cheaply, and make it ridiculously easy for contributors to publish (e.g. don’t have them email posts to editors, and then require the editor to copy/paste, edit, and then publish).
How hyperlocal has a future. Dave Winer’s advice for publishers: “be sure you control your own publishing and distribution.” NYU has a hyperlocal conclave this Saturday with a tools discussion that’s sure to be fun.
My NYTimes Wishlist. Four ideas from a post-NY Times Michael Donohoe. Make the website an application that knows everything you’ve read, and allow content to flow to where readers want to consume it.
Time to Bake Smart Correction Tools Into New Publishing Platforms. Scott Rosenberg jockeying to get a more structured corrections workflow built into Armstrong CMS.
240 days later, The New York Times is still trying to implement Edit Flow/Assignment Desk for The Locals. Deploying WordPress plugins shouldn’t be this difficult.
Highcharts. Interactive JavaScript charts free for non-commercial use. (via NICAR-L)
The challenges of distributed investigative journalism. We need better systems for tracking what’s already known and who knows it.
First, Brian Boyer wrote: “Craigslist takes the classifieds, fool me once. Groupon takes the coupons, fool me twice. Good thing nobody else is selling display ads!”
Then, Nieman Journalism let Vadim Lavrusik publish essentially marketing copy about how journalists can use Facebook’s Pages product. For free. In exchange for the ability to run ads against your content.
To this, I said: “I’m sorry, but journalists getting in bed with Facebook is the mother of all bad ideas. See: http://db.ly/103 Shame on you @niemanlab“
And: “Newspapers sell display ads, last I checked. Facebook has a many billion $ valuation from its display ad biz. Therefore = ?”
And: “‘Here’s the problem: journalists just don’t understand their business.’ I couldn’t have said it better myself.”
And: “Yo journos: How much cash will Facebook give you when it goes public with a $50+ billion valuation? My bet: a lot less than Arianna did.”
Now Paul Bradshaw, a prominent journo-blogger in the UK, has decided to use Facebook’s Notes product exclusively for a month. Vadim, under the Facebook for Journalists moniker, explains:
But to answer your question, you should reference the terms. You own your content. Facebook gets a license so that we can put ads next to it. Not dissimilar from other companies.
Ah, referencing ever-changing terms of service. If you aren’t the customer, you’re the product. Writing these points out on territory I control so I can point to it later.
