News goes social

links for 2008-09-24

• Why Isn’t Facebook Making More Money? (Hint: Advertiser Value and User Value Are Not Aligned)
  Scott Karp likens Facebook's advertising model to that of old media.
  (tags: facebook advertising)
• Telegraph.co.uk integrates business and personal finance sections
  (tags: telegraph investing checkitout)
• Technorati: State of the Blogosphere 2008
  Blogging makes you clever, rich and self-satisfied. Or is it the other way round?
  (tags: top10 blogging metrics)
• Automattic Acquires Comment Plugin IntenseDebate
  (tags: wordpress comments)

links for 2008-09-23

• FT.com recruits Bono and Jeffrey Sachs as bloggers
  (tags: economics ft)

links for 2008-09-22

• How Newspapers Abdicated the Front Page’s Influence and How They Can Get it Back By Linking - Publishing 2.0
  Scott Karp: "What they [the newspapers] failed to see is that the web analogue to the newspaper front page is LINKS to where the news IS. That’s Drudge."
  (tags: top10 drudge journalism2.0)
• 'Wash Post' Launching New Political Site -- With Links to Rivals
  "A cheat sheet for politics," says WaPo's Jim Brady
  (tags: washingtonpost journalism2.0)

links for 2008-09-20

• BASIC Principles of Online Journalism: C is for Community & Conversation (pt2: Conversation)
  (tags: howto top10)
• Reuters links up with Hubdub
  (tags: prediction hubdub reuters)

links for 2008-09-19

• How social media aid humanitarian relief
  (tags: humanitarian)
• New GNM ad network targets key special interest websites
  (tags: advertising guardian)

links for 2008-09-16

• Is it possible to build a big and scaleable online original content news site (i.e. professional blogging site) ? - socialmedian
  Jason Goldberg's take on which blogg-ish news sites are scalable and which will struggle. Surprise answer: Drudge (because it is so lean) and Huffington (because of the network of external contributors).
  (tags: top10 blogging social_media)

links for 2008-09-15

• Why I Stopped Reading Blogs (for a while)
  Common Craft author's RSS reader filled up with feeds he felt he should be reading. It felt like homework going through them. Twitter gave him a more intimate experience.
  (tags: RSS twitter)
• YouTube announces ban on violent videos | Media | guardian.co.uk
  About time too. Of course there is nothing about how they will police this but it at least marks a recognition that YT has a responsibility not to amplify the dark side.
  (tags: youtube)
• Cartoon: Anything You Tweet Can and Will be Used Against You... - ReadWriteWeb
  (tags: Twitter visuals)

links for 2008-09-11

• Twitter -- surprise star of RNC coverage (Poynter)
  How Twitter helped big beat small. Albert Maruggi: "[Twitter is] the police scanner of 21st century newsroom. This from a guy that used to rewrite AP copy for 11pm newscast."
  (tags: twitter politics journalism2.0 top10)
• Global Neighbourhoods: SM Global Report: Beeline's Francois Gossieaux
  Major study of community managers identifies a series of common pitfalls.
  (tags: metrics social_media top10)

links for 2008-09-08

• Voices of the Olympic Games
  Lenovo's sponsorship of the games included the creation of this huge 'expert network' of participants. A model for future media coverage?
  (tags: networked_journalism top10 journalism2.0)
• Rick Sanchez Debuts Twitter on TV « Web 2.Oh. . .really?
  Curious fusion of live micro-blogging with fixed broadcast programming that might overwhelm Twitter
  (tags: twitter cnn journalism2.0)

links for 2008-09-07

• Online comments are more like slander than libel, says judge :: Shane Richmond
  (tags: legal)
• News sites from scratch: What are the most important things to include?
  The Guardian's Kevin Anderson pulls together some fascinating ideas generated by a Twitter question from Al Jazeera's head of New Media.
  (tags: journalism2.0 top10)
• Socialmedian Introduces News Streaming: Like FriendFeed Without the Noise
  An upgrade means that you can now find material from your network filtered on your favoured topics. So it screens out people's tweets about what they had for dinner. Some discussion about whether SocialMedian may have left this too late to deal with Friendfeed's first mover advantage.
  (tags: socialmedia lifestreaming friendfeed socialmedian)
• LinkedIn, CNBC team up
  Best example yet of a site integrating with social network? Four strong ideas: 1 Make relevant CNBC content available within LI, 2. Make relevant Ln content available within CNBC. 3. Make it easy for me to share CNBC content with my LI network. 4. Make it easy for CNBC to create content from LI network.
  (tags: linkedin CNBC journalism2.0 social_media)
• How Newsrooms Throw Away Value By Not Linking To Sources On The Web - Publishing 2.0
  Interesting discussion on MSM's failure to embrace linking within conventional content and some to and fro on whether you can 'over-link'
  (tags: blogging howto)
• 1000 things I’ve learned about blogging
  No. 97 : "List have become the biggest cliche in blogging.."
  (tags: howto blogging)
• African Social Media Tracker Afrigator Gets Acquired - ReadWriteWeb
  (tags: africa aggregation)
• Businesses Can't Hide From 2.0: A Look At 2.0's Impact Across Industries
  Pretty extensive survey from Read/Write/Web of the tools and trends in business web 2.0 applications.
  (tags: enterprise2.0, checkitout)