links for 2009-06-30

• AOL Cracks Web Publishing -- Sans Time Warner
  Formula for success: deep verticals, aligned with what advertisers want, small staffs, lots of aggregation and turn your traffic firehose on
  (tags: top10 journalism2.0 aggregation AOL)
• Dear Malcolm: Why So Threatened? | Epicenter | Wired.com
  Chris Anderson's response to Malcolm Gladwell
  (tags: journalism2.0 malcolm_gladwell, chris_anderson,)
• SEOmoz | A Bad Day for Search Engines: How News of Michael Jackson's Death Traveled Across the Web
  Brilliant minute-by-minute breakdown of what actually happened including how long it took Google News to catch up. Major finding is that Google has a real problem with the real-time Web.
  (tags: twitter top10 google michaeljackson realtimeweb)
• Malcolm Gladwell: Chris Anderson Is Wrong About "Free"
  Anderson's thesis that information wants to be free turns out to require some very special conditions, according to Gladwell.
  (tags: top10 malcolm_gladwell, chris_anderson, monetisation,)
• Bring Twitter Talk To Your Site With Tweetboard
  (tags: checkitout twitter)
• Journalism Rules Are Bent in News Coverage From Iran
  Excellent NYT piece summing up what actually happened with live blogging of Iran protests. One factoid -- Huffington Post's live blog got 5 million page views (and its editor was allowed to ask Obama question at Iran news conf.).
  (tags: iran twitter nyt top10)
• AP Issues Strict Facebook, Twitter Guidelines to Staff | Threat Level ...
  (tags: AP twitter facebook guidelines)