News goes social

links for 2009-07-31

• Michael Wolff on Politico | vanityfair.com
  Politico now has 100 staffers. And it's profiltability is down to offline newspaper sales
  (tags: top10 journalism2.0 politico)
• Victor Keegan: Virtual worlds are getting a second life with 39% growth
  And it's all down to the kids
  (tags: Second_Life virtual_worlds)
• Valleywag Comments FAQ - Faq - Gawker
  Commeting is invitation-only now to deal with the burden of moderation
  (tags: moderation gawker valleywag)

links for 2009-07-30

• The Aggregator That Newspapers Like
  The state of play with DayLife
  (tags: checkitout aggregation daylife)
• Media as a hobby is not sustainable - broadstuff
  Media will head for the new 'bottlenecks': Independent Thought, Editing & Curation, and Journalistic Storytelling and the hobbyists will be left behind by the pros just as happened with ham radio, desktop publishing and blogging. Or maybe they will co-exist.
  (tags: top10 journalism2.0)

links for 2009-07-29

• Hack Day tools for non-developers
  Open source tools with which the non-technical can create applications
  (tags: checkitout howto development)
• Is Twitter Sending You 500% To 1600% More Traffic Than You Might Think?
  google analytics and other java=based systems under-count twitter traffic. But note that bit.ly over-estimates it
  (tags: twitter metrics)

links for 2009-07-28

• Gawker Media revenues up 45% in first half - - Nick Denton
  Seems extraordinary given the climate Is there more to this than meets the eye?
  (tags: monetisation gakwer)
• Start-Up Attributor Tries to Track Pirated Journalism - NYTimes.com
  (tags: attributor copyright)
• What can journalism learn from I Can Has Cheezburger?
  .. the importance of filtering for one thing. Interesting observations on how journalists' challenge used to be sourcing and now it filtering. References Amazon and Read/Write/Web
  (tags: top10 journalism2.0)
• Reuters' Transmission of News
  I would guess this graphic is from the '50s from the design.
  (tags: reuters visuals)

links for 2009-07-27

• Why Comments Matter
  Fred Wilson (A VC) talks about how he has turned comments into the best thing on his blog including disqus and 'comment bouncers'
  (tags: moderation)
• The growth of online watchdogs: are they ‘journalism’ and does it matter?
  Precis of Alan Rusbridger's talk to the Media Standards Trust with some good examples of data-driven community initiatives doing a better job than local papers
  (tags: journalism2.0)
• Thought of the Day: beatblogs as mini newspapers | BeatBlogging.Org
  (tags: journalism2.0 blogging)

links for 2009-07-25

• The News About the Internet - The New York Review of Books
  Charts the rise of the hybrid journalist. Exmplar: Andrew Sullivan: "While reading his site, I was also watching CNN, and it seemed clear that Sullivan, sitting at his computer, outperformed CNN's entire global network"
  (tags: top10 journalism2.0)

links for 2009-07-24

• Introducing the journalist of the future
  = jack of all trades + coder + designer + entrepreneur. And needs to be able to live skinny for a while.
  (tags: journalism2.0)
• HOW TO: Get Retweeted on Twitter
  Be original, don't talk about yourself and use links
  (tags: howto twitter)

links for 2009-07-23

• 10 Ways of using the Twitter Egosystem - broadstuff
  (tags: twitter dark_side_of_blogging)

links for 2009-07-22

• How People Share Content On The Web
  Facebook by volume, Twitter by proportion
  (tags: metrics)
• YouTube Biz Blog: YouTube myth busting
  Myth 4: Advertisers are afraid of YouTube. Over 70% of Ad Age Top 100 marketers ran campaigns on YouTube in 2008.
  (tags: youtube google monetisation)
• Top Social Media Sites: Twitter Leaps 1,989% - MarketingVOX
  (tags: metrics social_media)
• Amusing Ourselves to Death by Stuart McMillen - cartoon Recombinant Records
  Brilliant cartoon distilling Brave New World and 1984 and not so delicately putting the case that Orwell was wrong and Huxley right
  (tags: top10 dark_side_of_blogging visuals books orwell huxley)

links for 2009-07-21

• Comments add value to newspaper Web sites | BeatBlogging.Org
  (tags: moderation)