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?The highlight for me was seeing the founder and editor of West Seattle Blog, Tracy Record, positioned on stage next to msnbc.com president Charlie Tillinghast. Two years ago, who would have believed that a neighborhood news site would warrant the same consideration as one of the giants in the online [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:44pm EST
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 Twitter lights up its geolocation API: It?s here, but it only works 1) if you turn on geotagging in your account settings on Twitter.com and 2) you?re using a Twitter mobile application with the geolocation feature, like Foursquare. Both these factors will combine to make [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:16pm EST
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 Fox Sports launching local sites, too: Joining the ranks of ESPN and Comcast, Fox Sports is quietly rolling out a network of a dozen local/regional sports sites, like FoxSportsArizona.com. In less than a year, local sports has suddenly become an incredibly competitive field, with [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:58pm EST
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AOL hiring journalists, laying off just about everyone else: AOL announced today that it?s planning to lay off 2,500 employees ? about a third of its staff ? but the company is still hiring journalists in a plan to beef up original content. That?s a change. [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:22pm EST
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?What?s happening?? - What Twitter now asks you, instead of ?What are you going?? ? a subtle change to try to encourage more newsy Tweets. ?People are witnessing accidents, organizing events, sharing links, breaking news, reporting stuff their dad says, and so much more,? explains co-founder Biz [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:10pm EST
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YouTube offers news organizations APIs for user uploads: YouTube continues its push into citizen journalism with the launch of YouTube Direct, a set of APIs that allows news organizations to use YouTube as the platform for user video uploads. ?Users can upload videos directly into this application, [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:24pm EST
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?By using your call letters, you?re automatically limiting yourself to those who follow your newscast. Why not open it up, make it more inclusive and pull in a whole new audience online?? - Lost Remote emeritus Steve Safran talking about local TV website branding in a Broadcasting & [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:50pm EST
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 Comcast launching local sports sites: Comcast is pouring some serious cash into an effort to compete with ESPN.com in local sports. The first site, Comcast SportsNet New England, will ultimately hire 40 staffers. San Francisco, DC/Baltimore and Chicago will soon follow. [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:09pm EST
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A crazy idea on how newspapers can take on Google: Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis suggests that news media companies team together and propose that Bing pay them a fee to block Google from indexing their search results. Interesting.
Adds Don in comments: ?So you?ll have a pocket full [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:24pm EST
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GonzoCamp sparks entrepreneurial ideas for news: The second annual GonzoCamp ? a brainstorming and prototyping session to generate new ideas around news ? just wrapped up here in Seattle, and TechFlash has a summary. GonzoCamp is the brainchild of Mark Briggs. ?Instead of panel discussions lamenting [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:07pm EST
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 How blogging has changed in last 3 years: A new survey shows that the way users engage with blogs is shifting more to off-site experiences, thanks in part to social networks and bookmarking/voting sites. (The graph above measures engagement for top blogs.) This reminds me [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:00pm EST
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Fwix unveils revenue-sharing plan for hyperlocal blogs: Fwix founder Darian Shirazi says just sending a little traffic to blogs isn?t going to cut it anymore. So his team has launched a new ?ad wire? that mixes ad messages with local headlines, sharing revenue with not only the [...]
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:41pm EST
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Belo's Moor to head up local news at Yahoo: DallasNews.com?s Anthony Moor says he?s just accepted a position at Yahoo to head up their growing local news efforts. Moor tweets, ?Moving to Yahoo! and SF to build staff of editors around US who will improve the local news [...]
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Posted: November 12, 2009, 2:26pm EST
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 A very cool way to watch a TV newscast: One of the big struggles in TV news is how to provide viewers with an easy way to find and watch specific newscast segments on the web. (?I saw it on TV around 5:30 p.m., but I [...]
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Posted: November 12, 2009, 2:12pm EST
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 Local digital channels could be the new TV wasteland: ?Do you watch any of the new local digital channels?? asks Tom Petner on TVWeek.com. ?No, neither do I.? I must confess, though, I do record and occasionally watch old episodes of Magnum PI on a [...]
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 6:15pm EST
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?Proximity can be this proxy for relevance? - Twitter?s Ryan Sarver about using the company?s new geolocation feature as a way to sift through the crush of seemingly random tweets. Explains NYTimes: ?That simple filter made a huge difference in what a visitor to Twitter?s search engine [...]
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 6:05pm EST
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Gannett's MomsLikeMe.com streams live birth: A woman who kept a popular pregnancy journal on the Minneapolis section of Gannett?s MomsLikeMe.com agreed to have her birth streamed live on the site. ?It?s really interesting that it went from an online local neighborhood thing to a global audience,? said [...]
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 5:35pm EST
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 Sacramento Press tries new local approach: The new city site uses tags and social media as a hook into local advertisers. Running on its own CMS, the Sacramento Press has plans to grow to other cities, as well. The Kelsey Group has an interesting [...]
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:42pm EST
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How social media is taking the news local: Our own Next Door Media is mentioned in the Mashable story along with ChicagoNow.com, WCCO-TV?s Jason DeRusha and the Austin-American Statesman. [...]
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:31pm EST
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??A blog that?s associated with a major, legitimate organization? would be, I think, treated differently than an individual blogger who?s using his or her right of free expression to say whatever he thinks. So the presence of an editor, as an example. You know, an editor that?s not your mom.?? [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:11pm EST
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 Which social sites drive traffic? Depends on who you ask: ChicagoTribune.com says 10 percent of its traffic originates from social sharing sites ? much of it from Digg, which says it plans to roll out new features to showcase local stories. Meanwhile, StarTribune.com says it?s seeing [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 7:39pm EST
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NBC Local sites report strong growth: Unique visitors went from 6 million a year ago to 12 million in October. [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 7:07pm EST
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?(Local content) is the number one unmet need online.? - Lisa Gurry, senior director at MSN, commenting about the brand new MSN.com, which includes prominent integration of local news, weather, events and traffic. [...]
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Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:10pm EST
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 Redesigns launching at Belo, Meredith TV sites: Belo TV sites, like AZFamily.com above, are rolling out a new design powered by Broadcast Interactive. Meredith sites, like KPHO.com above, have just debuted a new look via Internet Broadcasting. [...]
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Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:10pm EST
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 New NBCOlympics.com to feature DVR-like technology: TechCrunch has a preview of the new NBCOlympics.com, which relaunches on Wednesday with the ability to rewind live video and save clips on the fly. Users will also be able to log in with Facebook and chat with [...]
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Posted: November 03, 2009, 4:40pm EST
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?There are no TV journalists anymore. There are video journalists.? - A quote from msnbc.com?s Charlie Tillinghast that was included in Huffington Post?s writeup of the top 100 ?game changers? in new media. Also on the list, Jason Kilar from Hulu, NetFlix founder Reed Hastings [...]
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Posted: October 29, 2009, 5:59pm EDT
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 Comcast putting Yellow Pages on your TV set: Even more competition for local media. Comcast is starting an experiment in Philadelphia where viewers can navigate the Yellow Pages on their TV sets. Businesses can pay for premium placement ? even include their own video commercials [...]
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Posted: October 29, 2009, 5:45pm EDT
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?The analogy I use is how ABC News uses ESPN for its sports coverage.? - WGCL-TV news director Steve Schwaid explaining how an Atlanta radio station will now power all the sports coverage for the CBS TV affiliate. [...]
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Posted: October 29, 2009, 5:33pm EDT
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Albritton to launch aggressive local site in DC: Wow, this is big news. Jim Brady, former executive editor of WashingtonPost.com, has been hired to create a new local news site in DC that combines the sites of Albritton?s WJLA.com and News8.net. The number of web staff Brady expects [...]
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Posted: October 29, 2009, 12:07pm EDT
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Posted: October 27, 2009, 7:44pm EDT
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 Three TV stations become one newsroom in Hawaii: In August, three Hawaii stations agreed to merge their news operations, and this week they debuted on air and online on HawaiiNewsNow.com. Raycom Media, which owns two of the stations, said the consolidation was necessary to [...]
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Posted: October 27, 2009, 7:29pm EDT
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?If you think local TV news is irrelevant and has long sacrificed real news coverage for flash and trash, just wait until stations have no money to even pretend they?re covering the important stuff.? - Michael Schneider, Variety?s television editor, in an unflattering story about the cuts [...]
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Posted: October 27, 2009, 7:19pm EDT
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Patch plans hyperlocal expansion in NY: AOL?s hyperlocal network Patch plans to launch 11 sites in Long Island and Westchester County over the next three months. [...]
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Posted: October 27, 2009, 6:37pm EDT
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?Hulu?s online video platform may be a success with the masses, but it will have to begin charging for at least some of its content if it doesn?t want to destroy the $185 billion television ecosystem it draws from.? - Columnist/analyst Diane Mermigas on the growing momentum [...]
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Posted: October 23, 2009, 4:03pm EDT
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 WMUR publishes book of user photos: On September 9, WMUR-TV asked everyone in the state of New Hampshire to grab their camera and take great shots of one day in the life of the state. More than 9,000 photos were submitted ? more than enough [...]
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Posted: October 23, 2009, 3:46pm EDT
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?It?s meant to squelch blogs.? - Texas blogger Steve Southwell reacting to a narrow-minded new policy by the Lewisville school district that says officials may turn down an interview request ?if official press credentials are not presented or available.? Says a district spokesperson, ?This is a way [...]
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Posted: October 22, 2009, 12:55pm EDT
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Seattle news site Crosscut now a nonprofit: The paperwork just went through ? along with a $100,000 donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ? and Crosscut.com is now a nonprofit news organization. [...]
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Posted: October 21, 2009, 1:20pm EDT
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 Bing scores with two big social deals: Bing is announcing today a deal to integrate real-time content from both Facebook and Twitter in search results. ?The deal is a definite blow to the dominant search engine, since?for the first time?data will be available on Bing [...]
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Posted: October 21, 2009, 1:06pm EDT
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Meredith TV stations getting into the obit business: Meredith?s station in Saginaw, Michigan says it?s cashing in on the obituary business as newspapers cut back, and the station group is planning to expand the idea across the board. [...]
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Posted: October 19, 2009, 12:09am EDT
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?We have to go from a world in which we try to do a better job of covering the same news as everyone else to a world where we?re bringing our audiences news that no one else is.? - From ABC News President David Westin at the Media [...]
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Posted: October 16, 2009, 5:46pm EDT
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Denver's 9News.com soars with balloon boy story: ?To put things in perspective, our normal traffic on a day without any major breaking news or weather is usually anywhere from 750,000 to a million page views a day, and about 150,000 unique visitors,? said Channel 9 GM Mark Cornetta. [...]
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Posted: October 16, 2009, 1:46pm EDT
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A look at the Google Street View trike: A Google engineer, who happens to be an avid mountain biker, created this trike to expand Google Street View?s photo-mapping to trails, zoos, campuses, landmarks and golf courses. While they?ve mapped a handful of these ? check out this [...]
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Posted: October 16, 2009, 1:39pm EDT
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 Google News adds ?blog? labels, but not for many newspapers: I noticed a few weeks ago that search results in Google News for our neighborhood news sites ? like MyBallard.com above ? now include a ?blog? label. Nieman Journalism Lab did a little investigating on [...]
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Posted: October 14, 2009, 3:18pm EDT
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San Francisco to open 311 to developers: I posted earlier this month that EveryBlock has integrated new open data from the city of San Francisco, and now Mayor Gavin Newsom is giving EveryBlock some props and encouraging other developers to jump on board. The new Open [...]
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Posted: October 14, 2009, 1:45pm EDT
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 New Flip camera includes Facebook upload feature: Flip Video, now owned by Cisco, has rolled out the second generation of its Flip MinoHD camera which ?lets users shoot twice as much video, enjoy a bigger screen, and even share their stories directly to Facebook with [...]
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Posted: October 14, 2009, 1:31pm EDT
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?Executive Producer of NBC News Transformation? - The new title for Tim Peek, a senior producer at NBC News, who was just promoted to the new role to ?oversee the incorporation of emerging technologies into the daily practices of the news division.? Also, NBC Local Media [...]
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Posted: October 13, 2009, 5:30pm EDT
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Local ESPN sites leverage radio sales teams: A good explainer on how ESPN is selling local advertising on its new city sites. [...]
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Posted: October 13, 2009, 2:25pm EDT
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?We will no longer tolerate the disconnect between people who devote themselves ? at great human and economic cost ? to gathering news of public interest and those who profit from it without supporting it.? - Associated Press CEO Tom Curley asking search engines to pay up. [...]
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Posted: October 09, 2009, 2:06pm EDT
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 NBC Local launches iPhone app with ?So My City?: NBC?s local stations have launched a free iPhone app that combines content with its microblogging feature called ?So My City.? Users can post short observations and photos from their iPhones ? connecting with Facebook or Twitter, if [...]
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Posted: October 08, 2009, 5:43pm EDT
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 Local online ad growth slowing, says Borrell study: Borrell Associates? outlook for 2010 is now available, and the research company is predicting local online advertising growth of 5 percent, to $14.9 billion, down from 12 percent in 2009. ?The game in 2010 will center more [...]
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Posted: October 08, 2009, 5:04pm EDT
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?42% of responding (TV) station managers simply don?t know if their site is making money.? - From a new RTNDA/Hofstra University survey that found that 31 percent of local TV station managers say they?re making money online. An even larger number, 42 percent, say they don?t know. [...]
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Posted: October 07, 2009, 5:20pm EDT
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Google debuts new simplified ads for local businesses: The ?Listing Ads? appear in Google Search and Maps ? only in San Francisco and San Diego to start ? based on category and location. And in a new twist for Google, they?re sold as a monthly fixed fee. [...]
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Posted: October 07, 2009, 5:08pm EDT
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 Next Door Media?s MyBallard.com wins Online Journalism Award: Wow, the neighborhood news site that my wife Kate and I created in the Seattle neighborhood of Ballard has won a national Online Journalism Award for community collaboration. ?My Ballard is exactly what newspapers are trying [...]
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Posted: October 04, 2009, 5:01pm EDT
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??Twitter when the cookies are fresh out of the oven.?? - Twitter CEO Ev Williams at ONA giving an example of how small businesses use the service. IMHO, Twitter is poised to become a powerful promotional tool for small businesses, shifting value in the local ad marketplace. Other [...]
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Posted: October 02, 2009, 12:53pm EDT
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NPR lands $3M grant for hyperlocal initiative: Sounds like more competition ? or a new partner ? for neighborhood news sites. A dozen NPR stations in a pilot project will hire ?journalist bloggers? to cover and aggregate hyperlocal news and issues. The stations have yet to be announced. [...]
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Posted: October 02, 2009, 11:26am EDT
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Twitter location API rolling out: The much-anticipated geolocation API for Twitter is rolling out. While a slim minority of Twitter users will likely geolocate their tweets to start, the number will grow as new Twitter apps (like the upcoming new version of Tweetie) integrate the functionality. [...]
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Posted: October 01, 2009, 7:03pm EDT
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Not going to ONA? Watch it live: Many of the sessions at the Online News Association?s annual confab will be streamed live on Friday and Saturday. You can also track the often-updated Twitter stream, too. (Since our company, Next Door Media, is a finalist, I?ll be [...]
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Posted: October 01, 2009, 3:24pm EDT
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 EveryBlock adds open data from San Francisco: The city by the bay recently took the wraps off DataSF, its open data initiative. And now EveryBlock has added a big chunk of that data to its San Francisco section. ?You?ll be notified any time the [...]
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Posted: October 01, 2009, 3:07pm EDT
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Google unveils new local search for mobile: Among the new features, you can browse categories to see nearby businesses, and you can ?star? businesses in Google Maps on your PC to have them appear on Google on your mobile device. [...]
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Posted: October 01, 2009, 1:52pm EDT
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ESPN Dallas debuts with promo push: ESPN continues its rollout of local sites in big sports markets with Dallas, timed to Monday Night Football with the Cowboys. As with previous launches in Chicago and Boston, ESPNDallas.com is getting a rather surprising amount of on-air promotion. NYC and LA [...]
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Posted: September 30, 2009, 1:13pm EDT
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?For those of you in the electronic media, you should be somewhat alarmed that (local) radio or television did not appear as a destination someone would go to get information on a local business despite the fact that most have web properties.? - From BIA-Kelsey?s latest survey [...]
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Posted: September 23, 2009, 2:18am EDT
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 Mapping Twitter trends on a local level: TrendsMap allows you to browse a map with the latest trending Tweets layered over it. Above, I?ve zoomed to Seattle and to the north, Vancouver, where ?Olympics? is a trending topic (Vancouver is the home of the 2010 [...]
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Posted: September 23, 2009, 1:37am EDT
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?Weymouth and other media executives said the key to hyperlocal success might be for news organizations to work closely with local bloggers and citizen journalists who are reporting on their own communities.? - A paragraph from a Washington Post story referring to comments from Katharine Weymouth, The [...]
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Posted: September 23, 2009, 1:29am EDT
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Local startup RedBeacon wins best of show at TechCrunch 50: RedBeacon allows you to type in a request for a service ? say, someone to clean out your gutters on Saturday ? and local businesses respond with quotes to perform the service. The video above shows RedBeacon?s [...]
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Posted: September 16, 2009, 5:20pm EDT
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?I?m amazed (and scared) at the power of one tweet to drive this much coverage.? - PBS? Mark Glaser referencing all this coverage just four hours after tweeting that a source told him that Google was in talks to buy Brightcove. [...]
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Posted: September 16, 2009, 5:13pm EDT
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 There?s no such thing as ?off the record? with Twitter: If this Terry Moran tweet has taught us anything, it?s that politicians (especially the President) would be smart to keep everything on the record. After all, journalists are now armed with the Twitter, and heck, [...]
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Posted: September 15, 2009, 6:40pm EDT
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?I see search engines as breaking into our homes, itemizing the contents, walking out and listing everything for everyone to see.? - Brendan Hopkins, the CEO of APN, Australia?s largest regional newspaper, explaining his distaste for how search engines monetize his content. [...]
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Posted: September 15, 2009, 3:45pm EDT
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Huffington Post launches in Denver: It?s the third local aggregation site to launch. ?We crisscrossed the state to ensure that HuffPost?s first local vertical in a western state would launch with a wide variety of local partners showcasing the best collection of news from all parts of Colorado,? [...]
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Posted: September 15, 2009, 3:41pm EDT
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 Google Fast Flip, because online news is too slow: Google Labs has created a sort of a visual Google News ? called Fast Flip ? that features three dozen launch partners who share in the ad revenue. ?One problem with reading news online today is [...]
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Posted: September 15, 2009, 10:00am EDT
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 Press accuracy rating hits two decade low: Ok, this can?t be good. Pew Research reports that only 29% of the public says they believe the news media gets their facts straight. [...]
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Posted: September 14, 2009, 5:21pm EDT
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 After all the hype, it?s Leno time: Jay Leno?s highly-anticipated show kicks off tonight, and every affiliate will be anxiously watching the ratings. As for Time?s cover story, ?That?s hilarious,? Leno responds. ?That shows you the trouble we are in.?
Update: First night?s ratings [...]
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Posted: September 14, 2009, 4:32pm EDT
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??51% of the newspaper publishers in the United States believe they can charge successfully for access to their interactive content.?? - From a survey released today. In other news, Journalism Online says over 1,000 media outlets have signed letters of intent to use its service to [...]
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Posted: September 14, 2009, 2:15pm EDT
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 ESPNBoston.com now live: ESPN?s local march continues with the launch of a dedicated Boston site. A few weeks after ESPN launched in Chicago, the sports giant said it was already the most-visited sports destination for the Windy City. So it probably comes to no surprise [...]
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Posted: September 14, 2009, 1:14am EDT
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Posted: September 12, 2009, 3:00am EDT
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 Random thought about the CNN-Coast Guard brouhaha: You know, local Twitter feeds that featured nothing but interesting stuff from the scanner would be really popular. But perhaps you wouldn?t want to brand it with your news organization. [...]
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Posted: September 11, 2009, 4:01pm EDT
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?To attract more people to Twitter, the company?s designers are also working on a project to help new users discover others who might have similar interests or who live nearby.? - From a Bloomberg story with Twitter?s Biz Stone. [...]
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Posted: September 10, 2009, 3:54pm EDT
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Posted: September 10, 2009, 1:23pm EDT
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Google planning micropayment platform for publishers: The Newspaper Association of America asked Google for ideas on monetizing content, and Google said it?s in the planning stages to offer a micropayment platform via Checkout. ?Google believes that an open web benefits all users and publishers,? Google said in a [...]
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Posted: September 09, 2009, 6:45pm EDT
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 Yahoo Local debuts ?Neighbors?: Yahoo drills down even more into the local space with a new discussion board and community answer service called ? Neighbors.? The conversations are tied to topics and optimized for search. Good write-up about it here. [...]
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Posted: September 09, 2009, 6:01pm EDT
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NYT, WSJ to go local with San Francisco editions: Everyone is going local, even the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Why San Francisco to start? National papers sell better in the Bay Area than almost any other part of the country, and both the San Francisco [...]
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Posted: September 09, 2009, 5:45pm EDT
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Twitter correspondent to cover MTV VMAs: The correspondent, iJustine, explains in the clip above that she?ll be on the Twitter beat at the Video Music Awards for MTV. (Or, if you can?t make it through the video, you can read the MTV press release with [...]
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Posted: September 09, 2009, 5:35pm EDT
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Loopt first always-on, location-aware iPhone app: Pay $3.99 more a month to AT&T and you have have Loopt running in the background on your iPhone, alerting you when friends are close by. [...]
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Posted: September 04, 2009, 3:01pm EDT
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??Note to WOFL and WESH: if you?re gonna swipe our exclusive video from YouTube, at least credit WFTV!?? - A tweet posted by WFTV News Director Bob Jordan, who?s livid that one of their video clips ended up on YouTube and then appeared ? via YouTube [...]
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Posted: September 03, 2009, 2:09pm EDT
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Google News provides SEO tips for publishers: A must-watch video from Google for anyone involved in SEO at a news organization. For example, Google News ranks stories by clickthrough rates of the source (which they use to determine ?trusted sources?), local proximity and attribution from other sources (?the [...]
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Posted: September 03, 2009, 1:36pm EDT
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?Tweet-peats? - What Fox is calling the repeats of Fringe and Glee with tweets scrolling across the bottom of the screen. [...]
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Posted: September 01, 2009, 7:54pm EDT
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 What happens when Gmail crashes? Everyone searches Google, of course. [...]
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Posted: September 01, 2009, 7:52pm EDT
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New Facebook ads in testing: Finally, an ad on Facebook that shows some promise, in my humble opinion. If the call to action is truly valuable, you can imagine how something like this would spread virally very quickly. [...]
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Posted: September 01, 2009, 7:43pm EDT
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 Examiner.com buys NowPublic: Another acquisition in the local space. Examiner.com, a network of user-powered city sites, has acquired the citizen journalism site NowPublic for an undisclosed amount. Examiner.com says its audience has grown more than 200 percent since the beginning of the year [...]
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Posted: September 01, 2009, 7:25pm EDT
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Online Journalism Award finalists announced: Congrats to all! Selfishly, I?ll point out that Next Door Media?s MyBallard.com is a finalist for community collaboration and msnbc.com is a finalist for outstanding use of digital technologies. [...]
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Posted: August 31, 2009, 5:38pm EDT
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 Google StreetView adds pop up businesses: You can now browse search results in StreetView, with bubbles appearing in front of actual businesses. [...]
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Posted: August 27, 2009, 8:27pm EDT
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Why is it that so many journalists keep confusing ?hyperlocal? with local? It seems that any site that?s not run by a major media company that covers local news is suddenly hyperlocal ? MinnPost (covers a state), Voice of San Diego (covers a city) and Loudoun Extra [...]
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Posted: August 27, 2009, 8:19pm EDT
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You?ve activated the Yelp Monacle: The new version of Yelp?s iPhone app (for the new iPhones) includes a hidden augmented reality feature that can be activated with three shakes. Or as Steve Garfield demonstrates above, a few dozen shakes. Once it?s activated, this is what is looks [...]
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Posted: August 27, 2009, 8:12pm EDT
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Seattle Times teams with neighborhood sites: Through a journalism grant by the J-Lab, the Seattle Times has formed an editorial partnership with several neighborhood news sites, including our own Next Door Media sites. The West Seattle Blog, Capitol Hill Seattle and Rainier Valley Post [...]
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Posted: August 26, 2009, 2:26pm EDT
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 Google Maps brings traffic conditions to side streets: By anonymously tracking the velocity of users who are looking at Google Maps on their cell phones, Google has debuted crowdsourced real-time traffic conditions that extends to busier side streets. (To see it in action, pick a [...]
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Posted: August 25, 2009, 12:27pm EDT
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 Buy clothing worn by TV broadcasters on new site: This is a sign of the times. A new site called TVNewsCloset.com is an online consignment shop where anchors and reporters can buy and sell on-air clothing at affordable prices. ?The days of the clothing allowance [...]
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Posted: August 21, 2009, 6:51pm EDT
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?Boy, that?s news to me. I don?t really see it impacting us.? - Jamie Kimmet, advertising director of the The Daily Free Press in Elko, NV, upon hearing that Craigslist has just expanded to his city. [...]
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Posted: August 21, 2009, 6:27pm EDT
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News Corp. pushing to create an online news consortium: News Corp. execs have been meeting with publishers about forming a consortium that would charge for online and mobile news, reports the LA Times. [...]
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Posted: August 21, 2009, 12:26pm EDT
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Twitter to add location to tweets, API: Twitter announced today it plans to add the (optional) ability for users to tag tweets with a specific location, opening new possibilities on the local front. ?It?s easy to imagine how this might be interesting at an event like a concert [...]
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Posted: August 20, 2009, 7:52pm EDT
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 Twitter time stamp reveals who broke Favre story: Remember back in the old days when you?d compare the time stamps on email breaking news alerts to see which media company broke a story first? (Which was a little inaccurate, because email doesn?t all arrive at the [...]
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Posted: August 19, 2009, 5:16pm EDT
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?We?re saving the print industry.? - George Schweitzer, president of CBS Marketing Group, on a new marketing campaign that involves embedding video chips in an upcoming issue Entertainment Weekly magazine. Because why wouldn?t you want to watch video promos of CBS shows while reading a magazine? [...]
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Posted: August 19, 2009, 1:08pm EDT
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