links for 2011-03-31
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“Our goal is to help people find what they are looking for; it can be a phone number, a product, or simply information,” explained Crowdbeacon founder Robert Boyle during a telephone interview from his office in NYC. “It is hyper local, with a unique focus on information and context, more so than simply venues.”
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After collecting more than two years of data, Zarrella shared his findings Tuesday in a webinar called “The Science of Timing.”
links for 2011-03-28
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Activists and campaigners are feeding news organisations intelligence about the military action of both sides: what are the editorial issues there?
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The two titles could remain editorially separate with their own editors, geographic, cultural and political biases. But they would shelter under a common umbrella of shared services – marketing, distribution, advertising, HR, wages, library and IT services. This would shave millions of pounds off costs while offering advertisers a more compelling circulation proposition and also maintaining the editorial integrity of the two titles where it matters.
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CASE STUDY: Newts, an 1985 Argos catologue and more cool ways to use Flickr
March 28, 2011 in Uncategorized
Someone once said that there are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Very true. Same could be said of Flickr.
Here’s seven good ideas on Flickr that’s fired my imagination.
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Post your article as an update on Facebook. Use the link feature to pull in the article image and description. Include commentary to frame your update with a reason for reading your article. Don’t tell us what your post is about, ask us if we’ve heard of the topic or share a related tip that sparks our interest.
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When it comes down to it, someone has to make sure that 5,000 Community Organisers are recruited, trained, networked, hosted and supported. And that a truly independent Institute for Community Organising is developed. Our unique approach to the ICO is that it will be a 21st century guild, owned by organisers themselves, able to make its own way in the world, and effectively supporting the vocation of community organising into the long-term future, beyond this Government’s lifespan.
links for 2011-03-24
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Otherwise Foursquare may never move past a location “game” and generate real revenues. We UK first movers are starting to feel neglected – there are only so many swarms we can organise on our own without Foursquare having a local presence and doing serious deals with high street brands.
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Advertisers also take a different tact. Rather than worrying so much about revenues generated by traditional types of advertisement, it is viewed more as a community service, similar to sponsoring a hockey or baseball team. The associated prestige outweighs the rate of return. Besides, there are just too many other venues for more effective advertising.
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The real story, in new annual figures from the Advertising Association and WARC, is the 6.9 percent rise across all ad forms in the UK in 2010, after a year or two that had seen flat to minus growth through the recession.
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The idea behind Color is that a phone's location-sensing abilities can build a user's social network for them, allowing users to share photos, video and messages based simply on the people they're physically near.
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I’ve assembled these 10 possible ways to bring in cash.
They are just ideas, and the most successful businesses pick’n'mix from these plus several others. If there are any glaring omissions, let me know in the comments box!
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In terms of data analysis, your next big step should probably be figuring out a way to ask questions of the data. In a city budget, which category is getting the most money? Which category has the biggest change from last year? The biggest dollar/pound/other currency change? The biggest percent change?
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The common thread running through all these cases suggests an unpalatable possibility: it could it be that what we’re seeing is a movement with a limited life-span rather than the emergence of a new form of grassroots journalism.
links for 2011-03-18
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break the barriers between editors of old and new media, print and digital, general interest and specialized publications, free and paid business models, profit and non-profit organizations, international and local media outlets;
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It is a reflection of the changing online landscape and the advent of social media that we feel the time is now right to move on from Have Your Say.
This process is essentially about us online focusing more now on encouraging discussion around our content itself, rather than looking to host or manage a community.
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There is way this problem could be overcome using the revenue outturn(RO) and capital outturn(COR) forms that local authorities supply to the Department of Communities and Local Government. The revenue outturn shows all spending on the day-to-day running of services and the capital outturn shows spending on new construction, land, extensions or and alterations to existing buildings and the purchase of new physical things like machinery, vehicles etc. The sum of the RO and COR is given below and shows us a complete picture of council spending and the money back.
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I would argue the UK has a lot to learn from the USA’s hyperlocal scene. (That’s why I’m so interested in Seattle’s hyperlocalists.) Martin Moore of Media Standards Trust sums up fairly succinctly how US local news experimentation is “leagues ahead” of the UK in this post published last month. So while the UK should be proud of its thriving grassroots hyperlocal media movement, it should also be keen to learn from people in other places “throwing spaghetti at the wall” to see which bits stick.
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"Advertising revenues are growing as the public responds. We are employing a representative and are finding that the concept is being favourably received as news of the sites spreads."
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The content is drawn from a variety of sources, tagged with keywords, plotted on a map for visual clarity and keywords are tracked over time. Everything is captured – the good, the bad and the ugly. Too often the loudest few get all the attention. One of the key ambitions of Hyp3rlocal is to source a balanced landscape of opinion, giving equal space to the evangelists, moderates and critics on any given subject.
links for 2011-03-17
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The range of interest centered around me can differ in size depending on the topic and the moment.
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But most of what I see on Patch seems pro forma, the coverage of government tending to a stenography of the status quo. That doesn't seem to be by intention, or lack of effort. It turns out it's easier to commit to breaking news and probing beneath the surface than to actually do it, especially with thin staffing and part-timers doing much of the heavy lifting.
links for 2011-03-16
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The findings reveal a wide disparity in digital revenue pulled by various newspapers….
links for 2011-03-15
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Businesses like Badgeville, BigDoor and Gameful are leading the charge in providing easily-integrated solutions for news organizations interested in engaging with their readers in exciting new ways.
For more information on gamification in journalism, check out Newstopiaville, a blog run by 2007 Knight News Challenge winner Chris O’Brien, that tracks the growth and evolution of gaming mechanics as they relate to news.
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Right now, there’s not a lot there, except for a link to a survey. If you have a great example of use of digital engagement in public services, please fill it in!
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The new CMS, to be built with Django, will be both SEO- and social media-friendly. More importantly, it will include revenue-raising tools, including ways to manage subscriptions and levels of membership; compatibility with customer service programs and ad networks; and a credit card function for smoothly integrated donations.
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This guide is designed to help users publish metadata resources onto data.gov.uk in compliance with the UK Location Information Infrastructure (outlined and detailed below), enabling datasets, dataset series and services to be discovered and evaluated by data users. Users who are not part of this initiative can find out how to publish their organisations data on data.gov.uk as part of the Government’s Transparency agenda at http://data.gov.uk/blog/publish-your-data-on-datagovuk-a-simple-how-to-guide
links for 2011-03-14
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Our job is to curate the conversation that is happening all over the Internet with people who really understand what is going on,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, a former Tokyo bureau chief for CNN who founded Global Voices with Ethan Zuckerman, a technologist and Africa expert, while they were fellows at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. “We amplify, contextualize and translate what these conversations are and why they are relevant.”
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Our broadcast grants offer support for projects and programmes that engage an audience with issues in biomedical science in an innovative, entertaining and accessible way.
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Failed news experiments have taught us a few things about what doesn’t work: Armies of citizen contributors will not replace all journalists, for example. Journalism savvy does not translate into business savvy. Grants are not a stable or enduring funding model.
Instead, my work studying the emerging landscape and my ongoing survey of new sites suggests two other trends. First, local sites are beginning to learn the importance of focusing as much on financial sustainability and revenues as on news creation. Second, they are learning, much as traditional news organizations are, that they need multiple revenue streams, not just one or two, to sustain themselves.
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Pew also highlights some significant “firsts” across the online news universe, indicating that the move from print to web has reached an important tipping point. They are:
1) “Original reporting job hires at major online only news sites for the first time matched or exceeded the job losses in newspapers.”
2) “For the first time, more people said they got news from the web than newspapers.”
3) “When the final tally is in, online ad revenue in 2010 is projected to surpass print newspaper ad revenue for the first time.”
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We`ve seen a newspaper that has opened ten hyper-local Facebook pages in ten different towns. These pages immediately became more relevant, and more local.
links for 2011-03-13
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Modern digital curators for early-stage entrepreneurs are the expert bloggers who put “content into context.” They write and tweet every day, with the single guiding credibility and personality that the new social culture demands.
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Finally, we will start to link the site more directly with the other Media Standards Trust transparency projects — notably journalisted.com and hNews. This should help us to create a whole toolbox of transparency and accountability mechanisms for online news and create an ecology that will foster and advantage original journalism.
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Two-thirds claim to have written a story that originated via social media, giving rise to up to one in seven of all published stories.
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Our newsroom salaries for full-time employees, for example (which include bonuses and benefits) are now higher than at many companies in the traditional news industry. Because the digital news business is quite different from the traditional news business, we often promote from within, and we've had the huge pleasure of watching folks who joined us as interns grow up to take leadership positions. True, we can't yet toss around the $300,000-$500,000 a year per brand-name columnist that Huffington Post and Daily Beast are now reportedly tossing around. But, in future years, if we keep doing what we think we can do, we should be able to pay our top people a lot more than we do today.
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The point is, of course, that these skills are easy to pick up and will soon be commonplace. Perhaps that’s a little frightening, but it’s also an opportunity. If councils look to help these people – by working with them and supporting them – it might help to have a positive impact on how people can engage with democracy.
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Find the latest news, reviews, pictures, audio and video from the Guardian's team of reporters and developers at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. This page is powered by Tumblr and the Guardian Open Platform
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Sneering at bloggers was a way journalists avoided confronting these developments. In short "this is fucking neurotic."
links for 2011-03-10
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of the companies comprising any industry affected by disruptive technologies, only 9 percent survive. And 100 percent of those 9 percent follow a particular pattern. A key is investing in the future. “Do you want to ride this thing down? Or do you want to invest for the future?” he asked.
The cold reality is this: you can’t have these two different cultures in the same organization anymore. They set up camps. They expend energy fighting each other for the same resources instead of toward creative efforts to improve their organizations. -
So my new mission was to create a sustainable, crowdsourced candy jar operation, beneficial to all but cumbersome to none. To do this, it’s not enough to simply rely on your reputation as the desk where everyone can find candy. Emotional appeals and guilt-pushing wouldn’t work, as that would simply turn people off. No, you have to give them non-financial incentives to participate.
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Groups created on PeerIndex aren’t limited to just your friends, they also allow conference organisers to set up a list of attendees at their events, also giving community creators to gather and group members of their community and track them.
It also provides a platform for business owners or media publications to keep an eye on how their competitors rank on the service, providing an insight into what a user could do to emulate their rivals.
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Wylio is the extra mustard, hold the pickles, all-in-one picture finder and re-sizer made specifically for bloggers. We are the quickest way for you to get a photo into your next blog post.
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