How Metadata Can Eliminate the Need for Pay Walls
Metadata is just a fancy word for information about information. A library catalogue is metadata because it categorizes the books and describes where you can find them. You find metadata on the side of every food packet, only we don't call it metadata, we call it ingredients. The equivalent metadata about a news article would capture information about where it was written, who wrote it, when it was first published, when it was updated. All pretty basic stuff, but critical to properly identifying it and helping its distribution.
Why does the BBC want to send its readers away? The value of linking Nieman Journalism Lab
David Francois said: The BBC aims to double the number outbound clicks from its site by 2013. That’s double the number of people sent away from the BBC site — intentionally.
The BBC aims to double the number outbound clicks from its site by 2013. That’s double the number of people sent away from the BBC site — intentionally.
Google Index to Go Real Time
David Francois said: Google is developing a system that will enable web publishers of any size to automatically submit new content to Google for indexing within seconds of that content being published.
