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The best of everything we're reading on the future of information, curated by the crew at Publish2. Links, tweets, video, and more.
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- Daniel Bachhuber of Publish2 and CoPress linked this on March 20, 2010 at 12:39AM EDT
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Daniel said:
For most small newspapers, the first step towards being able to value structured data is getting their content in a database.
Quote: Unstructured data is typically said to account for up to 80 percent of information stored on business computer systems. While this is a widely accepted notion, I'm inclined to agree with Seth Grimes that this 80 percent rule is inflated, depending on the type of business. Still, If we could structure even a fraction of that data, it would create significant value for small newspapers.
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- Ryan Sholin of Publish2 linked this on January 29, 2010 at 9:11AM EST
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Ryan said:
Mark Potts gets to the core of why Newsday would happily put up a paywall that no one pays their way through. Hint: A local audience is an audience that local advertisers can sell to.
Quote: What Cablevision and Newsday don't want—just don't care about—is non-Long Island subscribers. Buh-bye. Take a hike. Adios. (Or pay $5 a week/$260 a year for access.) Those distant subscribers can't be monetized through local advertising, the reasoning goes, so why bother with them?
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- Daniel Bachhuber of Publish2 and CoPress linked this on January 24, 2010 at 7:54PM EST
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Daniel said:
It searches across the UK, US, New Zealand and Australian governments' data sites, and they also have a gallery of the 10 best visualizations and mash-ups built on top of the data.
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- Greg Linch of Publish2 linked this on January 12, 2010 at 1:01AM EST
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Greg said:
Dave Winer offers ideas for newspapers to not only improve their journalism, but also their bottom lines.
Quote: Understand your community and the needs of its economy, where money is flowing, and where it's being held back due to a lack of information, and pour resources into that area. You will find a way to draw money from the activity you're covering.
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- Ryan Sholin of Publish2 linked this on January 5, 2010 at 10:38AM EST
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Ryan said:
A sampling of published notes to readers about why their letters to the editor were rejected. Circa the early 19th Century.
Quote: The verses 'On the Tories' are well-meant, but their execution would puzzle a prosodist. The wildest dithyrambic is monotonous regularity compared to the extraordinary paces which they exhibit.
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- Ryan Sholin of Publish2 linked this on January 4, 2010 at 2:48PM EST
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Ryan said:
Nice new e-reader from Hearst shows off a bit of a bendability, but it's still not at the roll-up-in-back-pocket stage just yet.
Quote: Skiff includes 4GB of on-board storage (just over 3GB is available for content) with SD card expansion, and there's a 3.5mm headphone jack for tunes and, hopefully, text-to-speech. Content can be side-loaded over a mini USB jack or delivered via WiFi but, more importantly, 3G is also on offer thanks to Sprint, who will also dedicate some space in its retail stores to sell the thing when it launches sometime this year. Price? That we don't know.
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- Ryan Sholin of Publish2 linked this on December 18, 2009 at 4:08PM EST
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Ryan said:
Here's a great example of a brand curating Twitter mentions of their product and running the best in a print ad. How's that for inexpensive copy?
Quote: We don’t know whether or not Trident’s unconventional Twitter ad will influence USA Today’s readers to buy the new gum more so than a typical advert, but it’s definitely an interesting tactic. Using the opinions of online consumers to sell a product is nothing new, but doing so in the world of print, to a mainstream audience, is a little out there, even for the most Twitter-savvy brands.
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- Daniel Bachhuber of Publish2 and CoPress linked this on December 7, 2009 at 6:20PM EST
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Daniel said:
Astute observation: the younger journalists in a newsroom could have higher opportunity costs in regards to exploration and experimentation because the traditional method of getting ahead in a career is to "acquire the skills and emulate the behaviors displayed by the older leaders within that environment."
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- Ryan Sholin of Publish2 linked this on December 7, 2009 at 3:42PM EST
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Ryan said:
Daniel Victor wisely advises newspapers in medium-sized cities to keep their heads out of the sand and get ahead of the curve online before it gets ahead of them.
Quote: I don’t think it’s too late for a nimble news organization in a small- to mid-sized city to place itself at the center of that ecosystem. Don’t let the audience fragment itself away from you – become the platform where their niche exists.
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- Ryan Sholin of Publish2 linked this on November 2, 2009 at 8:27AM EST
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Ryan said:
Dan Gillmor pretty much nails how I feel about it: We don't need government bailouts for newspapers. What we do need is the government to protect free expression by protecting and increasing Internet access from those who would like to ration it out and cordon it off.
Quote: Government surely does have a role, no question. But it should be to create the fundamental communications infrastructure on which tomorrow’s journalism can thrive.
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