Image by biverson via Flickr Yahoo software continuously tracks common words, phrases and topics that are popular among users across its vast online network. To help create content for the blog, called The Upshot, a team of people will analyze those patterns and pass along their findings to Yahoo’s news staff of two editors and …
News sourcing experiment to rely solely on Facebook, tweets. An actual news experiment with comparison between covering news with Facebook and Twitter, and covering news traditional ways.
The Plight of Print’s Lucky Ones – Magazines – Gawker. At least based on anecdotal evidence, it seems as if everyone has come to this realization at the same time. People also seem to realize that this isn’t just some transitional phase in which the wheat is being separated from the chaff, either; even the …
The Future of News, Viewed From Aspen’s Rarefied Atmosphere. Basically, this is the same conclusion that I have come to.
Sentiment Analysis Takes the Pulse of the Internet – NYTimes.com. Mining Internet content with algorithms that look at mood and feelings, as well as statements.
To be exact, while 18.2% of Linux is written by people who aren’t working for a company, and 7.6% is created by programmers who don’t give a company affiliation, everything else is written by someone who’s getting paid to create Linux. From top to bottom, of the companies that have contributed more than 1% of …
Reflections of a Newsosaur: Why aren’t we paying for news?.
But these acronym rich, highly complex legal conflicts might prove to be irrelevant. Beyond the moral and legal struggle between Internet pirates and traditional content producers, the battle over paid online content – both inside and outside Sweden – has already been lost. Consumers simply aren’t paying for Internet music, movies or newspapers. For better …
Image via Wikipedia P2P Not to Blame for Content Industry Failures Says EU. The report finds, in a surprising contradiction to what industry executives have been spouting for ages, consumers’ behavior has nothing to do with the peer-to-peer technology (P2P) that has given rise to all-you-can-eat systems for free downloads of copyrighted content. In fact, …
Selfishly, I see a problem here. Ballplayers forever seek excuses to avoid confrontations with nosy reporters. Personal Web sites have been a savior for jocks, who can convey news and notes in their own words on their own terms. When Tiger Woods has something important to announce, he’s not going to call his hometown daily. …