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Comment on Facebook, Dunblane and a 2 page apology from the Express - a lesson in online journalism ethics by David Williams

Sat, 4 Jul 2009 05:03:39 -0500

That really was a low act. Not only had those survivors gone through such an ordeal earlier in their life, but to then have their privacy breached by some snoopy journalist willing to do anything for a story! At least now with the power of feedback through the internet people can express their rage at things like this through blogs and facebook groups, etc.

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Sat, 4 Jul 2009 03:48:31 -0500

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Comment on BBC Free: Help us persuade the BBC to open their RSS feeds up by Blog Seminars and People- Some Great Ones Around | How to Blog | Make Money Blogger

Fri, 3 Jul 2009 23:30:30 -0500

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This is an open source-style project with the goal of bringing the benefits of a bottom-up, decentralized approach to sensing for security and environmental purposes.The intent of the project is to take advantage of advances in sensing to improve both security and the environment, while preserving even strengthening privacy, freedom, and civil liberties.We have a unique opportunity to steer today's emerging sensing/surveillance technologies in positive directions, before they become widespread.

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Yes. In May, Yahoo introduced their Placemaker "geo-enrichment" platform, which is a clever way to say that it analyses text and extracts places. It generates data that can then easily map places in your blog posts. Better yet, the service is currently free although Yahoo might provide a commercial service in the future. However, when it was announced, Gary Gale, Head of UK Engineering, Yahoo! Geo Technologies, said, "we want to ensure that the service remains free, open and available."

Parliamentary website TheyWorkForYou launches redesign

Fri, 3 Jul 2009 14:04:22 -0500

MySociety, the non-profit organisation led by Tom Steinberg, has redesigned their TheyWorkforYou.com website with data about UK Parliamentary politics.The site provides easily accessible records of the UK Parliamentary process, and now contains data going back to 1935.The immediate benefit for journalists is that the records going back this far are now far more accessible than [...]

Comment on Making money from journalism: new media business models (A model for the 21st century newsroom pt5) by Demise of the Business Model of "Free"? Are Freemium and Micropayment Revenue Models the Future?

Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:43:55 -0500

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This is a free software project to help people extract and read full-text web content. It can extract content from a standard HTML page and return a 1-item feed or it can transform an existing feed into a full-text feed. It is being developed as part of the Five Filters project to promote alternative, non-corporate media.

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Comment on BBC Free: Help us persuade the BBC to open their RSS feeds up by Keyvan

Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:03:38 -0500

Thanks Matt,I think it's an interesting discussion.I wrote the code as part of a bigger project to make lesser known sites and blogs more easily accessible. You seem to be arguing that the code will only harm publishers by taking control away from them. That might be one effect, but it can also benefit many other, less tech-savvy, publishers by allowing them to spread their content more widely and to produce newspaper-like PDFs to distribute for very little cost.>You say that the idea with the service was not to take control away,then many of the independent media sites I had in mind dont carry ads so I cant see why theyd objectThe point I was trying to make is the code does have benefits for many publishers and the reason I created the service was not simply to take control away - although it does have that effect too. The most common reason people give against full-text feeds is loss of advertising revenue (no one will click to visit the site and see the ads). As the service is targeted at publishers who refuse to carry advertising because of its negative effects, I don't see why the most common complaint against full-text feeds, and this type of service, would really bother them. Of course I could be wrong, but this is an ongoing project and when Ive developed it a little further I will be contacting the publishers/bloggers that I like to work with them on it.> Further, if they have decided to provide partial feeds - then the only logical conclusion is that they dont want to provide full feeds.That might be true of the big players such as the BBC (who knows, Tom's just pointed out that they do publish some full-text feeds so maybe they'll switch the rest too), but its not the only logical conclusion. Many smaller sites either dont have feeds at all or if they do have partial feeds its likely a feature of the CMS/blog package theyre using and not necessarily a deliberate decision to offer partial feeds (or any type of feed Im sure I can find bloggers/publishers who have no idea what feeds are or how they can be beneficial).Wordpress for a long time published partial feeds for users. Theyve now enabled full-text feeds by default. How many Wordpress users know what a feed is or whether their feed is partial or full-text? >I think the only way such a toolkit can be used ethically is on opt-in terms, where each author is asked first, or the T&C of the site are verified.If it were true that partial feeds exist only because publishers have decided not to offer full-text feeds, then I might understand your position. As I pointed out above, there are many other conclusions you can draw.> There are a few grey cases round the edge - publishing suppressed evidence, exposee etc.But full-text content is already copied to many different servers almost as soon as it appears - think of Googles cache and the many other crawling services. You dont opt in to those.> Whether anyone can do anything about it, I dont know...I dont know either. But I think it would be very hard to enforce. Say I desperately wanted full-text access to certain feeds. Id simply set up my own private instance of the code and thered be no way for a publisher to know what was going on thered be no public URL they could point to as proof. I dont think thats a reason to hide the code or put opt-in restrictions on it. I think there are many good uses for the code its a double edged sword.

Comment on A model for the 21st century newsroom: pt1 - the news diamond by Jane Ginn

Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:49:20 -0500

Have you seen that YouTube has now established a channel providing short 'How To' films on citizen journalism. A presentation of your diamond would be good for that channel. It appears that this emerged, in part, because of all the citizen journalism that took place during the Iranian election and protests (ongoing).

Comment on BBC Free: Help us persuade the BBC to open their RSS feeds up by Tom H

Fri, 3 Jul 2009 07:43:45 -0500

The BBC World Service already create full text RSS for their Persian and Tajik news sites: http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/full.xml http://www.bbc.co.uk/tajik/full.xml

Comment on Newspapers: turn off your RSS feeds by malcolmcoles

Fri, 3 Jul 2009 07:25:41 -0500

If you're subscribed to these comments, you can read my u-turn here (added to intro as well). I still think I've got a point that there's no point having an RSS logo on every page but not helping your readers understand what they can do with it. But anyway, I've run up the white flag: http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/newspapers-leave-rss-on/

EveryBlock's Release Invites Coding Lessons, Applications

Derek Willis, who works for the interactive news technology group at The New York Times, and who worked with Holovaty at The Washington Post, says this is the beauty of Holovaty's theory of programming. "One of his philosophies is to have things that are useful in and of themselves, not just tied to a particular program. The code to extract addresses from blocks of text isn't buried in a pile of code."Less than 24 hours after the code was released, someone has taken the code that pulls out the address information from text (like a newspaper story), created a little utility, and placed it on a Google application server.

Comment on More crowdsourcing from the Guardian and NYT - this time on Iran by Andbwell

Fri, 3 Jul 2009 04:27:24 -0500

People may be aware of American Public Radio's own crowdsourcing-like project already, but it is quite an interesting idea: http://bit.ly/3bQVxhAlso wondered whether the Guardian's map of internet censorship might make a good next crowdsourcing project: http://bit.ly/WGAOr). It seems somewhat incomplete.

Comment on BBC Free: Help us persuade the BBC to open their RSS feeds up by Matt Wardman

Fri, 3 Jul 2009 04:21:36 -0500

Thanks for the reply, Keyvan>Well, I dont think publishers have much control on the web - once its published its fairly trivial to extract the content ... no one can force us to put up with partial-text feeds.I think you've avoided the core of the question. I've asked about authors' legal and moral rights, and you've just said "they don't have much control, and it's easy to take their content".I know it's easy (though only for a minority), but that says nothing about respecting the rights of the publisher - unless you are taking a position that says "if it can be done, it must be OK".You say that "the idea with the service was not to take control away",then "many of the independent media sites I had in mind dont carry ads so I cant see why theyd object"Whether they have ads or not is immaterial if you are trying not to take control away. The essence of respecting that content providers have control is to ask them and abide by what they say. The minute you make the decision without reference to the author ("I don't see why they'd object"), and don't explicity ask them, taking control away is exactly what you've done - or you have helped others to do by providing an open source toolkit. Further, if they have decided to provide partial feeds - then the only logical conclusion is that they don't want to provide full feeds.I think the only way such a toolkit can be used ethically is on "opt-in" terms, where each author is asked first, or the T&C of the site are verified.There are a few grey cases round the edge - publishing suppressed evidence, exposee etc.Whether anyone can do anything about it, I don't know. My T&C, for example, include the stipulation that republication without explicit permission may be charged at $250. That is there in case the Daily Mail or other media ever copy content, but it would also cover recreating full feeds.

The Myth Of Original Creators | Techdirt

Friedman also points back to another recent post where he discusses the nature of content creation, based on a blog post by Rene Kita. In it, she points out that remixing and creating through collaboration and building on the works of others has always been the norm. It's what we do naturally. It's only in the last century or so, when we reached a means of recording, manufacturing and selling music -- which was limited to just those with the machinery and capital to do it, that copyright was suddenly brought out to "protect" such things.

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New York Times gets on board with crowdsourcing - Editors Weblog

Although the NYT has increasingly been using crowd-sourcing - for example asking artists to write about the effect the economy has had upon them - today, it went a little further.The NYT has published all 658 pages of the daily schedule of former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Timothy F. Geithner, from January 2007 to January 2009. Although NYT journalists have already read the documents, drawn conclusions and highlighted the most relevant points in relation to the progression of the financial crisis, the publication is asking its readers to contribute anything else they draw from the schedules.

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Unless your site is entertainment or the wikipedia, your visitors are not dropping by to kill time. People visit websites to solve problems: they want to learn something new, check a fact, purchase a product, or accomplish some other goal. Visitors do not come to hear your point of view for its own sake (usually), enjoy the brilliance of your branding, or learn about your mission (unless they're preparing for an interview or to donate to you). For example, you're at this post to learn a bit more about web writing, not to learn more about what a knowledgeable web guy I am (though I wouldn't mind coming off that way).

More crowdsourcing from the Guardian and NYT - this time on Iran

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:18:37 -0500

Iran election: faces of the dead and detained | World news | guardian.co.uk via kwoutThey’re at it again. Following the very domestic issue of MPs’ expenses, The Guardian’s latest experiment with crowdsourcing goes international: Iran.“We want to put a face to each of those hundreds - possibly thousands - killed or arrested since the Iranian [...]

BBC Free: Help us persuade the BBC to open their RSS feeds up

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:50:29 -0500

The internet blows my mind.Ryan Carson opened my eyes to the power of it a few months ago. We can sit down and create a blog or web application and have it instantly accessible to the world. That’s unique, and it’s exciting.We’re asking the BBC to join us in this creativity. Today, we’re launchingBBC Free [...]

Newspapers: turn off your RSS feeds

Wed, 1 Jul 2009 05:32:44 -0500

The latest subscriber figures (see table below, and first published in my blog's newspapers category) show that, apart from a couple of exceptions, it's time for newspapers to turn off their RSS feeds - and hand over the server space, technical support and webpage real estate to an alternative, such as their Twitter accounts.

St Petersburg Times: cautiously embracing the web, assiduously reporting Scientology

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:23:26 -0500

With its recent in-depth coverage of the Church of Scientology, Florida's St Petersburg Times demonstrates some interesting and sometimes imaginative ways of handling a contentious issue, both in print and online. OJB looks at where the Times got it right - and how it might do better in the future.

Daily express website relaunching

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:21:31 -0500

Express.co.uk is about to undergo a redesign. I broke the news here, and there's a good review of the new look (still currently in beta) at econsultancy.

Even heavy newspaper readers spend a quarter of their media time online

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:44:29 -0500

Some research from The Media Audit makes a pretty strong point about how quickly media consumers’ behaviour is changing:“The Internet now represents 32.5% of the typical “media day” for all U.S. adults when compared to daily exposure to newspaper, radio, TV and outdoor advertising.“Even those who are considered heavy newspaper readers spend about as much [...]

ABCe: please sort out your terrible website (again)

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:55:45 -0500

In March, I appealed to the Audit Bureau of Circulations to sort out its terrible ABCe website. It's had a redesign. Here's a list of its latest problems.

J-Tweeters: Are they journalists or tweeters? Does it matter?

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:17:35 -0500

I follow the BBC World, the Guardian and the New York Times through my Twitter account, among other news services, but I get more news and information from the friends I follow on the microblogging service. My friends just happen to read stories from a wide variety of sources and pass along the kind of [...]

Telegraph plans to expand MPs database site in build up to election (Q&A)

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:41:03 -0500

I asked Tim Rowell,Digital Publisher atTelegraph.co.uk 3 questions about how they dealt with the MPs expenses story online. The main headline is that the new domain hosting the expenses database - parliament.telegraph.co.uk -will expand in the run-up to the next election along with the MP expenses database itself.There are also curious “legal reasons” given [...]

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Comment on Facebook, Dunblane and a 2 page apology from the Express - a lesson in online journalism ethics by David Williams

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How to Automatically Generate Author Photos for WordPress Blog Entries | Big Square Blog

Average Twitter user has 126 followers, and only 20% of users go via website |Technology |guardian.co.uk

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How to: Putting your stories on a map |News |guardian.co.uk

Parliamentary website TheyWorkForYou launches redesign

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Comment on BBC Free: Help us persuade the BBC to open their RSS feeds up by Keyvan

Comment on A model for the 21st century newsroom: pt1 - the news diamond by Jane Ginn

Comment on BBC Free: Help us persuade the BBC to open their RSS feeds up by Tom H

Comment on Newspapers: turn off your RSS feeds by malcolmcoles

EveryBlock's Release Invites Coding Lessons, Applications

Comment on More crowdsourcing from the Guardian and NYT - this time on Iran by Andbwell

Comment on BBC Free: Help us persuade the BBC to open their RSS feeds up by Matt Wardman

The Myth Of Original Creators | Techdirt

robcurley.com Behind the launch of 702.tv

Transparency Corps

Borrell: Local Online Ad Market Will Be Bigger Than Expected This Year| paidContent

Online Mind Mapping - MindMeister

New York Times gets on board with crowdsourcing - Editors Weblog

modulus - blog - Web writing forCommunicators

More crowdsourcing from the Guardian and NYT - this time on Iran

BBC Free: Help us persuade the BBC to open their RSS feeds up

Newspapers: turn off your RSS feeds

St Petersburg Times: cautiously embracing the web, assiduously reporting Scientology

Daily express website relaunching

Even heavy newspaper readers spend a quarter of their media time online

ABCe: please sort out your terrible website (again)

J-Tweeters: Are they journalists or tweeters? Does it matter?

Telegraph plans to expand MPs database site in build up to election (Q&A)

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