18 month ago
jimray : Say goodbye to the page view as an ad metric - "The Wall St. Journal is reporting that Nielsen NetRatings will drop the page view as a metric to measure web traffic and instead rely more on time spent on a site" My god, this is such good news. Seriously, this makes me freaking day.
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18 month ago
jimray : Newspapers Struggle to Respond to Web Challenge - Somewhat boring story about that crazy disruptive web thing using newspapers as an example
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jimray : Atlanta Journal-Constitution offering buyouts - Trimming staff by as much as 80, as well as circulation; focusing more on "digital news."
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21 month ago
jimray : Can Brightcove Solve Net Video for Pros, Big Media? - Or, why Brightcove and YouTube are two different beasts. Also, I had no idea that Jeremy Allaire was behind Brightcove.
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21 month ago
jimray : The BBC's Fifteen Web Principles - You could do worse than to ape these at YOUR media website thingie
plasticbag : Tom Loosemore lists 'The BBC's Fifteen Web Principles' - There's nothing here I disagree with, but I'm not sure it feels right somehow.
Cameron Moll : The BBC's Fifteen Web Principles - The BBC's Fifteen Web Principles. "5. Treat the entire web as a creative canvas: don't restrict your creativity to your own site." Via DO. [via]
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22 month ago
jimray : Culture Clash: Journalism and the Communal Ethos of the Blogosphere
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22 month ago
jimray : Shiny, shiny tools won't save you from trolls - How to think about "community" if you work in media. Read this then go ahead and read it again.
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22 month ago
jimray : Yahoo You Witness - Yahoo's UGC play. Clever name...
plasticbag : Yahoo! You Witness News is coming soon - I genuinely have no idea how this is going to manifest, but I'm certainly interested. Bubble-up news, citizen journalism and the like have had highly mixed success rates. Still, it's quite cool to see Yahoo leap into the fray...
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23 month ago
jimray : Teach blogging at UNC j-school - My alma mater, staying on top of the new media game
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23 month ago
jimray : Grading Newspapers' Website Progress: B-
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jimray : The IHT has a media blog - My God, they need a creative director over there, the whole freaking site has been consumed by ads. The content is matched pixel for pixel by ads and the whole thing just feels shoddily put together.
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