Great. Another thing that makes my new phone actually useful for work. Sheesh, thanks a lot GOOG.
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Google AdWords Help Center – Creating Your Ad
Sep 24, ’07
10:42 AM
Print advertisers can use a Google tool to design their own ads to run in papers with a goog-for-print deal.
Google Shared Stuff
Sep 20, ’07
10:57 AM
A new google service that appears to collect all the stuff you share via Facebook, Delicious, Digg, etc. in one place, provided you use the google bookmarklet to do it, I imagine.
Two Google News workarounds
Sep 20, ’07
8:09 AM
Rob comments at Lost Remote:
“I try to work around the Google News situation by posting almost all of our video content to YouTube. So far that’s one place where our content hasn’t been usurped by AP. We also are trying to blog breaking news – and sending automated updates to Technorati in the process – as well as Twitter breaking news as well.”
Paul Bradshaw tweets:
“Newspapers should stop moaning about Google and imitate it: link to others’ content and profit from the traffic. Is that so difficult?”
All I’m going to say about the Google/AP thing
Sep 4, ’07
9:52 AM
Google News now links to wire stories from the original source (AP, AFP, etc.), hosted by Google, in addition to the 5,137 versions of each wire story posted at individual news sites.
Three reasons why this is good for newspapers:
- Newspaper.coms no longer have to spend time, money, and resources on trying to build the best semantic, SEO-friendly code for their wire stories that are the least unique content on their sites. They should work on doing that for local news and information anyway, but stop worrying about how you host AP stories and what that does to your placement on Google News.
- The rewards that newspapers with higher PageRank and more incoming links get on Google News might slowly diminish as the Google-hosted wire stories draw more attention. Again, worry less about SEO and more about creating local content for local readers.
- The page view spikes from getting a wire story or an editorial on a national issue to show up on Google News are nearly worthless, anyway. A reader from Poughkeepsie who clicked on the AP story hosted by your newspaper.com in Jackson Hole isn’t coming back to find out how the rodeo turns out.
Does Google like advocacy ads, or not – Media Grunt: Michael Bazeley
Jul 2, ’07
10:01 AM
Mike has the institutional memory on this on to point out the possibilities: 1) Google’s policy has changed, 2) Google is making up the rules as it goes along, or 3) Google has a loose salesperson who doesn’t know the diff between ad and edit.
Does Google like advocacy ads, or not – Media Grunt: Michael Bazeley
Trading a bow and arrow for a laptop – Google LatLong
Jun 18, ’07
4:15 PM
“Chief Almir had travelled for many hours and thousands of miles to our Google headquarters in Mountain View, in order to propose an unusual partnership…”
Google: Limit image search to faces only – Lifehacker
Jun 17, ’07
12:30 AM
This is really useful for finding a mug in a hurry.
404 Blog Not Found: It thrusts to [otsumu] in regard to the newspaper, it should, already matter of clear 10
Jun 5, ’07
1:07 AM
10 Obvious Things, in Japanese, translated back to English by Google. Poetry.
The journalism program we’ve all been waiting for
May 24, ’07
8:27 PM
The Knight Foundation handed out some money today, notably to Henry Jenkins and company at MIT and Mr. Holovaty, who is getting plenty of press for his jump from WaPo to startup.
But just a little lower on the list, you’ll find the future in the form of a grant to the Medill J-School at Northwestern to, well, for lack of a better explanation, Make More Holovatys.
This is exactly what a number of folks, myself included, have been advocating for a while: Teach programmers journalism and/or teach journalists programming. With at least one of those steps built into this Master’s degree, things are looking up in Evanston.
If I were still spending any time at all on campus at San Jose State, I’d be bugging the J-School to talk to Google or Yahoo about throwing around the small amount of money necessary to fund a few graduate fellowships for programmers. The campus is already teeming with excited young coders — it shouldn’t be that hard to reel in three or four.