Year: 2011
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A comment thread, parsed as data and visualized to highlight trolls and their behavioral patterns
A comment thread, parsed as data and visualized to highlight trolls and their behavioral patterns: A close look at troll comments versus real ones.
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How to turn every reader’s mobile phone into a newsroom of one
On the occasion of the second stop on the Carnival of Journalism revival tour, we’re provided with a wide open question: Considering your unique circumstances what steps can be taken to increase the number of news sources? So without much further ado, we’re going to have a little “NOW IT CAN BE TOLD” moment here…
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I used to get very excited about flexible displays like this one, regarding the future of newspapers
I used to get very excited about flexible displays like this one, regarding the future of newspapers: A Warning to LCDs – Watch Your Back, AMOLEDs are Coming.
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The economics of letting your audience blog somewhere else
Spotted isolated bits of chatter over the weekend about this piece from Nate Silver, who used the available public data from Quantcast and elsewhere to make some assessments of the Huffington Post’s business model when it comes to unpaid contributors and their blogs. Here’s Nate’s thesis: “Although The Huffington Post does not pay those who…
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Solid notes on the evolution of the beat
Solid notes on the evolution of the beat: A set of slides from Matt Thompson on the shift from “Stories to Streams.” Included: A briefly imagined alternate history of how the Enron story might break in 2011. You should follow Matt on Twitter.
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Cahill, Drogba, Torres, Dempsey. Wait, Dempsey?
Remember when I told you to keep paying attention to U.S. soccer in between World Cups? Well, if you’re paying attention to the English Premier League right now, you might notice Clint Dempsey’s name popping up among some pretty prestigious strikers. You might remember Dempsey from the 2010 World Cup as the guy who put…
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How Al Jazeera tweets
The Twitter Media posse runs down how Al Jazeera — and specifically, the campaign to get Al Jazeera’s English offering to U.S. viewers — has been using Twitter during the current events in Egypt: I Want My AJZ. Notable: The use of promoted tweets to surface at the top of the #Egypt search.
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DocumentCloud in action
DocumentCloud in action: Five examples from 10,000 Words, including uses from the Las Vegas Sun and PBS NewsHour.
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Newspaper video lessons from The Miami Herald
Newspaper video lessons learned: How The Miami Herald cultivates loyal audience for video, its second biggest traffic driver. The short version: Breaking news, sports, weird local news, nothing your audience isn’t already reading about on your site or in your paper.