Tag: linking-behavior
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Packaging national election headlines for local news sites with Publish2
Happy Election Day-After! I’m still up to my neck in post-election analytics, gathering stats and data from hundreds of news sites I work with to do a little postmortem on what worked, who learned some new tricks, and what the readers thought of it. One of the things we put together here at GateHouse for…
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A short manifesto on local linkblogging
Brittney Gilbert blogs for a TV station in the Bay Area. I’ve mentioned her before, and even though I’ve moved geographically far from her coverage area, I keep up with her tweets and various postings. Today she writes: I am not a journalist. While I disagree (the curator is a journalist and the journalist is…
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Watch out for secondary characters with more interesting stories than your protagonist
That’s good advice up there in the title of this post. I got it from a screenwriting teacher, and it’s been a running joke around our house for the last week based on a couple movies we’ve watched lately. And it’s also good advice for narrative journalists. But that’s not what this post is about.…
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Five things you might not know about me, but now I’ll tell you and ruin the opportunity to tell you these stories properly later
Okay. First things first, I don’t usually play the blog-tag game, and calling these things “memes” always makes me, Saussure, and Debord throw up a little in our mouths, as the saying goes. Does that count as the first thing? No? Fine. Here goes: I spent my 21st birthday in Central Booking in Manhattan. Lesson…
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Newspapers ready to start aggregating the competition
The New York Times reports that the Washington Post and other newspapers are linking up with Inform.com to display links to related stories from other news sources — not just from blogs, but from newspapers, too. Let the aggregation begin. From the NYT story: “This lets us be a search engine,” said Kelly Dyer Fry,…