• Mozilla Drumbeat | Beyond Comment Threads

  “How can we reinvent online news discussions?

  One of the best things about the web is that it enables many voices to be heard. Blogs, comment threads, forums, and social networks empower people to take part in new kinds of discussion, dialogue, and debate.

  The best discussions around the web can be pretty isolated. Take comments, tweets, and other fragments out of their original context, and they can become meaningless. And take a look below the fold—in comment threads at news outlets, political blogs, YouTube, and elsewhere, you’ll often find that the loudest voices drown out everyone else.”

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• ASNE guidelines help editors form social media policies | Poynter.

  “The American Society of News Editors says it reviewed the social media rules of leading mainstream news organizations and identified “the best-practice themes at the heart of the best policies.””

  tags: socialmedia guidelines asne media reference

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• Infographic: The Hard Knock Life of an Internet Troll (Social Studies Blog)

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• “Detroit Free Press maps 13-day, 7-state project on Intersect” by Mónica Guzmán Preston: A Story on Intersect

  “The Detroit Free Press is telling a fishy detective story with Intersect.

  “It seemed perfect,” said Director of Digital Audience Development Stefanie Murray, who suggested that a Free Press reporting team use Intersect to chart their 13-day, seven-state effort to investigate the menacing northward invasion of Asian carp.

  “One of the reasons we like Intersect is because it combines geolocation with live blogging and visuals,” Murray said. “Being able to put content against a map, and against a timeline, gives the news consumer more options.””

  tags: maps intersect innovation storytelling multimedia

• Navigating News Online | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ)

  To shed more light on Web news behavior, the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has conducted an in-depth study of detailed audience statistics from the Nielsen Company. The study examines the top 25 news websites in popularity in the United States, delving deeply into four main areas of audience behavior: how users get to the top news sites; how long they stay during each visit; how deep they go into a site; and where they go when they leave.

  Overall, the findings suggest that there is not one group of news consumers online but several, each of which behaves differently. These differences call for news organizations to develop separate strategies to serve and make money from each audience.

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• One Reporter’s Notebook, Reporting from analytics: Example

  “I’ve written before on writing from analytics, but what happened today was just such a good example, I think it’s worth sharing. Briefly: checking out my site analytics, and taking clues from them led me to an unreported homicide.

  Here’s the step-by-step.”

  tags: analytics reporting onlinenews

• 5 big problems with ‘Navigating News Online’ study « The Buttry Diary

  “You might find some valid research in the Navigating News Online study published Monday by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a project of the Pew Foundation.

  But the study needed lots of context that an organization committed to excellence in journalism should provide.”

  tags: onlinenews

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• University of Alabama’s Crimson White Providing Comprehensive Coverage of Tornado’s Aftermath « College Media Matters

  “Kudos to The Crimson White, the University of Alabama’s daily student newspaper, for its comprehensive, real-time coverage of the tornado that tore through UA’s hometown Tuscaloosa two days ago and the death, destruction, and emotional devastation being grappled with in its aftermath.”

  tags: breakingnews onlinejournalism alabama multimedia socialmedia

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• Kindle Publishing for Blogs

  “Kindle Blogs are auto-delivered wirelessly to the Kindle and updated throughout the day. They are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so they can be read even when you’re not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle contain full text content and most images.”

  tags: publishing blogs kindle

• Crowdynews

  “Automatically collected tweets related to online newspaper articles. The Twitter feeds that most people are acquainted with are static, labor intensive, and unsorted. They are based on manually entered keywords and simple Twitter search is carried out without relevance ranking. With Crowdynews, the shortcomings of such typical solutions now belong to the past.”

  tags: crowdynews socialmedia twitter aggregation

• Wired for Change – Remix – A Remix Video Contest

  “Kansas State’s Digital Ethnography Project & the Berkman Center for Internet & Society invites you to create a short remix video with material from the Wired for Change event that shows what you think about digital culture & Internet rights. Enter your video & get a chance to win a free trip to next year’s conference!”

  tags: remix contest video

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• Horizontalism and Readability « Thinking for a Living

  An argument for horizontal web page design, in an interesting format.

  tags: horizontalism readability inspiration webdesign

• Mozilla Drumbeat | Unlocking Video

  “How can new web video tools transform news storytelling? “

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• 7 things not to do when launching a new blog – Blogvibe

  “The number of blogs launched every day is staggering, and the number of blogs that die out shortly after is most likely just as high (read our The Graveyard of dead design blogs for a sample). There are countless lists out there on what to do when your new blog is up and running, from submitting to search engines, to setting up social media accounts, to optimizing you site — lots of things to do. And that’s on top of actually writing useful content. But many fall into a trap of pushing it a bit too far, and we’ve gathered a few tips on what not to do when you launch that new blog of yours.”

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• Flock Browser shutting down

  It’s been a while since I used Flock, but it was a good browser while it lasted.

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• Times Company Profit Falls on Weak Ad Revenue – NYTimes.com

  ” For the first time, the Times Company provided information on how digital subscriptions were faring. The company said that since it started limiting the number of articles readers could read on NYTimes.com for free, it has signed up more than 100,000 subscribers. While it said the program was still too young to judge a success, “early indicators are encouraging.” Subscriptions start at $15 every four weeks, but many subscribers have so far paid discounted introductory rates. “

  tags: nytimes paywall businessmodelsforjournalism

• Why our small-town daily is adding a full-time curator | NewspaperTurnaround.Com

  A very smart publisher explains a new position.

  tags: socialmedia curation futureofjournalism jobs

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Gabfire, known for making some nice WordPress themes is offering a new theme for free.  The new theme is built on HTML5 and has lots of potential for a newspaper site.  A lot of nice built in features like an advertising module (with category ads), media gallery template and a custom media module which allows “you to display a FLV video hosted on your server or to embed a flash video to your posts.”

I haven’t tested this out myself but since the theme is free, you aren’t out anything for downloading it.  Plus, WordPress makes it very easy to switch between different themes, not to mention some really cool features which allow you to install plugins with out knowing a thing about FTP!  Anyway, you can check it out at GabFire’s website here: http://www.gabfirethemes.com/snapwire/

Gabfire theme being offered for free

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• Facebook Seeking Friends In Beltway – WSJ.com

  “”Maybe we will block content in some countries, but not others,” Adam Conner, a Facebook lobbyist, told the Journal. “We are occasionally held in uncomfortable positions because now we’re allowing too much, maybe, free speech in countries that haven’t experienced it before,” he said. ” – Way to go, Facebook / sarcasm

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