@niemanlab archives: April 2009
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Apr
Anonymous blog post called Myrtle Beach ad exec a “failed lawyer.” He sued, unmasked the blogger, won $1.8M http://tr.im/iOlm 
@jenny8lee “How Stories Live & Die in Viral Culture” http://tr.im/iOid It’s analytical. Starts with flashmob, goes from there. Out in June.
@jenny8lee I’m reading galleys of Bill Wasik’s “And Then There’s This,” which is good so far, and @TimHwang‘s doing meme research.
“Newspapers Check Out at Marriott” http://tr.im/iOac Hotels account for 57% of USA Today’s circulation http://tr.im/iOai
New video at the Lab: WSJ’s @alansmurray tells us what he looks for in hiring & managing online reporters http://tr.im/iNJV
4chan, possibly responsible for #amazonfail, also manipulated Time magazine’s poll to spell a message http://tr.im/iNEn (via @waxpancake)
NYT.com article pages should give users more relevant content and a place to go, @jonathanmendez says http://tr.im/iNCi (via @mathewi)
Posting a news alert required technical expertise, so The Daily Sentinel reworked the system using Twitter http://tr.im/iNww
New video at the Lab: @lisawilliams says the difference bt newspapers and placeblogs isn’t scale. It’s tone http://tr.im/iNfY
Cal Poly’s Mustang Daily just launched a great-looking site with @copress, and this post exposes the back end http://tr.im/iNfa
A blogger accused of libel is dead, so the accuser is suing Google instead. A fascinating legal twist http://tr.im/iNed
Looking back to 1918, @jackshafer argues that “a little newspaper death is a good thing” http://tr.im/iN9x
Good morning! Edible advertising may be coming to your newspaper’s front page http://tr.im/iN98
13
Apr
In LA Times advertising debacle, Bill Mitchell sees a “failure of imagination” among newspaper sales execs http://tr.im/iKmN
Aquarium? Barbecue? Play pen? @10000Words came up with six creative uses for old newspaper boxes http://tr.im/iJL8
The promising, new Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State has two more job openings http://tr.im/iJBV
As federal judge considers allowing webcast of RIAA case, here’s a history of the rules on cameras in court http://tr.im/iJAG
Bloggers who are paid to promote or review products (it happens a lot!) may face new restrictions from FCC http://tr.im/iJvK
@joeybaker I share your skepticism and just commented to that effect http://tr.im/iJfG I calculate 14% but really think it’s more than half.
At the Lab, @MartinLangeveld argues that only 3% of newspaper reading is done online http://tr.im/iJdw Several of us disagree
Top “gobbledygook words & phrases” used in press releases: 1) innovate 3) unique 10) 120 percent 16) robust http://tr.im/iII9
Marriott was first major hotel chain to offer free USA Today. Starting July 1, you’ll have to ask for it http://tr.im/iILD
New post at the Lab: Podcaster/radio host Jesse Thorn (@youngamerican) as a model for going solo online http://tr.im/iIIH
“Wide-ranging editorial reorganization is afoot” at Washington Post as print and online newsrooms merge http://tr.im/iIGJ
How the Inky’s @ckrewson uses Facebook for reporting: “Lurk. Listen. Pipe up. Observe” http://tr.im/iIDq
If someone created an RSS feed for @romenesko‘s left rail, I would be forever in your debt. I’ve tried; it’s complicated.
@pilhofer‘s side-splitting site collates what Twitter thinks will “save journalism.” Currently trending: “the statusphere” http://tr.im/iIAW
Politico’s John Harris: “We make no apologies for trying to present news in a way that will grab readers by the lapels” http://tr.im/iIhN
Good morning! A stat to keep in mind: Yahoo News is three-times bigger than Google News http://tr.im/iIfN (via @yelvington)
12
Apr
OK, here’s Amazon’s explanation: http://tr.im/iHaI Among many problems with it is the first word: “We recently discovered a glitch…”
One sign this is HUGE: our link to post about #amazonfail has been clicked 1,838 times (!!) and counting http://tr.im/iGb7
Total failure: Amazon tells @PublishersWkly that #amazonfail is “glitch.” PW site fails. Amazon has nothing on its own site.
@craigspoplife contacted news orgs in Feb. when Amazon de-ranked his book, but no one bit http://tr.im/iGpp #amazonfail #mediafail
Benton County Daily Record’s banner headline today: “Crouching rabbit, hidden egg.” That and other A1 antics here http://tr.im/iGjV
If you’re a reporter covering #amazonfail but Amazon won’t comment or confirm, you’re stuck, right? Meanwhile, on Twitter: http://tr.im/iGie
Typographers, it’s the ultimate battle: Helvetica vs. Arial (the game) http://tr.im/iGcP
Happening now (without any news coverage): “#Amazonfail and the politics of anti-corporate cyber-activism” http://tr.im/iGb7
@palafo Here’s the full text of WSJ’s report on bigger-screen Kindle (shhh, via email-this function) http://tr.im/iG0O
He said, she said journalism is risk-reducing, but will it die as risk sets it, anyway? @jayrosen_nyu‘s latest http://tr.im/iFSy
At the Lab, @mathewi writes that Nick Carr is wrong about Google. In the comments, Nick Carr disagrees http://tr.im/iFQ5
11
Apr
@derekwillis An important question. Several people suggested comparing @nytimes to @ColonelTribune to see if personal accounts do better.
Thanks for all your input re @nytimes feed. Clearly a longer post to be written here. Just collecting thoughts and data. More welcome.
Second half of this probably very common RT @CaseyHens: I use the NYT skimmer to read the stories but use twits to keep an eye on headlines
In defense of NYT’s Twitter strategy, they have plenty of personal accounts. Yet 560,000 people want the RSS feed that @nytimes offers.
Clickthrough rate for links on @nytimes Twitter feed is surprisingly low 0.57% http://tr.im/iDmJ Thoughts?
Nick Carr’s excellent take on Google News reminds us: “The middleman acts in the middleman’s interest” http://tr.im/iDeU
Joe Lertola, longtime infographics artist at Time, talks about some of his most spectacular maps http://tr.im/iDdM
@akwhitacre Yeah, I wonder. Hard to blame YouTube for being stingy. There’s not much money in online video to go around yet.
You might say he got Rickroll’d: “Never Gonna Give You Up” songwriter has made $16 from YouTube royalties http://tr.im/iD9p
Biggest challenge facing the AP is member defections. Offering anti-piracy service is attempt to stem that. Rest is smoke.
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