@niemanlab archives: May 2009
27
May
Good morning! Eye-tracking study finds readers prefer one-column layouts over three http://tr.im/mxRy PDF: http://tr.im/mxRA 
26
May
Tucker Carlson is prepping what he calls a conservative version of The Huffington Post http://tr.im/mtIc
New at the Lab: Is news content gasoline, or is it bottled water? http://tr.im/mttH
RT @NYT_JenPreston: Hi, I’m the NYT’s new social media editor. More details later. How should @nytimes be using Twitter?
Trend: magazines charging for service-oriented applications and keeping content free http://tr.im/ms0n (via @smartbrief)
Here’s the internal memo on appointment of Jennifer Preston as NYT’s first social media editor http://tr.im/mrBB
Gawker notes that NYT’s new social media editor @NYT_JenPreston has protected her updates on Twitter http://tr.im/mrhW
TVGuide.com is altering its iconic logo tomorrow to promote a new show on A&E http://tr.im/mrf2
Bio: http://tr.im/mr27 RT @jonathanlandman: The New York Times is appointing a Social Media Editor. She’s Jennifer Preston. Details later.
Spanish woman, 97, who called herself the world’s oldest blogger, died on Thursday http://tr.im/mpPh
Mapping a city’s emotions with biometric devices and GPS http://tr.im/mqur
Google exec takes a defensive posture on YouTube’s user-generated content: “That’s not just who we are” http://tr.im/mq2C
@artoos @TimHo Here’s the full study by the China Internet Network Information Center (large PDF) http://bit.ly/18ROxJ
New at the Lab: The Washington Post’s Dan Froomkin says the web “abhors the absence of voice” http://tr.im/mpZ1
Good morning! More than half of Chinese Internet users have blogs (54% of 298 million), compared to 11% in the U.S. http://tr.im/mpRu
25
May
This week’s New Yorker cover was drawn on an iPhone. See it come together: http://tr.im/mltB
24
May
World’s oldest camera http://tr.im/mgUs Cell phones, 1983-2009 http://tr.im/mgUx Innovative newsrooms http://tr.im/m6jR
23
May
Newspaper Fail http://tr.im/mcSp
22
May
Enjoy the long weekend, everyone! Here are our 40 most-recent links, ranked by your clicks http://nieman.40twits.com
Since Wikipedia links so well, it’s possible to map communities of articles. Scroll down for chart http://tr.im/m7Tn (via @wikisignpost)
Depressing chart on newspaper classifieds would, on the bright side, make an excellent roller coaster http://tr.im/m7xD
The first entry in @sunlightlabs‘ Apps for America contest (using Data.gov) is FBI Fugitive Concentration http://tr.im/m70E
“15 ways to rework your next blog post title,” one of which is making it a list, natch http://tr.im/m6Zh
By the time you finish reading this tweet, an hour of video will have been uploaded to YouTube http://tr.im/m6VO
@palafo @BenLaMothe Well, but monthly uniques is probably pretty accurate because API users also visit the site, no?
New videos at the Lab: Inside five newsrooms H. L. Mencken wouldn’t recognize (TPM, Gawker, more) http://tr.im/m6jR
Two new tools by Yahoo and Google make geotagging content much easier http://tr.im/m61J
Good morning! Twitter’s API traffic (e.g., on clients like TweetDeck) is twice as large as its web traffic http://tr.im/m5Rn
21
May
Convergence: NYT’s trailblazing Circuits section (b. 1998) changes name to Personal Tech to match website http://tr.im/m2Da
Hearst executive calls Yahoo’s newspaper advertising group “our largest strategic partner” http://tr.im/m2u3
Section front in today’s NY Times features an exploding pie. How it was done: http://tr.im/m2mm (via @drewvigal)
Prompted by @felixsalmon, here’s a hand-cranked RSS feed for media blogger Jeff Bercovici, who’s starting new gig soon http://tr.im/m1K9
Stephen Colbert defends newspapers: “When you’re moving, you can’t wrap your dishes in a blog” http://tr.im/m0XF
David Eggers says if you’re ever despairing about the future of print, email him, and he’ll cheer you up. Seriously http://tr.im/m1jk
Nine of these ten best online ads are microsites or viral videos. That is, they didn’t use publishers http://tr.im/m1cw
Seen any good video tours of newsrooms? (Broadly defined. Bad tours OK, too.) Want to add some to a post tomorrow.
RT @mexicoreporter: Twittering from a survival course for journos in Mexico today (via @LATimesNystrom)
Paste, the music magazine that asked readers for donations last week, has already raised $166,000 http://tr.im/lZrh
1998: “Nando also recently requested that certain sites pay a $100 monthly fee for the right to link to Nando stories” http://tr.im/lZlD
Trending topic among journos: Adam Lambert, runner-up on “Idol.” But not the winner. Why? “Comfort the afflicted…” http://tr.im/lZzB
New at the Lab: Muck Rack, which aggregates tweets by journalists, just got much more useful http://tr.im/lZzB
Know your AJAX from your schema? Very useful glossary of web-design jargon http://tr.im/lZkW
The long tail: distribution of YouTube videos by number of views http://tr.im/lVDw
“We’re trying to avoid crossing the line.” Watch Google’s Eric Schmidt comment on (not) buying a newspaper http://tr.im/lZ3B
New at the Lab: The golden age of computer-assisted reporting is at hand, @mathewi says http://tr.im/lYJS
You must read this if you care about web design: How @A_L remade the Talking Points Memo homepage http://tr.im/lWX7
Good morning! TV, web, & mobile video are all way up. Or as @pkafka says, “Americans can’t find a screen they won’t watch” http://tr.im/lYJz
20
May
Google considered purchasing a newspaper or funding non-profit news but rejected both ideas, CEO Eric Schmidt tells the FT http://tr.im/lVKD
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