@niemanlab archives: July 2011
5
Jul
RT @gregory: Imagine if General Electric had renamed NBC as “GE Entertainment” after acquiring it in 1986 http://nie.mn/kHK3zP 
Facebook has blocked a Chrome extension that would allow users to export friend data for use in Google+ http://nie.mn/lQVdDL
Why newspapers can’t stop the presses http://nie.mn/mhGEeR
DocumentCloud won another big chunk of #NewsChallenge funding to add reader annotations http://nie.mn/k8BKpR
Noodls (“Gateway to Facts”) is sort of like Google News for press releases http://nie.mn/knayu0
Condé Nast’s Scott Dadich on reinventing mags for the iPad and why partnering with Apple matters http://nie.mn/kpUQ4u
iPads now generate 1% of the world’s web traffic http://nie.mn/k4VVBE
Building a business from good writing: our exit interview with The Awl’s @davidcho http://nie.mn/lXS89h
Scientific American has launched its long-awaited blog network (40+ science blogs!) http://nie.mn/jH7o1R
Good morning! Google’s real-time search results are suspended as its deal with Twitter expires http://nie.mn/m0p68p
3
Jul
Solving data overload with design: News Challenge winner iWitness aggregates media by time and place http://nie.mn/koL5zG
The revolution will be translated: Global Voices’ citizen-powered site experiments with English-second http://nie.mn/m9ILDk
ProPublica’s newest news app uses education data to get more social http://nie.mn/jA6Yv3
A year after its big redesign, how Google News is thinking about the best ways to present news stories http://nie.mn/imIesk
With #NewsChallenge funding, The Tiziano Project will expand training and tools for community journalism http://nie.mn/kKWgod
FrontlineSMS, a #NewsChallenge winner, connects people in places where the web is out of reach http://nie.mn/iBNmi2
The newsonomics of the British invasion http://nie.mn/m90Mou
Curiosity made collaborative: Apture’s “Hotspots” feature brings crowdsourcing to link generation http://nie.mn/jgmgKz
In Canada and New Zealand, news agencies in flux illustrate the pressures on the co-op model http://nie.mn/kkTkFA
Orlando’s WESH-TV finds success with top-selling Casey Anthony app http://nie.mn/j4tlo1
2
Jul
Ben Parr, romantic swing dancer: Google now highlights individual authors in its search returns http://nie.mn/lMaouY
Chesapeake Energy fights bad PR by buying Promoted Tweets on Twitter http://nie.mn/kp3fmy
Knight #NewsChallenge winner Spending Stories wants to bring context to fiscal information http://nie.mn/kffdMg
Google plans for “the second phase of the display ad revolution” with a focus on smartphones and tablets http://nie.mn/lfozwP
Think Wikipedia + Klout for government: Poderopedia is an index of Chile’s most powerful http://nie.mn/lEsRSM
Twitter for Newsrooms as a relationship-building guide http://nie.mn/muTgy9
Deeper into data: U.K.-based ScraperWiki plans new tools and U.S. expansion with #NewsChallenge http://nie.mn/ijQGhk
More Awesome: #NewsChallenge grantee Awesome Foundation wants to fund journalism at the micro level http://nie.mn/kevxkj
1
Jul
From Issue 3 of @NiemanReports, 1947: How a Salt Lake City reporter used carrier pigeons to get a scoop http://nie.mn/iHQL98
Citizen science and open-source hardware are a glimpse into “networked accountability” http://nie.mn/kEfhBZ
Nielsen: For the first time, most cellphone purchases are smartphones http://nie.mn/kLRwJy
Yes, this is real: http://nie.mn/kHv4Ny
Solving data overload with design: Adaptive Path’s Jesse James Garrett wins #NewsChallenge grant for iWitness http://nie.mn/lJvpk2
Zynga filed for an IPO to raise $1 billion; surely someone can come up with a Farmville for news? http://nie.mn/lfwqgl
The revolution will be translated: Global Voices’ citizen-powered site experiments with English-second http://nie.mn/kRDm6F
No tears: Glenn Beck says “Good-bye, America,” and @brianstelter live-blogged it http://nie.mn/kcT6QP
Good morning! The Times of London says digital-only subs topped 100k, roughly a fifth of its print circulation http://nie.mn/iSC0Qc
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