@niemanlab archives: August 2011
9
Aug
In a wild day on Wall Street, Apple briefly became the most valuable company in the world http://nie.mn/qqh63O 
Back-end disasters: Before Bloomberg’s acquisition, BusinessWeek invested $20 million in a custom CMS http://nie.mn/oyQZme O_o
Could your biggest detractors be among your most loyal readers/viewers/listeners? http://nie.mn/paCeiq
New York City news startup @citylimitsorg wins a $100k grant to open a Brooklyn borough bureau http://nie.mn/pv1DG9
Tribune Co. is reportedly developing its own tablet device http://nie.mn/nEkvE9
RT @PaulLewis: The Guardian now has a dedicated address for people to upload video of #UKRiots: your.videos@guardian.co.uk
London police may arrest tweeting looters (or is it looting tweeters) http://nie.mn/ql3CMr
For the upcoming anniversary, @AP has released a reference guide specific to 9/11 http://nie.mn/rqzTPQ
The latest “Why’s this so good?” from @niemanstory: Barry Siegel and the weight of consequences http://nie.mn/qsoOQt
A year after TBD’s launch, @stevebuttry shares lessons learned (including: “Don’t waste time on bitterness”) http://nie.mn/rrhUci
RT @NYT_JenPreston: With more than 71,000 followers, @riotcleanup in London is helping get the job done after last night’s mess.
The Onion’s overseas paywall experiment excludes areas where American troops are deployed http://nie.mn/pma2YO
The Guardian has a map of all *verified* looting incidents in the U.K. http://nie.mn/nPsxVw
Partly cloudy: A chunk of the Internet went down last night, again http://nie.mn/qmsf87
The Onion (no joke!) is erecting a paywall — but the A.V. Club’s not affected http://nie.mn/pma2YO
8
Aug
RT @jayrosen_nyu: In this 45-min Q&A I give a full explanation of how the “gods of production” have shaped pro journalism. http://jr.ly/bchg
Reasons the web is awesome, part 165,742: It gave rise to the following job opening http://nie.mn/opmr6s
Tina Fey + Eric Schmidt + awkward + awesome http://nie.mn/r30sz3
What happens when an area’s major news sources all have paywalls? http://nie.mn/qP2hJK
Watermarks: a new way to connect the printed page and the web (via @cyberjournalist) http://nie.mn/pVym5y
A case against phone calls http://nie.mn/nfc2Ti
What would Tom Selleck do? A paywall showdown in Hawaii http://nie.mn/qP2hJK
“The new classroom should teach the huge array of complex skills that come under the heading of digital literacy.” http://nie.mn/oE3W13
Storify teams up with BreakingNews.com http://nie.mn/pXbzb4
[Posting again, post-server-hiccup!] Meet beta620, @NYTimes’ new community site http://nie.mn/psFPqz
What can crowdsourcing look like in real-time? The Guardian’s @paullewis gives hints as he covers the #londonriots
The Guardian updates its editorial code with a new emphasis on, yep, privacy (via @nytjim) http://nie.mn/qZtBzY
Good morning! BBM seems to be the “social network of choice” for London’s weekend riots http://nie.mn/qzeKop
This Week in Review: Twitter and rumors, Newsbeat and authors, AOL and tablets http://nie.mn/pFOH8q
7
Aug
Google News: Now with human editing! http://nie.mn/r9Lu0O
The latest on The Slatest: @Slate’s aggregation blog shows big traffic gains since its April relaunch http://nie.mn/nf1gkM
“Counting unique visitors—increasingly—is like counting air.” @kdcotor has a better metric: http://nie.mn/nfxfm6
In a deal with @OCReggie, @CaliforniaWatch opens its Southern California bureau http://nie.mn/qCC3Ru
What journalism can learn from the open source movement http://nie.mn/nwX2Bq
The Boston Globe builds a Twitter-based “Information Radiator” in its newsroom http://nie.mn/qzk08o
iReport at 5: An early UGC experiment is now a prominent feature of CNN http://nie.mn/nUBPJd
How TPM increased its ad sales revenue (88 percent!) http://nie.mn/nVejyh
With its new iPad app, The Atlantic unifies its brand http://nie.mn/qWit1s
Newsbeat: revolution-in-a-box http://nie.mn/qKueSh
What would happen if we started thinking of “the news” as an event rather than a product? http://nie.mn/nuSDco
5
Aug
Week in Review: Getting it right on Twitter, Chartbeat’s new tool and phone hacking in the US?http://nie.mn/pFOH8q
The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism is beginning a search for a new dean http://nie.mn/qbRK8W
Happy birthday world wide web! A slideshow tribute, courtesy of Slate http://nie.mn/pXwjlu
The NYTimes editorial page hacked! Inner secrets revealed! http://nie.mn/pUXhYa
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