If the front page ain’t what it used to be, then how does a journalist get a story on those new front pages? First, accept that the reader is the now the front page editor. Then, make sure your editor knows when you’ve created a new piece of content, and why it is worthy of [...]
People use the internet to get only the news they are looking for and nothing else, which presents a challenge for big media companies that have traditionally sold news and advertising in bundled formats (newspapers and broadcast news programs, for example). But the internet did not kill bundled news, it just changed how those bundles [...]
Embedly is an incredible technology that converts links into embedded content. The screenshot above shows how Embedly’s Parrotfish plugin (for Safari, Chrome and Firefox) works with Twitter.com to convert a shortened URL into an actual excerpt from the content on that page. Storify and other so-called curation tools (see my What is curation storify) use [...]
While I was thinking out loud about how Paper.li might look if it ranked news based on how I interacted with them, Tac Anderson suggested a marriage between My6Sense and Paper.li. To that, My6Sense’s Louis Gray replied that his company’s benefit would be “to be the Web’s personalization broker.” Take a look at any Paper.li [...]
