Publishing 2.0
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How to Fix RSS Redux
Five years ago, I wrote a post about How to Fix RSS (which was my first post to appear at the top of Techmeme). The technology and media landscape has dramatically changed since then, so I’ve updated the simple three-step program, with a...
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Publish2 Update: Network Growth and New Business Model
From the Publish2 Blog: Many people have reached out to us recently and asked, “How’s Publish2 doing? You guys have been very quiet for the last few months.” That’s because we’ve had our heads down rolling out t...
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Disrupting the Traditional News Syndication Model
Originally published on Nieman Journalism Lab Clay Shirky predicts that in 2011 traditional news syndication will see widespread disruption. I couldn’t agree more. But I don’t think the disruption will happen the way Clay describes it. C...
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The Content Graph and the Future of Brands
Yesterday, two stories from Aol’s DailyFinance appeared in the Sunday print edition of the Daily Telegram, a newspaper in southern Michigan. These stories appeared on a business page that would otherwise have been produced almost e...
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The New Associated Press for the 21st Century
This week, at TechCrunch Disrupt, we’re announcing the launch of Publish2 News Exchange, a platform aimed at disrupting the Associated Press monopoly over content distribution to newspapers. With Publish2 News Exchange, newspapers can re...
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High-End Brand Publishers Need to Sell Scalable Premium Ad Solutions, Not Commodity Ad Space
Newspaper online advertising has not benefited greatly from the recent upswing in online ad spending, according to the New York Times and most of the recent newspaper company quarterly results. This is no surprise because most newspaper ...
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Content Doesn’t Matter Without the Package
In response to the launch of Google’s Fast Flip, I observed that Google is correctly focused on creating a new user interface for news, when most media companies are not. A lot of people responded that Fast Flip is not an innovativ...
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What Google Understands About the Future of News and Publishing That Publishers Do Not
Google knows a lot about the future of news — more than many publishers. It’s evident in Google’s new product, Fast Flip, which allows news consumers to “flip” through news stories. What’s striking abo...
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The Great Seattle Advertising Experiment: What Will Happen to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Print Advertising Dollars?
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer today because the first major metro newspaper to stop publishing in print but keep the news brand alive on the web. Seattlepi.com’s Executive Editor Michelle Nicolosi promises bold experiments, “...
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Announcing Digital Sunlight: Publish2’s Platform for Collaborative Journalism
Today, with the signing of the largest government stimulus program in history, Publish2 is announcing a new initiative to help newsrooms faced with declining resources continue to play the watchdog role that is so vital in this time of c...
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Why local-news aggregation is useful information, not information overload
My post on the Washington state linking project focused on the awesome innovation involved and on the benefits of collaborative linking in general. But the project also shows why this kind of news aggregation is so useful for a local aud...
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Networked link journalism: A revolution quietly begins in Washington state
The discussion about journalism’s future so often focuses on Big Changes — Kill the print edition! Flips for everyone! Reinvent business models NOW! — that it’s easy to forget how simple innovation can be. Sometim...
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When A Newspaper Stops Publishing In Print, What Happens To The Print Advertising Dollars?
With all the debate over the future of newspapers, here’s a question I haven’t heard anybody ask (much less answer): If a metropolitan newspaper suddenly ceased to publish, leaving the city with no newspaper, what would happe...
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Breaking News Link Journalism: Blagojevich Arrest
So you’ve got a big breaking story right in your backyard, e.g. the governor gets arrested for trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the President Elect. Your newsroom is on the case, but the story is still developing. The...
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Why not writing a story is innovation
Discussions about journalism innovation usually focus on technology: Twitter, RSS, Flash, Django, data visualization, and all the other cool stuff that’s making online news so rich. But there’s an equally important conceptua...
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First Entry In The “I Am The Future Of Journalism” Contest: Daniel Bachhuber
The “I Am The Future Of Journalism Contest” has its first entry, and it’s awesome. Daniel Bachhuber is a journalism student at the University of Oregon, a photographer, web developer, member of CoPress, and a journalist...
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Announcing the “I Am The Future Of Journalism” Contest
Publish2 is launching a contest for journalists to promote themselves as the future of journalism. We believe journalism has a bright future, and we’re betting everything on that belief. The winner of the “I Am The Future Of ...
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Link Journalism Drives Page Views and Engagement
There’s an article page on GoVolXtra, Knoxnews.com’s sports vertical site for the Tennessee Vols, that accounted for 6% of ALL Knoxnews and GoVolXtra article page views for the last two weeks, and as much as 14% of all articl...
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Link Journalism Innovation: What We’re Reading at Reading Eagle
Reading Eagle has brought their journalists out from behind the curtain to share with readers what they are reading on the web — often beyond what can be found on Reading’s own site. Their new link journalism feature is calle...
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Guardian Launches Full RSS Feeds, First Media Company Not To Suppress RSS Adoption
On the eve of The Guardian’s launch of full text RSS feeds, Matt McAlister, Head of Guardian Developer Network, pinged me looking for examples of other mainstream media companies that have full text RSS feeds. Surely this many year...
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Mainstream News Organizations Entering the Web’s Link Economy Will Shift the Balance of Power and Wealth
The New York Times published an article this week about mainstream news organizations embracing link journalism and news aggregation. Gawker and others scoffed that they are late to the game, which they are, but that misses (predictably)...
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Nervous About Link Journalism? Ignore Web’s ‘Cesspool’ And Tap Its ‘Natural Spring’
There are several reasons why most mainstream news organizations have been slow to embrace link journalism. First, news orgs typically act as though other news orgs don’t exist (blame long-standing notions of “owning” the ne...
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Will Algorithms Make Human Editors Obselete? Not If Journalists Collaborate
Will algorithms replace human editors on the web? It’s a bogeyman question on one level, but ask any news site about the percentage of traffic they get from search engines — and what the trend looks like — and you’...
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The New AP
Matt Thompson and Jeff Jarvis have been doing some important thinking on how news coverage needs to change in the Internet Age. They argue that a flow of shallow, time-dependent stories no longer works as a foundation for helping readers...
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False Steve Jobs Heart Attack Report on CNN’s iReport Is a Failure of Open Systems
Someone posted a false report that Steve Jobs had heart attack to CNN’s citizen journalism site iReport. The fallout (which could include an SEC investigation) lead to the inevitable question of whether this is a failure of citizen...
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washingtonpost.com’s Political Browser Uses the News Judgment of Journalists to Filter the Political Web
washingtonpost.com has launched a new politics page called Political Browser, which features, wait for it… links to the most important and interesting political news around the web. That’s right, the Washington Post, one of t...
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How Newspapers Abdicated the Front Page’s Influence and How They Can Get it Back By Linking
The front page of the newspaper used to set the news agenda. Extra, Extra, read all about it! But that influence has steadily waned through the TV and Cable News era, and the web now threatens to obliterate it entirely. So who sets the n...
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Explaining the Financial Crisis: Continuously Updated News Aggregation in Action
Scott framed his previous challenge to news sites in general terms: like Drudge, any site could use continuously updated aggregation to become a “destination for links to news of what’s going in the world.” But this kin...
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Drudge Report: News Site That Sends Readers Away With Links Has Highest Engagement
There are two main reasons why news sites are reluctant to send readers away by linking to third-party content. First, you shouldn’t send people away or else they won’t come back to your site. Second, a page with links that s...
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Publish2: The Web’s Newswire
The web has become the vanguard of reinventing news distribution in the digital age. And while newspapers have often lagged in seizing new opportunities on the web, they have a golden opportunity to lead the charge in reinventing a found...
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Is News Coverage On The Web Becoming Like Consumer Packaged Goods?
The more I think about the issue of redundant news coverage on the web, the more I’m both perplexed and fascinated. Read the following on Facebook’s announcement of Facebook Connect — seriously, read it all: Can Faceboo...
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The Declining Value Of Redundant News Content On The Web
Microsoft withdrawing its offer to buy Yahoo is a sufficiently large story to demonstrate the problem of redundant news content on the web. Google News is currently tracking about 2,000 versions of this story. To get a better sense of wh...
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SPONSOR MESSAGE: Panel of Experts to Discuss Pros and Cons of Paid Subscription vs. Ad Sales as a Revenue Stream
Some publishers choose a paid subscription model, some choose an ad sales model, and some choose both as a revenue stream—a business decision with rippling implications for marketing and content strategies. During a panel session at Mark...
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Join The Web Content Conservation Movement
The other day Erick Schonfeld wrote a post about how he’s feeling even more overwhelmed by new web content steams like Twitter and FriendFeed, and how he’s desperately in need of a better filter. I certainly agree with Erick&...
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How Search Has Transformed News Consumption On The Web
We all know that news consumption is no longer passive, whether it’s reader comments on a blog post or news article, or individuals starting a blog to have a voice of their own — the evidence is everywhere. Less evident is ho...
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Local Link Journalism: Pulling Together The Threads Of Local Blogger Reporting
How can newsrooms do more online with fewer resources? By leveraging the reporting that bloggers in their communities have ALREADY published on the web. Using “local link journalism,” reporters can seek out and link to report...
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How Networked Link Journalism Can Give Journalists Collectively The Power Of Google And Digg
The link journalism meme seems to have legs, based on the number of smart people who picked it up. Now it’s time to kick it up a notch, with the concept of NETWORKED link journalism, which can give journalists, collectively, the po...
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Influentials On The Web Are People With The Power To Link
In the networked web era, influentials may not be people with a particularly connected temperament or Rolodex, or people who control and influence monopoly distribution channels (e.g. newspapers), but rather people who influence the netw...
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Simplicity Drives Technology Adoption
I was talking to a newsroom last week about adopting Publish2 as an editorial platform for creating news aggregation features for their website — there was a lot of excitement about sketching a big vision, thinking about all of the...
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The Only Way For Journalists To Understand The Web Is To Use It
Reading Colin Mulvany explain how he’s come to understand the dynamic nature of online content distribution through his own experience blogging, and Howard Owens advocating that this is why every journalist should start a blog, I r...
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Developing Algorithms To Prevent Citizen Journalism From Being Gamed: Lessons From Google and Digg
Is there are risk that citizen journalism can be gamed by “PR flacks and unqualified hacks” — Adam Weinstein in Mother Jones thinks so. Unfortunately, he casts the issue in terms of the risk that economically burdened ...
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Evolution Of Journalism: Blog Posts Complement Traditional Print Articles
I’ve argued that a blog is just a content management system, which can be used to publish journalism or just about anything else. But as a practical matter, the conventions of blogging — e.g. fast publishing, conversational t...
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NYTimes.Com Aggregates Third-Party Content, Marks Transformation of Media
NYTimes.com wasn’t the first traditional media brand to aggregate third-party content — and it certainly won’t be the last. But the New York Times, once considered the national newspaper of record, represented one of th...
