On most social sites like Digg, users scramble to be the first to break a news story. Hence, you’ll see the same breaking news headline repeated many times. This gets more problematic when there are many duplicate stories. A more successful approach is to look for articles that highlight different elements and use the angle to your advantage.

Each of these different aspects contributes to the newsworthiness of the event, but as evidenced in the above screenshots, most of these slants are not highlighted. Hence, the same breaking news headline is repeated ? an ineffective tactic…

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The Future of Journalism conference at Harvard on June 20-21 yielded some interesting opinions

David and Goliath analogies predicting the shattering of the traditional press by the new media and citizen journalism has inched closer to fruition according to Bill Kirtzs Poynter.org column: Future of Journalism: New Media, New Money.? In…

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You're probably going to read this.
It's a short paragraph at the top of the page. It's surrounded by white space. It's in small type.

The really unforgivable sin of online journalism is explaining things through links. My rule: if the article doesn't make a point that I can decipher without clicking the blue text, then it's almost certainly not worth following through…

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Why is Google making more money everyday while newspapers are making less? Im going to pick on The Washington Post again only because its my local paper and this is a local example.

Here’s an idea for newspaper website homepages — just a search box and a list of blogs. Seriously. Instead of putting all the web-native content and publishing in the blog ghetto, like NYTimes.com does, why not make that…

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A through F grades for the top 25 major US newspapers based on: 1) strength of content, 2) ease of use and navigation, 3) use of new web technology including comments sections, message boards, and multimedia, 4) lay-out 5) presence of a strong set of current advertisers, and 6) the size of their audiences

The most important conclusion from this review of online newspaper sites is how uneven the quality is from property to property. Some of the smaller papers which probably have modest resources have done an extremely good job of engaging readers,…

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Does online marketing need an international code of conduct to protect the integrity of online information?

If producing highly successful linkbait requires nothing more than fabricating a salacious news story, then online marketing presents a serious danger to the integrity of online news. It is no secret that news outlets trawl the net looking for…

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Arguably the most powerful blogs in the online tech world, takes on Wired.com over criticism over the Techcrunch-Washington post partnership

Arrington not only writes about the companies in which he invests, he writes about his friends with which he does business. All I ever hear about is Scoble-this and Loic-that or whatever he finds “cool.” Let’s…

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How useful can communication limited to 140 characters be for serious journalism? It turns out that the short messages you find on Twitter have proven wildly useful for some writers penning larger pieces.

The questions we asked for our post titled “APIs and Developer Platforms: A Discussion of the Pros and Cons', for example, recieved answers via Twitter from people like Esther Schindler, senior online editor at CIO.com, Ray Valdes,…

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Interesting post on the time it takes to be involved in social media. Let's be honest here: we're all a bunch of social media addicts. We're junkies. Whether it's a new Twitter app, a new Facebook feature, or a new social anything service, we're all over it. But we may not be the norm. The truth is, being involved in social media takes time…

Really important point you and Nina Simon got there. I work in public service media in Denmark, and one of my goals for spending (a lot of) time on social media is to find a new model for public journalism. There is a lot of buzz about…

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If you hopped into a time machine that spat you out sometime between 1996 and now, you could almost pinpoint the year by the words used to describe an organizations Web traffic. Hits? That would be 1998 or so. Page views? 2003-2005. Unique visitors? 2006-2007. Odds are that 2008-2009 is going to be the year of time spent.?

That’s where George Ivie, executive director and CEO of the Media Ratings Council (MRC), comes in. The council is a not-for-profit trade association formed in the wake of the 1960 Harris Committee Hearings. The committee…

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A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested “clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers.”

There are certain to be cases where some blog, outside the control of the U.S. government, promotes a message that is antithetical to U.S. interests, or actively supports the informational, recruiting and logistical activities of our enemies. The…

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