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The blog Silicon Alley Insider is a little miffed at the New York Times over attribution. |
Yahoo Mass Layoff Plan Confirmed, Exact Number TBD (Silicon Alley Insider): Silicon Alley Insider reported this story extensively before the NYT ran with it. I don't blame them for getting a bit snarky about how the NYT handled attribution: "Acknowledging that 'some blogs' reported potential major layoffs at Yahoo (YHOO) over the weekend, the NYT follows up two days later with its own version of the story -- which is almost the same."
I don't care what journalists are reading; I care what they're writing (Ryan Sholin): "I want to see trends develop on a large scale across the country (and yes, world) by tracking what stories journalists are working on. And then I want the people formerly known as the audience to have a space to vote for what they wish journalists were working on. Picture it as a mashup of Twitter and Digg, where reporters are constantly answering the question 'What are you working on?' in a broad way so as not to tip off their competition -- or editors."
Reuters partners with Adify for vertical ad networks (Brand Republic): I haven't been able to verify this yet, but it sounds interesting: "News service Reuters is to aggregate content from small- and medium-sized publishers on its site, and sell the ad space around it using vertical advertising created by Adify Corporation."
Technical skills in journalism jobs (Eric Ulken): "I took all the online job descriptions on JournalismJobs.com from this year, omitted the non-technical words (like 'editor,' 'seeks' and 'self-starter') and built a tagcloud out of the rest. Here's what it looks like..."
Debunking the coulda-shoulda-woulda myth of online news (Ryan Sholin): "Here's the deal: Putting the news behind a paywall as early as, say, AOL's heyday -- or earlier if you prefer -- would have actually served to accelerate the rise of blogs, citizen media, and flight away from news-on-paper."
CASCADES project: Cost-effective Outbreak Detection in Networks (Carnegie Mellon Univ.): "Using a problem-solving method called the Cascades algorithm, CMU professor Carlos Guestrin and his students compiled a list of the best 100 blogs to read to find the biggest news on the Web as early as possible."
Cleaning the racks: Wal-Mart purges 1000 magazines from its shelves (NY Post): "Yet another shock wave through the battered publishing industry. Wal-Mart is believed to be responsible for generating more than 20 percent of all retail magazine sales in the U.S. One magazine executive said it might actually help magazines that made the cut."
