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News Aggregators And The Link Economy

by Ben Taylor on August 16, 2009 · Comments in Editorial Tagged as: • • • •

Arnon Mishkin, partner with the  Mitchell Madison Group, a consultancy specializing in earnings improvement primarily through cost reduction and operational re-design, recently published an article, “The Fallacy Of The Link Economy” in which he discussed the changing nature of reporting and the level of value captured by links from aggregators back to producers of original [...]

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How Will Future Americans Learn About the Local?

by Ben Taylor on August 8, 2009 · Comments in Presentations, Videos Tagged as: • • • • • • • • •

From MIT Labs, and Center for Future Civic Media. Plenary: News, Nerds and Nabes”: How Will Future Americans Learn About the Local?

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On the Media Podcast: Copyright Flack

by Ben Taylor on July 31, 2009 · Comments in Podcasts Tagged as: • • • • • • • • • •

From NPR’s On The Media. For the full Copyright Flack transcript visit NPR.

With the AP’s new news DRM distribution system and the struggling newspaper industry, NPR and First Amendment lawyer David Marburger discusses the redistribution of the news and the U.S. Copyright Act.

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Web and Tech Links: 14 July 2009

by Ben Taylor on July 14, 2009 · Comments in Web and Tech Links Tagged as: • • • • • • • •

Ars Technica: European publishers want a law to control online news access. Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP).
Gartner: Consumer location-based services market will more than double in 2009. $2.2 billion in 2009!
O’Reilly Radar: Really fantastic article. Recovery mapping ARRA spending across the US.
New Scientist: When advertising meets surveillance.  Systems that can scan, estimate numbers, demographics.
Nieman Journalism [...]

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YouTube Reporters’ Center

by Ben Taylor on June 29, 2009 · Comments in Presentations, Videos Tagged as: • • • • • • •

You Tube launched the YouTube Reporters’ Center on Monday, June 28 as a hub for teaching citizen journalists to become better reporters by providing interviews and instructional videos with tips and advice for better news reporting.

For YouTube, it’s a great strategy. YouTube Reporters’ Center augments their growing news reporting programming presence on the web influenced [...]

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