Tag: google
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New “Standout” Tag Syntax to Reward Good Journalism in Google
Image via CrunchBase Google has announced a new piece of code that you can add to posts that you think should be featured. Every day, news organizations and journalists around the world dedicate significant time and resources toward some of the most critical types of coverage: exceptional original reporting, deep investigative work, scoops and exclusives, […]
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Chicago Way May Come to Have Enlighted Meaning
Image via Wikipedia At the OpenGov Chicago meetings, there is energy and excitement. Carlson, Tolva, and Goldstein have all attended. As a journalist teacher, I find encouragement to get involved with the data. And that’s what I’ll be doing this semester. there’s something new going on in the Windy City that’s worth sharing with the […]
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Drunk with Data, Economist at Google is on a Roll
Google also conducted 5,000 search experiments last year, which led to 400 search improvements (and the same again for ads experiments). Such insistent experimentation is an academic means to a capitalist end. Or, as Varian puts it: “Google is like a university, but with money.” It’s a cheering thought – and possibly why, in a […]
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Researching the Past with Counts
Mr. Cohen and Mr. Gibbs’s “Reframing the Victorians” study is one of 12 university projects to win a new digital humanities award created by Google that provides money along with access to the company’s powerful computers and databases. Some scholars are wary of the control an enterprise like Google can exert over digital information. Google’s […]
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‘Net pioneers: Open Internet should be separate – Steve Wozniak, Regulation, New York University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Internet service providers, internet, government, Google, free press, David Reed, David Isenberg, Clay Shirky, Chris Riley, Bruce Perens, broadband, Apple – Good Gear Guide
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should allow for an open Internet separate from specialised services that may prioritise IP traffic, a group of Internet and technology pioneers have recommended. via ‘Net pioneers: Open Internet should be separate – Steve Wozniak, Regulation, New York University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Internet service providers, internet, government, Google, free […]
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10 Reasons Why Google’s Newspass Might Fail | ReveNews
10 Reasons Why Google’s Newspass Might Fail | ReveNews Newspass is set to bolster digital revenues, but many newspapers are already experiencing digital revenues growth on their own. As The Wall Street Journal reports: Several newspaper publishers have reported solid growth in digital advertising revenue for the second quarter in recent days, helping offset continuing […]
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Newspass is set to bolster digital revenues, but many newspapers are already experiencing digital revenues growth on their own. As The Wall Street Journal reports:
Several newspaper publishers have reported solid growth in digital advertising revenue for the second quarter in recent days, helping offset continuing declines in print advertising. The New York Times, for instance, reported 21% growth in digital-ad revenue against a 6% drop in print advertising, keeping total advertising “roughly flat” with the year-earlier quarter. Digital now accounts for 26% of its total ad revenue, up from 22%.
10 Reasons Why Google’s Newspass Might Fail | ReveNews
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Net Neutrality update
Google/Verizon say that the Internet should function as an “open platform.” That means, to them, that “when a person accesses cyberspace, he or she should be able to connect with any other person that he or she wants to—and that other person should be able to receive his or her message,” they write. The ‘Net […]
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Digital News Aggregation Forces Journalistic Evolution – Advertising Age – Digital
Stealing a headline from AdAge, at least I’m not making money off the story on my blog by aggregating its headline and linking to it. That is what this story talks about. Politico is the site they focus on. Politico gets viewed often, but only makes money on some of the page views. Aggregators can […]
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Death of News, Dearth of News, Depth of News?
CNet put out this video. It starts out with a teaser about an Apple netbook but becomes a discussion about whether the end of news printed on paper will be harmful to democracy and the public sphere. It rehashes some of the continuing questions about news delivered electronically in a sort of amusing way. But […]