links for 2007-06-29

• Relaunched Liverpool Trinity Mirror sites: a thumbs-up « Online Journalism Blog
  Paul Bradshaw: “the redesign is a massive improvement and much more pleasurable to browse. Aesthetically it beats competitors such as the Lancashire Evening Post and Hull Daily Mail hands-down”
  (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites regional trinitymirror cuttings)
• News | Trinity Mirror relaunches sites with more interactive content – NMA
  “Trinity Mirror is relaunching all of its local newspaper websites, as it looks to improve the interactivity of its regional sites and enhance the user’s personal experience. “
  (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites regional trinitymirror cuttings)
• Trinity Mirror Rollout Online Training for Journalists as Major Websites Revamp Pushes Forward – Newspaper Society
  “The Liverpool Daily Post and Liverpool Echo websites have been relaunched in the first stage of a major overhaul of Trinity Mirror’s regional newspaper websites which runs alongside web training for journalists.”
  (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites regional trinitymirror cuttings)
• Trinity Mirror revamps local news sites – E-consultancy.com
  Graham Charlton: “All in all, the redesign has improved both sites, and the added emphasis on UGC is a smart move that will make for a stickier experience for users. “
  (tags: internet newspapers newpapersites regional trinitymirror relaunch redesign cuttings)

links for 2007-06-28

• Liverpool Echo.co.uk
  New, improved and freshly relaunched Liverpool Echo newspaper site – more interactivity, community and multimedia, and updated design.
  (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites regional redesign relaunch trinitymirror)
• Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk
  New and improved newspaper site for the Liverpool Daily Post.
  (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites regional redesign relaunch trinitymirror)
• Trinity Mirror begins regional web overhaul with Liverpool sites’ relaunch – Press Gazette
  Martin Stabe: “Trinity Mirror will begin an overhaul all of its regional newspaper web sites today with the relaunch of the Liverpool Echo and the Liverpool Daily Post sites.”
  (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites regional redesign relaunch trinitymirror cuttings)
• Post and Echo unveil new-look sites in first stage of Trinity Mirror overhaul – Holdthefrontpage.co.uk
  “The Liverpool Daily Post and Liverpool Echo have unveiled new-look websites today, in the first stage of a major overhaul of the websites of Trinity Mirror’s regional titles.”
  (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites regional redesign relaunch trinitymirror cuttings)
• Liverpool’s Echo and Daily Post launch revamped websites – Editors Weblog
  Mica Swyers: “The redesigned sites are now easier to use and include more space for audience input and user-generated content.”
  (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites regional redesign relaunch trinitymirror cuttings)
• Trinity Mirror rolls out relaunches – Guardian Unlimited: Organ Grinder
  “These revamps are the first of a series of mid-market revamps to be rolled out after nine months of work and a refocus on multimedia content”
  (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites regional redesign relaunch trinitymirror cuttings)
• Trinity Mirror starts revamp of regional newspaper websites with relaunches in Liverpool – Journalism.co.uk
  Oliver Luft: “The Liverpool Daily Post and Liverpool Echo websites are relaunching today in the first stage of a major overhaul of Trinity Mirror’s regional websites.”
  (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites regional redesign relaunch trinitymirror cuttings)
• Trinity Mirror relaunches local sites – AOP
  “Trinity Mirror has relaunched The Liverpool Daily Post and Liverpool Echo websites, forming the first stage of its regional online overhaul. “
  (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites regional redesign relaunch trinitymirror cuttings)
• Trinity Mirror relaunches regional websites – Media Week
  Liz Ruskin: “The redesigns have richer coverage of breaking news, including video and audio, extended reader blogs and user-generated content.”
  (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites regional redesign relaunch trinitymirror cuttings)

links for 2007-06-27

• AOL takes page from blogs, relaunches news | Entertainment | Industry | Reuters
  “Time Warner Inc. plans to launch a test of its overhauled news portal on Tuesday, drawing influences from the uncluttered design of popular Internet blogs.”
  (tags: internet news socialmedia blogging webdesign aol)
• Point of Presence: Your Guide to Micro-Blogging and Twitter – PBS MediaShift
  “Micro-blogging allows you to write brief text updates about your life on the go, and send them to friends and interested observers via text messaging, instant messaging, email or the web.”
  (tags: internet socialmedia blogging twitter)
• UGC Users Outnumber Creators – eMarketer
  “Even taking into account the power and ease of use of user-generated content tools like digital cameras and affordable audio/video production software, there are more content consumers than creators.” Shock.
  (tags: internet socialmedia ugc stats)

links for 2007-06-25

• News site audience measurement system set to change – Journalism.co.uk
  “Richard Foan, ABC Electronic managing director, said that moving to a daily average figure could provide publishers with a more accurate picture of user behaviour”
  (tags: internet audience measurement newspapersites abc)
• Webster’s Dictionary of Audience Exaggeration: How internet metrics promote the myth of the dying newspaper – The Inksniffer
  John Duncan: “Newspapers are declining (for lots of reasons), the websites of newspapers are growing (slowly, if at all).” Hmmmmmmmm.
  (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites audience measurement consumption migration trends)
• [pdf] Youth Media DNA report – World Association of Newspapers
  WAN report on youth media trends: “While most participants do not view video sharing sites like YouTube or blogs as credible first sources for news, many participants see them as channels for voicing opinion.”
  (tags: internet audience demographics youth newspapersites socialmedia)
• Digg Overtakes Facebook with 1400% Growth, 22.6 Million Uniques – ReadWriteWeb
  “I find it all hard to believe – not only that digg has 22 Million monthly unique visitors, but also that they have more monthly unique visitors than Facebook.”
  (tags: internet socialmedia socialnetworking news aggregators audience stats digg facebook)
• Saving Newspapers – Forbes.com
  McClatchy CEO Gary Pruritt: “While ad revenue may be the best indicator of your current performance, I think the best indicator of your future performance is your audience.”
  (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites business strategy migration mcclatchy)
• Newspaper Roundup: At NAA, Newspaper Execs Tout New Media, As Print Struggles – PaidContent.org
  Round-up of latest print and digital trading results and quotes from US newspaper groups.
  (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites revenue migration trends stats results)
• Pre-Close Trading Update – Johnston Press Plc
  Total like-for-like ad revenues including digital down 2.3% yoy for first 5 months. Digital revenues up 34.7%.
  (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites revenue advertising results johnstonpress)
• Building a Better Citizen Media Toolbox – E-Media Tidbits
  JD Lasica: “When citizen publishers want to launch community news sites, where do they turn? Building a publishing infrastructure from the ground up is no easy task.”
  (tags: internet journalism citizenmedia community cms tools)
• Heather Hopkins – Hitwise UK: YouTube to Overtake BBC in UK Visits
  “Share of UK visits to BBC.co.uk continue to grow, up 13% year on year in May, however it is far outpaced by gains from YouTube. YouTube’s share of UK visits were up nearly 7-fold (669%) year on year in May and up 140% in the past six-months. “
  (tags: internet audience stats trends bbc youtube analysts hitwise)
• FixMyStreet
  Cool local site from MySociety: “Report, view, or discuss local problems
  (like graffiti, fly tipping, broken paving slabs, or street lighting)” (Was previously neighbourhoodfix-it.com)
  (tags: internet socialmedia citizenmedia local hyperlocal community mapping geocoding)
• A VC: The Facebook Problem
  The signal-to-noise ratio on Facebook is getting worse following its explosive growth and platform launch. Fred Wilson: “I see a different Facebook problem. Invite overload and application noise.”
  (tags: internet socialmedia socialnetworking attention facebook)
• BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Buying their voices
  Jeff Jarvis on the Federated Media advertising kerfuffle: “I’ll just speak for myself with my advertising policy in greater detail”
  (tags: internet blogging journalism advertising federatedmedia)
• UK Internet Users the Leading Consumers of Online Video – Marketing Charts
  “Some 80% of the UK online population age 15+ initiated a video stream in April 2007, compared with 79% in France, 76% in the US, and 70% in Germany, according to comScore.”
  (tags: internet audience consumption multimedia video stats trends comscore)

links for 2007-06-20

• Local papers lead the way to new media future from Greenslade
  “How about this statement from a national newspaper executive: localisation is one of the keys to future media success and the regional press is perfectly placed to exploit it. “
  (tags: internet newspapers regional local hyperlocal)
• Online to surpass network TV as top news source in five years, poll says
  “In Great Britain, 31 percent of British adults do not access online news sites with any regularity and an additional 28 percent of them only access them about once a week.” [Via Andy Dickinson]
  (tags: internet newspapers news tv audience consumption migration trends)
• Press Gazette – Johnston Press and PA agree multimedia deal
  “PA will supply text, video, stills and interactive graphics as individual assets linked by meta data, allowing local online editors to take only those elements that they want in order to combine with their own reports or assemble into… packages”
  (tags: internet newspapers news journalism multimedia video pa jp)
• Virtual Economics: The problem of verticals
  “a social network that lets people express multiple identities in multiple ways is almost always going to dominate a network that tries to confine identity within a singular niche.”
  (tags: internet socialmedia socialnetworking vertical)

links for 2007-06-19

• Poynter Online – Newspapers at Mid-Year: Even Online, The News Is Not So Good
  “With online revenue growth slowing and print revenue continuing to drop, companies at the Mid-Year Media Review this week have a grim picture to discuss.”
  (tags: internet newspapers business revenue migration trends)
• cybersoc.com: simplicity and openness reduces the participation burden
  “the beauty of a many emergent social media services is that their simplicity and openness means that myself and other users can engage with them as much, or as little, as we want yet we’re still able to keep at least one foot in the conversation.”
  (tags: internet socialmedia participatory community)
• Netimperative – Online ad click-through rates falling- research
  Adtech figures: “the current click-through rate of 0.18%, representing the lowest since the ad serving technology firm started the measurement in 2004. Then, the average was 0.33 per cent.”
  (tags: internet advertising display stats trends)
• Paul Kedrosky: Major Media Moving 20% of Ad Spend Online?
  “A new AAF study (that I haven’t been to able to get a hold of yet) says that major ad spenders are in the process of moving up to 20% of their total ad budget to online media. If true, that is a huge shift, up from 4-8% at present.”
  (tags: internet advertising revenue migration stats trends)
• Advertising Trend Ratio: A New Metric For Publishers » Publishing 2.0
  “they should be looking at the relationship between absolute increases and decreases in ad revenue over time.”
  (tags: internet advertising revenue migration trends)
• MediaPost Publications – Scarborough: Big Overlap In Newspaper/Web Use – 06/18/2007
  “81% of respondents saying they regularly consume both kinds of media”
  (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites audience consumption trends)
• Newspapers Should Embrace Online Aggregators » Publishing 2.0
  “[traditional publishers] still see branding as a function of controlling the distribution channel, rather than branding each unit of content that must now live and survive on its own in a disaggregated online media ecosystem.”
  (tags: internet newspapers news aggregators brand unbundling)

links for 2007-06-18

• If the net is killing newspapers, why are they doing so well? | Business | The Observer
  “global newspaper sales up 2.3 per cent last year (and 9.48 per cent in the past five years), ad revenues up 3.7 per cent and 15.7 per cent over the same two spans. If this is doom and gloom, give me another helping…”
  (tags: internet newspapers audience circulation advertising migration trends stats)
• Here’s Ranking of 30 Most Popular Newspaper Sites for May – E&P
  “The New York Times again topped other newspapers in Web traffic in May, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. It reports that nytimes.com had 12,755,000 unique visitors in May compared to 13,735,000 in April. “
  (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites audience stats nielsen)
• Even big papers confuse with link habits – Innovation in College Media
  “be consistent. If you’re going to provide “in-text” links, then provide them in a consistent manner – don’t link to internal documents and then to an external site and then neglect text links to other sites”
  (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites journalism links)
• Community Behaviour Models in User-Content Interaction
  “The Cobi project (Community Behavioural Models in User-Content Interaction) is a research cooperation project that started in April 2007.”
  (tags: internet socialmedia community citizenmedia)
• ESPN buys Cricinfo website | New media | MediaGuardian.co.uk
  “Disney’s US sports network ESPN has acquired specialist cricket website Cricinfo for an undisclosed sum.”
  (tags: internet sport cricket m&a disney)
• The Long Tail Is Getting Fatter
  “It wasn’t that long ago that 100,000 users was considered huge for a Web 2.0 related business. Today a small startup such as SpaceTime can gain those numbers in two weeks.”
  (tags: internet business startups audience marketing longtail web2.0)
• News | UK teens spend 24% more time online than average users – NMA
  15-24s spending 24% more time online than average users – Comscore.
  (tags: internet audience consumption demographics comscore)

links for 2007-06-10

• What Does Making The Transition To Digital Mean For Print Publishers? » Publishing 2.0
  “How do print publishers know when they have successfully “made the transition to digital”? Here’s Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons:”
  (tags: internet business advertising revenue migration economics trends)

links for 2007-06-09

• ITV.com gears up for relaunch | Broadcast | MediaGuardian.co.uk
  “ITV will relaunch its ITV.com service on Tuesday, enabling viewers to watch shows such as Coronation Street live online. The £20m revamp will launch on June 12…”
  (tags: internet media tv relaunch itv)
• /Message: Linda Stone on Continuous Partial Attention: The War On Flow
  “I for one am not eager to turn off my devices and pay all my attention to one thing at a time, one moment at a time. There are too many targets on the horizon, too many members of the tribe, and too many jaguars lurking in the shadows for that.”
  (tags: internet psychology collaboration attention)
• Greensboro Paper Cuts 41 Staffers
  “The News & Records in Greensboro, N.C., a Landmark paper, announced this afternoon that it is laying off 41 staffers.”
  (tags: internet business migration greensboro)
• Heather Hopkins – Hitwise UK: Gumtree Enters Top 20 Retail Websites in May
  “Gumtree entered the top 20 Shopping & Classifieds websites in May, based on share of UK visits. Share of UK Internet visits to Gumtree increased 69% year on year in May, 35% in the past six months and 9% in the past month.”
  (tags: internet advertising classifieds p2p free audience trends stats analysts hitwise)
• Cruickshank departs GCap – Mad.co.uk
  “Jim Cruickshank, the group marketing and interactive director at GCap Media, is leaving the radio company to join Multimap.com.”
  (tags: internet media appointments mapping gcap)
• Teaching Online Journalism: Basic kit: Gear for the multimedia reporter
  Audio, video, cameras, software etc.
  (tags: internet journalism multimedia video audio tools training)

links for 2007-06-08

• WAN: Online news stories read for longer than print from Guardian Unlimited: Organ Grinder
  Mario Garcia on Poynter’s eyetrack study from a few months back: “The tradition we have seen that you read the newspaper from cover to cover like your grandpa used to is gone, gone forever”
  (tags: internet newspapers design)
• Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » Should journalists learn to code?
  “the pressing need is not for people who can write code with one hand and stories with the other. What journalists do need is working digital literacy.”
  (tags: internet journalism webdevelopment training)
• DigiDave: Where’s the Money to Teach Journalists How to Code?
  “There are two skill sets in this equation: journalism and coding. Both are needed in the new media landscape.”
  (tags: internet journalism webdevelopment training)
• Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet Communities (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
  “In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.” [Via Suw]
  (tags: internet socialmedia participatory journalism citizenmedia community trends stats participationinequality)
• Going Mobile: A study of content use and advertising on the mobile web – OPA [pdf]
  OPA: “Mobile Web access is now nearly ubiquitous; usage lags access, but strong growth expected in ’07” UK has highest mobile web use of Western nations.
  (tags: internet audience consumption trends mobile demographics marketsize stats)
• paidContent.org: News International Makes Seven Percent Staff Cuts Amid Digital Investments
  Les Hinton: ”This is necessary because newspaper revenues are coming under pressure at a time when other costs are rising and we are also investing in digital media.”
  (tags: internet newspapers migration newscorp)
• Ex-Cisco Executive to Lead Joost, Internet TV Provider – New York Times
  As well as 15- or 30-second ads during programmes, Joost will experiment with “a small graphic called an ‘ad bug’ [that] will float in the corner of the screen reminding users of the brand that was just advertised.”
  (tags: internet advertising multimedia video tv joost)
• Participation Inequality » The Bivings Report
  “the best you can do is to increase opportunities and lower barriers to participation. A lurker rate of 80% is better than 90%.”
  (tags: internet social media participatory journalism citizenmedia community participationinequality)
• Social Technographics & Butterfingers » The Bivings Report
  “If people don’t comment on a blog post, for instance, why would they suddenly upload a six minute video?”
  (tags: internet social media participatory journalism citizenmedia community participationinequality)
• Groundswell (Incorporating Charlene Li’s Blog): Forrester’s new Social Technographics report
  Six levels of participation: creators (13%), critics (19%), collectors (15%), joiners (19%), spectators (33%) and inactives (52%).
  (tags: internet social media participatory journalism citizenmedia community participationinequality analysts forrester)