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Recommended reading: Investigative social media, new ideas and tools

Sorry it’s been so long, but it’s been crazy busy as TBD’s preparing for the holidays and other events. This’ll be a quick one, just a few links I’ve been reading of late. Have a happy Thanksgiving, folks.

Social media roundup

How Investigative Journalism Is Prospering in the Age of Social Media – Great ideas from several resources [...]

November 24th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Recommended Links, Social Media, TBD | 2 comments

Link roundup: Facebook deals, Times paywalls, ONA and news experiments

Geolocation meets deals

Last news first. Facebook announced today that it will be doing more with its location feature, including offering deals tied to location. This could spell trouble for other geolocation providers like Foursquare and Gowalla, group buying sites like Groupon and, sadly, news sites looking for revenue streams. Facebook is offering these deals [...]

November 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Industry News & Notes, Recommended Links | 5 comments

Gawker’s leaving page views behind, so when’s our turn?

If even Gawker is changing its measure of choice away from the page view to the unique user, when will the rest of the news industry follow suit? [...]

February 1st, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Industry News & Notes, Online Revenue Models | Leave a comment

Recommended reading on the mysterious future

These are my recommended links for August 28th through September 3rd:

Membership has its meaning « BuzzMachine – Jeff Jarvis and several commenters outline how a membership – as opposed to a subscription – could be the ticket to a future business model for news. The problem is – membership needs to be worth it – and [...]

September 3rd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Industry News & Notes, Recommended Links | Leave a comment

WaPo v. Gawker: Battle in the Blogs

The Washington Post took on Gawker for alleged copyright infringement this week in a battle of the blogs. Here’s why the Post writer was wrong – and why the debate itself is just a mere sideshow to the real problems for newspapers online. [...]

August 7th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Industry News & Notes | Leave a comment