Wednesday July 01, 2009
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Wednesday July 01, 2009
1 note“WNBC.com or WNBC4.com is an extension of the television station, it’s not a real scaled game. We don’t want to play just in that game. We want to play in the entire New York or Chicago or Los Angeles or whatever city you want to call it online media space and we can’t do that by just limiting ourselves to the call letters of our traditional analog TV station.”
— NBCU chief Jeff Zucker explaining why NBC stations abandoned call letters in online branding. When WNBC.com relaunched last year, it rebranded to NBCNewYork.com.
Wednesday July 01, 2009
Tuesday June 30, 2009
Tuesday June 30, 2009
Fake local TV site promotes get rich scheme
It looks like a local TV site, KLMT News 3, complete with the smiling anchors across the masthead and the weather report down the side. But the “story,” written by a “35-year-old news veteran,” is a glowing report on a scheme to profit from Google. And clicking on any of the navigation items will take you to Google-Money-Master.com.
Update: As you’ve pointed out in comments, there’s also News3News.com.
Monday June 29, 2009
Sites crash, publishers complain on Twitter
Of course, when Twitter crashes, the reverse happens.
Monday June 29, 2009
How not to sound like an idiot on television: Washington Post reporter Chris Cillizza hosts this how-to clip on YouTube’s brand new Reporters Center, which aims to educate citizens on how to produce better journalism. Interesting observation: there are 34 clips providing tips on video newsgathering, but only two of them are from people who work in TV news.
Meanwhile, YouTube wants more news publishers to join as partners.
Sunday June 28, 2009
Friday June 26, 2009
Friday June 26, 2009
Facebook to add followers to friends
Looks like Facebook will soon copy Twitter’s successful following model by allowing users to become a fan of other users. Facebook recently added a new feature that lets you publish status updates to the world, which would work hand-in-hand with Twitter-like following.
Friday June 26, 2009
On Jackson death, old media “did the heavy lifting”: This is an actual paragraph from a Chicago Tribune story about how the news of Michael Jackson’s death spread:
“Gossip site TMZ.com, owned by Time Warner, was out in front with Jackson news and digital-era pipelines spread the word, as has happened before with other major celebrity news stories. But it was old media stalwarts that did the heavy lifting, with giants such as The Associated Press and the Web site of the L.A. Times, sister paper of the Chicago Tribune, reporting the fastest, most credible information on the emergency call for paramedics and ultimately his death.”Um, I realize that TMZ isn’t the most credible news source, but it was first and right on this one. And I realize that some folks on Twitter thought Jeff Goldblum had died, which he hadn’t, but many people found out about Jackson’s death through a Tweet, not by visiting their newspaper’s website. Dismissing the value of speed and social connections is dangerous. News is not an end state, it’s a distributed conversation. You can do all “the heavy lifting” you want, but if it’s not part of the real-time conversation, it’s increasingly irrelevant.
Thursday June 25, 2009
Digital chiefs at local TV groups 'no longer second tier'
The vast majority of local TV station groups now have upper-level managers dedicated to growing their online and mobile operations. (For some groups, this took way too long, if you ask me.) TVNewsday has a handy list of the digital execs here.
Thursday June 25, 2009
Journalism Online expects 10% of users will pay for news
Um, that’s a bit optimistic, wouldn’t you say?
Thursday June 25, 2009
Google brings local advertisers to mobile phones: Google continues its aggressive push into mobile with the beta launch of Adsense for mobile applications. What makes this interesting is you can imagine Google will ultimately add a location-aware element, serving up contextually- and location-relevant (as in physical location) local advertising across a network of mobile experiences. In this Google testimonial clip, Howard Steinberg, Director of Business Development at Urbanspoon, talks about how they’ve implemented the mobile ads on their popular local restaurant app.
Also: YouTube sees big boost in mobile uploads after new iPhone launch
Wednesday June 24, 2009
Cable companies begin web video test: Looking to protect their multi-billion dollar investments in television distribution while growing a web video presence, Time Warner and Comcast have teamed up on a technical test of “TV Anywhere.” In essence, the system checks to ensure you’re a Comcast subscriber before you can watch a Time Warner TV show on Comcast.net or Fancast.com. “It’s called playing defense,” writes Martin Peers in WSJ, explaining why he believes the plan isn’t ready for prime time.
Or as Dan Frommer puts it, “How about letting subscribers watch more TV on their TVs?”
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