New. Jornalismo. Memes. New York Times Looks for Answers in Data: Tech News « High up on the 28th floor of the New York Times, a pair of researchers have been poring over the newspaper’s data, looking to understand the way influence plays out online.
What Mark Hansen, a UCLA statistics professor on sabbatical, and Jer Thorp, a data artist in residence at the Times, have found is that stories take on a life of their own, which can be mapped and visualized in some startlingly beautiful ways. The work, still “crazy” preliminary, shows how organizations are looking to mine their data to find ways to improve their operations. And it also shows the challenges that lay ahead in trying to turn the data into clear actions. Hansen and Thorp, who talked at a TimesOnline TimesOpen event last night, took two weeks of August data from the paper, looking at how stories were shared through the Times’ site, Bit.ly and Twitter.
While it’s still quite early, Hansen said the next steps will be to make the project handle both real-time and archived information. Inside peek: How The New York Times uses blogs. [Correction: This post originally stated that the Times' copy desk editors don't review and edit blog posts.
They do. Their edits to my posts have been minimal, so I did not notice them.] At Google’s 10th anniversary of Blogger event on Tuesday, I was surprised how many of the blogging experts in the room were unaware of the broad and deep adoption of blogging tools at The New York Times, one of my several freelance employers. So with the help of the Times’ Technology section editor, Damon Darlin, I whipped up an insidery look at how the NYT uses WordPress to crank out hundreds of posts per day. Early adopter among newspapers The Times began blogging in November 2005. Hollywood itself got its own blog, The Carpetbagger, as the Times’ second site, followed by The Opinionator, a reblogger of opinion posts, articles and columns culled from other blogs as well as from the pages of The New Republic. NYT "Innovation" memo, excerp...
Memo on NYT social media edit... 24/7 Wall St.: The Internet Abandons The New York Times (NYT) The Internet was going to save the newspaper industry.
The Internet was going to save The New York Times Company (NYT). Especially The New York Times. The daily is so well-regarded and popular that the parent firm’s websites are ranked No.14 in visitors among all web properties in the US. But, internet advertising, which was supposed to be able to dodge a recession, is now falling nearly as fast as print sales. As the costs of printing and delivering newspapers has risen over the last several years, and their advertising bases has been largely replaced by Web sites such as Craigslist and CareerBuilder, publishers bet they could migrate their brands online.
What newspapers found out is that, by the time they had moved their products onto the internet, there were already websites up and running to give everything from shopping advice to sports scores to business news to weather. Today, The New York Times reported that its fourth quarter revenue decreased 10.8% to $772.1 million. Google Earth gets 'New York Times' news. Google has added a new layer to its Google Earth software that shows New York Times news linked to the region a person is viewing with the geographic software.
New York Times "placemarks" will appear on maps where there's relevant news, and showing the New York Times layer in the software will show a window with a month's worth of headlines, Google's LatLong blog said. Google spokeswoman Kate Hurowitz said the company is open to partnerships with other media outlets and that extending such a feature to Google Maps--a much more widely used service than the Google Earth software--"would be a logical progression," though the company has nothing to announce right now. Those who want to try the feature must download the latest version of Google Earth, which runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.