The NYT doesn’t have a paywall; it’s a line of sandbags. If you follow the media sphere, you might have seen some news articles and blog posts recently about how the “New York Times paywall is working,” or words to that effect. They were all over the place, including a piece by Reuters media writer Felix Salmon, in which he admitted he was wrong about whether the paywall would succeed or not.
Salmon has now written an update to his original post, with some of the reasons he thinks the paywall is working. But what is meant by the term “working?” Is the NYT getting readers to pay? Yes. But the long-term value of that is still very much an open question — and a paywall remains a fundamentally defensive strategy. I was very much a skeptic with regard to the paywall experiment, but I’m extremely happy that it’s working, I’m a big fan of the NYT, and I sincerely hope it has found a predictable and dependable new revenue stream in the volatile and treacherous media business.
That may all be true, but does that mean the NYT paywall is “working?” Facebook, nouveau centre de gravité de l'innovation dans les médias français, Actualités. La Californie demande à Facebook de supprimer des comptes de détenus. Digg's New Newswire is a Radical Experiment in Social News. Digg, the social news site that was once the darling of tech-loving web users everywhere, has faced a rapid decline in interest as the rest of the Web grew up and it remained relatively slow and impersonal.
Today the site added a big new feature it thinks could help: a highly customizable, real time Newswire. Want to see the freshest videos about technology that have been validated enough to get 10 or more Diggs but aren't so popular that they've been dugg more than 50 times? Text posts about business with more than 50 Diggs? Those kinds of views are now easy to set up and read in real time. Long a subject of controversy, there's now a new level of visibility into who has voted to bury a story, when the burying is done in the Newswire.
Those are fundamental changes to the way news is shared. Nowhere I can think of. I was able to find a lot of content using this system that I was genuinely excited to see uncovered. Can feature changes like this turn the tide of declining traffic? Nissan USA : 15 personnes embauchées pour surveiller Facebook. London riots: Five ways journalists used online tools. Since riots started in London on Saturday, 6 August, journalists – and many non-journalists, who may or may not think of themselves as citizen reporters – have been using a variety of online tools to tell the story of the riots and subsequent cleanup operation. Here are five examples: 1. Maps James Cridland, who is managing director of Media UK, created a Google Map – which has had more than 25,000 views. Writing on his blog (which is well worth a read), Cridland explains how and why he verified the locations of riots before manually adding reports of unrest to his map one by one.
I realised that, in order for this map to be useful, every entry needed to be verified, and verifiable for others, too. Speaking to Journalism.co.uk, he explained there was much rumour and many unsubstantiated reports on Twitter, particularly about Manchester where police responded by repeatedly announcing they had not had reports of copycat riots. A lot of people don’t know how to check and verify. 2. 3. 4. 5. « Curation » ou webinage? Un concept à ne pas louper. Les mots intraduisibles ont ceci de merveilleux qu’ils rappellent l’importance du vocabulaire, titillent l’inventivité et poussent au néologisme.
Il en va ainsi de « curation », l’activité qui, aux États-Unis (et en Grande Bretagne) consistait à sélectionner les collections d’un musée et à les mettre en scène. Le terme est utilisé maintenant pour la gestion des flux d’infos en ligne. Produire des nouvelles originales reste essentiel, mais nous découvrons tous ensembles que gérer celles qui nous assaillent ne l’est pas moins, pour les journalistes professionnels comme pour les autres. L’image est détestable. Photo Flickr de chikachika72] Cette entrée a été publiée dans Mediachroniques, Participolis, Pistes, Société, Vie digitale, Vocabulaires. Muck Rack | Journalists on Google+