Helium raises $10M for "citizen journalism" Helium, a self-publishing site that bills itself as a “citizen journalism” hub, has raised $10 million in debt financing according to a recently filed SEC form, bringing the company’s total raised to $27 million. The investors have not been disclosed and Helium was not immediately available for comment. Founded in 2007, Helium’s user-generated content platform is strangely reminiscent of Demand Media’s platform. Anyone is free to sign up and users get paid for the content they produce. Also unlike Demand, Helium has a number of different ways writers can earn money. Additionally, writers can earn ad revenue for their own articles. But like Demand, Helium has been deeply affected by Google’s recently adjusted algorithm, Panda, which was created to weed out low-quality content from Google’s search results. Helium initially fought back by encouraging longer articles (called “deep” content, versus short articles which are called “shallow” content), which appeal to Google’s new algorithm.
Artdaily.org - The First Art Newspaper on the Net Médias & Publicité : «Madame Figaro» lance un mensuel numérique Le magazine féminin innove avec i-Mad, un magazine interactif gratuit pour tablettes. Le rythme d'innovation s'accélère sur les supports numériques. Madame Figaro ambitionne d'être à la pointe de ce mouvement. L'hebdomadaire féminin, qui a déjà lancé il y a un mois sa version pour l'iPad, tente une nouvelle aventure avec l'i-Mad, une application pour tablettes dont la vocation est d'offrir une nouvelle expérience de lecture. «Nous voulons être à l'avant-garde des applications existantes, souligne Stéphanie Jolivot, éditrice du pôle Madame du groupe Figaro. L'i-Mad proposera chaque mois une sélection de 7 à 10 sujets traités dans les 4 ou 5 derniers numéros de Madame Figaro. Esprit «collector» «À terme, nous irons encore plus loin, ajoute Stéphanie Jolivot. Le premier numéro d'i-Mad, florilège des quatre précédents numéros du Madame, s'ouvre sur une couverture animée par l'actrice Anna Mouglalis. » Le Figaro reste le premier quotidien national » Le Nouvel Obs devient bimédia
Rupieciarnia. Scrapbooking, decoupage, warsztaty, albumy, kartki – sklep i pracownia Wrocław La Tribune est à la peine Paru dans leJDD Le quotidien économique est à la peine. (Reuters) Démission du rédacteur en chef, François Lenglet, et de ces deux adjoints, motion de défiance à l’égard de la propriétaire, Valérie Decamp, plan de départ de 20 à 25 postes, portant le nombre de journalistes à 60, parution stoppée pendant deux jours… La Tribune a vécu une semaine sous haute tension. La banque Aforge est à pied d’œuvre depuis plusieurs mois pour trouver un repreneur. C.N. - Le Journal du Dimanche
My Mind's Eye Blog Hi everyone, This is Karen, back with another Mix and Match with Karen. As I continue on my journey of two-6x12 page layouts, I've been thinking about this new style and pondering how I feel about it. I've received some thoughts and questions about this style and wanted to share some of what I think with you. 1. 2. 3. So if you've been doing the same thing for a while, I encourage you to try something new this month. With that, here's my page for April: I noticed that my last few pages were really full so I challenged myself to keep the page more bare this time. For this page, I cut up the little saying below from one of the cards in pretty things line and the hearts behind come from another card in the follow your heart line. You don't have to use the cards as 3x4s. I just cut things apart and put them back together in a way that speaks to me. I then grabbed a bunch more cards that I liked and lined them up against the right edge and then cut what came off the page. so here it is again: