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http://www.lostremote.com/ - Thoughts about local online news, advertising and the hyperlocal race, written by Cory Bergman. I work for msnbc.com, which owns EveryBlock, and my wife and I run Next Door Media, a neighborhood news network that won a 2009 Online Journalism Award. &nbs
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> Msnbc.com teams up with BNO News and @breakingnews: BNO News is launching a breaking news wire service today, and we’re excited here at msnbc.com to announce we’ve signed on as a client. Since BNO News is shifting its attention to the paid service, msnbc.com has agreed to editorially ...
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“The highlight for me was seeing the founder and editor of West Seattle Blog, Tracy Record, positioned on stage next to msnbc.com president Charlie Tillinghast. Two years ago, who would have believed that a neighborhood news site would warrant the same consideration as one of the giants in the ...
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> Twitter lights up its geolocation API: It’s here , but it only works 1) if you turn on geotagging in your account settings on Twitter.com and 2) you’re using a Twitter mobile application with the geolocation feature, like Foursquare. Both these factors will combine to make this a rather ...
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> Fox Sports launching local sites, too: Joining the ranks of ESPN and Comcast, Fox Sports is quietly rolling out a network of a dozen local/regional sports sites, like FoxSportsArizona.com . In less than a year, local sports has suddenly become an incredibly competitive field, with local ...
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AOL hiring journalists, laying off just about everyone else : AOL announced today that it’s planning to lay off 2,500 employees — about a third of its staff — but the company is still hiring journalists in a plan to beef up original content. That’s a change.
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“What’s happening?” > - What Twitter now asks you, instead of “What are you going?” — a subtle change to try to encourage more newsy Tweets. “People are witnessing accidents, organizing events, sharing links, breaking news, reporting stuff their dad says, and so much more,” explains co-founder ...
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> > YouTube offers news organizations APIs for user uploads: YouTube continues its push into citizen journalism with the launch of YouTube Direct , a set of APIs that allows news organizations to use YouTube as the platform for user video uploads. “Users can upload videos directly into ...
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“By using your call letters, you’re automatically limiting yourself to those who follow your newscast. Why not open it up, make it more inclusive and pull in a whole new audience online?” > - Lost Remote emeritus Steve Safran talking about local TV website branding in a Broadcasting & Cable ...
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> Comcast launching local sports sites: Comcast is pouring some serious cash into an effort to compete with ESPN.com in local sports. The first site, Comcast SportsNet New England , will ultimately hire 40 staffers. San Francisco, DC/Baltimore and Chicago will soon follow.
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> > A crazy idea on how newspapers can take on Google: Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis suggests that news media companies team together and propose that Bing pay them a fee to block Google from indexing their search results. Interesting.
Adds Don in comments: “So you’ll have a pocket full of ...
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GonzoCamp sparks entrepreneurial ideas for news : The second annual GonzoCamp — a brainstorming and prototyping session to generate new ideas around news — just wrapped up here in Seattle, and TechFlash has a summary . GonzoCamp is the brainchild of Mark Briggs . “Instead of panel discussions ...
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> How blogging has changed in last 3 years: A new survey shows that the way users engage with blogs is shifting more to off-site experiences, thanks in part to social networks and bookmarking/voting sites. (The graph above measures engagement for top blogs.) This reminds me of that timeless ...
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Fwix unveils revenue-sharing plan for hyperlocal blogs : Fwix founder Darian Shirazi says just sending a little traffic to blogs isn’t going to cut it anymore. So his team has launched a new “ ad wire ” that mixes ad messages with local headlines, sharing revenue with not only the publisher ...
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Belo's Moor to head up local news at Yahoo : DallasNews.com’s Anthony Moor says he’s just accepted a position at Yahoo to head up their growing local news efforts. Moor tweets , “Moving to Yahoo! and SF to build staff of editors around US who will improve the local news experience on frontpage.”
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> A very cool way to watch a TV newscast: One of the big struggles in TV news is how to provide viewers with an easy way to find and watch specific newscast segments on the web. (“I saw it on TV around 5:30 p.m., but I can’t find it on your website….”) Here at msnbc.com, we just launched the ...
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> Local digital channels could be the new TV wasteland: “Do you watch any of the new local digital channels?” asks Tom Petner on TVWeek.com . “No, neither do I.” I must confess, though, I do record and occasionally watch old episodes of Magnum PI on a random digital channel in Seattle. But I ...
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“Proximity can be this proxy for relevance” > - Twitter’s Ryan Sarver about using the company’s new geolocation feature as a way to sift through the crush of seemingly random tweets. Explains NYTimes: “That simple filter made a huge difference in what a visitor to Twitter’s search engine ...
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Gannett's MomsLikeMe.com streams live birth : A woman who kept a popular pregnancy journal on the Minneapolis section of Gannett’s MomsLikeMe.com agreed to have her birth streamed live on the site. “It’s really interesting that it went from an online local neighborhood thing to a global ...
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> Sacramento Press tries new local approach: The new city site uses tags and social media as a hook into local advertisers. Running on its own CMS, the Sacramento Press has plans to grow to other cities, as well. The Kelsey Group has an interesting write-up on it here .
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How social media is taking the news local : Our own Next Door Media is mentioned in the Mashable story along with ChicagoNow.com , WCCO-TV’s Jason DeRusha and the Austin-American Statesman.
