The shift in the ABC’s Arts programming from TV and radio to the web heralds a much larger metamorphosis for the broadcaster, in which the web is its primary form and other mediums just exist to feed it content, writes Karl Quinn.
News aggregation
News Ltd’s hypocrisy: Don’t aggregate us (but do Digg, Reddit and Tweet us…)
According to Rupert Murdoch, Google and other content “kleptomaniacs” are stealing and profiting from his content. But what do you find at the end of the every News article? A “Share This” request for readera to promote the story on the very sites that Murdoch decries.
Rupert the Sun King’s moral posture takes on a slouch
Over the weekend, Rupert Murdoch used some nasty language at the so-called World Media Summit in Beijing to slag off the likes of Google and Yahoo, describing them as content “kleptomaniacs” because they aggregate News Corporation’s content.
Atlantic Wire: the new kid on the news aggregator block
It seems everyone is getting into the news aggregation game now: The Atlantic has just launched The Atlantic Wire, pulling together the best and most influential op-eds from around the media. Nicely done.
Can newspapers and aggregators ever be friends?
At Google News, business product manager Josh Cohen is the man who deals with angry newspaper publishers, many of whom blame the company for the current media industry slump. Will the two ever kiss and make-up? Cohen shares his thoughts.
HuffPost Social: the future or the death of journalism?
The Huffington Post has partnered with Facebook to release a new feature called HuffPost Social News, allowing users to track and share the HuffPo articles they’re reading. It’s the futureof journalism, says Chadwick Matlin, although it won’t necessarily be its saviour.
TechCrunch: The “media bundle” is dead
The era of readers getting all their daily news from a single site is long gone, says TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld. Newspapers can either sit around blaming aggregators, or learn how to take advantage of them.
How Gawker stole my story, killed journalism
Washington Post journo Ian Shapira was delighted to see a story he’d penned featured on hip media gossip site Gawker… until he realised they’d just “cherry picked” his hard work. Sing along if you know the words: “the internet is killing journalism…”
The news aggregator newspapers like
Newspaper publishers love a good whinge about those free-riding leeches of the media world, news aggregation sites. So why are news orgs like The Washington Post, NPR and Newsweek such big fans of aggregator Daylife? The Observer investigates.
Google call newspapers’ bluff: here’s how to opt-out of Google News
Newspaper publishers never seem to stop whinging about Google News leeching their content, so Google has given them the simple little bit of code to opt-out of their search results. How many will follow through?
Publishers declare war on news aggregators
European publishers have had enough of those nasty leeching news aggregators, penning a petition calling for “urgent improvements in the protection of intellectual property on the internet”.
‘Printed blog’ fails to take media world by storm
Startup newspaper The Printed Blog — a paper made entirely of aggregated blog posts — is folding after 16 issues. “Printed online media is dead” says Business Insider. Yeah? Tell that to all the Crikey subscribers who print out their 40-page email Every. Single. Day.
Political snippets: It’s not just mad rich men with too much money
Richard Farmer on why football is attractive to crooks, journalists aren’t evil bludgers, pollies are cracking down on those darn kids and more.
Six pieces of News Ltd we’d like to see behind a paywall
News Ltd CEO John Hartigan is absolutely right: the more News Ltd content that is moved beyond a paywall, the better. Here are some articles we’d like to see there.
Don’t screw the internet to save newspapers
US Appeals Court judge Richard Posner recently floated the idea of banning online links to stop people stealing newspaper content for nothing. Hey, let’s also ban wheels in order to save the horse industry, snarks Hamilton Nolan.
Battle of the new media heavyweights
One month since the launch of News Ltd’s new siteThe Punch and a few months since we relaunched our very own Crikey website, the Australian media commentariat are now dutifully weighing in on who is winning the readership wars.
Could tighter copyright laws save journalism?
How can quality journalism be preserved in the era of online rehashed churnalism? Connie Schultz thinks American copyright laws need reforming.
We are all news aggregators now
News aggregating isn’t just the realm of sites like HuffPo anymore, argues Gillian Reagan — the “online revolution” borne from the protests in Iran have shown that everyone participating in social media is doing their part.
Huffington Post: cheap, trashy and parasitic
The Huffington Post “likes to masquerade as a forward-thinking, paradigm-shifting journalistic institution”, says Simon Dumenco, but they don’t pay most of their writers, and leech most of their content from “real” journalists.
Name-based news aggregation
New site Daily Perfect offers a page of news articles it thinks you may like, based purely on your name. It’s a little creepy, but at least a fresh take on news aggregation.
HuffPo’s front page: only 6% original content
Bloggasm uses the power of maths to assess whether the Huffington Post is ” making a significant contribution to original reporting.” The result? Not so much.
Google: “Frenemy” of the NY Times
Google, with its popular Google News aggregation system, isn’t an “ally” of the New York Times — but it isn’t a parasite, either, says Executive Editor Bill Keller.
