At Almost 400,000 Digital Subscribers, Inside the New York Times Pay Strategy, Year 2 | Newsonomics
The numbers have quieted most of the skeptics, including Clay Shirky. Today, the New York Times summed up a year of its digital circulation strategy, and the report reinforced the notion: there’s a there there. It’s not the there of saving the newspaper industry, or even the Times, but it’s a strong indication that some [...]
Open-source Weave liberates data for journalists, citizens » Nieman Journalism Lab
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As Scholarship Goes Digital, Academics Seek New Ways to Measure Their Impact – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education
An approach called altmetrics—short for alternative metrics—aims to measure Web-driven scholarly interactions, such as how often research is tweeted, blogged about, or bookmarked. “There’s a gold mine of data that hasn’t been harnessed yet about impact outside the traditional citation-based impact,” says Dario Taraborelli, a senior research analyst with the Strategy Team at the Wikimedia [...]
MediaShift Idea Lab . After Crystal Cox Verdict, It’s Time to Define Who Is a Journalist | PBS
People from all sides of the debate seem to agree at least that some definitions are needed. Today there seem to be three camps, or “theories” for trying to define journalism and the modern journalist. via pbs.org
The benefits of integrating paid, owned, and earned media – iMediaConnection.com
As the digital marketing landscape has evolved, so have the strategies. Changes in the structure and definition of media have broken apart the silos of paid, owned, and earned media and have spurred marketers to re-examine how paid, owned, and earned media can be integrated for greater success. In doing so, marketers have realized better [...]
The Washington Hand Press: The Old West’s Web Server
The Washington press differs from the Columbian and Albion in that a very simple toggle joint provides pressure to the platen and on each side of the platen are coil springs which raise it to open position. The Washington hand press is the invention of Samuel Rust, an American who first produced his press in [...]
On the Sails of HTML5: How New Technologies Change Modern Web. Part 2 | Splashnology
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SPACE CRUISER from Ivan Safrin and Babycastles on Vimeo
via vimeo.com a game going off in the american museum of natural history in nyc tonight.