Archive for October 10th, 2007
The Associated Press filed suit against VeriSign-owned news aggregator Moreover for “copyright infringement and trademark abuse.” Moreover is a service that scrapes news sources and provides links for a variety of clients. Moreover’s system provides a headline, link and short text snippet. (Sound familiar?)
The AP reports that the AP claims Moreover improperly displays the APs headlines and those text snippets (yes, I enjoyed that).
“The Associated Press spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year gathering and reporting the news, providing original coverage of vital breaking news that cannot be obtained anywhere else,” AP CEO Tom Curley said in a statement.
Ars Technica has an excellent analysis of the suit:
If they [wire services] don’t jealously guard their content, the organizations reason, many clients will simply acquire it secondhand from ultrafast aggregation services, instead of directly from the newswire. If that happens, the licensing revenue stream could dry up, taking AP with it.
The kicker: The AP discovered the alleged infringement while discussing a deal to provide content management to the wire’s members.
October 10th, 2007
Howie and his case holders take the top spot among TV series with an online presence. Hitwise metered show sites during premiere week, and found DOND had a remarkable 15% share of all show’s web traffic. TVWeek says the largess is mostly due to the win at home game, but I’d guess that those model slideshows don’t hurt. Dancing With The Stars takes #2 - again fueled by viewer participation. The top scripted show is Heroes with 9.71% share. Relatively low-rated America’s Most Wanted is the fifth most-trafficked show site. Bionic Woman was the top-ranked freshman series, in 9th place.
NBC.com is the number one network site with 48% share, followed by ABC.com at 23.40%, CBS.com at 17.13% and CWTV.com at 6.53%. FOX.com stands in fifth place at 4.59%, but its numbers don’t include stand-alone sites for America’s Most Wanted, the Simpsons, Family Guy or American Idol.
October 10th, 2007
Jive Records bumped up the release date for Britney Spears’ latest album “blackout.” The reason? You guessed it - illegal downloads. The disc will now drop on Oct. 30 instead of Nov. 13 as originally planned.
In a statement, Jive told the AP it is “doing everything possible to prevent and avoid any further illegal distribution of songs,” including the leaking of “unfinished material and demos represented as completed legitimate songs” to the Internet.”
Seems kinda like saying “yeah, they robbed our mini-mart, but they only got the stale donuts.”
October 10th, 2007
Just take a look at this photo from a classroom at the Missouri School of Journalism:
Here’s another angle of the same room here, with the sole ACER computer circled.
October 10th, 2007
Oooh - they’re good. The folks at BlogTalkRadio.com interviewed me and Fred Graver live at 2:30 pm and then turned the show around and put it online within a half hour. You can listen here. Warning: The interview contains adult language and graphic silliness.
October 10th, 2007
I hosted a panel after lunch and then did a web radio show, so I didn’t liveblog this afternoon. Fortunately, the place is crawling with students who are doing my dirty work. Since a theme of today is crowdsourcing, I’ve crowdsourced the afternoon. The session at which I played Oprah, Broadcast/Multimedia is marvelously transcribed here by Tanzina Vega. Merrill Brown held court on his Now Public, and recovered from mic trouble. Annaliese Griffin blogged that. The session on social information and networking had some great discussion which you can read about in this report by Candice Coots. Come to think of it, I’m really, really starting to like crowdsourcing.
October 10th, 2007
So a morning of ideas and idealism comes down to practicality here at the Networked Journalism Summit, as Jeff Jarvis hosts a discussion called “What’s Needed, What’s Next.” On the panel were Mark Potts, the founder of Backfence; Debra Gallant of Baristanet and Scott Clark of the Houston Chronicle’s Chron.com. This has been the most interactive, Q&A-intensive session so far.
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New York University Professor Jay Rosen started NewAssignment.net to explore “open source reporting.” Its big public test came with AssignmentZero, a partnership with Wired on the topic of Online Collaboration itself. Rosen says NewAssignment.net learned six key lessons…
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Moderator Jeff Howe of Wired Magazine wrote an influential article last year that brought the notion of “Crowdsourcing” into the vernacular. He spoke with three employees of Gannett, which has turned around a number of its properties into social and interactive sites with success. Jeff spoke with Gannett’s Jennifer Carroll, and MacKenzie Warren and Kate Marymount of the Ft. Myers News-Press about some of their experiments in crowdsourcing. Read on, for my messy, unfiltered notes.
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How is networked journalism working (or not) abroad? It’s a topic we don’t usually hear much about at these conferences, so good for the organizers to put together a panel of people from outside the U.S: Martin Huber, of My Heimat, Germany; Adrian Monck, City of London Polytechnic and Sky News and Robin Hamman, BBC and Cybersoc.com talked about what they’ve learned in the international world of contributory journalism at the Networked Journalism Summit in NYC…
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So, you’re all asking the same question: “Where’s the frickin’ money in all this?” The Networked Journalism Summit called, simply, “Revenue” tackled this with Rick Waghorn, a soccer writer with a newspaper background in England who started My Football Writer, Jeff Burkett of WashingtonPost.com, Henry Copeland of BlogAds and Stephen Smyth of Reuters. Jump on for the $$$
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The first session at the Networked Journalism Summit in New York City focused on “Local pioneers,” those who took the risk to innovate online. On the panel: Dan Pacheco, Bakersfield Californian; John Wilpers, BostonNow; Jarah Euston, formerly of Fresno Famous, and Dan Barken, Deputy Managing Editor of the News & Observer in Raleigh, NC. The session was conversational, with lots of questions from the audience. I summarized a lot of their questions underneath each person’s name, rather than trying to do a full transcript. Where there is a sentence in quotes, that’s an actual quote. Because this is liveblogging, you may find the occasional typo. My notes, after the jump…
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I’m at the new and impressive New York Times building in Manhattan for the first Networked Journalism Summit. Props to the City University of New York’s Grad School of Journalism for putting this on. Fearless leader Jeff Jarvis is running the wingding. Amid the digerati I’ve chatted with so far: Fred Graver (late of VH-1), Andrew Heyward of Marketspace LLC (and former president of CBS News), Brian Stelter, the TVNewser who became a New York Times blogger, and NYU Prof Jay Rosen. I’m playing Oprah at a session later this afternoon, and will be liveblogging throughout the day.
October 10th, 2007
