When putting together a data retention policy (specifically, public archives) for your website, where do you start? Where do you stop? Does the policy vary for video and database projects? What’s the presentation like? What’s the business model? There are so many questions.
Now, comes word that UK publication The Times newspaper is putting up 200 years of content. Free. Talk about an archive.
On the opposite end of things, I know of news sites that purge content after a month (I hate this idea - it is contrary to my modern definition of journalism) or put older content behind a paywall.
Mark my words, with folks turning over stones for money, news sites will learn how to archive smarter, with business models attached.
[Despite the coincidence in terminology, this post has nothing to do with with the EU’s search engine data retention investigation.]
In a test run of sorts, Wilmington, N.C. will be the first market to transition to all-digital TV at noon, Monday, September 8. Well, kinda. The PBS station and a low-power station will remain the only analog sticks in town. To confuse matters, some national ads running in the market reference the rest of the nation’s February transition date, according to a quote in USA Today.
Do you think the broadcast stations will ask the PBS station for 24×7 promos, describing what the heck is going on? Or, they could always go at it Anchorman rumble style!
Cincinnati.Com’s CincyNavigator launched last September - and is already increasing engagement for the site. Forbes.com notes that the data/map mashup site (along the lines of EveryBlock, etc.) spawned 570,000 pageviews in its first six months, and increased the average user session from three minutes to five minutes. It took nearly a year to put the site together - but it was well worth the work, with a simple interface and great data navigation.
The Associated Press hit the street with its latest venture: AP Mobile News Network. The site - easily accessible from a smartphone at APNews.com - features a slick iPhone interface with news, sports, entertainment, photos and even video.
But remember when the AP rolled out “The Wire” - the national news site that’s largely been eliminated now? You got a cool map of the country, and every market you clicked on gave you a newspaper choice. Ditto this product. When I customized several cities - all I could find were newspaper content providers. E&P reports that 100 news orginizations are on board - but Forbes says “100 papers” are part of the service - leading me to believe no TV or radio outlets are in the mix. Beyond the provider list is something even more basic: The default thumbnail for a story with no photo… is the image of a newspaper.
The Associated Press is trying to get itself a prized piece of square-ish real estate on the home screen of the Apple iPhone, Forbes reports. The news collective notes that the phone has buttons for weather, stocks and maps - but not news. It says the AP Mobile News Network is a prime candidate to be that news button. But why APMNN instead of Google News, et al?
[T]he business model behind the effort is very different from those of online news aggregators, too. Instead of page views, participants will get half the revenues for any ads they sell, and half the revenues generated by any content they contribute.
A rant about the APMNN in a moment — but it’s interesting that the collective is working on a new model that would pool monetary gain for the journalistic resources contributed.
And the business model behind the effort is very different from those of online news aggregators, too. Instead of page views, participants will get half the revenues for any ads they sell, and half the revenues generated by any content they contribute.
Some enterprising YouTuber/Digger was looking at the video of the WNYW/Fox 5 intro, when he noticed something. Of course, now some people on YouTube and Digg assume it’s a conspiracy…
Adds TeeVee in comments: “So they accidentally keyed the open over the wrong source. I really don’t watch Fox or lean that way, but this looks like a mistake.”
The massive combo of the Wall Street Journal, WWOR, WNYW, New York Post and Newsday won’t come to pass. News Corp. was bidding in the $580 million range - but the New York Times reports that it backed off, and a $650 million bid from Cablevision was likely to take the prize.
