Another example of how some big news sites giving increasing access to developers to use niche content areas on their sites: New York Times has come up with a movie reviews API (application programming interface) that lets them tap into its 80-year archive of movie reviews and related information in unique ways. As the Times…
Brilliant it is as an idea. Maybe even a bit dangerous. And I’m not sure how useful it is. Its a tool that sits in the lower right hand corner of the user’s browser and “shows the bias of the site currently being viewed.” We are talking about political bias here; the widget comes from…
“No longer are we restricted to a template as stale and inflexible as a dyed-in-the-wool Stalinist after the fall of the Berlin Wall: it’s easy to change the fronts to best reflect the news agenda and promote our content.” – From a post of The Guardian sports editor describing the features of the site’s redesigned…
The first part of OJR’s new series on the state of independent local online news start-ups looks at how online-only news sites are in some places “establishing themselves as players in their hometown media landscapes.” Some of the points made: -They come in all sizes and shapes, but the number of communities served by online-only…
The Guardian has become the first major news site to offer the full text of its news items and articles in its RSS feeds. Google Reader hailed this change in its blog post recently, stating, “This is a huge first step in making more content available in more places, and we applaud The Guardian for…
So says Jeff Jarvis in a piece in The Guardian. “It’s not an article, a story, a section, a bureau, a paper, a show, a search engine. It’s something new. What do we call it? The topic table? The beat bliki (ouch)? The news brain? I don’t know. We’ll know what to call it when…
Media ownership and consolidation is an issue that many parts of the world face and the problems arising from it were discussed at the Media Democracy Day 2008 (MDD) organised at the Vancouver Public Library, Canada, a couple of days ago, reports The Epoch Times. Among other things, the possibility of using “new media” to…
The Malaysian government regarded online news portals and weblogs as mainstream media because they have become more popular than traditional news sources. According to this story in The Sun Daily (reported on other sites as well), the country’s Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Syed Albar said at a media colloquium some days ago that…
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