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By: I love it when people try to work out what I want « Chris Brew's Blog

I love it when people try to work out what I want « Chris Brew's Blog — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:45:56 +0000

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Conversations Without Borders | Social Media Commando — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:05:21 +0000

[...] The inspiration for this post comes from two stories. The first is Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s Op-Ed in the WSJ about ‘How Google Can Help Newspapers’. The second is a GigOM article questioning ‘Does Google Even Understand What News Is’? [...]

By: Kevin Kelleher: ‘Does Google even understand what news is?’ | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:53:01 +0000

[...] Some of GigaOM’s commenters interpreted Schmidt’s piece very differently: “I imagined he was talking about personalising the news the way that Google News already does… not by excluding specific stories that might make you uncomfortable, but by allowing you to focus on the types of stories you find interesting,” writes one. Full post at this link… [...]

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 7, 2009 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:06:12 +0000

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By: americansun

americansun — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:45:41 +0000

Google knows how to be popular.

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Predictions: The Fabulous 5 for 2010 – GigaOM — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:45:32 +0000

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By: jeffmccune

jeffmccune — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:35:14 +0000

Just like the record industry, the news media will learn they have to adapt to the digital age and figure out how to earn micro-payments through digital access. Clinging on to the newspaper is like trying to scale a wall with toilet paper.

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Whodle — Blog — Making Money Off Youtube — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:54:13 +0000

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By: vulgarmorality

vulgarmorality — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:26:27 +0000

News isn’t information – it’s an ideology left over from the industrial age.

See “The rise and fall of the ideology of news”:

http://vulgarmorality.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-ideology-of-news/

By: New Reader

New Reader — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:13:37 +0000

"No one is going to mention on Twitter or Facebook a story cloistered behind a paywall. "

Huh? because people don't tweet about books and movies that people have to pay to get access to millions of times a day? If an article is good and original enough, people will tweet about it, even if behind a paywall.

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By: Kevin Kelleher

Kevin Kelleher — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:15:34 +0000

Stefan, thanks to you and others who have made thoughtful replies here.

I wrote this post after noticing that many people (including me) had repeatedly blasted media executives for being clueless about the Web. There's no argument that, for the most part, this has been the case so far. But what about looking at it from the other way - do Web executives understand news? To me, the question isn't controversial, but logical to ask.

Before the Web, it was mostly top editors who decided what stories you should read. Thanks to Google and others, the distribution of news stories is now more democratic. Just as journalists can stumble in their judgments, why can't engineers and Web executives?

Or to put it another way: 2015 is a long way off. The question of how exactly Google will be personalizing and sending us news is far from settled. So I think it makes sense to ask these questions and have this discussion today.