“Qualitative news is a powerful determinant affecting stock prices and corporate reputations,” Newssift’s mission statement reads. “However, this type of news has been difficult to search and nearly impossible to analyze through keyword searches alone.” (more…)

According to an article in Advertising Age, this midtail miscellany — the specialty of Next New and a few other shops — is the only online programming that scores sizable audiences, along with overlay ads, banner ads and creepy brand integrations. Midtail is bankable, then. Therefore, it’s there.

via The Medium – Are ‘Midtails’ the Future of Television? – NYTimes.com.

There are incredible stores of value locked up in twitter’s asymmetrical social graph, and the Hourly Press very elegantly taps them.

via Joshua Young, Curating the News Two Ways « Networked News.

[I]t seems in line with other semantic-web efforts across the industry that seek to automate reporting and create structure out of unwieldy data. Thomson Reuters, for instance, relies on software to extract key figures from SEC filings for nearly instantaneous reports on, say, a company’s quarterly earnings.

NYT wedding announcements marry the semantic web » Nieman Journalism Lab.

“I do see value in fresh content, but the ‘real-time’ cases feel more like chat than like search,” he says. “Search is a vague concept, but it at least should involve looking for information rather than just participating in a conversation.”

via Joseph Tartakoff, The Inside Word: Why Real-Time Search Is Overrated | paidContent.