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SpeakerText wants to free all your words from the prison of your videos » Nieman Journalism Lab.
“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.
Some of you may know that The Economist is in the process of moving their web content management over to Drupal and I am really excited to be joining the team working on the implementation of these publishing tools over the coming months - my mission is to wrangle the Drupal6 interface such that journalists will be able to spend more time doing what they love to do - chasing and writing stories - and less time doing what currently drives them mad - dealing with content publishing tools.via Leisa Reichelt, disambiguity » The Economist/Drupal Project - An introduction.
“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.
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