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July 9th, 2011

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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab Glucophage Over The Counter, on June 17, 2011.]

The Guardian's digital leap: The Guardian has long been one of the top newspapers on the web, but this week, the British paper announced a major step in its development as a digital news organization with a transition to a "digital first" operation. So what exactly does that mean. Essentially, that the Guardian will pour more of its resources (especially financial) into its digital operation in an effort to double its digital revenues within the next five years.

Like at many papers, the Guardian's print side is sagging severely, Glucophage gel, ointment, cream, pill, spray, continuous-release, extended-release. According to execs, the paper's parent company could run out of cash in three to five years if things don't change. As the Press Gazette's Dominic Ponsford noted, this move indicates that the Guardian doesn't believe that print decline can be stopped or reversed, Glucophage Over The Counter.

But at the same time, Guardian execs told paidContent they're not abandoning print entirely, Glucophage pharmacy, just reconfiguring it for the digital era. That includes transforming the daily paper into a more analysis-heavy edition that's meant to read in the evening. As Yahoo's Joe Pompeo reported, the transformation also involves forming a newsroom for a new U.S.-based site.

The Guardian's executives believe this digital transition will be inevitable for newspapers: "All newspapers will ultimately exit print, but we’re putting no timeframe on that, herbal Glucophage," said Guardian Media Group CEO Andrew Miller. Ponsford said Glucophage Over The Counter, that while this is a watershed moment for the Guardian, it doesn't necessarily mean the end of print for Britain's national press. And NYU j-prof Jay Rosen saw the Guardian as staking out the open approach to the web, alongside the Times' gated approach and the New York Times' metered one.

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Strengthening local journalism: The FCC released its report on the state of local journalism late last week, Buy cheap Glucophage no rx, and some of the interesting conversation surrounding it bled over into this week. Free Press' Josh Stearns responded with a thoughtful post about journalism and institutions in which he made the point that the report predominantly addresses structural factors, when journalism's cultural climate may be more damaging in its ability to keep institutions in check. "The contradiction at the center of the recent FCC report – that citizens have more tools than ever to be watchdogs, but have less power than ever to hold institutions accountable – highlights one of the most troubling aspects of the shifting journalism landscape," Stearns wrote.

The study didn't offer much in the way of solutions (especially government-based ones), doses Glucophage work, largely leaving news organizations to figure out how to combat these problems on their own. Mathew Ingram of GigaOM saw that message as a worthwhile one, while Jessica Clark of PBS MediaShift viewed that as a weakness, Glucophage Over The Counter. Ars Technica's Matthew Lasar focused on a different aspect of the report: The idea that the Internet has "hamsterized" journalism, forcing reporters to focus on smaller, more time-sensitive stories, Order Glucophage from United States pharmacy, rather than larger, more significant ones.

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Finding space for articles and stories: Another discussion carried over from the past couple of weeks: CUNY j-prof Jeff Jarvis' post late last month describing the article as "luxury or byproduct" of the journalistic process created a bit of a stir when he published it, and that discussion was renewed this week when French media consultant Frederic Filloux argued against Jarvis' point, saying instead that articles have become more essential in the age of the tweet: "Articles are more necessary than ever to understand and to correct excesses and mistakes resulting from an ever expanding flurry of instant coverage," he said, Glucophage description.

Jarvis replied that he's not intending to devalue the article, but to elevate its value to something worthy of serious, focused effort. "Too many articles passing themselves off as professional journalism are crap and I say we can’t afford to do that anymore. Glucophage Over The Counter, I say we should treat articles with veneration as a luxury," he said. GigaOM's Mathew Ingram tried to reconcile those two positions in a can't-we-all-just-get-along post. Glucophage blogs, TBD's Steve Buttry added to the discussion with a distinction between "story" and "article." An article is a set of facts usually oriented around the 5 W's, Buttry said, but a story has narrative arc and is built around plot, character, and setting. One can live on without the other, Glucophage class, he argued. "Perhaps the news article and the text narrative will survive in some form in journalism. But if they fade into journalism’s history, storytelling and journalism can still survive and thrive."

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Online community and local news: Within the Nieman Foundation's Justice League for journalism, there were a couple of cool collections of articles published this week that you'll probably want to take a look at. Purchase Glucophage for sale, The first comes from Nieman Reports, whose summer issue, released this week, focuses on journalism's role in fostering connections and community online. The issue contains dozens of bright pieces on the subject, including Public Radio International's Michael Skoler on community as a business model, former NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard on online comments, Emily Olson of the Register-Citizen on the newsroom cafe, and Kentucky j-prof Al Cross on rural community journalism, Glucophage Over The Counter.

The other set of posts were here at the Lab, based on an FCC study on the decline of web-based local news, Glucophage recreational. George Washington j-prof Nikki Usher gave a fine summary of the study, emphasizing the small role that local news, whether affiliated with traditional news orgs or not, has in the U.S. Glucophage australia, uk, us, usa, online ecosystem. Before you get too depressed about the study, though, you should check out Lab editor Joshua Benton's cautionary notes about the findings. Benton also broke the data out by community Glucophage Over The Counter, , giving us some fascinating geographical data to play with.

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Reading roundup: After last week's Applepalooza, it was a relatively slow week this week, effects of Glucophage. Here are a few more of the highlights:

— In our now-weekly look at the world of AOL, the Los Angeles Times' James Rainey wrote a feature on Patch taking it to task for falling short of its grand local-media aspirations, Buying Glucophage online over the counter, and GigaOM's Mathew Ingram said AOL's profitability plans for Patch are wishful thinking. Street Fight's Alex Salkever, meanwhile, said Patch's main problem is bad pay.

— The Journal Register Co.'s John Paton posted the text and slides from a talk detailing his newspaper company's "Digital First" transformation, with plenty of advice for other local newspapers, Glucophage online cod.

— Several useful sets of tips for journalists: NPR's Matt Thompson on ways journalists can take advantage of evolving content management systems, Poynter's Jeff Sonderman on Facebook news publishing from a newly Facebook-only news org, and Amy Gahran's basic toolkit for online journalistic engagement.

— Pew released a study on online social networks and American life, and it's sure to have a boatload of interesting data for researchers, news orgs, or anyone else interested in social media.

— Finally, here at the Lab, Brain Pickings editor Maria Popova wrote a smart post looking at Twitter and the rise of curation as a form of authorship. It's well worth a read.

July 9th, 2011

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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab Diflucan Dosage, on June 10, 2011.]

Apple’s mobile Newsstand is a reality: When Steve Jobs makes an announcement, it’s a pretty good bet that whatever he introduces will be what the media-tech world is talking about for the next week (or month, or year). On Monday, Jobs had plenty to introduce — led by a new Mac operating system (Lion), mobile operating system (iOS 5), and a new cloud service to replace MobileMe (iCloud). Those developments have implications for several different aspects of news and media, Diflucan mg, and I’ll try to run down as many of them as I can.

The most direct impact will likely come from Newsstand, an app Jobs unveiled that will be similar to iBooks, providing a single place for all of a user’s magazine and newspaper app subscriptions.

TechCrunch called it evidence that Apple is emphasizing that the iPad is for reading, while GigaOM’s Mathew Ingram and the Guardian’s Jemima Kiss saw a trade-off for publishers: A simpler subscription interface (which likely means more renewals), but even more control for Apple. For consumers, as the Lab’s Andrew Phelps and Megan Garber noted, purchase Diflucan online no prescription, it’s the closest digital publishing has come to the traditional distribution model of regular home delivery.

Apple’s new operating systems will include a raft of upgrades, many of which overlap with existing third-party apps. The New York Times’ Bits blog has a good breakdown of what apps might be threatened, led by the reading-list creator Instapaper, as Apple will begin offering a similar basic function as part of Safari. Instapaper founder Marco Arment was understandably perturbed by the news, but later reasoned that the upgrade could make saving things to read later a built-in part of the workflow of millions of Apple users — and that if even a small percentage of them want a deluxe version of that service, Instapaper will still be in fine shape. The point was echoed by The Next Web’s Matthew Panzarino and by Andrew and Megan here at the Lab.

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Apple eases up — kind of: Apple made another significant change this week, too, this one without an announcement, Diflucan Dosage. Order Diflucan online c.o.d, As MacRumors discovered yesterday, Apple quietly adjusted its policy on in-app subscriptions, allowing publishers to sell in-app subscriptions for whatever price they want (previously, they had to be at least as cheap as app subscriptions outside Apple’s store) and lifting the requirement that subscriptions must be offered within the app itself.

All Things Digital’s Peter Kafka has a good explanation of the change, noting that Apple may be allowing companies to circumvent its App Store, but it’s not going to let it be easy. (You still can’t, for example, Diflucan without a prescription, include in your app a “Buy” button pointing users to subscribe via your website.) Still, the lifting of the price restriction could be an encouragement for publishers because, as paidContent’s Staci Kramer pointed out, now they can raise prices to absorb Apple’s 30% revenue cut.

But that doesn’t mean publishers will end up taking advantage of their newfound freedoms. The Lab’s Joshua Benton argued that most publishers won’t, Rx free Diflucan, because customers will resist varied app prices and because Apple’s app purchasing system offers some significant value to publishers that might be worth its 30% cut. And media analyst Ken Doctor reminded us that Apple still holds just about all the cards in this hand.

Poynter’s Jeff Sonderman made an interesting observation: Apple seems to be using the adjusted guidelines to funnel app subscriptions into its new Newsstand. Newsstand’s likely prominence still leaves plenty of open questions for publishers (including the ones outlined earlier), Sonderman said.

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The Financial Times hedges its bets on Apple: One publisher stated quite emphatically this week that it’s not going to play Apple’s game: The Financial Times unveiled a mobile web app intended as an alternative to Apple’s App Store-based apps.

By using an HTML5-based app, the FT can design a single app for any major mobile device and get around Apple’s 30 percent cut of app subscriptions, but its apps may get pulled from the App Store. Diflucan Dosage, (The next day, the FT responded to Apple’s new guidelines with what sounded like indignation, sounding as though they’ll charge forward.)

An FT exec told the Guardian that the app was something of a line in the sand, resulting from what he called a “Mexican standoff” with Apple. The move was heralded as a critical one in the tug-of-war between Apple and publishers: All Things Digital called it the first attempt by a major news org to create an HTML5 app that feels just like an App Store app, Diflucan street price, and paidContent said the move was “significant and brave,” especially since its Apple-native apps have been so successful.

Bobbie Johnson of GigaOM wondered if this would be the catalyst news orgs need to start standing up to Apple, and Ken Doctor said the FT’s main value would be in providing a counterweight to the Apple-centric market, as well as experiments for other news orgs to learn from. Benedict Evans, Diflucan cost, meanwhile, said the FT may have a dedicated readership to pull this off where other news orgs can’t.

There were a few voices pushing back against the “FT goes to war with Apple” narrative: Noting that the FT says it has no plans of leaving the App Store, the Lab’s Andrew Phelps argued that “FT’s web app could be less about shunning Apple and more about working with it: keeping one foot inside Apple’s garden, and the other outside.” Doctor talked about the FT’s strategy as a blueprint for news orgs to use Apple as Apple uses them.

And both Phelps and Poynter’s Jeff Sonderman noted that the FT’s not the first news org to try this approach, as NPR and others have dabbled in HTML5 apps before. U.K.-based journalist Kevin Anderson reviewed the app and concluded that HTML5 will soon be “the standard that enables the next wave of cross-platform innovation."

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The metered model gets a closer look: Ever since early last year, when the New York Times announced its plans to charge for its website through a metered model, Diflucan canada, mexico, india, that form of online paid content has gotten far more attention than any other. This week, French media consultant Frederic Filloux offered a useful explainer for the model, detailing how it works, what goes into publishers’ decisions about how to implement them, Online buying Diflucan, and where they fit among other paid-content models. One of its major appeals, he argued, is that advertisers see visitors who have paid up as much more valuable, paying as much as a 30 percent premium to reach them.

Filloux presented the metered model as a way of combating the overreliance on one-time, fly-by web visitors by news sites, Diflucan Dosage. British journalist Kevin Anderson echoed those concerns, calling for news orgs to “move to more honest and realistic metrics” and separate out “bounce” visitors, or those who stay on the site for only a few seconds, from their traffic figures. Meanwhile, Filloux’s metered-model math didn’t sway GigaOM’s Mathew Ingram, Diflucan results, who said he still opposes it as a fundamentally backwards-facing strategy.

Another piece of paid-content news worth noting briefly: Outgoing Fox News personality Glenn Beck’s new Internet broadcast-style network will employ a monthly subscription fee. You can check out the commentary on his venture at Mediagazer.

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A local reporting crisis: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission added fuel to the long-simmering discussion over the future of accountability reporting in a digital media environment this week, releasing a study finding that the U.S. faces a critical shortage of local reporting, leaving local governmental bodies with an alarming power to influence the news agenda without being checked.

As the Lab’s Megan Garber noted, Diflucan from mexico, its bleak picture of local reporting and many of its proposed solutions were nothing new, except for its recommendation that the government make efforts to funnel advertising into local media, rather than national. Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan said now is a ripe time Diflucan Dosage, for a local news reporting resurgence and urged young reporters to stay away from media centers like New York and flock to small towns instead, and the Atlantic Wire’s Adam Clark Estes looked at how to make that resurgence a reality.

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A crackup at AOL?: Henry Blodget of Business Insider calculated a tidbit about the post-merger AOL which, if true, is pretty startling: It now has a larger editorial staff than The New York Times. But just because the new, content-oriented AOL is big doesn’t mean it’s stable. A few days earlier, Business Insider published an anonymous note by an AOL staffer painting a picture of a corporate culture marked by paranoia, buy Diflucan no prescription, dissension, and incompetence.

In a more thoroughly reported story, Forbes’ Jeff Bercovici found a similarly grim situation at AOL, revealing a misunderstanding on AOL’s part about how the Huffington Post’s business model works and a dysfunctional sales department, among other problems. Business Insider came back later in the week with a conversation with an anonymous Patch editor who described low morale, Diflucan dose, sagging ad sales, poor leadership and a clueless business model.

Gawker’s Ryan Tate combed through the two pieces for a good, quick rundown of the charges levied against Arianna Huffington, and the Atlantic Wire’s John Hudson also put together a good summary of what’s wrong.

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Reading roundup: Whew. Here’s what else folks were talking about this week:

— We found out a bit more about the New York Times’ new executive editor, Jill Abramson. Here are profiles and interviews from the New York Observer, get Diflucan, Los Angeles Times, Guardian, Adweek, Low dose Diflucan, and Women’s Wear Daily. Don’t have time for all that, Diflucan Dosage. The Atlantic Wire has a good roundup.

— A new site worth keeping an eye on, especially for sports fans: Grantland, a project of ESPN columnist Bill Simmons, launched this week. Simmons has called it a Miramax to ESPN’s Disney, and former ESPNer Dan Shanoff is optimistic about its chances. Simmons said he’s not into chasing pageviews, and here at the Lab, Tim Carmody looked at Simmons’ effort to find success at the intersection of sports and pop culture.

— Also at the Lab, Justin Ellis took a look at Hacks/Hackers and the future of the niche Q&A site.

— The Knight Digital Media Center’s Amy Gahran suggested the “Lego approach” to storytelling as a way to add context and integration to journalism.

— Finally, one great practical piece and another one to think on. At the Columbia Journalism Review, Craig Silverman got some fantastic tips from various social media experts about how to verify information on social media, and NYU j-prof Jay Rosen took stock of where “pro-am journalism” is and where it’s headed.

July 9th, 2011

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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab Zoloft Dosage, on June 3, 2011.]

The Times' new top dog: There's no question what the top story is this week: For the first time in eight years, the U.S.' most prominent news organization, The New York Times, will have a new executive editor. And for the first time ever, that editor will be a woman. The Times announced yesterday that Bill Keller will be stepping down from the job to be a columnist, and managing editor Jill Abramson will move into the top spot, with former Los Angeles Times editor Dean Baquet taking her current position. Zoloft wiki, To hear the Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz tell it, the timing of the move was a surprise, but Abramson's appointment was not.

So who is Jill Abramson, and what does her appointment mean for the future of digital news at the Times. This New York magazine profile from last year and Adweek backgrounder give a good basic picture — she's a longtime Wall Street Journal investigative reporter who's been at the Times for 14 years, and she's known as a blunt, critical editor, Zoloft Dosage.

As for her webbiness, the Lab's Joshua Benton looked briefly through her history to find signs of a generally positive attitude toward digital media (she led the integration of the Times' print and web newsrooms, kjøpe Zoloft på nett, köpa Zoloft online, and spent five months immersing herself in the Times' digital side last year). Poynter found some 2010 quotes in which Abramson was pro-multiplatform news and anti-citizen journalism. Abramson also talked to Ad Age about breaking down a print-based newsroom publishing culture and about her commitment to the Times' paywall.

We also learned that Abramson doesn't plan to continue Keller's feud with Arianna Huffington, and has a "fervent belief" in narrative nonfiction writing. Zoloft Dosage, And she got the seal of approval from former Times social media editor Jennifer Preston, who tweeted: "For all of you wondering about Jill Abramson and the Web. Cheap Zoloft no rx, Jill gets it. And she's fearless. We're lucky."

Then, of course, there's Keller. In various interviews, he talked about why he left now — because he wanted to hand the job off when things were going well, Zoloft interactions, and he wanted to make sure the paywall was instituted and the newsroom integrated first. He also said the job switched from being mostly about journalism to being mostly about business, and talked about how brutal it was to go through the recession at the Times, Zoloft Dosage. The American Journalism Review's Rem Rieder praised his ability to keep the Times in relatively good shapethrough such a tough stretch.

As for what's next, Reuters' Felix Salmon said one of Abramson's primary tasks will be making the Times a more transparent place, and Poynter's Jill Geisler said her promotion could help push other newsrooms to move women into positions of leadership. No prescription Zoloft online, —

How necessary is the news article?: This week's most interesting discussion grew out of last week's devastating tornado in Joplin, Missouri — specifically, New York Times writer Brian Stelter's reporting of the story from Joplin on Twitter. On his blog, Stelter gave a blow-by-blow of his reporting there, concluding, "I think my best reporting was on Twitter." GigaOM's Mathew Ingram praised Stelter's work as evidence that the Times is becoming more open to the open web, online buying Zoloft hcl, and Rowan j-prof Mark Berkey-Gerard talked about why it made a great example for journalism students.

CUNY j-prof Jeff Jarvis used Stelter's Twitter reporting to argue Zoloft Dosage, that the article is no longer the core journalistic product, but a byproduct of the journalistic process. "When digital comes first and print last, then the article is something you need to put together to fill the paper; it’s not the goal of the entire process," he wrote. "The process is the goal of the process: keeping the public constantly informed."

The Sacramento Press' Ben Ilfeld took the point further, calling the article an "antiquated by product not of good journalism, but a quickly fading era." And Jonathan Glick of Sulia said the article is being divorced into quick, mobile-friendly news nuggets and analytical, Zoloft long term, long-form journalism.

Mathew Ingram tweaked Jarvis' argument, saying that while Twitter is critical in the reporting process, it hardly renders articles unnecessary. (Jarvis responded by asserting that Ingram was mischaracterizing his argument.) South Carolina j-prof Doug Fisher tried to reconcile the two positions, pointing out that what journalists call a news "story" isn't really one: Instead, it's a "factoid exposition that tries to impose structure on often unstructured events." And Jarvis looked for a different name for "long-form journalism" — something that doesn't imply that length equals intelligence, Zoloft treatment.

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Hackers target PBS: When various corporations and government entities tightened the screws on WikiLeaks last December, the loose online activism collective Anonymous descended on those groups' sites with a series of attacks. This week, a different online group turned their attacks toward a news organization for the first time in defense of WikiLeaks, Zoloft Dosage. The new group, which calls itself LulzSec, hacked the PBS website last weekend in response to a Frontline documentary on WikiLeaks, Buy Zoloft online cod, publishing thousands of passwords and posting a fake story on the PBS homepage about Tupac being found alive. Then, a couple of days later, LulzSec hacked PBS' site again.

PBS NewsHour found ways to get their news out without their website, posting to Tumblr and talking to viewers on Facebook. Poynter's Jeff Sonderman used the opportunity to provide a helpful list of tips for news organizations on preparing for a potential hack, australia, uk, us, usa.

One of LulzSec's members talked to Parmy Olson of Forbes about the attack Zoloft Dosage, , saying that while they certainly weren't pleased by the documentary, their primary goal was entertainment. That's not how it was seen at PBS, though. The New York Times' Brian Stelter reported that the attacks were perceived at PBS as "attempts to chill independent journalism." "This is what repressive governments do," Frontline executive producer David Fanning told him. "This is what people who don’t want information out in the world do — they try to shut the presses." NewsHour reporter Judy Woodruff expressed a similar sentiment in a column on PBS' (since restored) site.

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An iPad dissenter: Magazine publishers have been among the most eager media organizations to jump onto the iPad, Zoloft without prescription, but one publisher, Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner, pushed back against that enthusiasm this week. Wenner said tablet editions aren't particularly useful for magazine readers, and not cost-effective for publishers, either. It'll be a generation or two before the shift from to tablets is decisive, he said, Zoloft Dosage. Wenner advised publishers to be attuned to changes in technology, Zoloft no prescription, but cautioned that "to rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear."

Forbes' Jeff Bercovici ridiculed Wenner's statements, recounting his history of web aversion and the way it's hurt his magazine. Advertising Age's Nat Ives, who conducted the Wenner interview, pointed out elsewhere that magazine readers' demographics aren't exactly improving. My Zoloft experience, Elsewhere in the world of the iPad: Fox News and the San Francisco Chronicle launched their apps, the New York Times offered a steep iPad discount for some people already getting free web subscriptions, and Nomad Editions is working on at least seven more new iPad-based magazines. But a Nielsen Norman Group study found that many iPad app designers are confusing users by requiring gestures that are too subtle, resulting in apps that can be tougher to use than the organization's own website.

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Web filters and broadening our horizons: One other thought-provoking conversation worth noting: It started last week with a New York Times column Zoloft Dosage, by MoveOn.org's Eli Pariser, who argued that while the modern digital media environment has broken down the old system of traditional-media gatekeepers, it's set up a new set of gatekeepers in its place — not people this time, but code.

Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing reviewed the book on which Pariser's column was based, and while he agreed with some of Pariser's premises, purchase Zoloft, he countered that Pariser underestimates the power of our personally controlled filtering devices to put a check on some of the online manipulation he describes. GigaOM's Mathew Ingram, on the other hand, argued that our problem is not having too many filters, but not having enough. Generic Zoloft, Information overload, he said, is a greater danger right now than hyper-personalization.

At Snarkmarket, Tim Carmody said that what Pariser's concerned about is not so much narrowing of opinions as narrowing of interests. That's a new-media incarnation of an old problem, he said, and the web has the ability to help solve it too: "we’re often unaware of what’s happening in the next room, where there is frequently plenty of useful stuff that we could port into our own special areas of interest, Zoloft Dosage. We need to make sure we’re taking advantage of the web’s built-in ability to move laterally."

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Reading roundup: A few smaller items to keep an eye on this week:

— A couple of leftovers from the discussion on Twitter over the past few weeks: The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal on Twitter's oral culture, media consultant Frederic Filloux on why Bill Keller's criticism of Twitter (and Twitter for itself, for that matter) doesn't carry much weight, and the Lab's Megan Garber with a fantastic post on why discourse on Twitter is so difficult to classify.

— Two pieces with some great tips on engagement: Mallary Jean Tenore of Poynter with some doable steps for journalists, and the Journal Register Co.'s Steve Buttry with advice on local engagement on Twitter.

— Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt always makes headlines when he gives public interviews like he did at the All Things Digital conference this week, and the Lab's Joshua Benton focused on one aspect that could be of particular for news organizations: Google's efforts to answer your questions before you even get to the search stage.

— Two great pieces to leave you with: The always-thoughtful Jonathan Stray threw out a few ideas on developing collaborative systems for investigative journalism, and Toronto Star vet Judy Sims shared a speech she gave with nine principles for newspapers to follow to adapt to the abundant-media era.

June 1st, 2011

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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab Retin A Cost, on May 27, 2011.]

Censorship, the law, and Twitter: If we hadn't already learned how social media are opening the traditional media's gatekeeping role to the masses, we got a pretty good object lesson this week in Britain. Here's what happened: To keep the British tabloids from digging into an alleged affair with a reality TV star, Manchester United soccer star Ryan Giggs took out a British court provision called a super-injunction that prohibits media from identifying him and reporting on both the story and the very fact that a super-injunction exists.

But the super-injunction was no match for Facebook, Twitter, and soccer forums, where thousands of people talked about Giggs and the affair in spite of (and because of) the order, where can i cheapest Retin A online. Since then, a Scottish newspaper and a member of Parliament have both named Giggs, rendering the super-injunction essentially ineffective and causing quite a bit of handwringing over whether gag orders are a lost cause in the Twitter age, and whether or not that's a good thing.

Giggs sued Twitter for the breach, Taking Retin A, and some members of Parliament started looking for ways to control the site. Prime Minister David Cameron said Twitter made Britain's injunctions "unfair" and "unsustainable" for traditional media and urged Parliament to change them, Retin A Cost. Some people, including World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee and the Guardian's Richard Hillgrove, said the problem lies with Twitter, not the law, with Hillgrove (rather absurdly) suggesting a delay mechanism to monitor posts before they go up: "Twitter and Facebook are not blank sheets of paper. They are media publishers like any other."

Others faulted the law instead: At the Guardian, Retin A steet value, Dan Gillmor said it allows the wealthy to play by different rules, and the Telegraph'sHarry Mount said that thanks to the web, "a form of people power has been effectively absorbed into that new body of privacy law." The Vancouver Sun's Mario Canseco documented the failure of gag orders in the Internet age in Canada, and Mathew Ingram of GigaOM advised courts and governments to quit trying to enforce antiquated laws, saying they "may not like the implications of a totally distributed real-time information network, Purchase Retin A for sale, but they are going to have to start living with it sooner rather than later."

Then, of course, there's the question of whether the anonymous online super-injunction violators have any legal repercussions to worry about. As the New York Times noted, Twitter has been resistant to turning over its users' identities in the past, though a Twitter official said this week it will hand over user info to the authorities if it's legally required to. But even with Twitter's compliance, where can i order Retin A without prescription, there would still be hurdles to clear in identifying users, the Telegraph explained.

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iPad channels for big and small media Retin A Cost, : Several big-media publications neared or hit iPad milestones this week: On stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, The Daily's Greg Clayman said it's nearing a million downloads since it was launched in January. Clayman wouldn't say how many paid subscribers the News Corp. iPad-only publication has (a far more interesting figure in determining The Daily's viability), but Adweek's Lucia Moses said The Daily will announce its number of paid downloads — it only started charging in March — once it hits a "target level."

Meanwhile, Cheap Retin A no rx, Wired and GQ were made available for in-app subscriptions through Apple App Store this week, after their owner, Condé Nast, became one of the first major publishers to strike a deal with Apple for in-app subscriptions earlier this month. Another major publication, Playboy, launched an iPad subscription outside the App Store, buy Retin A online cod, because it obviously has some difficulty complying with Apple's "no nudity" policy.

Playboy's app is essentially an iPad-optimized website, which might seem like a tempting option for publishers who don't want to deal with Apple's restrictions, but as Mashable and GigaOM explained, Playboy might be uniquely positioned to pull this off where others can't. GigaOM's Mathew Ingram looked at those cases and weighed the pluses and minuses for publishers of getting into bed with Apple, Retin A Cost. Buy Retin A from canada, Of course, big publishers aren't the only ones getting into the iPad game: At paidContent, Ashley Norris, CEO of a small publishing company that just released an iPad app, argued that indie publishers could play a key role in developing the tablet magazine. Flipboard is a pretty ideal model for those publishers: It's valued at $200 million, and SiliconAngle's Tom Foremski said it exemplifies the current en vogue tech-bubble business plan: "find free content and organize it into a useful interface." That niche might not play as big of a part in the iPad market as we think, buy cheap Retin A, though: As Poynter's Jeff Sonderman noted via ReadWriteWeb, news apps make up only 3% of all the apps in the App Store.

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Driving more traffic from Facebook: Facebook has been working hard lately to cozy up to news organizations, and this week it provided some statistics that may have some of those organizations looking more closely at integrating Facebook into their sites. According to stats Search Engine Land got from Facebook (so grain of salt, Taking Retin A, etc.), the average media site integrated with Facebook has gotten a 300% jump in Facebook referral traffic, and ABC News, the Washington Post, and the Huffington Post have all reportedly doubled their traffic from Facebook since adding social plugins. Retin A Cost, Meanwhile, Fortune's Peter Lauria talked to Facebook's Vadim Lavrusik about the possibility of news orgs charging on Facebook using Facebook credits, like some Facebook games do now.

As it's been known to do, Facebook played a big role in the aftermath of another natural disaster this week when a tornado hit Joplin, Retin A dose, Missouri. The local newspaper, the Joplin Globe, told Poynter about how they set up a Facebook page to help people find family and friends in the tornado's wake.

Elsewhere in social media and news, Is Retin A safe, the New York Times experimented this week with a human-powered Twitter feed, as opposed to its usual mostly automatically driven style. The Times' Liz Heron (and a couple of other newspaper social media editors) talked to Poynter's Jeff Sonderman about their Twitter strategies, and Jessica Roy of 10,000 Words looked at how the experiment changed the Times' Twitter feed. Heron also revealed the Times' informal social media guidelines at the BBC's Social Media Summit: "Use common sense and don't be stupid."

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Reading roundup: Not a lot of big future-of-news stories this week, a several smaller things worth keeping an eye on:

— Google notified publishers late last week that it's abandoning its project to scan and archive hundreds of years of old newspapers, Retin A Cost. The Atlantic's Adam Clark Estes lamented the decision, and Paul Balcerak urged newspapers to pick up where Google left off, Retin A images.

— This week's AOL/Huffington Post bits and pieces: Huffington Post Canada has been launched, AOL's Daily Finance has been made over, and some HuffPo staff are reportedly leaving because they're upset with how the AOL/HuffPo marriage has gone so far. Meanwhile, even though AOL's content is free, Retin A reviews, CEO Tim Armstrong expressed his general belief in paid content online.

— Ben Huh of the Cheezburger network of comedy sites announced he's working on what he's calling the Moby Dick Project — an effort to reform the way news is presented and consumed online. ReadWriteWeb gave more details Retin A Cost, of the type of software he's developing.

— A couple of addenda to last week's linking discussion: Former Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Fry wrote about solving the workflow issue at newspapers, and at the Guardian, Dan Gillmor called out lazy linking — linking to a summary, rather than the original piece — in online aggregation.

— CUNY j-prof Jeff Jarvis made a case for news as conversation and the value of comments, rx free Retin A, and at 10,000 Words, Alex Schmidt wrote about the way poisonous online comments can affect reporters.

— Finally, Canadian media consultant Ken Goldstein issued a paper looking at decline circulation of newspapers in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. He included a possibly remarkably prescient 1964 quotation by media theorist Marshall McLuhan: "The classified ads (and stock-market quotations) are the bedrock of the press. Should an alternative source of easy access to such diverse daily information be found, the press will fold.".

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Twitter on the brain: Last week, New York Times executive editor Bill Keller got a rise out of a lot of folks online with one of the shortest of his 21 career tweets: "#TwitterMakesYouStupid. Discuss." Keller revealed the purpose of his social experiment this week in a column arguing, in so many words, that Twitter may be dulling your humanity, and probably making you stupid, too. Here's the money quote: "my inner worrywart wonders whether the new technologies overtaking us may be eroding characteristics that are essentially human: our ability to reflect, real brand Bactrim online, our pursuit of meaning, genuine empathy, a sense of community connected by something deeper than snark or political affinity."

This, as you might imagine, did not go over particularly well online. Bactrim used for, There were a couple strains of reaction: Business Insider's Henry Blodget and All Twitter's Lauren Dugan argued that Twitter may indeed be changing us, but for the good, by helping make previously impossible connections.

Alexia Tsotsis of TechCrunch and Mike Masnick of Techdirt countered Keller by saying that while Twitter isn't built for deep conversations, it is quite good at providing an entry point for such discussion: "What you see publicly posted on Twitter and Facebook is just the tip of the conversation iceberg," Tsotsis said. GigaOM's Mathew Ingram, meanwhile, defended Twitter's true social nature, and sociologist Zeynep Tufekci gave a fantastic breakdown of what Twitter does and doesn't do culturally and socially, Purchase Bactrim.

Two of the most eloquent responses were provided by Nick Bilton, Bactrim brand name, one of Keller's own employees, and by Gizmodo's Mat Honan. Bilton pointed out that our brains have shown a remarkable ability to adapt quickly to new technologies without sacrificing old capacities. (Be sure to check out Keller's response afterward.)

Honan made a similar argument: Keller, he said, Bactrim schedule, is confusing the medium with the message, and Twitter, like any technology, is what you make it. "If you choose to do superficial things there, you will have superficial experiences. If you use it to communicate with others on a deeper level, you can have more meaningful experiences that make you smarter, Bactrim for sale, build lasting relationships, and generally enhance your life," Honan wrote.

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Google gets more local with news Purchase Bactrim, : Google News unveiled a few interesting changes in the past week, starting with the launch of "News near you." Google has sorted news by location for a while now, but this feature will allow smartphone users to automatically get local news wherever they are. ReadWriteWeb's Dan Rowinski explained why newspapers should be worried about Google moving further onto their local-news turf, and GigaOM's Mathew Ingram criticized newspapers for not coming up with like this themselves. Cheap Bactrim, Poynter's Jeff Sonderman, on the other hand, said Google's feature is still in need of some human curation to go with its algorithmic aggregation. That's an area in which local newspapers can still dominate, he said, but it'll require some technological catchup, as well as a willingness to get over fears about linking to competitors, Bactrim over the counter.

Another change, not publicized by Google News but spotted by the folks at Search Engine Land, was the addition of an option to allow users to filter out blogs and press releases from their results. This raised the question, what exactly does Google consider a blog, Purchase Bactrim. Google told Search Engine Land it relies on a variety of factors to make that decision, especially self-identification. Bactrim coupon, Mathew Ingram ripped this classification, and urged Google to put everything that contains news together in Google News and let readers sort it out.

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Fitting linking into news' workflow: A discussion about linking has been simmering on Twitter on and off over the past few weeks, and it began to come together into something useful this week. This round of the conversation started with a post by web thinker and scholar Doc Searls, who wondered why news organizations don't link out more often. Purchase Bactrim, In the comments, the Chicago Tribune's Brian Boyer suggested that one reason is that many newspapers' CMS's and workflows are print-centric, making linking logistically difficult.

CUNY j-prof C.W, purchase Bactrim online no prescription. Anderson responded that the workflow issue isn't much of an excuse, saying, as he put it on Twitter: "At this point 'linking' has been around for twenty years. The fact that this is STILL a workflow issue is almost worse than not caring." This kicked off a sprawling debate on Twitter, aptly chronicled via Storify by Mathew Ingram and Alex Byers. Bactrim wiki, Ingram also wrote a post responding to a few of the themes of resistance of links, particularly the notion that information on the web is inferior to information gained by old-fashioned reporting.

British journalist Kevin Anderson took on the workflow issue in particular, noting how outdated many newspaper CMS's are and challenging them to catch up technologically: "It’s an industrial workflow operating in a digital age, Purchase Bactrim. It’s really only down to ‘that’s the way we’ve always done it’ thinking that allows such a patently inefficient process to persist."

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AOL's continued makeover: Another week, another slew of personnel moves at AOL. PaidContent's David Kaplan reported that AOL is hiring "a bunch" of new (paid) editors and shuffling some current employees around after its layoff of hundreds this spring. Overall, Kaplan wrote, doses Bactrim work, this is part of the continued effort to put the Huffington Post's stamp on AOL's editorial products.

One of the AOL entities most affected by the shifts is Seed, which had been a freelance network, but will now fall under AOL's advertising area as a business-to-business product. Purchase Bactrim, Saul Hansell, who was hired in 2009 to run Seed, is moving to HuffPo to edit its new "Big News" features. In a blog post, Bactrim long term, Hansell talked about what this means for HuffPo and for Seed.

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Reading roundup: As always, plenty of other stuff get to this week, Purchase Bactrim.

— We mentioned a Pew report's reference to the Drudge Report's influence in last week's review, Where can i find Bactrim online, and this week the New York Times' David Carr marveled at Drudge's continued success without many new-media bells and whistles. Poynter's Julie Moos looked at Drudge's traffic over the years, while the Washington Post disputed Pew's numbers. ZDNet's David Gewirtz had five lessons Drudge can teach the rest of the media world.

— A few paid-content items: A Nielsen survey on what people are willing to pay for various mobile services, Poynter's Rick Edmonds on the New York Times' events marketing for its pay plan, and the Lab's Justin Ellis on paid-content lessons from small newspapers, online buying Bactrim hcl. Purchase Bactrim, — A couple of tablet-related items: Next Issue Media, a joint effort of five publishers to sell magazines on tablets, released its first set of magazines on Google Android-powered Samsung Galaxy. And here at the Lab, Ken Doctor expounded on the iPad as the "missing link" in news' digital evolution.

— Columbia University announced it will launch a local news site this summer focusing on accountability journalism, and the Lab's Megan Garber gave some more details about what Columbia's doing with it.

— The Columbia Journalism Review's Lauren Kirchner had an interesting conversation with Slate's David Plotz about Slate's aggregation efforts, and in response, Reuters' Felix Salmon made the case for valuing aggregation skills in journalists.

— This weekend's think piece is a musing by Maria Bustillos at The Awl on Wikipedia, Marshall McLuhan, communal knowledge-making, and the fate of the expert. Enjoy.

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