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  • State of the Industry 2010: Everybody wants Local Online Advertising these days, but the leading analysts don't see eye to eye on how big the market is.
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Industry Calendar

2月 2012
27-29
SNPA, Inland Press Association, Local Media Association, and Texas Press Association.
Key Executives Mega-Conference
San Antonio, TX
3月 2012
13-15
American Cable Association
ACA’s 19th Annual Summit
Washington, D.C., DC
4月 2012
13
National Association of Broadcasters
NABShow
Las Vegas, NV

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Mobile Designers Not Pushing Back Against HTML5
ReadWriteWeb, Feb 3, 2012, 3:04 PM EST
Digital DMAs
Digital Splits Spur Creativity In San Antonio
NetNewsCheck, Feb 1, 2012, 5:04 PM EST
Break-ups in the Web partnerships of some of the Alamo City's traditional media players have produced three of San Antonio’s top digital outlets. The splits have also sparked some creative social and mobile efforts around San Antonio's music scene and beloved Spurs basketball team. Full Story | Add comment
NewsCheckMedia Expands Server Capacity
NetNewsCheck, Feb 1, 2012, 7:38 AM EST
NewsCheckMedia quadrupled its server capacity last evening to ensure smooth operations even during periods of peak traffic. The expansion, completed by midnight on Jan. 31, came just hours after the company’s two continuously updated news websites, NetNewsCheck.com and TVNewsCheck.com, experienced brief outages resulting from too many readers trying to access a story, Agile Alt Media Adapting to Digital Challenge. As always, the tech team at Rackspace did us proud in getting the sites back online after only a few minutes and in upgrading our capacity just a few hours later. Congratulations to NetNewsCheck Editor Michael Depp on a terrific story. We promise the next one won't bring the house down. | Comments (1)
NYT Releases Code To Help Journos Collaborate
Poynter, Jan 27, 2012, 8:23 AM EST
Radio
Google Changes Let Radio Sites Reassess
Radio-Info, Jan 25, 2012, 6:24 AM EST
Daniel Anstandig, co-founder of Listener Driven Radio, on Google's algorithm changes that will penalize sites for having too many ads at the top of the page and what it means for radio sites: "This is a good opportunity for managers to evaluate their site design and examine it for usability. While a lower amount of clutter isn't the only determining factor in how useful or repeat-visit-worthy audiences will deem a site, it's definitely a big one." Link | Add comment
Snappy TV Lets Users Snip And Share TV Clips
Lost Remote, Jan 20, 2012, 2:03 PM EST
Google Goes After 'Above The Fold' Ads
SearchEngineLand, Jan 20, 2012, 7:42 AM EST
Google's new "page layout algorithm" will penalize sites with pages where content is buried under tons of advertisements. Sites using pop-ups, pop-unders or overlay ads will not be impacted by the new algorith. It will only apply to static ads in fixed positions on pages. Link | Add comment
Stream Guys, Haivision Team On Video Managment
NetNewsCheck, Jan 18, 2012, 4:43 PM EST
SD Union-Tribune Owners Mull Media Center
North County Times, Jan 16, 2012, 3:07 PM EST
New owners of The San Diego Union-Tribune Doug Manchester and John Lynch said they could pursue other newspapers or "video and audio" enterprises to wrap into a new media incubator emerging from the newspaper's Mission Valley headquarters. Link | Add comment
USA Today Taps AT&T For QR Codes
MediaPost, Jan 13, 2012, 8:32 AM EST
Gawker's Gizmodo Puts Responsive Design To Use
Nieman Journalism Lab, Jan 11, 2012, 3:26 PM EST
PMN's Incubator Brings New Apps, New Blood
Nieman Journalism Lab, Jan 11, 2012, 2:58 PM EST
Philadelphia Media Network's recently launch Project Liberty Digital Incubator allows the company to expose its staff to the world of startups and tech and the lessons they hold for journalists. Link | Add comment
Web Address Additions Set Despite '.worries'
Associated Press, Jan 11, 2012, 7:15 AM EST
Common words and brand names are expected to join .com and .org this week as domain name suffixes in the most sweeping change to the domain name system since its creation in the 1980s. Full Story | Add comment
Commentary
Innovating Too Quickly Is Not The Problem
GigaOM, Jan 10, 2012, 8:22 AM EST
Mathew Ingram on The Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton's column suggesting that the Post is innovating too fast: "The last thing the Post (or any newspaper, for that matter) needs to worry about is whether it’s moving too quickly. If anything, the pace of change in media is speeding up rather than slowing down." Link | Add comment
Commentary: Startup Incubators
Can Newspapers Also Be Tech Incubators?
GigaOM, Jan 9, 2012, 7:18 AM EST
Mathew Ingram on startup incubators from Philadelphia Media Network and Digital First Media: "There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical about the explosion of incubators — a trend that didn't end well in the last tech bubble — but despite the low odds of success, it's still interesting to see companies like the Philadelphia Media Network and Digital First Media trying to think outside the box a little." Link | Add comment
Commentary
Incubators May Help Papers Be Like Startups
ReadWriteWeb, Jan 9, 2012, 7:12 AM EST
John Paul Titlow on startup incubators from newspaper companies such as Digital First Media's Digital First Ventures and The Philadelphia Inquirer's Project Liberty Digital Incubator: "The intimate relationship PMN is establishing with local startups serves not only to fuel the growth of those new companies, but it may also help adapt the culture within the host organization itself." Link | Add comment
PMN Picks Three Firms For Tech Incubator
Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan 9, 2012, 6:53 AM EST
The Philadelphia Media Network and the Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania have selected smartphone app developer CloudMine, election app developer ElectNext, and mobile coupon service SnipSnap to share office space with The Philadelphia Inquirer in the Project Liberty Digital Incubator, a space dedicated to start-up tech businesses. Link | Add comment
Editor: I Wish Post Had 'Too Much Innovation'
Poynter, Jan 9, 2012, 6:53 AM EST
The Washington Post managing editor Raju Narisetti on the paper's ombudsman Patrick Pexton's column suggesting that the Post is innovating too fast: “As someone who has led Post’s digital content initiatives over the past three years, I actually wish it were true that we have too much innovation at the Post.” Link | Add comment
News Corp.'s Shine Buys Video Maker ChannelFlip
PaidContent, Jan 6, 2012, 7:51 AM EST
McClatchy Drops Microsoft For Google Apps
Business Insider, Dec 29, 2011, 3:22 PM EST
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  • For Future Of News, Killer App Is Credibility

    Robert Hernandez, an assistant professor of professional practice in journalism at USC Annenberg: "With technology empowering everyone with the ability to create and to distribute, I predict — and wish — that in 2012 the new dominating factor will be Credibility. Actually, earned Credibility."

  • Layoffs, Cutbacks Lead To News Deserts

    Tom Stites: "Desertification is on the march, claiming more and more communities as newspapers continue to wither and few Web efforts manage to replace more than a fraction of the original reporting that newspapers have abandoned."

  • Moneyball: Fixing Newspaper Web Sales

    Mel Taylor: "Today's Newspaper industry is like that once great, but now struggling baseball team playing on a new, hyper-competitive field called the Internet. The veteran print team is stuck in a rut using the same, tired strategy that did serve them well for years, but no longer. Today, they get trounced by those with more money and muscle."

  • You Should Only Work This Hard If You Own The Business

    Howard Owens, digital media pioneer and author of HowardOwens.com, writes on Patch editors: "But here’s the thing about the work load for Patch editors: They’re not owners. They are expected to do all of the things they would have to do if they owned their own web sites, but merely in service of building wealth for AOL shareholders. Sure, work hard and keep your job is a nice benefit, and as a former corporate employee I think employees have an ethical obligation to help build shareholder value. That’s what they’re paid to do. ... However, if what we’re hearing is true about the Patch workload, I can only ask: Why are you doing it?"

  • The Metric For Missed Expectations

    Matthew Shanahan: "Here’s the problem: [Click-through rates don't] take into account audience engagement, not to mention the fact that other advertisers are competing for the click-through on the same page."

  • Debate Over Naming Commenters Rages On

    Eric Pfanner on real-name commenting policies: "The complications are enormous. Even self-contained Internet services like Facebook have had difficulty enforcing 'real name' systems. To achieve this on the borderless Internet would be impossible."

  • Communities Lose Out When Papers Close

    Author Ken Doctor on MediaNews Group's decision to consolidate its Bay Area newspapers: "It isn’t simply the sad loss of middle-class journalism jobs, as lamentable as that is, just as so many other good jobs that have disappeared in recent years. It’s a community loss, and points to the wider impact of news cuts on the society in which we live. That’s often forgotten as we focus too narrow on industry loss."

  • Why AOL Should Double Down On Patch

    Maxwell Wessel, member of Harvard Business School think tank Forum for Growth, on AOL's Patch: "Patch is AOL's last, best chance to build a growth engine. Investors shouldn't be calling for AOL to back off the business. They should be calling for AOL to double down ... by increasing commitment."

  • News Orgs Should Use Innovation As A Tool

    Frédéric Filloux: "News organizations ... should view innovation as their main weapon against direct competitors and emerging players such as tech startups."

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