Why Publishers Are About to Go Data Crazy
The following is a guest post from Sachin Kamdar, the CEO and co-founder of Parse.ly. Currently in stealth, Parse.ly provides a new set of performance metrics, specifically tailored to publishers' needs. Here, Kamdar explores the new age o...
Daily Must Reads, Oct. 26, 2011
Today's best stories about media and technology from across the web.
1. Netflix puts global expansion on hold as costs drag it down (paidContent)
1. Netflix puts global expansion on hold as costs drag it down (paidContent)
2. Poor kids experience "app gap" (The Digital Shift)
Daily Must Reads, Oct. 26, 2011
Today's best stories about media and technology from across the web.
1. Netflix puts global expansion on hold as costs drag it down (paidContent)
1. Netflix puts global expansion on hold as costs drag it down (paidContent)
2. Poor kids experience "app gap" (The Digital Shift)
Can lessons from Thomson Reuters’ data business help transform its journalism?
As a company, Thomson Reuters is perched high atop a mountain of information. It’s what they do — information in the form of “actionable data” for lawyers, accountants, and financial professionals, but also information in the form of news. You could call them information traffickers. And Reuters' data editor, Reg Chua, wants Reuters to think...
Why The Atlantic joined up with Pulse — and what the app’s usage stats can tell data-hungry publishers
Let's face some facts: Media companies aren't entirely sure what to do with the new crop of news reading apps that are springing up at the moment. Technology like Flipboard, Zite, or Pulse could either be a thief, a new revenue stream, or an inexpensive test bed for finding new ways to get your content...
Deeper into data: U.K.-based ScraperWiki plans new tools and U.S. expansion with News Challenge
Looking over the scope of the Knight News Challenge, from its beginning to the winners announced this year, it's clear data is king. From this year's data-mining projects alone — whether inside the confines of the newsroom, posting public records in rural areas, or delivering vital information on clean water — we can safely say...
The News Challenge-winning PANDA Project aims to make research easier in the newsroom
In an ideal world, when news breaks, reporters can fall back on their encyclopedic knowledge of local stories, events, and people to put the news in context. In the real world, though, reporters often employ a mix of intuition, document archives, and Google to shore up their knowledge when writing a breaking story. Their newsrooms...
The News Challenge-winning PANDA Project aims to make research easier in the newsroom
In an ideal world, when news breaks, reporters can fall back on their encyclopedic knowledge of local stories, events, and people to put the news in context. In the real world, though, reporters often employ a mix of intuition, document archives, and Google to shore up their knowledge when writing a breaking story. Their newsrooms...
House Hunters, data edition: Meet Curbwise, the Omaha World-Herald’s real-estate news app
The Omaha World-Herald wasn’t looking for blockbuster traffic and wave upon wave of pageviews with the launch of Curbwise. Rather, they were looking for a sustained audience, which would justify their investment in the project just as well as any rush of clicks. That’s because Curbwise is an evergreen news app, a site that uses......
What Do You Think About iPhones Tracking You?
There is a bizarre competition among tech firms to see who can creep us out the most. First came Google and its peeping StreetView vans loaded with webcams. Then came Facebook and its "brilliant" Beacon feature that broadcast items you rec...
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