links for 2006-02-26

• Structured Blogging
  (tags: web 2.0 classfied advertising)

links for 2006-02-25

• We Are the Web
  (tags: re-read)

links for 2006-02-23

• Biggest S. Korean online news site to form ‘Oh my News International’ with Softbank
  (tags: citizen journalism)
• Dow Jones Announces New Structure: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance
  (tags: newspapers online publishing)
• News and jobs for journalists :: New Metro news site taps social networking trend
  (tags: social networking newspapers)

links for 2006-02-22

• News Search Engine Optimization
  (tags: search newspapers traffic)
• The Next Big Things for Newspapers: Podcasting, Vodcasting
  (tags: newspapers podcasting)
• New Business Website Tips Norwegian Media Balance
  (tags: newspapers online business)
• Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture – Scotland’s People – Failed design triggers horrific Tay Bridge terror
  (tags: scotsman.com bridge archive disaster)

Registration scheme foiled …

Steve Outing posts on his behaviour in relation to the “first article free of registration” strategy a good number of pubishers have deployed.

We are actively looking at this.  From recent analysis there is evidence to support this theory – according to HBX - 92% of what we term “drive by” or causal users of the sites look at only one article during a visit despite there being very well targeted related artricles – 7% carry on so must be registered or register at this point.  Not sure what happens to the other 1%.  

links for 2006-02-21

• Comment on DMGT retaining regional mewspaper division.
  Jeremy Warner – Those that predict imminent Armageddon for the print are almost certainly wrong; much less clear is whether the future for British regionals is quite as rosy as DMGT now, out of necessity, claims it to be.
  (tags: newspapers regional classified advertising online google)
• Gowers’ World: Web keeps blowing its gale of change – Newspaper Edition – Times Online
  (tags: newspapers classified advertising rightmove property)

links for 2006-02-20

• BlogBurst: How does BlogBurst work?
  (tags: publishing journalism citizen newspapers)
• Below the Fold: Making Newspapers Matter: The Journey Back to Brand
  (tags: newspapers publishing online)

links for 2006-02-16

• Working to Sell Advertisers on Newspapers and Magazines – New York Times
  (tags: newspapers publishing advertising)
• WSJ.com – Oracle to Buy Open-Source Database Firm, Continuing a Shift
  (tags: oracle database software)
• FT.com / By industry / Media & internet – Subscription revenue overtakes adverts
  (tags: publishing advertising paid content)

Yahoo on “Graded Browser Support”

Nate Koechley, Senior Web Developer at Yahoo! Inc. on Graded Browser Support. She concludes the piece with a quote from Tim Berners-Lee:

“Anyone who slaps a ‘this page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.”

Yahoo also publish a table that shows the level of support each browser receives.

links for 2006-02-10

• Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
  (tags: weblogs webdesign usability)
• Broadside entitled ‘Burks Papers’
  (tags: digital archive scotland edinburgh national library)