All entries tagged: metadata

SEO lessons from Google News: How to promote your stories, straight from the bot’s mouth

One of the keys to success in the online news game is making sure people who might be interested in your content can find it. And the most common path for those seekers goes straight through the multihued logo of search giant Google.
Google’s genius is using algorithms to determine the value of content — what [...]

14 comments | Posted by Joshua Benton | September 3, 2009 | 10:00 am

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N.Y. Times mines its data to identify words that readers find abstruse

If The New York Times ever strikes you as an abstruse glut of antediluvian perorations, if the newspaper’s profligacy of neologisms and shibboleths ever set off apoplectic paroxysms in you, if it all seems a bit recondite, here’s a reason to be sanguine: The Times has great data on the words that send readers in [...]

104 comments | Posted by Zachary M. Seward | June 11, 2009 | 8:08 am

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ProPublica and NYT seek $1M to put everyone’s documents online

[Saturday was the deadline for submissions for this year's Knight News Challenge. In the coming days and weeks, we'll be looking at some of the most interesting applicants. If you know of one you think worth highlighting, let us know, via email or in the comments. —Ed.]
Two of the biggest names in journalism have applied [...]

28 comments | Posted by Zachary M. Seward | November 2, 2008 | 1:17 pm

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Who will be the IMDB for books?

A plea for better metadata in book publishing, wondering who will be the industry’s IMDB.
Not everyone chooses a film because of who directs it or who the screenwriter was, but some of us do, and now with databases like IMDB we can easily find lists of films containing the actors we like, or directors and [...]

1 comment | Posted by Joshua Benton | October 30, 2008 | 7:50 am

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