Links on Twitter: WSJ lawyers trained on stipple-art copier, Digg ad network aims to monetize Digg traffic spikes, The Onion finds a growth area for newspapers | Nieman Journalism Lab

Nieman Foundation at Harvard

ABOUT SUBSCRIBE

Business Models

Audience & Social

Aggregation & Discovery

Reporting & Production

Links on Twitter: WSJ lawyers trained on stipple-art copier, Digg ad network aims to monetize Digg traffic spikes, The Onion finds a growth area for newspapers

By Twitter Oct. 14, 2009, 6:43 p.m.

Not exactly AP v. Shepard Fairey: Wall Street Journal sicking lawyers on artist who uses their dot drawings http://tr.im/BLaP »

Digg’s forthcoming ad network aims to monetize traffic spikes from, well, Digg http://tr.im/BL4w »

New ad unit from @hc‘s Blogads, aimed at political causes, lets readers tweet directly from the ad http://tr.im/BOlP »

35% of newspapers charge a premium for their Thanksgiving editions. Why? The ads and coupons http://tr.im/BKXa »

Ouch from The Onion: “Majority Of Newspapers Now Purchased By Kidnappers To Prove Date” http://tr.im/BLEh »

POSTED Oct. 14, 2009, 6:43 p.m.

PART OF A SERIES Twitter

Show tags

TWITTER FACEBOOK EMAIL

Join the 60,000 who get the freshest future-of-journalism news in our daily email.

Why “Sorry, I don’t know” is sometimes the best answer: The Washington Post’s technology chief on its first AI chatbot

“For Google, that might be failure mode…but for us, that is success,” says the Post’s Vineet Khosla

Browser cookies, as unkillable as cockroaches, won’t be leaving Google Chrome after all

Google — which planned to block third-party cookies in 2022, then 2023, then 2024, then 2025 — now says it won’t block them after all. A big win for adtech, but what about publishers?

Would you pay to be able to quit TikTok and Instagram? You’d be surprised how many would

“The relationship he has uncovered is more like the co-dependence seen in a destructive relationship, or the way we relate to addictive products such as tobacco that we know are doing us harm.”