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    Archives: October 2011

    Cyborg no more! The BBC moves to human-edited Twitter feeds
    Auntie Beeb’s social media editor: “We want to be tweeting with value.” Megan Garber
    Megan GarberOctober 27, 2011
    The Guardian introduces @GuardianTagBot, a “Twitter-based search assistant”
    The paper is employing a cheeky robot to help crowdsource its tag taxonomy.
    The Guardian debuts a “Twitter-based search assistant”
    U.K. newspapers saw an across-the-board drop in traffic last month
    Have a popular Google Maps mashup? Prepare to pay
    The search giant will start charging for its popular API, driver of countless news mapping mashups. Joshua Benton
    Justin EllisOctober 27, 2011
    The path of disruption: Did Newspaper Next succeed in transforming newspapers?
    The 2006 report was supposed to be a wake-up call to an industry in turmoil. But its legacy is less than clear.
    Ken DoctorOctober 27, 2011
    The newsonomics of NYT’s Sunday gain and paid content 2.0
    Why aren’t more newspapers with paywalls seeing a Sunday circulation bump, as the Times is expected to?
    Megan GarberOctober 26, 2011
    The Guardian launches n0tice, an open community news platform
    “In many ways they’ve created a new kind of social platform, or a really really old one reinvented for the new world.”
    Meet Scroll, a new tool that wants to de-templatize the news web
    Cody Brown and Kate Ray launch a new tool to help non-coders design on a story-by-story basis. Megan Garber
    Simon OwensOctober 25, 2011
    As Occupy Wall Street evolves, news sites find it “a great opportunity for web journalism”
    How the movement shifted in the media’s eyes from “just another protest” to a broad-based subject for news coverage.
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