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Ken DoctorNovember 10, 2011

Glorying in the past, hating the present, and fearing the future: Why are newspaper companies’ attitudes the inverse of Silicon Valley’s?

Measuring media consumption, a visual brainstorm

How social guilt can change our media consumption habits — or just make us lie about them

Frictionless sharing sounds good — but sometimes you’ll go out of your way to put a little friction (or a little white lie) back in. Andrew Phelps

“Consumers of Creative Commons licenses do not understand them”: A little more context to Wired’s use of CC

A few months back, a photographer said Wired was misusing Creative Commons-licensed images on its (for-profit) site. Joshua Benton

Joshua BentonNovember 9, 2011

Gone in a Flash: How Adobe’s abandonment of Flash for mobile devices impacts news orgs

With mobile a growing part of news organizations’ traffic, it’s time to commit to HTML5 for video — and hope its animation tools get better fast.

Joshua BentonNovember 8, 2011

Wired releases images via Creative Commons, but reopens a debate on what “noncommercial” means

The complexities of sharing: Does “noncommercial” mean not-for-profit? The absence of ads? Or simply that you’re not selling the work someone else is giving away?

Andrew PhelpsNovember 8, 2011

Ethan Zuckerman wants you to eat your (news) vegetables — or at least have better information

Zuckerman wants to create nutritional labels for news, showing how much marshmallow fluff you mix in with your meat and potatoes. But both the tech and politics of categorizing journalism have a long way to go.

Joshua BentonNovember 7, 2011

Martin Nisenholtz, RSS, and the power of standards

How the retiring New York Times executive played a role in setting a long-standing web standard.

Come have a drink with Nieman Lab!

Drop in on our happy hour Wednesday at The Field, in Cambridge’s Central Square. Joshua Benton

John Robinson: “Find thinkers who will challenge you,” and more advice for newspaper editors

The innovative North Carolina editor says newspaper leaders still need to have guts — but a different kind of guts from the good old days. Megan Garber

Andrew PhelpsNovember 7, 2011

RE: FW: NewsWorks: Back-to-the-future community news

A year ago, Philadelphia public radio station WHYY launched a new hyperlocal community news site. Here’s what they’ve learned — successes and failures — since.

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