How to Make News Sites Better
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trying to make alt weekly sites less
sucky
trying to make alt weekly sites less
sucky
07/15/2004 10:29 PMthe problem for most of these papers isn't technical, it's cultural.
Web Sites Make UK Science and Industry
Archives Available To All
Web Sites Make UK Science and Industry
Archives Available To All
06/21/2004 05:55 AMWeb Sites Make UK Science and Industry Archives Available To
Allhttp://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?i
d=2775http://snipurl.com/75lsUntil now, visitors to the U.K.'s National Museum of Science &
Industry (NMSI) could see only a small fraction of their vast
collections at any one time. But virtual visitors now have
unprecedented access to more than 30,000 objects, digitized and
collected into two creatively organized Web sites. The first,
www.ingenious.org.uk, offers a
fascinating insight into science and contemporary culture, using
images, stories, opinion pieces and online debates to explore the many
feats of human ingenuity that shape our lives. The second,
www.makingthemodernworld
.org.uk, is based on the Science Museum's landmark gallery, Making
the Modern World. It gives visitors a new way to explore the icons of
invention by using animation, dramatic reconstructions and technical
explanations to encourage visitors to find out more about the social
implications of historical advances in science and technology. Lindsay
Sharp, Director of NMSI, comments: "Through these Web sites, we are
offering millions of virtual visitors the chance to see thousands of
iconic objects that will help improve the understanding of the
contribution of science, technology and invention to the material
world around us and how they have changed our lives. As you'd expect
from one of the world's leading science museums we've exploited the
potential of new technology to make sure the experience for visitors
is rich and exciting."
Beautiful Web Sites Seldom Make More
Sales
Beautiful Web Sites Seldom Make More
Sales
06/10/2004 06:01 PMWebDevInfo Jun 10 2004 8:55PM GMT
Wrestling-News.com Column: Our Response
To Jim Ross Calling Internet News Sites
'Horse Manure'
Wrestling-News.com Column: Our Response
To Jim Ross Calling Internet News Sites
'Horse Manure'
02/13/2004 11:47 PMWrestling-News Feb 14 2004 4:06AM GMT
Sites Slowly See Need to Make Web
Accessible to Blind Users
Sites Slowly See Need to Make Web
Accessible to Blind Users
12/10/2003 10:17 PMOnline Journalism Review Dec 10 2003 9:43PM ET
Optimizing News Sites For Google News
Optimizing News Sites For Google News
09/24/2004 01:14 PMNews Sites, Where the Men Are
News Sites, Where the Men Are
08/04/2004 04:43 AMThe online news business has a curious imbalance: Far more men read
news on the Web than women. For online publishers seeking to steal
advertising money from TV, this is a boon. But editors are worried
something is off kilter with online news. By Laila Weir.
"News sites should geocode"
"News sites should geocode"
06/08/2004 05:52 AMNews sites add content, capacity in
preparation for war
News sites add content, capacity in
preparation for war
03/19/2003 10:26 PMWith an expected U.S.-led war against Iraq near, online news providers
are preparing their Web sites for heavy online traffic by bolstering
their IT infrastructure and streamlining content.
[News.com.com] IE bug lets fake sites
look real
[News.com.com] IE bug lets fake sites
look real
12/10/2003 07:53 PMOnline News Sites registration
workarounds
Online News Sites registration
workarounds
07/20/2004 04:06 PMI know what I do when I encounter a news site that requires
registration I go elsewhere. Why do I want to entrust a news company
with my personal demographic information when I can read the same
story on a news site that does not require registration. Wired takes a
look at sites offering ways to bypass site registration and Techdirt
offers commentary on the sheer stupidity of news sites that hide their
content from behind a login. [Wired] [Techdirt]
Google bans fascist news sites
Google bans fascist news sites
03/24/2005 08:31 PMAddict3d.org Mar 25 2005 12:25AM GMT
News Web Sites Court Campaign Ads
(washingtonpost.com)
News Web Sites Court Campaign Ads
(washingtonpost.com)
07/30/2004 08:22 AMwashingtonpost.com - Online news sites are offering their readers more
than just comprehensive coverage of the presidential election this
year. They are also serving up campaign ads in an attempt to earn a
slice of the $1.25 billion expected to be spent on political
advertising this year.
Speedy reader delivers news from many
sites
Speedy reader delivers news from many
sites
08/28/2004 09:29 AMChicago Tribune Aug 28 2004 12:34PM GMT
Make News No. 3
Make News No. 3
01/04/2005 01:19 PMMark Frauenfelder:
Here's the latest edition of Make News, the newsletter for Make
magazine (I'm the editor in chief). I'm looking for "Challenge" ideas
(see below) and I'm also looking for article and review ideas for the
second issue. If you want contributor guidelines, email me at
markf@oreilly.com.
Make News No. 3 -- MAKE subscriptions now available!
https://www.pubservice.com/MK/Subnew.aspx?PC=MK&PK=M5ZMNSA
December 22, 2004
=================
Welcome to the third issue of MAKE News, the email newsletter for
MAKE, a how-to technology project magazine published by O'Reilly
Media.
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Cybershot-U digital camera for another camera with a zoom lens. With
these three things in my arsenal of digital tools, I'll be all set to
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The MAKE Meta-Challenge
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I'm looking forward to the ideas for cool projects that readers are
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way for people to share their projects with other people on the MAKE
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Look for it in late January.
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Researchers warn of infectious Web sites
- News - ZDNet
Researchers warn of infectious Web sites
- News - ZDNet
06/26/2004 04:33 AMtwo more good reasons to STOP USING INTERNET EXPLORER!!! ..
Researchers warn of infectious Web sites - News - ZDNet .. corporate
web servers are infecting visitors'
PCs
zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5247187.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed
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Online Gaming Sites Stickier During May
Than Sports And News
Online Gaming Sites Stickier During May
Than Sports And News
06/17/2004 08:58 PMMediapost.com - Thu Jun 17, 11:39 am GMT
Why Requiring Registration Does More
Harm Than Good For News Sites
Why Requiring Registration Does More
Harm Than Good For News Sites
02/12/2004 05:00 PMWe've been discussing news site registration lately, and Digital
Deliverance has a piece where they explain
why
it's likely to backfire for almost all sites who try it. As we
were just saying last week, sites that require registration and/or
demographic info tend to get
many
fewer visitors and a ton of bogus data. As the Digital
Deliverance piece points out, most sites aren't even doing anything
with that
dirty
data - so it's completely useless. They're getting fewer visitors
and bad data they don't even use for any reasonable purpose.
This certainly doesn't help them get more advertising, but the fewer
readers does mean they'll get less advertising. Doesn't seem like
such a smart strategy - and yet more sites seem to be doing it every
day.
News organizations support Mac sites in
Apple Case
News organizations support Mac sites in
Apple Case
04/11/2005 05:41 PMEight of California's largest newspapers -- including the Los Angeles
Times, San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury News -- and
The Associated Press are supporting three online Mac journalists who
published details on an unreleased Apple product...
Microsoft Tests Service to Search News
Sites
Microsoft Tests Service to Search News
Sites
07/28/2004 02:36 AMLos Angeles Times Jul 28 2004 7:30AM GMT
Google news service in China blocks
banned sites
Google news service in China blocks
banned sites
09/25/2004 05:22 PMCTV.ca Sep 25 2004 8:11PM GMT
SortByDate Helps Track Keywords in
Webl0gs and News Sites
SortByDate Helps Track Keywords in
Webl0gs and News Sites
06/17/2004 06:40 AMIf my mail is any indication, the hot topic nowadays is how to use the
power of RSS feeds to track specific topics instead of having to track
specific blogs....
Is Online Registration For News A Ploy
To Make Online News Look Bad?
Is Online Registration For News A Ploy
To Make Online News Look Bad?
09/17/2004 02:31 PMThese days, I very rarely agree with anything written by John C.
Dvorak, who seems to be spending his time
not
really understanding what's happening in technology. However, his
latest column has an interesting theory. We've been talking a lot
about how many newspapers have a
backwar
ds thinking policy requiring registration just to read the same AP
and Reuters stories everyone else has. The public claim is that
they're doing this to give their advertisers more data about their
visitors, but the amount of dirty data that goes into these databases
suggests
that
doesn't make much sense -- and could get them in legal trouble.
Others point out that online editions are really doing this to get
email for the sake of selling their mailing lists to marketing
spammers, which does make some sense, though isn't a particularly well
thought-out strategy for long term success. Dvorak's take, however,
is that newspapers are doing this
to keep
people out on purpose. The idea is that newspapers want to play
down their online operations, to show that their paper editions are
still much more important. He believes they
don't want the
online editions to be profitable, as that would mean serious changes
for their business. If true, this is an incredibly stupid position,
basically trying to convince themselves that news isn't moving online
when it really is. It's even worse than just not believing what's
happening -- it's working to screw up the data they use themselves in
figuring out what's happening. Honestly, though, this seems unlikely.
It would involve too much thought. It seems, more likely, that the
push towards online registration is from newspapers who haven't really
thought the issues through, but who think this will somehow pay off.
Make Google News work for you
Make Google News work for you
03/13/2003 10:22 AMI wish I could track keywords at Google News, and have it email me
automatically whenever a new hit matches for my search term(s). In a
way, Google News serves as a low-budget clipping service -- I use it
to periodically check for press mentions of my projects and I'm
frequently surprised to find articles I would have missed
otherwise.
update: Lazyweb indulges me again. I got lots of pointers to the google news RSS
app and a perl module that could run as a cronjob. Eventually a friend
set me up with exactly what I need, which is perfect.
Google's Chinese news service omits
government-banned sites
Google's Chinese news service omits
government-banned sites
09/24/2004 05:34 PMSan Jose Mercury News Sep 24 2004 9:53PM GMT
SecurityFocus HOME News: Defenses
lacking at social network sites
SecurityFocus HOME News: Defenses
lacking at social network sites
01/10/2004 07:54 PMhttp://www.securityfocus.com/news/7739
Sites like LiveJournal and Tribe are poised to be the next big thing
on the Web in 2004, but their security and privacy practices are more
like 1997.
I find that most time, there is better security from those who
know little about it but run smaller "Social Network" software, i.e.
PHPNuke, Post Nuke, etc. Some of the security features I have seen in
these Open Source software are just know showing up in things like...
XJTAG enhancements good news for circuit
developers and production sites
XJTAG enhancements good news for circuit
developers and production sites
06/10/2004 03:08 AM [PRWEB Jun 10, 2004]
OJR article: Iranian Bloggers Protest
Government Crackdown on Reformist News
Sites
OJR article: Iranian Bloggers Protest
Government Crackdown on Reformist News
Sites
09/22/2004 10:11 AM§ ¨§ͺ§¨ §¬ §ͺ§ .. Online Journalism Review .. Iranian
repression
ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1095807595.php
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Yahoo! News - Iran warns of preemptive
strike to prevent attack on nuclear
sites
Yahoo! News - Iran warns of preemptive
strike to prevent attack on nuclear
sites
08/20/2004 04:22 AMIran might launch a preemptive strike against US forces in the region
to prevent an attack on its nuclear facilities .. considering a
pre-emptive strike against U.S. forces .. Was Iraq always about Iran?
.. the European diplomacy .. speaks
up
news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1512&u=/afp/20040818/wl_afp/ir
an_nuclear_us_israel_040818201404&printer=1
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"Right Wing News: 10 Ways To Make Money
Blogging"
"Right Wing News: 10 Ways To Make Money
Blogging"
02/10/2004 02:52 AMBBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft aims
to make spammers pay
BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft aims
to make spammers pay
12/26/2003 02:57 PMMicrosoft aims to make spammers pay .. Microsoft has
announced
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3324883.stm
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"
BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft aims
to make spammers pay
"
"
BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft aims
to make spammers pay
"
12/26/2003 09:03 PMTelegraph | News | Pupils make more
progress in 3Rs 'without aid of
computers'
Telegraph | News | Pupils make more
progress in 3Rs 'without aid of
computers'
03/22/2005 03:17 PMa Telegraph article reporting on a study that shows that students with
less access to computers do better at learning .. Pupils make more
progress in 3Rs ‘without aid of
computers’
telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/2
1/nteach21.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/03/21/ixportal.html
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MTV.com - News -Remixers Make Howard
Dean's Scream Funky And Danceable
MTV.com - News -Remixers Make Howard
Dean's Scream Funky And Danceable
01/23/2004 02:32 AMRemixers Make Howard Dean's Scream Funky and Danceable .. Howard Dean
made a fool of himself .. MTV article on remixes ..
MTV
mtv.com/news/articles/1484529/20040122/aphex_twin.jhtml?headline
s=true
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A Prime Time News Conference Before a
Special Interest? Make Sense to You?
A Prime Time News Conference Before a
Special Interest? Make Sense to You?
04/13/2004 03:38 PMThe moment calls for a rough grilling by a special interest group
eager to sink your standing with voters. (Liberals, too.) This would
appear to be the logic of tonight's White House press conference. But
that logic went bust.
PressThink: A Prime Time News Conference
Before a Special Interest: Make Sense
to You?
PressThink: A Prime Time News Conference
Before a Special Interest: Make Sense
to You?
04/14/2004 03:57 PMA Prime Time News Conference Before a Special Interest - Make Sense to
You? .. Jay Rosen .. message ..
THINKS
journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2004/04/13/bush
_live.html
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Boston.com / News / Nation / Computer,
microphone, iPod make broadcasting
personal
Boston.com / News / Nation / Computer,
microphone, iPod make broadcasting
personal
12/22/2004 01:06 AMBoston.com: Computer, microphone, iPod make broadcasting personal ..
pointer
boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/12/20/through_ipod_tech
nology_anyone_can_be_a_broadcaster
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Web Hosting News: Host Europe Launches
Hexagon to Make Mobile Working a Reality
for All Businesses
Web Hosting News: Host Europe Launches
Hexagon to Make Mobile Working a Reality
for All Businesses
04/14/2004 07:44 AMWeb Host Directory Apr 14 2004 11:20AM GMT
Boing Boing reports that US military may
be blocking access to news sites
Boing Boing reports that US military may
be blocking access to news sites
06/02/2004 07:52 PMXeni @ Boing Boing
More on blocked sites for .mil websurfers
Following up on
this BoingBoing post about rumors that access to TheMemoryHole is
being blocked on military computers in Iraq...
[John continues:]If the request was denied due to the Content
Filter configuration is a sentence fragment, but with The
content category reported is Gen. News. and If you feel this
site was blocked in error, please contact the Help Desk the
meaning is clear enough. For whatever reason, "General News" is not
fit for our troops. I've been meaning to send her a list of links and
ask her if she'd be willing to try to access them (Newsweek? New York
Times? Common Dreams? Freerepublic.com [a conservative site]?
townhall.com [another conservative site]?) I'm also curious what other
kinds of sites she can't visit (geek news? music news? yahoo?
wikipedia?) and whether she's prohibited from visiting these sites at
work because she's /at work/, or if she's encouraged not to pursue the
news in general.
Zaku, can you or anyone in the military
in Iraq corroborate this or look into this?
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