• Josh Marshall on Talking Points Memo’s growth over the last decade: Moving from solo blog to news org » Nieman Journalism Lab
  I think mobile is about where web journalism was in maybe 1996-97. So we’re trying to keep in mind that the medium is still quite primitive and that we want to come up with some genuinely new, innovative uses of it.
  (tags: business mobile)
• Who's Lobbying in the UK? | Who's Lobbying
  Who's Lobbying makes it simple for you to find information on lobbying activity in the UK.
  (tags: data government politics transparency tools)
• Comments and free samples: How the Honolulu Civil Beat is trying to build an audience (and its name)
  The Civil Beat seems to be making its biggest bet on reader engagement, not just as a method of outreach, but also as content for the site. The debates between readers, ranging from education reform to a proposed Honolulu rail project are filled with long, thoughtful posts, often citing links for background. In turn, Civil Beat staff will invite members to write blog posts spun off from discussions or on other topical issues. “Obviously, the core content is the journalism that we produce, but the comments and the discussion create a whole other level of content,” Temple said.
  (tags: business community collaboration comments)
• The user experience doesn’t stop at the nav « Karen McGrane
  No one ever came back to ask if the content that got published actually met the user’s needs. Someone defined a requirement that — in essence — said “have a navigation category for hearing aids.” It didn’t say “ensure that our hearing impaired customers can determine which product will best meet their needs.”
• Formulists / Home
  Formulists is a list creation and management tool that allows users to effortlessly generate dynamic and personalized Twitter lists that continuously self-update. Formulists-generated lists can be viewed or deleted from any Twitter client and will continue to self-update without the need to return to the Formulists website.
  (tags: social socialmedia tools twitter)
• Snap Bird – search twitter's history
  Search beyond Twitter’s history
  (tags: tools twitter)

• Dragontape – Online Video Mixtapes
  Dragontape is a collaborative webservice that lets you create 3-hour mixtapes of your favorite YouTube videos. Mixtapes are easy to use, simple to share with friends, and let you focus on having a good time watching videos.
  (tags: tools music)

• ‘Culture beats strategy every time’
  "Those who do digital / new jobs in traditional businesses [by which I mean anything that existed before 1990], know exactly what this quote means.

  They know how impossible it can be to make even the smartest and simplest of ideas happen within an organisation that just doesn’t want it to happen.

  Similarly, those who sit on the sidelines: analysts, journalists, bloggers and other commentators can offer clear cut advice and wisdom about what business x or y should do – without ever having to actually do it. Everything always seems so much simpler on the outside."

  (tags: business)
• Create Compelling Presentations with the Three Q Method
  (tags: presentations)
• Facebook Testing New ‘Mention’ Feature On News Feeds – Oliver Chiang – SelectStart – Forbes
  If two (or possibly more) of your friends write about or share an article featuring the same celebrity, for instance, both of your friends’ updates are collected into a single post on the news feed. The post tells you that both friends “mentioned” that celebrity, links to that celebrity’s Page on Facebook, and shows your friends’ respective updates underneath.
  (tags: facebook tools socialmedia aggregator)
• 6 innovative uses of Tumblr by newsrooms :: 10,000 Words :: where journalism and technology meet
• @ Monaco Media Forum: James Murdoch’s First Rule
  The Monaco Media Forum isn’t exactly Fight Club but James Murdoch, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) CEO for Europe and Asia, has a first rule: “First rule—if you are going to monetize something, you probably should not give it away for free.”
  (tags: business newscorp ipad)
• Data cleaning tool relaunches: Freebase Gridworks becomes Google Refine | Online Journalism Blog
  It’s notable that Google are explicitly positioning Refine in their video as a “data journalism” tool.
  (tags: data tools)
• Talking Points Memo’s first developer talks startup life, jumping to ProPublica and data journalism » Nieman Journalism Lab
  A lot of the job was figuring out what reporters and editors wanted to do and figuring out how to enable that with the technology we had and with the resources we had.
  (tags: development)

• DST’s Yuri Milner: “This is the era of mathematicians … It’s not about social networking”
  (tags: socialnetworking)

• How to publish your Rally for Sanity stories « Intersect PTP, Inc.
  Washington Post's guide to using Intersect
  (tags: collaboration community)
• Meet Intersect, where storytelling, time, and location get all mashed up » Nieman Journalism Lab
  Part blogging tool, part social network, Intersect lets users tell stories as they are pegged to a certain time and place in a way that would eventually create a timeline for each user. But pulling back wider, Intersect will allow communities to share a more complete narrative of certain events.
  (tags: community collaboration journalism)

• In Demand : CJR
  "The companies that come after Demand, with refined algorithms and better search data and content, will suck advertising from news outlets. Market forces will sever the link between advertising and news that, for more than a century, gave us jobs and the resources to do them well."
  (tags: business newspapers journalism)

• News Int elevates Katie Vanneck to CMO
  Vanneck will take responsibility for the marketing teams across News International and also for circulation revenue. She is tasked with steering brand and promotional activity titles as the publisher continues to launch more apps and products.
  (tags: newscorp)
• Financial Times’ iPad App Brings In £1 Million | paidContent
  The Financial Times’ new iPad app has generated more than £1 ($1.59) million in advertising revenue since it was launched in May, according to the paper’s deputy chief executive.
  (tags: ipad advertising buisness)

• Republic of Letters
  To engage in literary commerce, to send news, books, literature – even compliments and criticism – was to show one's commitment to the community as a whole. Given the importance of these exchanges for ensuring the perpetuation of the republic of letters as a community, Lespinasse, Roland, Mosconi, and Renier Michiel worked to reinforce cohesion through friendship and loyalty. Thus sending a letter or procuring a book was a sign of personal devotion that engendered a social debt to be fulfilled.
  (tags: socialnetworking)
• 5 Tools for Online Journalism, Exploration and Visualization – ReadWriteCloud
  (tags: tools)

A newspaper, conducted on the true and natural principles of such a publication, ought to be the Register of the Times, and faithful recorder of every species of intelligence. It ought not to be engrossed by any particular object, but, like a well-covered table, it should contain something suited to every palate.

– John Walter, The Daily Universal Register, January 1785

• Twitter signs up Rockstar Games and Xbox to Promoted Accounts | News | Marketing Week
  Twitter has begun rolling out its Promoted Accounts product with Grand Theft Auto creators Rockstar Games and Microsoft’s Xbox among the first brands to sign up.
  (tags: twitter business advertising)