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How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic - Part 4
This is the fourth of a series of posts based on a talk I gave during May 2009 at WebCertain's "International Social Media Summit" in London. You can find the first part here, and view the original presentation slides on SlideShare. Twitter Twitter has been, without doubt, the communications technology hype of the year. There are several ways that mainstream companies have been using Twitter - some more successfully than others. One approach is to simply announce all content...
How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic - Part 3
This is the third of a series of posts based on a talk I gave during May 2009 at WebCertain's "International Social Media Summit" in London. You can find the first part here, and view the original presentation slides on SlideShare. The social bookmarking feedback loop The ratings you get on social bookmarking sites are valuable feedback, and some major news publishers utilise them to add value to their site. The Telegraph, for example, has a 'Most Dugg' widget...
How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic - Part 2
This is the second of a series of posts based on a talk I gave during May 2009 at WebCertain's "International Social Media Summit" in London. You can find the first part here, and view the original presentation slides on SlideShare. Social bookmarking Social bookmarking icons have infected major publishers websites like some kind of Internet design plague. The vast majority of mainstream news sites and high profile blogs come equipped with a whole set of brightly coloured icons...
"Dead men don't sue" - the Mail's HTML refuses to clear Air France 'terror suspects'
Earlier this week there were reports that Islamic terror suspects were amongst the passengers of Air France Flight 447. It seems that these were based solely on the names on the passenger list, and with subsequent checks it has emerged that this wasn't actually the case. The Daily Mail has altered this online story accordingly. However, if you look at your browser furniture when you visit the page, you'll note that whilst the headline of the story says one thing,...
Spector Twitter hoax shows online honesty gap between bloggers and newspapers
Earlier this week Joanna Geary blogged about the Birmingham Mail's decision to hold a story about ex-Villa player Gareth Barry back from the web in order to maximise exposure in print. That story is interesting enough in itself, but I wanted to look at something about the culture of blogging that was revealed. Joanna initially got her facts wrong.She'd got the time the web version of the story had been published wrong, and in a great display of social media...
"It's SunTalk Wot Won It"
During the recent election campaign, the BBC's community areas will have been operating under 'special election rules'. Moderation will have been much tighter than usual when people were talking about politics. Actually, this system has got more relaxed over the years. I remember that one of the most disrupting elements of h2g2 being assimilated by the BBC was during the 2001 election campaign. Then, the community were told that if they wanted to discuss politics, they'd have to leave the...
The Guardian's "Reading Room" at Kings Place
On Monday night I attended a joint evening put on by AUKML and the SLA at The Guardian. The event was sponsored by LexisNexis, and mostly consisted of a tour around the newspaper's new Kings Place offices. Now, it might seem a bit churlish to go on a tour of your own offices just to get a free glass of wine, but actually I was genuinely interested to hear how our library and research facilities were described to guest information...
"Actor in Muswell Hill UFO Sighting Mystery!"
Having written a few posts recently about the potential impact of local council publications on the local press in London, I have to confess that sometimes, when I see what is making the billboards belonging to the Muswell Hill Journal, I can understand why Haringey Council think they need their own magazine as well...!...
Newspapers on the go - Metro and The Sun
Yesterday I was casting a (very) quick eye over the mobile offerings of The Telegraph and The Times. Today I'm looking at the sites that The Sun and Metro offer to users on-the-go. The Sun Of the sites I looked at, The Sun's was by far the most nakedly commercial. Sometimes literally so. Their homepage had a strong focus not just on the news, but on calls to actions to download ringtones, wallpapers and games, which are provided by a...
Newspapers on the go - The Times and The Telegraph
Back in March The Guardian launched a specifically formatted mobile version of the site at m.guardian.co.uk. At the time I thought it might be worth having a quick poke around to see what other newspapers in the UK were doing with their sites in the mobile space. Since then it seems that I've been at so many different digital media and journalism events or gigs that I never got round to blogging about what I saw. Here are some of...
'Local newspaper week' - The local council publicity machine
Published May 27, 2009 in London, Media, Muswell Hill, Newspapers, Politics, Regional press - No comments yet 
'Local newspaper week' - Council newspapers in London
Published May 26, 2009 in London, Media, Newspapers, Politics, Regional press - 12 comments so far
'Do online newspapers have a future in a Digital Britain' - MTM London round-table session
Published May 22, 2009 in Events, Media, Newspapers, Regional press, Web - No comments yet
The (sometimes) free London Evening Standard
Published May 21, 2009 in Evening Standard, London, Newspapers - 1 comment so far
'Local Newspaper Week' - Being local...
Published May 15, 2009 in Doctor Who, Football, London, Media, Muswell Hill, Newspapers, Regional press - No comments yet
'Local Newspaper Week' - Council newspapers
Published May 14, 2009 in London, Media, Muswell Hill, Newspapers, Politics, Regional press - 6 comments so far
'Local Newspaper Week' - Democracy
Published May 13, 2009 in London, Media, Muswell Hill, Newspapers, Politics, Regional press - 1 comment so far
'Local Newspaper Week' - Advertising
Published May 12, 2009 in London, Media, Muswell Hill, Newspapers, Regional press - 4 comments so far
'Local Newspaper Week' - Welcome to your new local...
Published May 11, 2009 in London, Media, Muswell Hill, Newspapers, Regional press - 1 comment so far
Published May 10, 2009 in Events, Newspapers, Regional press, Web - No comments yet
Interview with a Scott Trust Bursary student - Helia Phoenix
Published April 24, 2009 in Media, Newspapers, Regional press, The Guardian, Web - 2 comments so far
'Insight into Journalism Day' at The Guardian
Published April 20, 2009 in Media, Newspapers, The Guardian, Web - 3 comments so far
Are your domestic print apples as valuable as my global multimedia oranges?
Published April 15, 2009 in Media, Newspapers, The Guardian, Web - 2 comments so far
How the Ian Tomlinson G20 video spread The Guardian brand across the media
Published April 14, 2009 in London, Media, Newspapers, Politics, Popular, The Guardian, Web - 6 comments so far
The PCC turns a deaf ear to complaints about press coverage of Alfie Patten
Published April 3, 2009 in Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Media, Newspapers, OFCOM - No comments yet
Press silence on Alfie Patten DNA test result broken by Google News
Published March 27, 2009 in Daily Mirror, Google, Media, Newspapers, Popular, The Sun, Web - 10 comments so far
The fragile future of newspapers at the British Library
Published March 20, 2009 in Events, London, Newspapers, Nostalgia - No comments yet
The Guardian's Open Platform launch
Published March 11, 2009 in Media, Newspapers, The Guardian, Web - 1 comment so far
Guardian Open Platform launch trends on Twitter
Published March 10, 2009 in Google, Media, Newspapers, The Guardian, Web - No comments yet
Reactions to The Guardian's new mobile site
Published March 10, 2009 in Mobiles, Newspapers, The Guardian - 4 comments so far
3 key moments when the NUJ 'effing blogs' dust-up might have been avoided
Published March 3, 2009 in Blogging, Media, Newspapers, Web - 4 comments so far
Is 'internet news being free at the point of delivery' even still negotiable?
Published March 2, 2009 in Media, Newspapers, Popular, Web - 2 comments so far
At least Daily Express readers are still searching for Madeleine McCann
Published February 15, 2009 in Daily Express, Media, Newspapers, Search - 4 comments so far
Wireframing the front page: Part 5 - The Sun
Published February 14, 2009 in Information Architecture, Media, Newspapers, The Sun, Web - 2 comments so far
Wireframing the front page: Part 4 - The Times
Published February 13, 2009 in Information Architecture, Media, Newspapers, The Times, Web - No comments yet
Wireframing the front page: Part 3 - The Daily Mail
Published February 12, 2009 in Daily Mail, Information Architecture, Media, Newspapers, Web - 2 comments so far
Why the PCC is broken - a case study in trying to complain
Published February 11, 2009 in Daily Mail, Media, Newspapers, Popular, Post of the moment - 16 comments so far
Let's have a PCC for the 21st century
Published February 10, 2009 in Media, Newspapers, Popular, Post of the moment - 3 comments so far
Wireframing the front page: Part 2 - The "viewport"
Published February 10, 2009 in Information Architecture, Newspapers - 1 comment so far
Wireframing the front page: Part 1 - The "homepage"
Published February 9, 2009 in Articles, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Star, Information Architecture, Newspapers, The Independent, The Sun, The Times - 1 comment so far
A big thumbs up for the Daily Mail's comment rating system
Published February 6, 2009 in Daily Mail, Newspapers, Web - 4 comments so far
Navigating newspapers: Part 5 - The 'quality press'
Published February 4, 2009 in Daily Telegraph, Information Architecture, Media, Newspapers, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, Web - 1 comment so far
Old media beats new media to breaking yesterday's news
Published February 3, 2009 in Media, Newspapers, Web - 2 comments so far
Navigating newspapers: Part 4 - The 'red tops' and the 'middle market'
Published February 3, 2009 in Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Star, Information Architecture, Newspapers, The Sun, Web - No comments yet
Navigating newspapers: Part 3 - A question of sports
Published February 2, 2009 in Information Architecture, Media, Newspapers, Web - 1 comment so far
Press Gazette or Jon Slattery? Why not quickly read both with RSS?
Published January 31, 2009 in Blogging, Newspapers, RSS - 1 comment so far
Navigating newspapers: Part 2 - Mapping primary navigation
Published January 30, 2009 in Information Architecture, Media, Newspapers, Web - No comments yet
Navigating newspapers: Part 1 - We are what we label
Published January 29, 2009 in Articles, Information Architecture, Media, Newspapers, Post of the moment, Web - 1 comment so far
Are Ofcom's regional news funding proposals an opportunity for the local press?
Published January 22, 2009 in BBC, Media, Newspapers, OFCOM, Regional press, Web - No comments yet
6 other things newspapers could stop doing for a day to prove their "unique" value...
Published January 14, 2009 in Media, Newspapers, Popular - 5 comments so far
Local search: Seeing the UK's regional press through the eyes of Google
Published January 11, 2009 in Google, Newspapers, Regional press, Search - No comments yet
Local search: Using site search in regional press websites - Part 4
Published January 10, 2009 in Newspapers, Regional press, Search - 1 comment so far
Local search: Using site search in regional press websites - Part 3
Published January 9, 2009 in Newspapers, Regional press, Search - No comments yet
Local search: Using site search in regional press websites - Part 1
Published January 7, 2009 in Articles, Newspapers, Regional press, Search - No comments yet
Local social: Social bookmarking links in the UK's top regional papers - Part 2
Published December 18, 2008 in Newspapers, Regional press, Social media - No comments yet
Local social: Social bookmarking links in the UK's top regional papers - Part 1
Published December 17, 2008 in Newspapers, Regional press, Social media - No comments yet
Chipwrapper now available with time-slices
Published December 14, 2008 in Chipwrapper, Google, Newspapers, Search - No comments yet
Top 75 British newspaper RSS feeds in Google Reader
Published November 28, 2008 in Google, Newspapers, RSS - 1 comment so far
Local online news video - where do we go from here?
Published November 24, 2008 in BBC, Newspapers, OFCOM, Regional press, YouTube - 6 comments so far
The Financial Times and "the worst online redesign I have ever seen"
Published November 21, 2008 in Media, Newspapers, Web - 1 comment so far
Another threat to local newspapers - daily BBC horoscopes by email!
Published November 20, 2008 in BBC, Newspapers, Web - No comments yet
Protecting the identity of Baby P's killers: The courts vs the people vs the Internet
Published November 17, 2008 in Children and Teenagers, Media, Newspapers, Popular, Web - 25 comments so far
Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 9
Published November 13, 2008 in Google, IA Summit, Newspapers, Search - No comments yet
Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 8
Published November 12, 2008 in Google, IA Summit, Newspapers, Search - No comments yet
Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 7
Published November 11, 2008 in Google, IA Summit, Newspapers, Search - No comments yet
A young person's guide to science fiction by Cliff Richard
Published November 1, 2008 in Music, Newspapers - 1 comment so far
Social media: Contextual help on US newspaper websites
Published October 23, 2008 in Newspapers, Social media - 1 comment so far
Social media: Contextual help on UK newspaper websites
Published October 21, 2008 in Newspapers, Social media, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sun - No comments yet
"It's for you" - Lloyds TSB splashes taxpayer's cash in the Metro
Published October 8, 2008 in Newspapers, Politics - 1 comment so far
US newspapers in the Google time tunnel: Part 2
Published October 8, 2008 in Newspapers - No comments yet
US newspapers in the Google time tunnel: Part 1
Published October 7, 2008 in Google, Newspapers - 4 comments so far
UK newspapers in the Google time tunnel
Published October 6, 2008 in Google, Newspapers - 1 comment so far
The impact of duplicate content on social media success for newspapers
Published September 19, 2008 in Daily Mail, Newspapers, Social media - 1 comment so far
Measuring This Is Plymouth's success with Fark
Published September 18, 2008 in Newspapers, Social media - No comments yet
Measuring London newspaper success with social media
Published September 17, 2008 in Newspapers, Social media - No comments yet
Measuring Metro's success with social media
Published September 16, 2008 in Newspapers, Social media - No comments yet
Measuring UK newspaper success with social media
Published September 15, 2008 in Articles, Newspapers, Popular, Social media - 4 comments so far
$num XL passengers stranded somewhere
Published September 13, 2008 in BBC, Chipwrapper, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Football, Newspapers, The Guardian - No comments yet
No news is usually good news - unless it is the Chipwrapper feed
Published September 8, 2008 in Chipwrapper, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Newspapers, Yahoo - No comments yet
The Mirror re-design review: Part 4
Published September 4, 2008 in Daily Mirror, Newspapers, Product review, Web - No comments yet
The Mirror re-design review: Part 3
Published September 3, 2008 in Daily Mirror, Newspapers, Product review, Web - 1 comment so far
The Mirror re-design review: Part 2
Published September 2, 2008 in Daily Mirror, Newspapers, Product review, Web - 1 comment so far
The Mirror re-design review: Part 1
Published September 1, 2008 in Articles, Daily Mirror, Newspapers, Product review, Web - No comments yet
Telegraph redesign review - Part 3
Published August 27, 2008 in Daily Telegraph, Newspapers, Web - No comments yet
Telegraph redesign review - Part 2
Published August 26, 2008 in Daily Telegraph, Newspapers, Web - No comments yet
Telegraph redesign review - Part 1
Published August 25, 2008 in Articles, Daily Telegraph, Newspapers, Web - No comments yet
Introducing Olympic Chipwrapper
Published August 4, 2008 in Chipwrapper, Newspapers, Olympics, RSS, Search - No comments yet
The Daily Mail site redesign: Part 5 - Sports section
Published June 28, 2008 in Daily Mail, Newspapers, Web - 2 comments so far
The Daily Mail site redesign: Part 4 - Hovering preview
Published June 27, 2008 in Daily Mail, Newspapers, Web - No comments yet
The Daily Mail site redesign: Part 3 - Story layout and download footprint
Published June 25, 2008 in Daily Mail, Newspapers, Web - 1 comment so far
The Daily Mail site redesign: Part 2 - Message boards
Published June 24, 2008 in Daily Mail, Newspapers, Web - 4 comments so far
The Daily Mail site redesign: Part 1 - Navigation & RSS
Published June 23, 2008 in Articles, Daily Mail, Newspapers, RSS, Web - No comments yet
The Daily Mail's moral stand over 'Emo' protests
Published June 3, 2008 in Daily Mail, Music, Newspapers - No comments yet
Introducing the Euro 2008 edition of Chipwrapper
Published June 3, 2008 in Chipwrapper, Euro2008, Newspapers, Search - No comments yet
There is the BBC's new media overspend...and then there is Google
Published June 1, 2008 in BBC, Daily Telegraph, Google, Newspapers, Popular, The Guardian, Web - 4 comments so far
Measuring the interactivity of the Greek press online
Published May 25, 2008 in Greece, Newspapers, The Guardian - No comments yet
Newspapers and the movies: The future
Published May 23, 2008 in Newspapers - No comments yet
Newspapers and the movies: The past
Published May 22, 2008 in Media, Newspapers - No comments yet
Here we go again...not that bloggers vs journalists debate
Published May 21, 2008 in Blogging, Media, Newspapers - 16 comments so far
"Can you trust a media blogger?"
Published May 20, 2008 in Blogging, Media, Newspapers, Popular - 9 comments so far
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