A second life for online content Yoni Greenbaum suggests repurposing some online content for print including "excerpts of fans debating their favorite play from your sports forum," "readers commenting on the issues of the day," readers commenting on a print story, and some online poll results. with journalism-2.0
Announcing PolitiFact Matt Waite, a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times, announces a newspaper 2.0 web site, PolitiFact. He explains, "The site is a simple, old newspaper concept that's been fundamentally redesigned for the web. We've taken the political 'truth squad' story, where a reporter takes a campaign commercial or a stump speech, fact checks it and writes a story. We've taken that concept, blown it apart into it's fundamental pieces, and reassembled it into a data-driven website covering the 2008 presidential election." And after all that, the site is fantastically cool and interesting. with newspaper-2.0
Anonymous Comments – By The Numbers Topix reports the percentage of comments that are "killed" in given day on their site. The results: overall 5.1%; registered users 4.4%; and unregistered users 6.7%. with comments
Avoid the Wall of News Pat Thourton contends that your newspaper's home page should not "overwhelm" your users with an unending amount of links. with newspaper-2.0
Breaking news right now "...Reporting breaking news on the Web is all about speed and updates. When a news story breaks, Bloomberg starts by posting a headline, usually within seconds of the news happening." with journalism-2.0
Can Newspaper Classifieds Be Saved? Steve Outing has several ideas to save classifieds on the web. He is also the driving force behind reinventingclassifieds.com, "an initiative aimed at bringing experts together to revive newspaper classifieds by finding a new business model that's relevant in the Internet age." with classifiedsnewspaper-2.0