http://netvouz.com/papyruscms?feed=rss&pg=1 papyruscms's bookmarks on Netvouz http://www.bivingsreport.com/2007/american-newspapers-and-the-internet-threat-or-opportunity/ An aggregate review of the websites of the largest 100 newspapers in the United States. papyruscms Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:38:19 GMT http://www.mattwaite.com/2007/08/22/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. papyruscms Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:49:37 GMT http://blog.topix.com/archives/000190.html 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%. papyruscms Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:53:04 GMT http://www.journerdism.com/index.php/2007/08/06/are-you-and-your-news-site-ready-for-your-local-armageddon/ Will Sullivan writes that your newspaper (both in print and online) should be able to handle a local disaster like the I-35W bridge collapse, the Virginia Tech shootings, and 9-11. papyruscms Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:23:30 GMT http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/2007/07/23/are-you-still-making-these-mistakes/ How to improve upon the mistakes Howard Owens described the newspaper industry making. papyruscms Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:41:04 GMT http://www.growingaudience.com/bestpractices/article0707.html A case study of the Racine Journal Times using blogs and comments to create a successful web site. papyruscms Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:27:22 GMT http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/?p=69 Pat Thourton contends that your newspaper's home page should not "overwhelm" your users with an unending amount of links. papyruscms Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:42:59 GMT http://www.bivingsreport.com/2008/bostoncoms-big-picture-the-power-of-simplicity/ "Boston.com recently launched a dead simple photo blog called Big Picture that shows how powerful online news photography can be if you out of the way and let the pictures tell a story." papyruscms Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:37:48 GMT http://collegenewspaper.blogspot.com/2008/03/breaking-news-right-now.html "...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." papyruscms Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:42:36 GMT http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2008/05/can-the-classifieds-be-saved.html 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." papyruscms Tue, 13 May 2008 18:02:58 GMT