Monthly Archives: November 2009

Brian Stelter: Online ads are booming

By Michael Becker | Published: November 14, 2009
Brian Stelter, writing for the New York Times, points out that at least portion of the online advertising market is growing: At a time when other categories of advertising dollars are shrinking, video ads are booming. News sites are adding more video inventory to keep pace with the demands of advertisers, and benefiting from the [...]
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The hNews microformat may revolutionize how readers interact with our news

By Michael Becker | Published: November 14, 2009
One of the big new things in online news is going to be hNews, which is a type of “microformat.” Microformats have been around for a few years. They are basically little libraries of tags that can be wrapped around content online to help make that content more easily readable by machines. The benefit of [...]
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Blox stuff

By Michael Becker | Published: November 11, 2009
Word has it that some members of the newsroom staff will soon get a chance to play around in our new Web site system, Blox. That means that within a week or two, we’ll start to get a sense of what it will be like to work in the new system, and it will be [...]
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‘The Commentariat is under threat’

By Michael Becker | Published: November 5, 2009
Shane Richmond, a tech columnist for the Daily Telegraph, wrote a piece the other day about how other columnists tackle Twitter. Most of them take a stand against Twitter and label it as a boring site populated by a bunch of complainers who are also scary. The animosity and snark comes, Richmond says, from the [...]
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Rehberg talks about social networking with Gazette

By Michael Becker | Published: November 3, 2009
Denny Rehberg spoke to the Billings Gazette recently about the effect of social networking on politics and campaigning. Rehberg is no stranger to social networking. He has a page on Facebook, a pretty active video stream on YouTube and, yes, he’s even on Twitter, where he recently posted about his opinions on the newest health [...]
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Things to know about online news

By Michael Becker | Published: November 2, 2009
Jessee James Garret, president of Adaptive Path, the company behind Web site redesigns at CNN, PBS and NPR, offered a few of the lessons he has learned about online news at the Online News Association convention in San Francisco. Know who you are. Be in the Web, not on the Web. The Web is not [...]
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Twitter lists: A gentler introduction to Twitter

By Michael Becker | Published: November 1, 2009
One of the bad things about Twitter is that it’s full of static. All those mundane posts about cats and breakfast and Kanye West can turn away people before they find people on Twitter worth following. (@amandaricker, I’m talking about you.) Thankfully, Twitter has provided a new tool that should help the microblogging service become [...]
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