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New York Times creating blogs

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:54:46 GMT

MANY OF THE LARGEST ONLINE newspapers, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, have beefed up efforts to create blogs. Consider, the Times alone now boasts Screens, a blog devoted to online video; Carpetbagger, about the Oscar awards; and The Lede, dedicated to further exploring major news stories, among other relatively new blogs.

It seems intuitive that readers are visiting such blogs; after all, why else would papers continue to support them?

Now, however, there's some objective support showing that online newspaper readers have taken to the publications' blogs. Data released this morning by media measurement company Nielsen//NetRatings shows that blog pages within the top 10 online newspapers drew around 3.8 million unique visitors last month--more than triple December 2005's 1.2 million.

By contrast, total online readership at the top 10 newspapers during that time has only grown by 9%, from 27.3 million in December 2005 to 29.9 million last month.

These numbers also mean that the proportion of online newspaper readers that also visit the paper's blog has grown from around 4% at the end of 2005 to around 12% last month.

Nielsen//NetRatings also reported that newspapers' blog readers tend to skew male--even more so than online newspapers in general. Men accounted for 66% of visitors to blogs, and 60% of visitors to online newspapers last month.

It seems intuitive that readers are visiting such blogs; after all, why else would papers continue to support them?

Tags: newspapers, newspapers+newyorktimes

WSJ will break its exclusives online first

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:24:48 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cyberjournalist.net

The Wall Street Journal plans to break most of its exclusives online from now on, The Washington Post reports. When the Journal learned that Los Angeles Times editor Dean Baquet would resign rather than make corporate-mandated budget cuts, it put the story online -- prompting Baquet to confirm the news to his staff -- and came back with a more detailed piece the next morning.

Tags: newspapers, journals, journals+wsj

Wall Street Journal adds social media elements

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:08:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I would really like to see the Wall Street Journal offer its articles for free.

Clip Source: mashable.com

WSJ 3.0 - The Wall Street Journal site relaunched on Tuesday with blogs, videos, podcasts, reader forums, and MyWSJ, a personalized section. The consensus, however, is that they haven’t gone far enough - Mashable would love to link to WSJ articles, but can’t because they’re usually behind paywalls.

Tags: newspapers, newspapers+wsj

Correct use of the comma

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:14:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I found this blog while reading my favorite blog Micropersuasion and I haven't read all the posts but he seems to cover helpful grammer topics with lots of links to sources and other writing materials.

Clip Source: wordwise.typepad.com

Comma Comma Comma Comma Comma Chameleon

The grammar question I get asked more than any other: Is there a comma between the last item in a series and the word “and”? In other words, is it “potatoes, artichokes, and radishes” or “potatoes, artichokes and radishes”? My answer is always the same: It depends who you ask. The Associated Press Stylebook, The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage, and many other stylebooks used by newspapers and magazines suggest forgoing that last comma unless doing so would cause confusion on the part of the reader.

No confusion: I bought flip-flops, a Speedo and goggles
Confusion (not to mention consternation): I dedicate this book to my parents, Beyoncé and God. In this case, a comma would clear things up nicely.

Strunk and White, in their classic Elements of Style, say to always always always use the serial comma to avoid ambiguity: “use a comma after each term,” no ifs, ands, or buts, they declare. The Chicago Manual of Style, the United States Government Printing Office’s Style Manual, and Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage agree. Here’s my advice: Unless your client requires you to slavishly follow AP style, use the comma. It can’t hurt, after all, and it will avoid uncertainty. Just ask my parents, Elaine and Seymour.

Tags: comma, grammer, pr, writing

Only 2% of Online Consumers are Using RSS

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:01:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I cant believe only 2% of online consumers use RSS!!!!

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Only 2 percent of online consumers bother, according to Forrester, and more than half of that group is 40 years old or younger.

LITTLE ORANGE BUTTONS

Some of the top U.S. news Web sites are changing that, including The New York Times site.

"It should be incredibly easy for anybody, no matter what their technical level, to click a button and add a feed to their MyTimes page," he said.

Washingtonpost.com is sprucing up its RSS system for sometime in early 2007, said Ann Marchand Thompson, the site's editor for discussions, e-mail and RSS.

Yahoo and Google also offer easy-to-use RSS options. Specialized RSS readers like Bloglines and Newsgator are slightly more sophisticated and take a little more experimentation, but are tough to put down once you get the hang of them.

Tags: rss, really simple syndication, newspapers, technology, internet