Whatever the source of a newspaper style presentation, the personal newspaper arises.
Here is probably the most innovative to date: Paper.li.
This puts daily me to bed, as they used to say every evening as they cranked up the press to print the newspaper.
(Visit: http://gigaom.com/2010/08/29/let-a-thousand-personalized-newspapers-bloom/)
Let a Thousand Personalized Newspapers Bloom
By Mathew Ingram Aug. 29, 2010, 11:42am PDT 5 Comments
Mathew Ingram
I wrote recently about Paper.li, a service from a Swiss company called Small Rivers, which pulls in your Twitter stream and extracts any links shared by those you follow, then displays those links in a newspaper-style format. (The company was recently funded by Kima Ventures, whose co-founder bought the French newspaper Le Monde.) More and more Twitter users I follow seem to be making use of the service to construct their own personalized newspapers. Here are a few of the ones I have come across (if you’re interested, my Paper.li is here):
Jeff Nolan (technology blogger and VC — @jeffnolan)
Umair Haque (director of Harvard’s media lab — @umairh)
Ross Mayfield (co-founder of Socialtext — @ross)
Wired magazine (the Wired Daily account — @wired)
Stowe Boyd (online consultant — @stoweboyd)
Alex Howard (O’Reilly correspondent — @digiphile)
You can easily create Paper.li newspapers around Twitter lists, such as Robert Scoble’s list of influential technology types (full disclosure: I am on this list) and Spigit VP Hutch Carpenter’s Innovation list. You can create Twitter-stream newspapers from specific hashtags as well, such as #climate or #autism. There are also a few celebrities using Paper.li to create papers from their streams, including British actor and author Stephen Fry, comedian Eddie Izzard and former pop superstar Boy George.
The service — which is still in alpha, but says it plans to launch a beta soon — is much like the “Daily Me” concept (a term coined by MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte) that many services have tried to deliver. Many of these services try to learn from articles you say you like, in the same way that music services such as Pandora try to learn from your behavior. (There’s another Twitter-based service called Twitter Times that takes a newspaper-style approach.) What’s interesting about using Twitter for such a service is that you don’t have to explicitly say which articles you like, or wait for the software to learn what you’re interested in; you choose the people you follow and those people choose the links they want to share, and that constitutes your newspaper.
Monday, August 30, 2010
An old dog
The saying goes you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Well with the internet, none of the old saws work.
The over 50 generation is embracing social media.
(Check out http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Older-Adults-and-Social-Media.aspx)
That means that newspapers and especially weeklies that have been clobbered by the division of their readership between over 50 year-old habits of consumption and under-50 year-old habits, now have a nexus where the two meet: social media.
In other words the print-centric generation and the web-centric generations now have neutral, mutual ground in social media. That provides real new opportunities for newspapers and weeklies if they can tie the two together.
Here's the overview story. If you want the whole story you'll have to order the report:
While social media use has grown dramatically across all age groups, older users have been especially enthusiastic over the past year about embracing new networking tools. Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled—from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May 2010.
Between April 2009 and May 2010, social networking use among internet users ages 50-64 grew by 88%--from 25% to 47%.
During the same period, use among those ages 65 and older grew 100%--from 13% to 26%.
By comparison, social networking use among users ages 18-29 grew by 13%—from 76% to 86%.
“Young adults continue to be the heaviest users of social media, but their growth pales in comparison with recent gains made by older users,” explains Mary Madden, Senior Research Specialist and author of the report. “Email is still the primary way that older users maintain contact with friends, families and colleagues, but many older users now rely on social network platforms to help manage their daily communications.”
One in five (20%) online adults ages 50-64 say they use social networking sites on a typical day, up from 10% one year ago.
Among adults ages 65 and older, 13% log on to social networking sites on a typical day, compared with just 4% who did so in 2009.
At the same time, the use of status update services like Twitter has also grown—particularly among those ages 50-64. One in ten internet users ages 50 and older now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves or see updates about others.
ABOUT THE SURVEY
This report is based on the findings of a daily tracking survey on Americans' use of the Internet. The results in this report are primarily based on data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International between April 29 and May 30, 2010, among a sample of 2,252 adults, age 18 and older. Interviews were conducted in English. A combination of landline and cellular random digit dial (RDD) samples was used to represent all adults in the continental United States who have access to either a landline or cellular telephone. For results based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling and other random effects is plus or minus 2.4 percentage points. For results based Internet users (n=1,756), the margin of sampling error is plus or minus 2.7 percentage points. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting telephone surveys may introduce some error or bias into the findings of opinion polls. For more information, please see the Methodology Section.
The over 50 generation is embracing social media.
(Check out http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Older-Adults-and-Social-Media.aspx)
That means that newspapers and especially weeklies that have been clobbered by the division of their readership between over 50 year-old habits of consumption and under-50 year-old habits, now have a nexus where the two meet: social media.
In other words the print-centric generation and the web-centric generations now have neutral, mutual ground in social media. That provides real new opportunities for newspapers and weeklies if they can tie the two together.
Here's the overview story. If you want the whole story you'll have to order the report:
While social media use has grown dramatically across all age groups, older users have been especially enthusiastic over the past year about embracing new networking tools. Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled—from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May 2010.
Between April 2009 and May 2010, social networking use among internet users ages 50-64 grew by 88%--from 25% to 47%.
During the same period, use among those ages 65 and older grew 100%--from 13% to 26%.
By comparison, social networking use among users ages 18-29 grew by 13%—from 76% to 86%.
“Young adults continue to be the heaviest users of social media, but their growth pales in comparison with recent gains made by older users,” explains Mary Madden, Senior Research Specialist and author of the report. “Email is still the primary way that older users maintain contact with friends, families and colleagues, but many older users now rely on social network platforms to help manage their daily communications.”
One in five (20%) online adults ages 50-64 say they use social networking sites on a typical day, up from 10% one year ago.
Among adults ages 65 and older, 13% log on to social networking sites on a typical day, compared with just 4% who did so in 2009.
At the same time, the use of status update services like Twitter has also grown—particularly among those ages 50-64. One in ten internet users ages 50 and older now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves or see updates about others.
ABOUT THE SURVEY
This report is based on the findings of a daily tracking survey on Americans' use of the Internet. The results in this report are primarily based on data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International between April 29 and May 30, 2010, among a sample of 2,252 adults, age 18 and older. Interviews were conducted in English. A combination of landline and cellular random digit dial (RDD) samples was used to represent all adults in the continental United States who have access to either a landline or cellular telephone. For results based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling and other random effects is plus or minus 2.4 percentage points. For results based Internet users (n=1,756), the margin of sampling error is plus or minus 2.7 percentage points. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting telephone surveys may introduce some error or bias into the findings of opinion polls. For more information, please see the Methodology Section.
Monday, August 23, 2010
In a nutshell
Newspapers have moved their emphasis to online,and seen year after year percentage growth. Until now. Check this out.
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-how-income-from-news-readers-stagnates-despite-growth/
How Income From News Readers Stagnates Despite Growth
Here is the current dilemma, for many a consumer online news publisher, summed up in a graph pair…
The chart shows that monthly unique visitors per week at the top 10 Norwegian newspaper sites rose from 4 million (2003) to 10 million (2006) to 16 millionm (2009) but that the rate per visitor dropped during the same period (from $1.5 basically to $2.1 to $2.0 during the same period.)
(visit http://paidcontent.org/images/editorial/_original/media-norges-online-challenge-o.png)
In slides presented to investors today, Schibsted‘s Norwegian publisher Media Norge says: “Overall traffic levels may be reaching saturation and online ad prices are stagnating...”
Most publishers know this, but few actually disclose their average revenue per user. Media Norge is a stand-out in that regard. Giving us a rare insight, it acknowledges average income per monthly unique visitor of two Norwegian kroner (that’s $0.32 or £0.21) is now less than it was back in 2006.
So Media Norge, which publishes Norway’s largest paper Aftenposten and classifieds site Finn.no, told investors it will “focus on improving traffic quality and value - loyalty over heads and eyeballs”.
This sounds an awful lot like Mirror Group Digital director Matt Kelly’s oft-argued thesis that readers from search engines are too fleeting to monetize. In Kelly’s case, Mirror.co.uk has hived football and showbiz news off to separate niche sites in a bid to cultivate loyalty. In News Corp.‘s case, The Times has blocked search engines from crawling its site.
For the Scandinavian group, like other publishers, the search for “quality” will go hand-in-hand with a resumption in selling content. “The climate for selling content to readers online is improving,” its slides say. “Media Norge plans experimentation, launches and enhanced monetization.”
It’s also planning to shave 100 million kroner ($16.2 million or £10.4 million) from its online costs through synergies and sharing of group facilities.
Media Norge Q2 revenue is 8.5 percent up from last year, though Aftenposten specifically has come in three percent down, but both posted big pre-tax profit rises after cutting costs.
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-how-income-from-news-readers-stagnates-despite-growth/
How Income From News Readers Stagnates Despite Growth
Here is the current dilemma, for many a consumer online news publisher, summed up in a graph pair…
The chart shows that monthly unique visitors per week at the top 10 Norwegian newspaper sites rose from 4 million (2003) to 10 million (2006) to 16 millionm (2009) but that the rate per visitor dropped during the same period (from $1.5 basically to $2.1 to $2.0 during the same period.)
(visit http://paidcontent.org/images/editorial/_original/media-norges-online-challenge-o.png)
In slides presented to investors today, Schibsted‘s Norwegian publisher Media Norge says: “Overall traffic levels may be reaching saturation and online ad prices are stagnating...”
Most publishers know this, but few actually disclose their average revenue per user. Media Norge is a stand-out in that regard. Giving us a rare insight, it acknowledges average income per monthly unique visitor of two Norwegian kroner (that’s $0.32 or £0.21) is now less than it was back in 2006.
So Media Norge, which publishes Norway’s largest paper Aftenposten and classifieds site Finn.no, told investors it will “focus on improving traffic quality and value - loyalty over heads and eyeballs”.
This sounds an awful lot like Mirror Group Digital director Matt Kelly’s oft-argued thesis that readers from search engines are too fleeting to monetize. In Kelly’s case, Mirror.co.uk has hived football and showbiz news off to separate niche sites in a bid to cultivate loyalty. In News Corp.‘s case, The Times has blocked search engines from crawling its site.
For the Scandinavian group, like other publishers, the search for “quality” will go hand-in-hand with a resumption in selling content. “The climate for selling content to readers online is improving,” its slides say. “Media Norge plans experimentation, launches and enhanced monetization.”
It’s also planning to shave 100 million kroner ($16.2 million or £10.4 million) from its online costs through synergies and sharing of group facilities.
Media Norge Q2 revenue is 8.5 percent up from last year, though Aftenposten specifically has come in three percent down, but both posted big pre-tax profit rises after cutting costs.
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