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Institutionalized piracy in Russia – Russia’s Facebook (vKontakte) sued by music labels
Russian ISPs openly brag about how much pirated content they have - it's their market differentiator Years ago, working in Russia, back when the whole "Content Pirates" project was just the mere glimmering of an instinct, I was talking with the local techies about how...
Brazilian Journalists DIY a Solution: IndieJournalism.com
The business model here seems to be selling stories one by one, the way that Atavist or Byliner do. I’m not sure that there’s enough of an audience base, particularly in Brazil, for this to be the main support for long-form journalism. Additionally, this front-loads the cost of doing a story.
If the numbers don’t lie – what shall we put above the fold?
When clicks drive coverage, what happens to hard news stories? Are we doomed to "hamster wheel journalism"? Is the future only listicles and kitteh pictures? There's an interesting discussion shaping up - one that I've seen coming for quite some time. In an excellent...
Mr. Mitchell’s Opus
Readings from “The Light on the Coast†My very first case study on best practices in journalism was about Dave Mitchell and the saga of the tiny Point Reyes Light. It was a multimedia piece – which, back in 2005, was a real Big Deal for the Online Journalism...
Gawker’s Nick Denton: “Privacy has never really existed”
Thought-provoking take in a Playboy interview of Gawker Media's Nick Denton, one of the most-hated men on the internet. Also, one of the most successful. His premise may be a little self-serving, in light of his whole net worth being based on prying into people's...
Creating a Banner Image for Your Social Profiles
Here's an example of a banner image, created for Storify. This example uses a variety of quickly-chosen and lightly edited images to fit the radically horizontal image space on Storify. Damn. Things are getting heavy. Journalists are being attacked by paid...