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Bringing Living Stories to WordPress – Google News Blog

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    Eric Zhang, Software Engineer at Google:

    "We first showcased Living Stories in December through a two-month-long experiment with the New York Times and Washington Post. We got great feedback from both readers and publishers. Our next step was to open-source the Living Stories format, allowing publishers to build on it using Google’s AppEngine infrastructure. We then released a version of the code that runs independent of our infrastructure. Since then, a number of publications have shared their ideas for ways we can offer additional tools to help them create Living Stories.

    The WordPress plugin is a direct result of those conversations. We hope the plug-and-play solution will make it easy for you to get a Living Story up and running in almost no time at all."

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LA Times adds e-commerce links, revises comment policy – Shaping the Future of the Newspaper Blog

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    "The ads will be placed by an e-commerce producer based at the Chicago Tribune, also owned by the Tribune Co., where the project has been in its testing phase for about six months. The e-commerce links will appear on health, image, food, travel, books, entertainment, sports sections and photo galleries. The green links will not appear in columns, news section articles and blogs, according to the memo on LAObserved.

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    Stanton also announced a revised comment policy wherein registered users of Facebook and other social networking sites can post comments on Times stories, articles and photos live, without moderation, but not on blogs. Users will pass through a word filter that blocks an extensive list of vulgarities, but there are chances inappropriate comments will be able slip past the filter, as the system is not foolproof."

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Interview: Guardian’s Bell Sees Mixed-Model Future On Way To Columbia – paidContent:UK

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I was shown the media’s future 16 years ago: now with the iPad, it’s here – The Observer

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    I was shown the media’s future 16 years ago: now with the iPad, it’s here – The Observer

    Alan Rusbridger on iPad and future of news:

    "In the space of four days my sense of scale has changed. On Tuesday, my new iPad seemed like a rather overblown iPhone. By Friday, I found myself irritated at trying to read emails or type on the iPhone, which already seemed mean and cramped. A tabloid newspaper page seemed exotically large, a broadsheet like a street hoarding. The iPad just seemed natural. Maybe Apple has simply rediscovered what book publishers, over the space of 400 years, came to a more or less settled view on – the right shape of page for what the human eye and hands feel easy with.

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    Has the Guardian (or the Observer, for we share the same digital space) ever looked more beautiful? [...] The NYT browser version doesn't look bad, either. The BBC, as ever, is irritatingly good

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    Will it catch on? It feels like a transformative interim step [...]

    Will it transform newspaper finances? [...] only if you switched off the printing presses."

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Google’s Schmidt: ‘We Have A Business Model Problem, Not A News Problem’ – paidContent @ ASNE

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    Google’s Schmidt: ‘We Have A Business Model Problem, Not A News Problem’ – paidContent @ ASNE

    Eric Schmidt on future of news at ASNE:

    "“When I go to a news site, I want that news site to know more about me, what I care about. I don’t want to be treated as a stranger.” To avoid what we used to call “daily me” where all you see is what you want and ask for, though, in Schmidt’s ideal news world, the site offers him options he might not like. “I want you to challenge me. Here’s something new; here’s something you didn’t know; here’s an opposing view.” Two thirds will ignore the option; he wants to reach the third that won’t. This has particular resonance if you think about the way Google has been using actions to predict behavior or to deliver information with Google Buzz, ad targeting in GMail and other areas."

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I’ll stop Google taking our news for nothing, says defiant Rupert Murdoch – guardian.co.uk

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iPad apps: news and magazines – Engadget

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    iPad apps: news and magazines – Engadget

    "Apple's done a pretty good job convincing the old media that the iPad will save their industry, so we've taken our time trying out the launch titles in the App Store — it's plain to see that different publishers have radically different ideas about how you're supposed to buy and consume their content, and everything from pricing to UI is currently up in the air. But while the apps we've seen so far are definitely intriguing, we haven't seen any silver bullets yet — and to be perfectly honest, in several cases we wondered why an app was preferable to an iPad-optimized web site, or even (gasp) a paper subscription. Let's run down the launch lineup, shall we?"

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