February 2012
14 posts
Raw Data: How Registration Affects Comments
motherjones:
A few weeks ago Mother Jones started requiring registration with email verification for commenters. So how has that worked out? Here are the basic stats from our tech wizards:
22% decrease in total comments
22% increase in Twitter logins
257% increase in Facebook logins
45% decrease in comments our moderators decided to delete
And anecdotally, the comments seem much more...
How Does the Brain Process News/Ads? →
While I was a doctoral student at Missouri School of Journalism a few years back, I worked as a research assistant in the lab above. It’s one of only a few such labs in the country that focuses on how people psychologically and physically process news and information.
Among the more groundbreaking findings? Super graphic, disgusting ads (think about some of the anti-smoking/anti-drug public...
Profitable news - Jeff Jarvis →
seoulbrother:
The problem is that journalists don’t know shit about business. Culturally, they don’t want to. I often hear from journalists who are downright hostile to corporations and even capitalism not because they’re commies but because they believe they’re above it all (there is the root, I believe, of much of their cynicism about Google and other large technology companies). - Jeff...
RoughNightForLulu: One Man's Struggle to Change a... →
roughnightforlulu:
History, bombs, a riot…and combative Wikipedia editing
“For the past 10 years I’ve immersed myself in the details of one of the most famous events in American labor history, the Haymarket riot and trial of 1886. Along the way I’ve written two books and a couple of articles about the episode. …”
I’m making this article required reading in my next digital...
Mainstream Media is Male and Getting Maler →
Need a drink after reading this passage:
“Last year, women made up only 22 percent of the local radio workforce, compared to 29.2 percent in 2010. Women’s representation in sports news hasn’t budged since 2008 (just 11 percent of editors, 10 percent of columnists, and 7 percent of reporters are women). In one year, women dropped from 20 percent of behind-the-scenes...
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SeoulBrother: Dear Journalists, →
seoulbrother:
Stop calling what you produce “content.” You do great journalism. The moment you reduce what you do to “content” is the moment you fall in with the business processes that have failed your profession.
A valentine to journalism, from my valentine …
Rice University Announces Open-Source Textbooks →
infoneer-pulse:
But soon, introductory physics texts will have a new competitor, developed at Rice University. A free online physics book, peer-reviewed and designed to compete with major publishers’ offerings, will debut next month through the non-profit publisher OpenStax College.
Using Rice’s Connexions platform, OpenStax will offer free course materials for five common introductory...
London (Guardian) Puts Readers Next to Editors
Big, fat, face-plant of a smooch to the Guardian for yet another cool-as-shit conversational news initiative, Newsdesk Live. (h/t to Poynter’s wonderful Jeff Sonderman for bringing this to public attention).
The Guardian is becoming my go-to example worldwide of smart experiments with reader participation in news processes. I don’t know how boss Alan Rusbridger manages to understand...
