links for 2009-08-06
Posted on 06 August 2009 by Lucy
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Will Murdoch be successful at transforming Internet news into a pay-per-article landscape, or will the plan fall flat on its face?
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The days of being able to read newspapers for free on the internet are coming to a clos
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I believe we should try to answer investors’ questions, even before they’re asked, as proactively and completely as possible.
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MemeTracker builds maps of the daily news cycle by analyzing around 900,000 news stories and blog posts per day from 1 million online sources, ranging from mass media to personal blogs.
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Although Media Cloud is still in its early stages, it is among “the next generation of tools that actually look at what people are saying,” he said, adding, it is “a better microscope.”
There are other kinds of media trackers. Cornell University researchers, for example, have developed MemeTracker, which maps the daily news cycle by grabbing repeated quotations from one million online sources. (A meme is anything — an idea, a phrase — that spreads by imitation from one person to another.)
