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NEWS AND COMMENTARY
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Michelle Manafy, on September 03, 2010
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Early blogs both journals, then those that provided commentary on niche areas of interest spawned the era of Social Media, in which anyone share their ideas with a few friends or a limitless audience online. Some of these wee one man blogs have, overtime, become impressive media outlets on their own. Somewhere along the way, Mainstream Media got more or less on board. I suppose that the nearly free press couldn't stay free forever. However, it was with great surprise that I read the city of Philadelphia will charge all local bloggers a $300 “business privilege license."
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Theresa Cramer, on September 02, 2010
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The other day Michelle pointed me to a post by Ken Doctor about The Seattle Post's work with local blogs to cover a growing homelessness problem. There are so many things that interest us, as journalists, about this story. Not the least of which, are the actual stories told about homeless families.
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Theresa Cramer, on August 31, 2010
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When I was a kid I used to play Nintendo while also watching Punky Brewster. In college, I wrote papers while listening to my roommate chatter, and keeping an eye on that whole Gore-Bush presidential race via television news. As I type this post, I'm streaming NPR. When I go home tonight, I will most likely play an episode of Rescue Me--that I've already seen--on my Roku box while reading an old-fashioned paperback copy of Last Night at Twisted River. For many years, I thought I just thrived in a distracting environment thanks to open classrooms in my elementary school. Turns out, I'm a "media stacker."
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Michelle Manafy, on August 30, 2010
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I'm having a Tasini flashback. In case you weren't monitoring copyright decisions circa 2001, InfoToday did a nice overview of the decision. Today, I read an article in the Wall Street Journal online about an intriguing deal super agent Andrew Wylie made with Amazon to provide exclusive access to his clients' work. The WSJ reports that the deal has fallen through, apparently due to pressure put on Wylie by Bertelsmann AG's Random House, which published 13 of the 20 titles at issue. The publisher disputed Amazon's right to sell the titles in digital form and boycotted new offerings by all of Mr. Wylie's clients (which include V.S. Naipaul and Dave Eggers; disputed back list authors include John Updike and Ralph Ellison).
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Kelley Bligh, on August 30, 2010
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The next generation Kindle is, if not quite sweeping the nation, at least sweeping Amazon. The company recently announced the success of their most recent ereader, attributing it to the Kindle 3G's new and improved looks and abilities.
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NEWS FEATURES
These days, getting lots of information is easy; it's using that information productively that's the tricky part. The task is even more difficult when that information comes not from a single information resource, but from several. But for users of Elsevier's various scientific resources, that task just got a little easier thanks to the August 30 release of a unified research platform called SciVerse.
It's easy to stop thinking about the changing content landscape over the summer. The days are long and hot, and you're more worried about avoiding the heat than you are about the future of media. However, at least two prominent figures still had media on their minds and were making (sometimes outlandish) predictions.
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There is a new breed of content creator seeking to dominate the world of search-based information gathering by leveraging keyword-driven editorial missions and a huge supply of journalists who currently find themselves in need of revenue streams. Are these so-called content farms the end of cultivated content or do they represent a necessary state in the evolution of the content creation model?
As recently as the last decade, marketing content - that is, content not as the product itself but as the basis for engaging a target audience and helping compel that audience to purchase a company's product - was reduced to a fairly short list of flavors. Today, however, companies have an opportunity to engage customers directly with endlessly unfolding content communication opportunities.
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COLUMNS
As a content management strategist, I've helped clean up some pretty big content messes. And almost all of these expensive content woes could have been avoided if the organizations involved had realized one important fact: Content is a business asset worthy of being managed efficiently and effectively.
Though we're still very much in the Wild West of digital content, what we see today often feels like history repeating itself. This notion must have triggered considerable thought among audience members because I spent the rest of the day being stopped in the halls and reminded of more and more instances in which this was proving true. And while it's safe to say that I'm no history scholar, it is clear that the people who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
CASE STUDIES
Marion Waldman began Albany, N.Y.-based iD8 Publishing Services in 2005. The company is a vendor for the educational publishing industry, providing a full range of services that take the customer through the early phases of production. An integral part of academic publishing is peer review, which ensures the quality and integrity of a book or journal. However, based on her past experiences, Waldman knew peer review is rarely an efficient process. A first-edition book project, for example, may require up to eight unique reviewers per chapter. Waldman wanted to find an efficient online system that could manage large amounts of qualitative data that could generate reports for authors.
As a financial firm that provides on-site consultation for its business clients, keeping in touch with traveling agents and salesmen is a priority for Klein Financial Services. And with the large volume and confidential nature of the documents the firm routinely handles, traditional methods such as phone, fax, and email are either too cumbersome or not private enough. Yet with no significant IT infrastructure and limited employees, the company can't deploy the sort of complex software solution a larger company might turn to.
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As a professor, David Shumaker's job is twofold: "I explain why the world needs more librarians and help to develop and educate librarians to fill the unmet needs out there." Shumaker is particularly interested in embedded librarianship, wherein a librarian provides specialized, highly focused information expertise to a specific small group of other professionals.
"I'm fascinated by trends in information delivery especially to enterprise users, and my role here is to help companies get the right information to the right people at the right time."
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