Andrew Golis

• David Cameron's Experiment in Augmented Reality | techPresident
  Cameron's use of the net has been aggressive and fascinating.
  (tags: uk david.cameron video pdf new.politics)
• Beet.TV: The New York Times Videos Now Sharable via Embed Code
  NYT videos, now embeddable! Welcome to the internet NYT.
  (tags: nyt video virality beet.tv)
• NYTimes.com Adds 'Most Viewed' Tab – mediabistro.com: WebNewser
  Neat. Should be interesting to study.
  (tags: metrics nyt mediabistro new.media)
• With Hirings, Yahoo Steps Up News Coverage – NYTimes.com
  Shorter message here: Yahoo! News has decided that investing in original journalism is good for business.
  (tags: journalism new.media yahoo yahoo.news nyt me blogging)
• Photo: Gawker HQ's Telescreen Displays List of Most-Successful Blog Posts – The Awl
  This just seems cruel to me.
  (tags: metrics gawker new.media the.awl)

• CNN Fails to Stop Fall in Ratings – NYTimes.com
  Keeps on keepin on.
  (tags: cnn television metrics nyt)
• Two New IPhones Coming; One May Be Aimed at Verizon – WSJ.com
  Thank. God.
  (tags: iphone att verizon mobile wsj)
• Strengthening Our Core (Readership) – Traffic – Gawker Media
  Denton explains the way in which he uses the metric "branded traffic" to track loyalty.
  (tags: metrics gawker new.media advertising)

• The Media Equation – Talking Back to Your TV Set, Endlessly – NYTimes.com
  The new commentariat: "social media lets us pretend we're not wallowing in low culture."
  (tags: twitter new.media television david.carr nyt)

• Beet.TV: Boom Time for Online Video News: CNN Has 42 Percent Jump in Video Views in February, Nielsen
  CNN.com is, more than anyone I think, prepping aggressively for the TV/web convergence. They've had an explosion of video views after their homepage redesign.
  (tags: cnn video television new.media beet.tv metrics)
• PEJ Study Examines How Americans Consume News – mediabistro.com: WebNewser
  STATS!
  (tags: metrics statistics pew new.media newspaper mediabistro)
• Introducing Homer: The Blogware-agnostic Feed-based Homepage Creator for the 'News Blob' | Shhhaw
  Al Shaw, brilliant monster code journo.
  (tags: new.media development api al.shaw)
• A “reporting recipe” to dig up dirt like ProPublica » Nieman Journalism Lab
  What's the real goal of non-profit journalism? Read the comments for a fun back and forth w/ Jack Shafer from Slate and Jay Rosen.
  (tags: nieman.journalism.lab non.profit laura.mcgann jack.shafer jay.rosen)
• Why did Nick Denton truncate Gawker’s RSS feeds? | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters
  The debate over RSS is interesting, but as someone who's studied it and discussed it with the founders of the major RSS management companies, I can tell you that no one really knows the right answer. It's all guess work.
  (tags: rss feeds new.media blogging felix.salmon gawker)
• Interview: ABC News’ Slavin: Paywall Strategy Coming Down By June | paidContent
  Interesting, ABC considering a paywall. That seems…. silly.
  (tags: abc.news new.media pay.wall paid.content television)

• The Monkey Cage: Do Blog Readers Self-Segregate or Deliberate?
  I am gonna read the shit out of this. New academic study from Eric Lawrence, John Sides, and Henry Farrell.
  (tags: polarization new.media blogging academia)
• Beet.tv Roundtable: Economist Chief Says E-Readers Can Save Long-Form Journalism | paidContent
  Maybe wishful thinking, but there's truth to the idea that the different mode of consumption could mentally prepare people to be more interested in long form.
  (tags: long-form new.media ereaders beet.tv economist paid.content magazines)
• How Andrew Breitbart Hacks the Media | Magazine
  Breitbart is the dark side of the new media system incarnate. What Glenn Beck is for television Breitbart is for the web: the embodiment of all of the destructive incentives of the medium.
  (tags: wired andrew.breitbart drudge new.media blogging hyperlinks)

• The case for context: my opening statement for SXSW at Newsless.org
  Great post on the need for explainers.
  (tags: explainers context aggregation hyperlinks new.media)

• Why You Can't Work At Work – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
  Big believer in asynchronous virtual offices.
  (tags: labor interruption andrew.sullivan big.think jason.fried instant.messaging email)
• Matthew Yglesias » The Cable News Problem
  Cable news has a huge influence over politics even though only about 10 people watch it.
  (tags: television yglesias metrics)

The Onion takes on cable news:

• Amanpour for 'This Week'? – Michael Calderone – POLITICO.com
  This would be awesome.
  (tags: amanpour politico calderone this.week abc television)
• …My heart’s in Accra » Jonathan Stray on original reporting: imaginary abundance
  Zuckerman points to research that says there are 583 versions of each story on the internet every day. Nutty.
  (tags: ethan.zuckerman new.media aggregation nieman.journalism.lab)
• Huffington Post Reports 40 Million Monthly Visitors | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD
  They keep building.
  (tags: huffpo peter.kafka metrics blogging)

• If you blog unauthorized "Daily Show" or "Colbert" clips, Viacom will sue your ass – Boing Boing
  Wow, that's an expansion view of copyright violation if I ever heard it.
  (tags: copyright viacom daily.show colbert video blogging)
• Eight key terms for determining legitimacy in journalism – Jay Rosen: Public Notebook
  These are great.
  (tags: journalism ethics transparency jay.rosen new.media)
• The Atlantic Tweaks its Web Redesign : CJR
  This is great web management. Launched a great new site, accepted public criticism of a serious flaw, fixed it quickly and explained themselves. Impressive.
  (tags: the.atlantic new.media cjr design blogging)