May 23, 2006

Two presentations at Poynter

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

I had the profound privilege of participating as visiting faculty at last week's Leadership for Online News Managers seminar at the Poynter Institute. Seminar participants already have the links to my two PowerPoint presentation decks, and I'm sure the... ›››

May 18, 2006

Tagging news for structure, utility

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

Adrian Holovaty, one of journalism's smartest people on all things online, proposes some new ways of tagging news stories to give them more useful structures. A news story is intended to be "consumed" by humans, not computers. Indeed, one... ›››

May 04, 2006

Google algorithm tweaks vs. Web spam

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

Here's an intriguing take, as always from The Register, on Google's latest indexing algorithm update. Seems it has legitimate Webmasters riled up more than usual; these tweaks happen fairly often, but the latest one may have exposed some real... ›››

April 21, 2006

‘Amazon Effect’: users adamant about research

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

Jeff Bezos must feel pretty good about this. The folks at UIE Brain Sparks report a tendency of e-commerce user test subjects to ask, before trying whatever site is the test object of the moment, if they can "try... ›››

April 19, 2006

Sterling goes solo

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

Not sure how I missed this, but I found out today Greg Sterling left the Kelsey Group and has formed his own consulting enterprise, Sterling Market Intelligence. What's he covering? His new bio says he's "focused on online consumer... ›››

April 18, 2006

The Da Vinci Code Quest on Google

- New Media Marketer

Google has a branded promotion for The Dia Vinci Code movie on its personalized home page. If you have a Google personalized home page, click on "Add content" and you can add the widget for the Da Vinci Code... ›››

April 10, 2006

Picking targets -- and nontargets -- for news SEO

- yelvington.com -

I took some vacation last week and missed Steve Lohr's email asking me for comment on search optimization. Looking over the resulting New York Times story, "This boring headline is written for Google," a couple of things come to... ›››

Category: Newspapers | Search

April 07, 2006

Google Integrates Classifieds Into Search

- New Media Marketer

Charlene Li at Forrester points out that Google has taken another step into the classified space by integrating Google Base results into their search results. If you are searching for a house, apartment, job or used car you will... ›››

March 01, 2006

When the audience is a bot

- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design

Lee Gomes at WSJ.com played the role of a writer (rewriter, really) creating content specifically to get search engine rankings. He came away sounding disillusioned. My beef, actually, is with the search engines and the economics of the modern... ›››

Category: JOURNALISM | Media | Search | content | online culture

January 17, 2006

Nostalgia for the New Century Network

- yelvington.com -

Last week I heard someone refer to 'NCN nostalgia.' Just before the dot-boom, a bunch of newspaper companies got together and imagined an online future in which newspapers would be key players through something called New Century Network, which... ›››

Category: Newspapers | Search

December 14, 2005

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'Just when you thought you knew RSS...'

- New Media Marketer (feed)

Terry Heaton has an interesting post today on hos blog entitled Just when you thought you knew RSS.... He talks about how he has evolved as an online user of RSS. He poses an interesting question concerning RSS advertising.... ›››

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Amazon.com Opens Alexa Search Index

- New Media Marketer (feed)

On Monday Amazon.com announced that it will open up its Alexa search to developers. The new service, which launched into beta on Monday, allows developers to access the entirety of Alexa's 100-terabyte index, and use their server time at... ›››

Category: E-Business | News | Search | Web/Tech

November 28, 2005

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Internet Tops for Researching Vehicles, Study Shows

- New Media Marketer (feed)

DETROIT (Nov. 28, 2005) -- The 7th annual Cars Online study from Capgemini is showing that the Internet has become the No. 1 information source used by consumers when researching vehicles, surpassing family and friends and manufacturer-specific dealers. This... ›››

Category: News | Newspapers | Research | Search