Video: Google News Offers Tips, Best Practices for Editors, Publishers

This 15-minute video is totally worth your time if you’re a publisher, editor or Webmaster looking to optimize your news content for Google News. In it, Maile Ohye of Google talks about best practices and answers frequently asked questions about how Google News crawls, indexes and ranks news stories in Google [...]

Video: The Do’s and Don’ts Of Using Twitter in the Workplace

Today on “Today’s THV This Morning,” I sat down with Charles Crowson (who tweets @CCrowson016) to talk about what can happen when your Twitter life affects your work life. Or, rather, when you say something stupid on Twitter and your boss finds out.
Just as users are having to learn to watch what they post on [...]

And That’s No Bull: The Return (Again) of Bullwhiz

Bullwhiz is back. Again.
The Little Rock-based gossip e-mail, which began in Internet-infancy era of the early 90s and was read and fed by journalists, PR officials, politicos and business leaders, has gone through several incarnations and curators and now has been reborn as an Arkansas news aggregator.
You can check it out at Bullwhiz.com. The site [...]

Inside the AP’s Plans to Protect Its Content

We’ve been reading some excellent posts and discussion this week on one of the Associated Press’ proposals to reinvent itself in the Web era. Much of that discussion has been spurred by Zachary Seward, blogging at the Neiman Journalism Lab. He’s run across a copy of an AP proposal called “Protect, Point, Pay — An [...]

The Return of Media Notes: Why Print Beats Kindle, and Google’s New Flipper

At long last, another round-up of media notes from the world over:
Red All Over – Slate’s Farhad Manjoo on how print newspapers are still better than the new Kindle. Oh — and so’s getting your news on the iPhone.
They Call Him Flipper – Google’s working on another new tweak to Google News called “Flipper,” a [...]

Twitter, Just in Time

Twitter makes the cover of Time magazine this week, with a piece by Steven Johnson on how the microblogging service “will change the way we live.” How so, you ask? One way we’ve been most interest in is its effect on search:
Put those three elements together — social networks, live searching and link-sharing — and [...]

Twitter: A Threat to Google with Social Search

We noted last week how Twitter is challenging Google in search (Facebook is doing it, too). The thought is that Twitter has the potential to offer highly relevant, real-time search results from its growing user base.
Case in point: Restaurant search. My wife and I put a request on Twitter seeking the best place for sushi [...]

Google: We’ve Fallen Behind Twitter on Real-time Search

Cue the next wave of “Google’s buying Twitter” rumors, despite CEO Eric Schmidt’s best efforts. This, after statements this week by Google co-founder Larry Page and Schmidt, reported today in the Guardian UK.
Speaking at Google’s Zeitgeist Conference, Page admitted that the company has been “losing out to Twitter” in a race to meet Web user’s [...]

Media Notes: Blogfight! Plus, Google in Talks With Major Newspapers

More media notes for folks who love them some media!
Brummett v. Everyone – John Brummett quotes David Simon re: “newspapers, you’re gonna miss ‘em, etc.” and stirs up some lively debate from The Arkansas Project, Blake’s Think Tank and their respective commenters. It’s even inspired this helpful chart.
Micro Machines – The Wall Street Journal is [...]

Media Notes: Kindle! Newspapers = Saved!

The latest media notes from around the InterWebs:
Saved! – The Kindle DX is finally here, and it will save newspapers! Except that it won’t. And here’s why. Also: there’s no real reason for news readers to buy one. Oh, and it still needs work — and advertisers were left out. Well, nice try!
Idol Minds – [...]