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There’s an old saying that all news is local. But all news is personal too—we connect with it in different ways depending on our interests, where we live, what we do and a lot of other factors. Today we’re revamping the Google News homepage with several changes designed to make the news that you see more relevant to you. We’re also trying to better highlight interesting stories you didn’t know existed and to make it easier for you to share stories through social networks.
The media business is in tumult: from the production side to the distribution side, new technologies are upending the industry. What do news organizations need to do to survive? Will books become extinct? When will an audience pay for content? Can video bring television and the internet together? Will the iPad save us all? Keeping up with these changes is time-consuming, as essential media coverage is scattered across numerous web sites at any given moment.
Mediagazer simplifies this task by organizing the key coverage in one place. We’ve combined sophisticated automated aggregation technologies with direct editorial input from knowledgeable human editors to present the one indispensible narrative of an industry in transition. We collect relevant takes on an issue and package them together in a comprehensive group of links. That way, you not only get the lead opinion on an issue, but you can easily find the supporting, opposing, smart, controversial, notable, and previously unseen viewpoints. You get the big picture.
First, we’re introducing new features that bring your search results to life with a dynamic stream of real-time content from across the web. Now, immediately after conducting a search, you can see live updates from people on popular sites like Twitter and FriendFeed, as well as headlines from news and blog posts published just seconds before. When they are relevant, we’ll rank these latest results to show the freshest information right on the search results page.
Try searching for your favorite TV show, sporting event or the latest development on a recent government bill. Whether it’s an eyewitness tweet, a breaking news story or a fresh blog post, you can find it on Google right after it’s published on the web.
Arianna Huffington used her 25 minutes at the FTC’s How Will Journalism Survive The Internet Age? conference to take News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch and his executives to task for their remarks comparing news aggregators to “parasites,” “tech tapeworms,” and “thieves:” “Apparently, some in the old media have decided that it is, in fact, an either/or game and that the best way to save, if not journalism, at least themselves, is by pointing fingers and calling names,” she said. “In most industries, if your customers were leaving in droves, you would try to figure out what to do to get them back.”
Dopo i proclami di Rupert Murdoch (News Co.) e le sue sfide al concetto dell’informazione gratuita sul web, dall’interno del gruppo editoriale dell’imprenditore australiano arrivano le prime indicazioni concrete su cosa bolle in pentola. Il direttore del Times di Londra, James Harding, ha scoperto qualche carta e offerto un assaggio su come – a suo dire – i media di Murdoch intendono “riscrivere le regole economiche dei quotidiani”.
In un intervento a una conferenza della Society of Editors a Stansted, in Gran Bretagna, Harding ha affermato che il Times ha in programma di cominciare “dalla primavera del prossimo anno a far pagare per l’edizione digitale. Stiamo lavorando su un modello preciso per quanto riguarda i prezzi, ma faremo pagare per un accesso di 24 ore al Times, oltre a fissare un prezzo per gli abbonamenti veri e propri”. Harding ha bocciato qualsiasi idea di micropagamento per i singoli articoli, spiegando che il Times punta invece a formule “a tempo” .
Rupert Murdoch says he will remove stories from Google’s search index as a way to encourage people to pay for content online. In an interview with Sky News Australia, the mogul said that newspapers in his media empire – including the Sun, the Times and the Wall Street Journal – would consider blocking Google entirely once they had enacted plans to charge people for reading their stories on the web.
In recent months, Murdoch his lieutenants have stepped up their war of words with Google, accusing it of “kleptomania” and acting as a “parasite” for including News Corp content in its Google News pages. But asked why News Corp executives had not chosen to simply remove their websites entirely from Google’s search indexes – a simple technical operation – Murdoch said just such a move was on the cards.
L’audience di The Huffington Post, il blog/aggregatore di notizie di Arianna Huffington ha superato quella del sito del Washington Post. Lo confermano i dati di settembre di Nielsen Online relativi ai siti di informazione americani, diffusi nei giorni scorsi da Editor & Publisher. Nell’ultimo anno l’Huffington Post è cresciuto del 26%, raggiungendo in settembre 9,4 milioni di utenti unici, mentre il Washington Post è sceso del 29%, a 9,2 milioni.
Google ha lanciatoFast Flip, il nuovo aggregatore di notizie on-line che aggrega le news dei principali siti di informazione.
Fast Flip permette agli utenti di navigare velocemente attraverso le notizie, sfogliando le pagine come un giornale virtuale, con la possibilità di selezionare gli argomenti più letti o quelli consigliati e di condividerli con gli amici. Secondo Google con Fast Flip gli editori condivideranno le entrate derivanti dagli annunci pubblicitari e, in questo modo, avranno più risorse per finanziare l’inserimento di nuovi contenuti.
Google is developing a micropayment platform that will be “available to both Google and non-Google properties within the next year,” according to a document the company submitted to the Newspaper Association of America. The system, an extension of Google Checkout, would be a new and unexpected option for the news industry as it considers how to charge for content online.
The revelation comes in an eight-page response to the NAA’s request for paid-content proposals, which it extended to several major technology companies and startups. It’s surprising, given the newspaper industry’s tenuous relationship with Google, that the company was involved at all.
In the document, which you can download here, Google outlines its “vision of a premium content ecosystem” that includes subscriptions across multiple news sites, syndication on third-party sites, accessibility to search, and various payment options, including small fees for access to individual pieces of content (known as micropayments).
Le news on line a pagamento potrebbero essere introdotte presto anche in Italia. A pochi giorni dalla sfida lanciata dal magnate australiano Rupert Murdoch, che ha annunciato che entro un anno i suoi media faranno pagare l’informazione sul web, il presidente della Federazione italiana editori giornali, Carlo Malinconico, in un’intervista all’ANSA spiega che è già al lavoro un comitato per individuare le possibili formule, da sottoporre poi alla libera scelta di ogni editore. Parole chiave: flessibilità, prezzi ragionevoli e condizioni trasparenti da parte di motori di ricerca e provider. “C’é la profonda convinzione, da parte degli editori – sottolinea Malinconico – della necessità di valorizzare con ogni mezzo il prodotto editoriale proprio nel momento in cui si accetta la sfida della convergenza multimediale. Occorre fare i conti con il luogo comune secondo cui l’informazione deve essere gratuita, dimenticando che per produrre i contenuti giornalistici i costi sono rilevanti. Senza risorse non c’é qualità. Ma dobbiamo evitare l’illusione che il passaggio sia semplice e indiscriminato”. Anche per questo la Fieg ha creato “un gruppo di lavoro, uno ‘steering committee’, presieduto da Piergaetano Marchetti – annuncia – che affronterà il tema della valorizzazione dei contenuti editoriali in relazione alle nuove tecnologie informatiche e di comunicazione”.
The result is Media Cloud, a system that tracks hundreds of newspapers and thousands of Web sites and blogs, and archives the information in a searchable form. The database, at mediacloud.org, will eventually enable researchers to search for key people, places and events — from Michael Jackson to the Iranian elections — and find out precisely when, where and how frequently they are covered, said Mr. Zuckerman, whose official title is senior researcher, though he acknowledges that a more accurate label would be computer geek and international development specialist. (At the moment only a small sample of Media Cloud’s tools are on the public Web site.)
The findings, which can be graphed or mapped, can demonstrate the evolution of a report and variations in coverage. Users get to “do the fun part, which is analyzing the data,” Mr. Zuckerman said, “while we do the hard part of this, which is collecting it.” Eventually users will be able to compare the top 10 news events covered by Fox News, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the BBC, for example, or chart the terms that appear most frequently in The New York Times, compared with leading blogs, or create a world map showing which countries receive the most media attention, or follow the path of a particular report to see if it dominates the news or dies out.
1 luglio, 2010 
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