Recent events, tragic and triumphant, emphasize the social web’s role as a central source for disseminating breaking news. But getting the facts right continues to be a challenge, and a solution requires cooperation and technical innovation. Read more »
The trend among social networks to produce original content often ends badly, as Tumblr’s shuttering of Storyboard showed. Here’s where other big services, from Facebook to YouTube, are going wrong – or, in the case of LinkedIn, going right. Read more »
Flipboard’s recent update lets users create custom “magazines” and share them. For a large swath of the publishing industry, this provides a glimpse of what (for them) could be a grim future. Read more »
Though tablets and ebook readers are now mainstream, the revolution in the way they display content – and how that content will be generated dynamically – is yet to come. Read more »
Goodreads, the popular social network and review site for book lovers, is now part of Amazon. Imagine if it had instead paired up with Readmill, which offers a superior user reading experience. Read more »
Last fall, Book Riot successfully funded a Kickstarter campaign to publish a book. But it was grueling and not very financially rewarding. Here’s what you need to keep in mind if you decide to publish via Kickstarter. Read more »
Medium’s editorial strategy might be rounding into shape with the hiring of Evan Hansen, formerly of Wired, to work on Twitter founder Evan Williams’ new venture. Read more »
Native advertising, brand journalism — whatever you call it, the current ad-driven content boom provides a lot of opportunity. But for it to work, journalists and publishers need to think about their brand as much as the advertiser does. Read more »
Injure someone’s feelings online and you or your company can be sued for defamation, no matter how silly the slight. Josh King, of Avvo.com, says such nuisance suits — known by the acroynm SLAPP — stifle free speech. Read more »
As we continue the transition to digital, media companies will have more precise and powerful tools to measure success. David Justus, of contentcurrents.com, says Cost Per Hour will be a pivotal metric, both for consumers and content producers. Read more at GigaOM »
Huge and expensive patent battles aren’t going away anytime soon– in fact, they’re likely to continue to pick up steam this year. Efrat Kasznik, of Foresight Valuation Group, lays out some of the intellectual property battlegrounds of tomorrow. Read more at GigaOM »
The streaming video industry continues to undergo radical transformation. Kun Gao, of Crunchyroll, points to four things to look for in the coming year. Read more at GigaOM »
The digital media sector is finally maturng. Dan Ramsden, founder of CoRise, predicts some of the forms that that maturation will take. Read more at GigaOM »
The Daily should never have been shut down — it just needed to be fixed. That’s what I wanted to do. Read more at GigaOM »
Despite fewer viewers and blunt advertising metrics TV is still king, with revenues that dwarf online. Still, Doug McCormick of Rho Ventures says using smarter, online-style tech to better target ads will benefit both networks’ and marketers’ bottom line. Read more at GigaOM »
What happens when data is huge? We get lost. Discovery, not search, will produce the next data-exploration breakthrough. This partial excerpt is from Jim Hornthal’s TED ebook, “Haystack Full of Needles: Cutting Through the Clutter of the Online World to find a Place, Partner, or President.” Read more at GigaOM »
