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[Update: some of the links that were cited below are now dead and so I have removed them] Melissa Whitworth explains what happened here. It seems that her editors at the Telegraph made an error. You may recall my post on Friday about the dire fate faced by traditional newspapers, and the pressure they’re coming under A cornucopia of double-entendre and thinking so you don’t have to: Friday’s ZeFrank. My first attempts to understand digg, the news-voting site, were a bit of a shambles, to be honest. I tried to work out the order and content of the front page and ended up in a tangle of half-remembered Maths lessons. Owen Byrne, senior software engineer at the service, put me out of my misery by commenting Lunch today with John Davies, who’s in charge of next-web research for BT. It was quite a long, or rather intense, discussion, so I’ll only tackle the basics here. I’ve been trying to nail this semantic web issue for some time, but every time I start reading an academic paper, my attention seems to wander off. Douglas Fisher, who has helped set up the online community newspaper Hartsville Today over the last year, has published a 75-page guide (PDF File) to citizen journalism and running a community paper online. It’s well worth a read. Perhaps of especial interest is what he says about training for these new journalists: Other sites have done The Economist has a special report about the dire troubles print newspapers are getting into thanks to competition from online sources. Even when papers try to compensate for this by producing the entire content from the print edition on the internet, online readers are still worth less than purchasers of the print edition because (a) |             | |||
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