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Study looks into what news articles you share and why
Posted by Maria Conde on February 9, 2010 at 5:14 PM
German news websites put up paywalls: Morgenpost and Abendblatt
Posted by Elizabeth Redman on February 8, 2010 at 12:40 PM
iCurrent: Can personalised news help newspapers?
Posted by Elizabeth Redman on February 4, 2010 at 12:55 PM
Freesheet launch: All quiet on the London Weekly front
Posted by Helena Humphrey on February 3, 2010 at 12:32 PM
Guardian's Alan Rusbridger on why his paper will remain free online
Posted by Emma Heald on January 26, 2010 at 12:06 PM
Survey: Almost half of Google News users don't go to news sites
Posted by Emma Heald on January 20, 2010 at 2:38 PM
Kuwaiti Journalists Criticize Stricter Media Laws
Posted by Trafton Kenney on January 19, 2010 at 2:53 PM
Jeff Jarvis' take on News Corp's latest move
Posted by Helena Humphrey on January 18, 2010 at 11:51 AM
Are social media and paywalls compatible? How the WSJ is making both work
Posted by Maria Conde on January 14, 2010 at 5:41 PM
AP and Yahoo close to reaching deal on content use
Posted by Maria Conde on January 14, 2010 at 4:08 PM
UK: copyright amendments to presume open news access?
Posted by Elizabeth Redman on January 13, 2010 at 4:50 PM
Fast Flip and Living Stories now on Google News homepage
Posted by Emma Heald on January 12, 2010 at 10:27 AM
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/02/study_looks_into_what_news_articles_peop.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="5682" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/whoemails.gif"><img alt="whoemails.gif" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/02/whoemails-thumb-200x258-5682.gif" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="258" width="200" /></a></form>Researchers at the <b>University of Pennsylvania</b> have extensively studied The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/"><i>New York Times</i></a> list of most e-mailed articles, checking every 15 minutes for more than six months, analyzing the content of thousands of articles, and controlling for factors like the placement in the paper or on the Web home page, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/science/09tier.html?ref=media">The New York Times reports</a>.<br /><br />Results from the study show that NYTimes readers have exalted tastes - seeking to inspire awe in their friends, colleagues, and family by choosing to e-mail positive articles over negative ones, and long, intellectually challenging articles over short and shocking ones. <br />&title=Study looks into what news articles you share and why ){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/02/smartphone_sales_soar_in_2009.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="5666" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/smartphones09.jpg"><img alt="smartphones09.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/02/smartphones09-thumb-200x140-5666.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="140" width="200" /></a></form>Vendors shipped a record 54.5 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2009, 39% more than the 39.2 million shipped in the same quarter in 2008, <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/188610/smartphone_sales_score_record.html">according to <b>IDC</b> information on <i>PC World</i></a>. <br /><br />Four of the top five smartphone sellers beat their shipments records for a single quarter, according to numbers released by the <a href="http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS22196610">International Data Corporation (IDC)</a>. Following a 98% increase in smartphone sales in the fourth quarter of 2008, <b>Apple</b> has regained its spot as third largest smartphone vendor, behind longtime leaders <b>Nokia</b> and <b>Research in Motion</b> &title=Smartphone sales soar in 2009){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/02/german_news_websites_put_up_paywalls.php&bodytext= <form mt:asset-id="5651" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/logo_berlinermorgenpost.gif"><img alt="logo_berlinermorgenpost.gif" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/02/logo_berlinermorgenpost-thumb-200x30-5651.gif" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="30" width="200" /></a></form>German publisher <b>Axel Springer</b> has made good on its promises and put up online paywalls for two of its German newspapers, <a href="http://paidcontent.org/article/419-axel-springer-adds-paywalls-to-two-major-newspaper-sites/"><i>Paid Content</i> reports</a>.
<br /><br />Two of its newspapers, the <i>Berliner Morgenpost</i> and the <i>Hamburger Abendblatt</i>, are now charging for online content. It now costs €4.95 a month for access to all content on <i>morgenpost.de</i>. By contrast, <i>abendblatt.de</i> has a mixture of free and premium content, with a premium subscription priced at €7.95 a month. It appears to charge extra for content specific to the Hamburg region while providing national news for free. Subscriptions for both sites are renewed on a monthly basis.
<br /><iframe frameborder="0" name="mashlogic" style="border: 0pt none ; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; overflow: hidden; display: none; z-index: 9999; position: absolute; top: auto; right: auto; bottom: auto; left: auto;" id="mashlogic" src="about:blank"></iframe>&title=German news websites put up paywalls: <i>Morgenpost</i> and <i>Abendblatt</i>){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/web_20/2010/02/facebook_emerges_as_threat_to_google_new.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="5632" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/facebook-logo2.jpg"><img alt="facebook-logo2.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/02/facebook-logo2-thumb-200x75-5632.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="75" width="200" /></a></form><b>Facebook</b> is rivaling <b>Google News</b> and <b>Google Reader</b> as a distributor of news content on the internet, according to recent data from <i>Hitwise</i>.<br /><br />Hitwise online analyst <b>Heather Hopkins</b> <a href="http://weblogs.hitwise.com/us-heather-hopkins/2010/02/facebook_largest_news_reader_1.html">reports</a> that Google Reader accounted for .01% of visits to news and information websites in late January - roughly the same figure as a year ago. Meanwhile, Google News accounted for 1.39% of upstream visits and Facebook for 3.52%.<br /> &title=<b>Facebook</b> emerges as threat to <b>Google News</b>){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/web_20/2010/02/icurrent_can_personalised_news_save_news.php&bodytext= <form mt:asset-id="5598" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/iCurrent.png"><img alt="iCurrent.png" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/02/iCurrent-thumb-200x132-5598.png" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="132" width="200" /></a></form>The <b>iPad</b> isn't the key to monetising news online, <a href="http://steveouting.com/2010/01/28/personalized-news-and-why-the-ipad-is-no-savior/">opines journalist and consultant <b>Steve Outing</b> in a new post on his blog</a>, but personalisation might be.
<br /><br />He suggests that he will be no more likely to pay to read news websites on the iPad than on his computer. Since he reads many different news sources, he finds that there is too much news to pay for all of it, and highlights the importance of personalisation beyond<b> iGoogle</b> or Twitter feeds amid all this choice.
<br /><br />In this context, he compares the personalised web news service <a href="http://www.icurrent.com/"><i>iCurrent</i></a>, still in beta, to the personalised music service <i>Pandora</i>, which offers similar music to songs and artists that the user already likes. It learns more about what users enjoy as they click thumbs-up or thumbs-down on different songs.
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/02/freesheet_launch_all_quiet_on_the_london.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="5575" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/LondonWeekly350.jpg"><img alt="LondonWeekly350.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/02/LondonWeekly350-thumb-200x161-5575.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="145" width="177" /></a></form>Back in <b>November</b> the newspaper rumour mill whispered word of an all-new freesheet to grace the streets of the capital, <i>The London Weekly</i>. <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/12/update_london_weekly_to_launch_feb_1.php">By <b>December</b>, marketing manager <b>Paul Morris</b> announced a launch date of the 1 <b>February</b> and its partnership website went live.</a><br /><br />Despite a rather unpolished online offering (from a company that claims to have £10.5 million in the kitty), displaying few regular news updates written by just two users and registered from a <b>German</b> server, <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/01/new_london_freesheet_announces_launch_da.php">Morris last week maintained that the 250,000 copies of the freesheet would be handed out every<b> Friday</b> and <b>Saturday </b>- although the start date would now be delayed until the 5 February.</a><br /><br />&title=Freesheet launch: All quiet on the <i>London Weekly</i> front){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2010/02/google_news_tunes_into_favored_topics.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="5567" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/googlenews.jpg"><img alt="googlenews.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/02/googlenews-thumb-200x200-5567.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="200" width="200" /></a><b>Google</b> has just launched a new tool that allows visitors tell its news website what topics they would like to follow, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100202/tc_afp/usitinternetmediasoftwaregoogle"><b>AFP</b> information on <b>Yahoo! News</b> reports</a>. <br /></form><br />This will allow users to click on "stars" to mark groups of stories on preferred subjects to signal <b>Google News</b> to watch for updates or developments, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100202/tc_afp/usitinternetmediasoftwaregoogle">according to Google software engineer Jude Britto</a>. When there are significant updates, Google will send alerts by putting the headline in bold for its users. Google will also allow people to follow their 20 most recent starred stories in the "Starred" section of Google News, <a href="http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/">according to the Google News blog</a>. &title=<b>Google News</b> tunes into favored topics){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/02/yahoo_and_ap_reach_licensing_agreement.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="5215" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/AssociatedPressLogo-large.jpg"><img alt="AssociatedPressLogo-large.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/AssociatedPressLogo-large-thumb-200x40-5215.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="40" width="200" /></a></form> The <b>Associated Press </b>(AP) and <b>Yahoo</b> have renewed an agreement for AP stories, photos and videos to appear on the Yahoo website, it was widely reported. This is in contrast to the AP's negotiations with <b>Google</b> and <b>Microsoft</b>, which have not yet concluded. <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/01/ap_content_no_longer_hosted_on_google_ne.php">New AP content has not been hosted on Google News</a> since December 24.
<br /><br />Neither party has offered details of the agreement, so it is unclear whether they have achieved their financial objectives. The deal had previously been expected to set a higher price for AP's stories and impose tighter restrictions on them.
<br /><br /><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/01/ap_and_yahoo_close_to_reaching_deal_on_c.php">The AP has previously argued</a> that agreements providing relatively inexpensive access to a broad range of its content only devalue its news offerings. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/business/media/02yahoo.html">The New York Times reported </a>that the AP was asking news websites for more money, but that aggregators have been arguing that news content is less valuable than it used to be because advertising is down.<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/188290/ap_renews_licensing_deal_with_yahoo_not_yet_with_google.html"></a><br />
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/web_20/2010/01/twitter_trending_topics_go_local.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="5551" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/twitter-bird.jpg"><img alt="twitter-bird.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/twitter-bird-thumb-200x200-5551.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="200" width="200" /></a></form>Twitter has introduced a '<b>Local Trends</b>' filter, which allows users to see what others are posting about on the site in their area.
<br /><br /><a href="http://blog.twitter.com/2010/01/now-trending-local-trends.html">The official Twitter blog explained</a> that the trends function began as a way to see what was popular on a global scale in real-time, but this would create another way for members to discover relevant topics to them.
<br /><br />"The big events that come up around the world will always become a global conversation," a spokesperson writes, "but what about the big events that only happen in your world that only matter to those around you? Or the slight differences in the way Californians perceive an event, like Obama's election victory, versus those (in) São Paulo, Brazil?"
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/01/mirrorcouk_blocks_aggregator_newsnow.php&bodytext= <form mt:asset-id="5498" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newmirror.jpg"><img alt="newmirror.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/newmirror-thumb-175x89-5498.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="89" width="175" /></a></form><i>Mirror.co.uk</i> has this week followed the lead of <b>News International</b> and blocked its content from online news aggregator <b>NewsNow</b>, <a href="http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-mirror.co.uk-follows-news-int.-in-blocking-newsnow/"><i>paidContent</i> reported</a>. NewsNow is now the only site blocked from crawling the Mirror online.
<br /><br />"We're not big fans of their business model," Mirror.co.uk digital director <b>Matt Kelly</b> said.
<a href="http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/wire/6068"></a><br />&title=<i>Mirror.co.uk</i> blocks aggregator <i>NewsNow</i>){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/01/google_recrawl_checks_news_for_updates.php&bodytext= <form mt:asset-id="5459" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/Google%20News%20Logo.jpg"><img alt="Google News Logo.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/Google%20News%20Logo-thumb-200x80-5459.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="80" width="200" /></a></form><b>Google News</b> has introduced a '<b>recrawl</b>' feature which will check for updates in news articles and add them to its index, <a href="http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/google-news-comes-back-for-more.html">the <i>Google News Blog</i> has announced</a>.
<br /><br />News articles often aren't static, software engineers <b>Andy Golding</b> and <b>Kiran Gunda</b> explain on the blog, and often change over time to correct errors or add new information. Sometimes they change URLs or become unavailable after a certain amount of time.
<br /><br />Google's news bots crawl the internet looking for new news articles and adding them to the Google News index. The recrawl feature will enable them to focus on collecting all the newest news articles, while still making sure that the index displays the most up-to-date information.
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/01/afp_launches_paid_iphone_app.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="5373" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/afp%20logo.png"><img alt="afp logo.png" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/afp%20logo-thumb-200x40-5373.png" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="40" width="200" /></a></form>Amid <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/analysis/2009/12/the_year_in_newspapers_trends_to_follow.php">all the buzz</a> about the potential to make money from mobile news, news agency <b>Agence France-Presse</b> (AFP) has become the latest news organisation to launch an iPhone app.<br /><br />The application also works on the iPod Touch and costs $1.99 from the Apple store.<br /><br />"It gives access to the global news agency's multimedia content in English, Spanish, Portuguese and German, including breaking world news from wars and conflicts to politics, sport and entertainment, as well as the latest major developments in health, science and technology," AFP said in a statement.<a href="http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2010/01/07/750483-Gratuit-telechargez-l-application-de-La-Depeche-sur-votre-iPhone.html"></a><br /> &title=<b>AFP</b> launches paid iPhone app){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/01/jeff_jarvis_take_on_news_corps_latest_mo.php&bodytext=<a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/10/jeff_jarvis_optimistic_about_the_future.php"><b>Jeff Jarvis,</b></a> author of <i>What would Google do </i>and media columnist at <i>the Guardian</i>, has spoken out against <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/01/newsnow_blocked_from_all_news_internatio.php"><b>News Corp's</b> recent decision to block <b>NewsNow</b> from linking to its content</a>, condemning <b>Murdoch's</b> as empire "foolish". <br /><br /><form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="5367" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/J%20Jarvis%20.jpeg"><img alt="J Jarvis .jpeg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/J%20Jarvis%20-thumb-200x210-5367.jpeg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="151" width="143" /></a></form>
<br />In his column, Jarvis argues that permitting linking is not only in News Corp's interests - as (previously) it directed traffic to the likes of <i>Times Online, Sun Online</i> and <i>NotW.co.uk</i> - but is also in the interests of democracy, allowing the public access to public information. "What's public is public - that is, we, the public, have a right to observe, point to, share, and comment on it. And the internet is public," writes Jarvis. Denying NewsNow the right to link, by disabling its crawler using the <b>robots.txt file</b>, impedes free comment and therefore freedom of speech, he adds. &title=<b>Jeff Jarvis'</b> take on <b>News Corp's</b> latest move){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/01/how_wsj_uses_social_media_behind_a_paywa.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="5340" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/pay-wall-2.jpg"><img alt="pay-wall-2.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/pay-wall-2-thumb-200x200-5340.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" width="200" height="200" /></a></form>With newspapers struggling to make a profit as advertising revenues decrease - just in the last quarter of 2009, <a href="http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15207305">American newspapers earned 17% less from online advertising</a> than they had done a year earlier - many newspapers have turned to offering their online content for a fee.<br /><br /><br /><br /> &title=Are social media and paywalls compatible? How the <i>WSJ</i> is making both work){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/01/ap_and_yahoo_close_to_reaching_deal_on_c.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="1711" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/APlogo.gif"><img alt="APlogo.gif" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2008/12/APlogo-thumb-200x49-1711.gif" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" width="200" height="49" /></a></form>The <b>Associated Press</b> and <b>Yahoo Inc</b>. are closing in on a deal that would impose tighter restrictions and potentially a higher price tag on AP stories distributed on Yahoo's news site, sources familiar with the matter told <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748703672104574654741484604838-lMyQjAxMTAwMDEwMzExNDMyWj.html"><i>The Wall Street Journal</i></a>.<br /><br />The deal that could be reached in the next few weeks could set a precedent in the resolution of an increasingly urgent issue in he media industry: how news organizations deal with the major Internet portals, which some news publishers say unfairly profit from their work and cost them tens of millions of dollars in revenue.<br /><br /><br /> &title=<b>AP</b> and <b>Yahoo</b> close to reaching deal on content use){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/web_20/2010/01/how_to_use_google_wave_to_engage_readers.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="5325" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/active_wave.png"><img alt="active_wave.png" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/active_wave-thumb-200x196-5325.png" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="196" width="200" /></a></form>Most of <b>Google</b>'s news tools are fairly self-explanatory. <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2009/12/googles_fast_flip_adopted_by_55_new_publ.php"><b>Fast Flip</b></a> enables users to flick through different news sources. <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/12/googles_living_stories_organises_article.php"><b>Living Stories</b></a> collects all the developments about a single story on a single URL. And of course <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/01/fast_flip_and_living_stories_now_on_goog.php"><b>Google News</b></a> aggregates news, and has been a source of ongoing conflict between Google and news publishers. But <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/web_20/2009/10/google_wave_close_to_breaking.php"><b>Google Wave</b></a> notoriously confuses its first time users. There's even a <a href="http://www.easiertounderstandthanwave.com/">gently mocking website</a> dedicated to things that are easier to understand than Google Wave.<br /><br />First launched as an invitation-only preview, Google Wave is billed as both a conversation and a document. It's a little like email, but also real-time and collaborative. One potential use of the tool is as a platform for collaborative journalism: different participants could add notes, information and images to a story. <br /><br />It can also be used for community building, and the blog <i>Journalism 2.0</i> has offered one possible example of what this might look like. <a href="http://www.journalism20.com/blog/2010/01/07/using-a-public-wave-to-engage-a-news-audience/">A guest post by <b>Hilary Fosdal</b></a>, the interactive content manager for <b>Barrington Broadcasting</b> in Illinois, explains the way that the <i>Chicago Tribune</i>'s <i>RedEye</i> website uses Google Wave.<br />&title=How to use <b>Google Wave</b> to engage readers ){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/01/fast_flip_and_living_stories_now_on_goog.php&bodytext=<div>Google has started to give more prominence to its <b><a href="http://livingstories.googlelabs.com/">Living Stories</a></b> and <b><a href="http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/">Fast Flip</a></b> experiments: they now feature on the US Google News homepage. </div><div><br /></div><form mt:asset-id="5317" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/Screen%20shot%202010-01-12%20at%2010.47.55.png"><img alt="fast flip on google news.47.55.png" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/Screen shot 2010-01-12 at 10.47.55-thumb-250x126-5317.png" width="250" height="126" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></a></form><div>Fast Flip, <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2009/09/google_news_fast_flip_offers_fast_browsi.php">introduced in September</a>, attracted much attention as Google's first effort to share revenue with publishers. It displays news stories from different partner publications via screenshots of the articles, which the user can quickly flick through, essentially allowing faster and more visual browsing. Ads are placed alongside the articles and participating publishers receive a cut of the revenue. <a href="http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/sources">More than 90 (largely US-based) publications are now involved</a>, and Fast Flip now runs along the bottom of the Google News homepage. </div> &title=<b>Fast Flip</b> and <b>Living Stories</b> now on <b>Google News</b> homepage){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/01/ap_content_no_longer_hosted_on_google_ne.php&bodytext=<form contenteditable="false" mt:asset-id="5303" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/AP.gif"><img alt="AP.gif" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/01/AP-thumb-200x49-5303.gif" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="49" width="200" /></a></form>New<b> Associated Press</b> content has not been hosted on <b>Google News </b>since the 24th of <b>December</b>, <i>paidContent</i> reported. This has been confirmed by <b>Google </b>in the following a statement:<br /><br />"We have a licensing agreement with the Associated Press that permits us to host its content on Google properties such as Google News. Some of that content is still available today. At the moment we're not adding new hosted content from the <b>AP</b>." &title=<b>AP</b> content no longer hosted on <b>Google News</b> ){kind=link}