Loren Baker of the Search Engine Journal reports that Google News has tweaked it algorithm (hat tip: MediaPost). The search engine hopes to its users more relevant results about breaking news stories.
One of the tweaks aims to better identify the news source that was first in reporting information about a story. ...
Continue ReadingMathew Ingram yesterday proclaimed that "free is better" when it comes to news sites, and he offered new evidence to support this assertion.
He pointed to web traffic data of the New York Time's website that TechCrunch analyzed. According to comScore data, traffic to the paper's site has surged since it ended its Times Select subscription pay wall back in September. ...
Continue ReadingIt seems like at least a few major news sites have launched redesigns over the last several weeks. Here are five that I've noticed:
1. Newsweek magazine
I like how the sister sites for Newsweek and MSNBC are now much different from each.
Check out the nifty multimedia page header that can collapse or expand on each page on Newsweek's site....
Continue ReadingLast week I wrote a quick list about 5 ways you can give tech-inspired philanthropic gifts this holiday season. One I mentioned was sending eTrees through Mokugift. Normally, you can buy or send someone else an eTree for $1, and Mokugift plants a tree in the real world.
Hans from Mokugift saw my post,...
Continue ReadingI became aware of the term tumblelog around a year ago and have been running across examples of tumblelogs with greater and greater frequency lately. According to Wikipedia, a tumblelog “is a variation of a blog, that favors short-form, mixed-media posts over the longer editorial posts frequently associated with blogging....
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