B2B Memes

JULY 4, 2012

As Ingram writes, you may not like what Journatic does, but you had better accept and acknowledge it: At the end of the day, centralized and partly-automated production of that sort of generic content is likely a reality for newspapers — or even fully-automated production, from services like Narrative Science , which generates sports stories, business (..)

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B2B Memes

MAY 9, 2012

Robot reporters are cornering the market on facts, as companies like Narrative Science and Automated Insights perfect the science of teaching software to turn data into news stories. The problem with traditional news is that traditional journalists are increasingly unnecessary to produce it.

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B2B Memes

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Two of those companies, Narrative Science and Automated Insights , are developing programs that churn through computerized data about sports and other topics and spit out news stories. Though I suspect it’s partly for entertainingly hyperbolic effect, Manjoo claims to be “terrified” that his livelihood as a writer is in peril.

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B2B Memes

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Earlier this week, for instance, Bob Scheier wrote about a company that has automated content production: “StatSheet of Durham, N.C. To see how content—by which I mean the basic facts and ideas of discourse—has become a commodity, you don’t have to look far.

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B2B Memes

MARCH 12, 2010

Rather than ask the editors to spend their time on commodity content, why not outsource and automate it? Since most editors can’t refuse commodity content, they simply choose to resent it. Instead, why not embrace it for what it is, the Demand Media way? I’m not talking here about using traditional freelancing resources.

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B2B Memes

DECEMBER 15, 2011

These questions came to mind yesterday when I read about the one-year anniversary of the hiring of journalist Jesse Noyes by Eloqua, a marketing automation company. Is there really no place for journalistic values in most companies? Eloqua is clearly not a traditional outlet for journalism.

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B2B Memes

JULY 14, 2010

There’s obvious value to automated content creation, and as Jeff Jarvis has declared, “ Data is (are) journalism.” The examples Kessler cites span the range of content creation, from automatically generated sports news to the use of algorithms to identify news topics.

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