B2B Memes

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Three Common Failures in Online News: Are You At Fault?

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I’ve come to this conclusion over the past two years as a result of two studies I’ve conducted of 100 sites and more than 1,000 e-news articles. Most industry bloggers insist that content generated should be exclusive—information unavailable elsewhere. But in the 1,000 articles I reviewed, 65% of them showed no evidence of enterprise.

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Reporter Failure, Editor Failure, or Tool Failure?

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What are the new-media lessons, if any, to be drawn from the resignation earlier this month of Washington Post blogger Elizabeth Flock? In an earlier article on Flock’s first corrected story last December, Pexton focused similarly on failures involving the human element. On The Awl , Trevor Butterworth says WaPo is more at fault.

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The Cooks Source Copyright Outrage: Not the Norm

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One of the hottest Internet memes last week was the story of how blogger Monica Gaudio complained to a print magazine, Cooks Source , that it had used her work without permission and got told that, really, she should be grateful to have it stolen. The incident was covered well by TechDirt , Wired , and many others.).

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A Lesson from the Digital Productivity Terrorists

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Earlier this week, ReadWriteWeb co-editor Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote on Twitter (post now deleted) that he was looking to hire a writer “to produce 5 solid web tech news articles a day, 5 days a week.” As he recounts in this article and another , he began his career blogging for AOL and two other sites, producing 10 to 12 posts a day. “It

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No Monopoly on Lousy Content

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Are content farms just convenient whipping boys for bloggers and mainstream media alike? In a New Yorker article on Darryl Issa , author Ryan Lizza describes how Issa’s spokesman, Kurt Bardella, manages the congressman’s image. They’re throwing any crap they can online to get those treasured pageviews.”.

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What Is the Lifespan of an Error?

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In a compelling article yesterday, Ars Technica writer Nate Anderson told the story of how the owner of a Spanish campground has struggled to get Google to de-emphasize search results for the camp. Hence our attitudes about errors tend to be lax. But on the Internet, at least, errors are surprisingly resilient.

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Editorial Wall, or Prison Wall?

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What set off this latest skirmish was an article in the Guardian by Roy Greenslade (lately a fecund source of inspiration for B2B Memes ) concerning UK editor and blogger Marc Reeves. And does breaking down the sacred wall between editorial and sales mean that editorial must be tainted?

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