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Nieman snow day! This hashtag #snow1219 may actually provide better weather reports than the local news. (ZMS)
NYT dropping its bookmarking service, Times File, because Digg, Delicious, et al. do it better. Makes sense. http://tr.im/2flt (ZMS)
@NYTimesComm Can you discuss pageview stats over the past 12 months so we can better consider the ContentNext report? Is it ~200m/mo? (ZMS)
RT @NYTimesComm "Our own internal numbers say that nytimes.com had 1.04 billion [pageviews] in Oct." —NYT's Stacy Green in PR dept (ZMS)
NYT and ProPublica's DocViewer http://tr.im/2d5o powered Sunday exclusive on Iraq rebuild http://tr.im/2d5s. Links to annotations. (ZMS)
Am Soc of Newspaper Editors proposes losing "paper" in its name, questions utility of editors. No, only the first. http://tr.im/2cri (ZMS)
Politicker once aimed for sites in all 50 states. Now they are cutting back to 6. New goal is "profitability." http://tr.im/27od (ZMS)
Financial Week, a niche Crain's publication, goes online-only. Brief press release here: http://tr.im/24d5 (ZMS)
New York Times gets in the widget business: http://tr.im/24bc (ZMS)
College journos get it: Yale Daily News inviting readers to submit q's for Tony Blair, who's teaching there now. http://tr.im/23zo (ZMS)
Journalism loses another good one: http://tinyurl.com/635lrh
Best read on Tribune bankruptcy: http://is.gd/aJ35 (JB)
Google Reader users: I'm studying online reading and publishing habits. Would you mind being a guinea pig? http://tr.im/1x3j (ZMS)
Evidence from change.gov that user comments can be useful, informative and polite when you engage the audience: http://tr.im/1vgc (ZMS)
Our take(s) on Times Extra are now up at http://www.niemanlab.org/. (JB)
Interviewing NYT's VP for marketing soon re their Facebook ad campaign and other items. Anyone have questions? http://tr.im/1t0z (ZMS)
Chicken soup for the journalist's soul (chicken soup = coffee, obviously): http://tr.im/1sl7 (ZMS)
Love this reminiscence-by-book-review from David Sullivan, about the grand old days of newspapering: http://is.gd/9Z1H (JB)
Interesting seeing an NYT journalist blog for the NYT about losing her job at the NYT. (Marci wrote good stuff.) http://is.gd/8O5z
RT @cgorman: "more grist for the biz model debate. Gates gives $$$ to PBS to cover global health news. http://is.gd/9JCO" (ZMS)
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