Comments on: Google Wants to Make Newspaper Archives Relevant; Will Newspapers Let them? http://www.newmediabytes.com/2008/09/09/google-wants-to-make-newspaper-archives-relevant-will-newspapers-let-them/ Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:51:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: MoJo DoJo » Thursday Web Wrap-up http://www.newmediabytes.com/2008/09/09/google-wants-to-make-newspaper-archives-relevant-will-newspapers-let-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1679 MoJo DoJo » Thursday Web Wrap-up Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:23:46 +0000 http://www.newmediabytes.com/2008/09/09/google-wants-to-make-newspaper-archives-relevant-will-newspapers-let-them/#comment-1679 [...] Media Bytes: Google provides an incentive to get newspapers to stop holding their week-old articles under lock and key. Think of the ad [...] [...] Media Bytes: Google provides an incentive to get newspapers to stop holding their week-old articles under lock and key. Think of the ad [...]

]]> By: Metaprinter http://www.newmediabytes.com/2008/09/09/google-wants-to-make-newspaper-archives-relevant-will-newspapers-let-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1651 Metaprinter Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:29:29 +0000 http://www.newmediabytes.com/2008/09/09/google-wants-to-make-newspaper-archives-relevant-will-newspapers-let-them/#comment-1651 the google newspaper archives are awful. Check out this: Harper’s Magazine, on the other hand, has gone all the way. It has created what associate editor Paul Ford calls “a massive, interlinked, searchable document that provides quick access” to 157 continuous years of Harper’s—with illustrations and all. Working alone, without any consulting team and without fuss, Ford has been a man with a plan, a scanner and a lot of patience. http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/a-scanner-and-a-mission the google newspaper archives are awful. Check out this: Harper’s Magazine, on the other hand, has gone all the way. It has created what associate editor Paul Ford calls “a massive, interlinked, searchable document that provides quick access” to 157 continuous years of Harper’s—with illustrations and all. Working alone, without any consulting team and without fuss, Ford has been a man with a plan, a scanner and a lot of patience.

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]]> By: Kristin http://www.newmediabytes.com/2008/09/09/google-wants-to-make-newspaper-archives-relevant-will-newspapers-let-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1643 Kristin Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:30:38 +0000 http://www.newmediabytes.com/2008/09/09/google-wants-to-make-newspaper-archives-relevant-will-newspapers-let-them/#comment-1643 Right, Nedso, hardly anything is free. But revenue from paid archive content is negligible. All newspaper Web sites should follow the NYTimes' lead and make all archived content "free." The gamble is that by doing so, traffic increases, therefore advertising revenue increases. Sequestering stories, photos, video, etc...behind a paid archive wall is the equivalent of Target burying its merchandise in the ground after a month of it being on the shelf. Hardly anyone actually pays $3 to dig up a story. Sometimes you can't even find a story in the archives since the search function is so bad. All you're left with is a broken link. This google deal sounds great, especially if most of the revenue goes to the publishers! Right, Nedso, hardly anything is free. But revenue from paid archive content is negligible. All newspaper Web sites should follow the NYTimes’ lead and make all archived content “free.” The gamble is that by doing so, traffic increases, therefore advertising revenue increases. Sequestering stories, photos, video, etc…behind a paid archive wall is the equivalent of Target burying its merchandise in the ground after a month of it being on the shelf. Hardly anyone actually pays $3 to dig up a story. Sometimes you can’t even find a story in the archives since the search function is so bad. All you’re left with is a broken link. This google deal sounds great, especially if most of the revenue goes to the publishers!

]]> By: Nedso http://www.newmediabytes.com/2008/09/09/google-wants-to-make-newspaper-archives-relevant-will-newspapers-let-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1522 Nedso Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:56:50 +0000 http://www.newmediabytes.com/2008/09/09/google-wants-to-make-newspaper-archives-relevant-will-newspapers-let-them/#comment-1522 nothing's for free in this life. you'll have your eyes bleed at all the ads shoved in front of them by googlemeisters who own the scans of public domain content. that's your fee right there. Ideally this archive work would be carried out on a non-commercial basis. google want to own the image of every single thing. so this is bad. very very bad. nothing’s for free in this life. you’ll have your eyes bleed at all the ads shoved in front of them by googlemeisters who own the scans of public domain content. that’s your fee right there. Ideally this archive work would be carried out on a non-commercial basis. google want to own the image of every single thing. so this is bad. very very bad.

]]> By: Will newspapers worship at the ‘cathedral of free?’ « Ink-Drained Kvetch http://www.newmediabytes.com/2008/09/09/google-wants-to-make-newspaper-archives-relevant-will-newspapers-let-them/comment-page-1/#comment-1486 Will newspapers worship at the ‘cathedral of free?’ « Ink-Drained Kvetch Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:06:31 +0000 http://www.newmediabytes.com/2008/09/09/google-wants-to-make-newspaper-archives-relevant-will-newspapers-let-them/#comment-1486 [...] Filed under: Web 2.0 — Wendy @ 3:29 pm Tags: digital archives Shawn Smith lays out some critical issues facing newspaper companies as Google has announced expansion of its News Archive Search to digitize [...] [...] Filed under: Web 2.0 — Wendy @ 3:29 pm Tags: digital archives Shawn Smith lays out some critical issues facing newspaper companies as Google has announced expansion of its News Archive Search to digitize [...]

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