Tag: newspapers
Digital news catches up to print
Newspapers are not dead yet, but they're still edging towards the grave in the UK. New Ofcom research has found that accessing news on the web and mobile apps is now as popular as reading a newspaper. Ofcom found that…
British Library make 300 years worth of newspaper articles available online
The British Library has opened its archive of 300 years worth of local and regional newspapers, making 4 million web pages worth of news paper articles available online. Until now, those looking to use The British Newspaper Archive for research…
Guardian opens its content to the world, launches API
The Guardian, a British newspaper, has today launched the Guardian Open Platform. “What’s that?”, you may ask. It’s an open API for all the Guardian’s web content. More simply, it’s a way for anyone to freely use Guardian content and data for whatever they want.
You may be wondering why on earth the paper would give its content away for free, given that it charges for it in paper form. Well, the answer is that the Guardian wants to be an all-pervasive source of knowledge on the web, rather than just a site that people have to go to to get that content.
Using the new system, anyone will be able to integrate Guardian data into web applications. The Guardian, in return, gets ad revenues. For the moment, it’s limited to just 5000 queries a day, and it’s all still in beta, but with any luck the Guardian can use their strong trusted position to become the default content provider for many sites on the net.
Guardian Open Platform (via TechCrunch)
eBay Nutcase of the Week: Anyone paying $100 for one of yesterday's Barack Obama-themed newspapers
Yesterday’s American newspapers, all of which carried various combinations of the words “Obama” and “wins” and “change” on their covers, are selling on eBay for vast sums today thanks to the whole incredible level of excitement surrounding the election of America’s first ever president.
Copies of the New York Times, pictured left, which led with the simple headline “Obama,” are currently fetching around $100 each on eBay, despite the NYT hurriedly printing an extra 75,000 copies to meet demand on the day as desperate punters tried to grab themselves a piece of history…
Yahoo! in 2009: More social, and more open
I’ve just returned from a delightful morning with Yahoo!, who gave me a preview of all the exciting stuff they’ve got planned for 2009. They’ve innovating in several key areas, but the push is on making the user experience more social and more open.
Club Penguin Times is more widely read than many real-world papers
Club Penguin Times, the weekly online newspaper from Club Penguin – Disney’s virtual world – is apparently read by about 6.7 million people. Think about that for a minute. A paper covering a fictitious world full of penguins has more than double the readers than the Sun, the Daily Mail, the Independent, the Telegraph, The Times, the Guardian – any of the UK newspapers…
Citizen Journalism – it's the new 'new media'!
Jonathan Weinberg writes… AFTER the events of the past few days, it’s not difficult to see we’re living in changing times. And if the attempted bomb attacks across the UK prove one thing – it’s that anyone can be a…
Microsoft give up newspapers' copyright content without a court battle
In the case of Microsoft versus Copiepresse, the Belgian press association that has already stifled Google and wants to do the same to Microsoft for publishing excerpts of newspapers on its news search results, Microsoft has decided to concede without…
Microsoft ordered to 'cease and desist' over Belgian newspaper content
Remember my rant about newspapers getting worked up over Google News? Well, they're after Microsoft now. CopiePresse, who manages the copyright for French and German-speaking press in Belgium, has sent a 'cease and desist' (in other words, take it down…
