Sabtu, 05 Januari 2013

The Digital Daily from CyberJournalist.net

The Digital Daily from CyberJournalist.net

Innovative Journalism Projects from 2012 That Will Shape 2013

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 07:54 AM PST

Ryan Graff of the Knight News Innovation Lab says we saw glimpses of the future in many projects that launched this year. Among them, he says, were signs of “the rise of algorithms.”

Summly‘s launch got us thinking again about how algorithms are bound to become common newswriting tools. They won’t replace reporters, but some of those low-level, dime-a-dozen stories (ahem, earning reports) might just be better off in the hands of an algorithm. Automated writing sounds apocalyptic, but wouldn’t it be great if technology left the journalists time to create the complex, nuanced stories that we love the most?

Plus, there’s every chance that algorithms will find news rather than write it. Ben Welsh beautifully explained the Los Angeles Times’ work in this area at this year’s International Symposium of Online Journalism.

Why the future of video is in the “long tail”

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 06:30 AM PST

Is the future of online video viewing on major sites like YouTube and Hulu, or in the “long tail” of millions of smaller websites? While there were about 40 billion online video views in the US last month, only about 42% of those were on major sites. And Greycroft’s Ian Sigalow argues “the long tail is even more important than stats suggest.”

First off, while the long tail represents 58% of the video views, it represents nearly 70% of the time spent watching online video.  Facebook and Youtube have large audiences, but the average video on these sites is just over 3 minutes long.  In the long tail, the average view clocks in at 7.6 minutes, the longest duration of any market segment.  Second, the long tail is growing at a much faster rate than the rest of the market.  Viewership in the long tail is up over 33% since September 2011, compared to overall flat market growth according to Comscore.

Read Ian’s full post here
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