Tag: NEWSPAPER

Once upon a time a group of Belgian newspaper publishers decided that they didn't like how Google was indexing their news stories and publishing headlines and short snippets on Google News and Google.be. While many newspaper publishers realized that Google was actually directing traffic to their web sites, Copiepresse, the organization representing the group of Belgian publishers took Google to ...

Twitter may have started off as a micro-blogging tool that asked users "what are you doing" right now? But the service has grown into a complex communications platform. Some people use Twitter to keep in touch with a few friends, while others use it take part in wider discussions taking place throughout the blogosphere. Still others use it as a sort of micro-broadcast medium, sending out ...

The New York Times has launched a nifty browser for reading old newspapers. Like really old. The company has scanned copies of every issue from 1851 through the end of 1922 and put the results online as a series of PDF files. That means you can read stories about the Civil War, World War I, and the sinking of the titanic just as they originally appeared a hundred years ago. Except, you know, on ...

The New York Times has launched a redesigned technology news page. The old school paper has partnered with some new school content partners, adding stories from third party sources like IDG and PaidContent. But probably the most interesting feature is that little column we highlighted in red. It's called "Technology Headlines From Around the Web," and it's being labeled a Techmeme killer. ...

Thought about getting into Google's Print Ad program? They have just made it easier to design effective advertisements through a new piece of software. Google's new piece of ad software will help Google Print Ad advertisers design their own ads for display in newspapers. The process is pretty straightforward, but you must win the ad auction to begin. Advertisers start out by choosing a newspaper ...

As of midnight tonight the New York Times pay to view Select Service is no longer. The Times began the subscription service exactly 2-years ago and charged users $49.95 a year or $7.95 a month for the ability to access specific content online. Overall they managed to get 227,000 paid subscribers which made for a profit of close to $10 million a year. In their announcement the Times said more users ...

Over the last few decades, traditional print media like newspapers and magazines have witnessed a decline in circulation numbers. That is, fewer people have been reading printed publications, instead opting for other news delivery options like radio, cable stations and the web. There are many theories as to why this is the case. Some people say slanted, politically-lopsided news coverage is ...

Looking for an easy way to publish a newspaper, webzine or company newsletter online, take a look at PublicSquare. PublicSquare is an easy online solution that takes the hassles out of coding and setting up complex publishing solutions. The system has the ability to create such online solutions as webzines, community newspapers, communities, trade magazines, school papers and company magazines ...

Google has made it in the online advertising market, so what about offline? Google has tested the waters with newspaper ads and magazine ads, and now they are ready to go full force by allowing bidding on over 50 major newspaper spots across the US. Google Print Ads is scheduled to officially launch this week, allowing advertisers to place bids in the newspapers. The lists of the newspapers that ...

If you've been feeling like you really should check out "this RSS thing", but haven't had the time or inclination to do so, maybe SimplyHeadlines will be the thing that turns you around. SimplyHeadlines sends you a once-a-day newspaper with headlines from the sources you want to read, taking their RSS feeds and building a very convincing newspaper document from them. SimplyHeadlines also has a ...

Here's a fun little web widget: With the Newspaper Snippet Generator you can make quasi-realistic-looking newspaper clippings. You just enter a the name of your fictitious newspaper, a date, a funny headline, and some article text, and it will generate a matching newspaper image. Of limited utility, sure, but moderately entertaining. ...