OJR: The Online Journalism Review

Mark Glaser: April 2005 archive

Search engines, startup media sites dream of becoming video hubs

April 26, 2005

Grassroots sites Ourmedia.org and Brightcove and search engines like Singingfish and Google try to bring order to online video chaos -- but big broadcasters are torn between Napsterization and 'The Long Tail.'

Washingtonpost.com might offer local, national home pages

April 19, 2005

We talk in-depth to new washingtonpost.com chiefs Caroline Little and Jim Brady about their new roles and about the challenges of serving both local and national/international audiences online.

Advertising, editorial lines blur as bloggers' salaries tied to traffic

April 12, 2005

About.com and Gawker Media pioneer writer payment systems that tie bonuses to traffic growth, while 'stand-alone journalists' do business and editorial functions. A look at the evolving pay schemes of writers online.

Human and automated aggregators help make sense of blogosphere

April 5, 2005

No one has time to read all the millions of blogs. That's the raison d'etre of sites such as Kinja and Memeorandum, along with filtered roundups on Slate and CNN. Here's a roundup of the roundups.

Inside Yahoo News: Aggregator brings RSS to the masses

April 1, 2005

Yahoo News -- one of the original aggregators with content partners and a lean editorial staff. Now they've made RSS feeds painless and integrated more technology into news than ever.