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The Official Google Blog:
Finding more high-quality sites in search — Our goal is simple: to give people the most relevant answers to their queries as quickly as possible. This requires constant tuning of our algorithms, as new content—both good and bad—comes online all the time.
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Bits, Guardian, BoomTown, Free Press, TechCrunch, SAI, Fast Company, paidContent, ReadWriteWeb, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Techland, Post Tech, Beyond Search, The Atlantic Online, Faster Forward, Zatz Not Funny!, Search Engine Marketing News, Mark Evans Tech, MarketingVOX, Boing Boing, NewsGrange, Gizmodo and Poynter, more at Techmeme »
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Forecloses On Content Farms With “Farmer” Algorithm Update — In January, Google promised that it would take action against content farms that were gaining top listings with “shallow” or “low-quality” content. Now the company is delivering, announcing a change to its ranking algorithm designed take out such material.
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GigaOM, Fortune, Digital Trends and SAI, more at Techmeme »
Demand Media:
A Statement About Search Engine Algorithm Changes — How our content reaches the consumer - whether it's through direct visits, social media referrals, apps or search - has always been important to and monitored closely by us. We also recognize that major search engines like Google have and will continue to make frequent changes.
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Mashable!, eMedia Vitals, BoomTown, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, TechCrunch, paidContent and SAI, more at Techmeme »
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
TBD's course raises questions about failure and success on the way to journalism's future — Many journalists in traditional newsrooms have left their jobs in recent years to work for online news startups and help shape the future of journalism. The sacrifices they've made, though, haven't always worked out as planned.
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Digital Man
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Jxpaton / Digital First:
Hyperlocal News Can't Be Monetized And Other Lies You Heard This Week About TBD.com — Success has many fathers but failure is always an orphan. — And I would add to that old saw - failure is always something the experts predicted as they revel in their “I told you so” moments.
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Hyperlocals like TBD: More hype than hope — The rapid implosion of the high-profile TBD news site is further evidence that hyperlocal journalism is more hype than hope for the news business. — Launched with considerable fanfare and generous funding only six months ago by Allbritton Communications …
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Poynter, The Politico and On Media's Blog
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Six business lessons from TBD's early demise
Six business lessons from TBD's early demise
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LocalNewser, Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog and eMedia Vitals
Breaking News:
Libyan gov't: Unauthorized journalists are considered to be al-Qaeda collaborators — WASHINGTON, D.C./TRIPOLI (BNO NEWS) — Libyan government officials have warned U.S. diplomats that journalists who have entered the country illegally to cover anti-government protests are being considered …
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Editors Weblog, Guardian and The Independent, Thanks:joshhalliday
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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Libyan government likens journalists to Al Qaida
Libyan government likens journalists to Al Qaida
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Agence France Presse
ESPN MediaZone:
The Poynter Review Project to Launch With ESPN — ESPN and The Poynter Institute today announced a new step in media transparency—The Poynter Review Project—in which a panel of Poynter faculty will review ESPN content across all platforms and publicly comment on ESPN's efforts.
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The Wire, The Wrap, Company Town, New York Times, Poynter and Broadcasting & Cable
Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Rockville Central: set to become a Facebook-only outlet — Say you run a community news site. In your spare time. And Patch has moved into your neighborhood. How do you, with limited resources but a desire to keep contributing to your community, stay competitive?
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Rockville Patch, The Huffington Post and WebNewser
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Roger Ailes Caught on Tape Urging Ex-Employee to Lie to Federal Investigators — Think back five long years ago, when hot shot publisher-to-the-stars Judith Regan was embroiled in a huge scandal that was the talk of the media world: after HarperCollins fired her, Regan sued them.
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Russ Buettner / New York Times:
Affidavits Say Fox News Chief Told Employee to Lie
Affidavits Say Fox News Chief Told Employee to Lie
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Politics Daily, ThinkProgress, Guardian, Runnin' Scared, Yahoo! News, New York Magazine, The Raw Story, The New Republic, TVNewser, The Atlantic Wire, Taegan Goddard's …, The Huffington Post, Mediaite, On Media's Blog, FishbowlNY, The Wrap, Adweek, TPMDC, CJR, Inside Cable News and The Wire
Allan Sloan / Washington Post:
Shareholder money funds Murdoch family deals — The Murdoch family owns only about 12 percent of News Corp., but Rupert Murdoch sure runs the place like a wholly owned family candy store. The company, blurring the distinction between public and family business, makes deals with family members …
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Poynter
MediaShift:
How to Integrate Social Tools into the Journalism Classroom — Education content on MediaShift is sponsored by the USC Annenberg nine-month M.A. in Specialized Journalism. USC's highly customized degree programs are tailored to the experienced journalist and gifted amateur.
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J-Source
Mark Joyella / Mediaite:
Pushing For U.S. Cable, Al Jazeera English Exec Claims They Are ‘Anti-Nothing And Pro-Nothing’ — Al Jazeera English, buoyed by critical acclaim for its coverage of the uprising in Egypt, hopes to convert good reviews for its Middle East coverage into a permanent place on American cable.
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Media Buyer Planner
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Journal Register's Localized Video News Strategy is Driving Profitability, CEO John Paton — After considerable anticipation and disappointment around the value of video for newspapers, one big publisher has found profitability by utilizing low cost cameras, a decentralized workflow approach and an effective sales strategy.
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WebNewser
Henry Blodget / SAI:
Glam Media Is Picking Bankers For An IPO — Glam Media is listening to the sales pitches of about 14 Wall Street banks in preparation for an IPO, a source familiar with the situation says. — Bank of America, JP Morgan, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and others are vying for the coveted “book-running” lead position.
Joseph L. Flatley / Engadget:
Android Market adds e-books; movies and music soon to come? — The Android world's been a-buzz this last week over a few new Android Market URLS, including http://market.android.com/music/ and http://market.android.com/movies/. In case you thought there was nothing to this tip, guess again …
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TeleRead, more at Techmeme »
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Post-Huffpo, an AOL Reorg; Here's the Internal Memo — No surprise here: After paying $315 million for Huffington Post, AOL is shuffling its executive ranks. David Eun, the former Google executive who came to AOL a year ago to run its media business, is out, and several other executives have new responsibilities.
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BoomTown, SAI, Editors Weblog and Adotas
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AOL Exec David Eun Out - Here's His Email To Staff
AOL Exec David Eun Out - Here's His Email To Staff
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NYConvergence.com, Mediaite, WebNewser, GigaOM, @rafat, MediaFile and Digital Trends
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Pre-HuffPo Merger Changes At AOL; Eun Leaving, Brod To Be Arianna's COO
Pre-HuffPo Merger Changes At AOL; Eun Leaving, Brod To Be Arianna's COO
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Epicenter, SAI, MediaPost, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, @rafat, SAI, SAI, NetNewsCheck Latest, AdAge, SAI, Mixed Media and The Wrap
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
You Can't Play a New Media Game By Old Media Rules — If there's one aspect of the media business that has been disrupted more completely than any other, it's the whole idea of “breaking news.” Just as television devalued the old front-page newspaper scoop, the web has turned breaking news …
Thanks:mathewi
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Joe Mullin / paidContent:
‘Hot News’ Has MMC Steaming At TheWrap In Cease-And-Desist Letter
‘Hot News’ Has MMC Steaming At TheWrap In Cease-And-Desist Letter
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Mediaweek, The Wire, Mediaite and Deadline.com