Craigslist chief executive Jim Buckmaster says that U.S. newspapers are purposely writing negative stores about the online classified site.
Newspapers Herd Together for Protection
Have you ever watched a herd of buffalo or deer?Ever seen hundreds of small fish school together and move in one fluid movement? As you may already know, they do that in order to protect themselves from a single large predator. It often works, as the predator will mistakenly believe the prey is too large to consume, or get’s blocked out by a massive wall of bodies.
Newspapers Propose New Indexing Standards
This should come as no surprise from the people who’d sue you to stop you from linking to them: at a publishers’ consortium today, after complaining about the limited nature of robots.txt, the newspaper industry has proposed new standards to prevent search engines (and other sites) from indexing their sites willy-nilly.
Google Could Hurt Newspapers’ Websites
More than a month has passed since Google struck a deal with the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, the Press Association, and the Canadian Press, but an outcry has continued. One onlooker believes newspapers’ sites will be hurt.
Newspapers Sniping Over CareerBuilder
McClatchy, Gannett, and Tribune own parts of the CareerBuilder job listings site, but McClatchy is starting to feel like it’s just heard the song stop during musical chairs, and all the seats are taken.
Interesting Times for the Newspapers
Mark Glaser believes that the ‘Cup Is Overflowing’ for Future of Journalism. As he writes:
Google Seeks Friendship; Newspapers Curse
Google said it wants to be “best friends” with traditional newspapers. A newspaper executive replied (with more humor than anger), “I don’t know what the hell we’re talking about.” That exchange should give you an idea of what took place during a panel discussion at the Newspaper Association of America’s convention in New York.
Google Seeks Friendship; Newspapers Curse
Non-Blog Reasons Why Newspapers are Dying
There’s another flurry of ‘Newspapers Are Dead‘ posts this weekend. Dave Winer seemed to have triggered this by his post on the troubles at the San Francisco Chronicle. Robert Scoble has taken up the theme as he did some months ago. Even the Google Guys and Dave Barry have voiced the same views in the past.
Historic American Newspapers Move Online
If you are an American History buff you will be interested to know that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress has announced that "Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers" is available online.
The site has more than 226,000 pages of public domain newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and Washington DC published between 1900 and 1910. The text of the newspapers is searchable, and search terms can focus on a single state, newspaper, year and months.
Walled Gardens and Newspapers
The Globe and Mail tells us that "Google loses copyright case in Belgium". Apparently a court has now ruled in favour of Belgian newspapers that sued Google Inc., claiming that the Web search Internet search leader infringed copyright laws and demanded it remove their stories. They want only subscribers to be able to see their articles within their walled gardens. Presumably they do not wish searchers to find their contents by using search engines.