During this unfolding drama of the death of the media industry as we know it. We face the choice of whether to retain essentially look backwards and collapse of one sector after another or looking forward, and the birth of a new media system right before our eyes.
While my colleagues in the traditional media will take up challenge first as witnessed by the great roundup of today in York Times by Richard Pérez-Pe?a headlined "as the city name from the two documents to talk to one zero" I will try and focus in the media or well-charted, General of us in the future.
For help with that, today, try opening of Harvard Berkman Center for Internet studies, and social, which has just launched an intriguing new experiment MediaCloud called in an interview with the Joshua Benton of Lab, Nieman journalisma friend Ethan Zuckman Berkman describes how MediaCloud:
"It is a set of information including some simple tools to play with it received by the Subscriber and the processing of. blogs and another couple hundred English books from around the world are very large.
"The idea behind this is that we subscribe to the RSS feeds of these newspapers and blogs, these single-story, we grab all they publish, and then we get the story of HTML which is interesting we throw hack story text into a group of tools that helps us determine what's the story about, so we cannot get the header information, we cannot get information about people mentioned in stories — called named entity.
"We now close all files in the database, so if you want to find what the story was on Fox News for the week. We can tell you the top 10 topics are. We also can go to more level and say: when news sources reported that the topics which relate most closely to it? "
Play around with MediaCloud this morning. I can see that it is very much in progress, but that the upside of workloads. Compare top conditions associated with a keyword Google in. Pajamas Media (blog site that I sometimes post media list) and The New York Times San Francisco Chronicle ten received the following results:
It frequently up to sutklao
Microsoft, eBay, Yahoo and the host computer and electronics terms (such as
porn) In its coverage of Google suggest to focus the business nonklao in Chronicles are the most common place (like a)-
United States, San Francisco, Ca White House Washington, Barack Obama – Suggest more of a political focus and geographical coverage of Google even
Yahoo, Microsoft , and
YouTube. Do not place items Pajamas have different almost entirely a list dominated by topics obses blogging about
— Iraq. HA Israel, Gaza food Obama, Republican party — to represent the main functionality of Google was here is a search engine.
I would rather have an analysis of the audit, but you can see some value to compare the potential for teachers. Students and the media industry, analyst old and new, here it is perhaps less obvious is the new media business opportunities.
According to the company new media emerges Part of a winning strategy in the game must be. Define those niches in the mass media that it might expand its audience the most quickly. MediaCloud may emerge as the type of data analysis tools that help entrepreneurs. With others — trend of Google for one — but this is still underdeveloped territory would follow closely as it develops.
A colleague of Bnet I minimize Erik Sherman in his post on MediaCloud today: "the actual … The clouds are present is the ability to combine data from different sources and access new levels of understanding these areas as strategic planning or analysis of the market place. "
Thanks to Tamara Baltar and Erik Sherman for pointing me to today's topic.
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