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   How Promotion Affects Pageviews on the New York Times Website(source.opennews.org)

   9 points by dansinker 13y ago|0 comments
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   by dansinker 14y ago

   Hi there. I'm the director of the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews program. We're looking for developers, hackers, and the like who want to spend 10 months traveling the world and building new tools for journalism. It's an incredible opportunity. Th
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   by dansinker 14y ago

   Haha. You are probably correct on both fronts.
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   by dansinker 14y ago

   I'd say that the difference between "news" and "information" isn't freshness, but relevancy. There's a lot of information out there that doesn't have relevancy to a user. When it does, that information transitions from simply being "informa
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   by dansinker 14y ago

   The talent the Times has managed to build up on its dev team is pretty unbelievable.
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   by dansinker 14y ago

   I think you're right: There's a real shift now in newsrooms as they realize the value of having developers involved in the editorial process and the power in creating web-native news experiences.
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   by dansinker 14y ago

   These videos were created in part to help spread the word about the Knight-Mozilla Fellowships, which place developers, hackers, and tech-minded folks into newsrooms around the world to do open-source development, travel the world hacking t