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p2pnet news | P2P:- “Yes, the audience (gasp) talks back, and they often prefer talking to each other than simply consuming the news that media professionals decide to dole out.”
And that’s about the best summation we’ve seen on how the Net is changing the world online and off.
It comes from Erick Schonfeld in TechCrunch reporting on the Mediabistro Circus, a, “two-day summit about the digital platforms and trends that are changing media”.
Summit, eh?
With that in mind, The New York Times is, “taking steps to boost online readership,” says ReadWriteWeb, observing the newspaper is already the third most cited web site on Techmeme, and the first on Memeorandum, “proving that bloggers at least pay attention to its reporting”.
And the other way around, of course.
The NYT is working on an API (Application Programming Interface) to make the entire newspaper “programmable” and on top of that, CTO Marc Frons told mediabistro.com, “internal developers” at the paper will, “use the platform to organize structured data on the site”.
And then, and then, “he paper plans to offer developer keys to the API allowing programmers to more easily mash up the paper’s structured content - reviews, event listings, recipes, etc,” he says, according to ReadWriteWeb.
“The plan is definitely to open [the code] up,” Frons said. “How far we don’t know.”
The API itself should be done by the time summer arrives in the US, with more significant chunks available to the public within six months, says the story, quoting Marshall Kirkpatrick saying of APIs, “The web of the near-term future isn’t about pages any more.
“It’s about data, flying around, hopefully under the control of users, and offering a world of possibilities that few of us could have imagined just a few years ago.”
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TechCrunch - Old Media Still Needs to Get Over its Control Issues, May 26, 2008
ReadWriteWeb - New York Times API Coming, May 26, 2008
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May 27th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Everyone is trying to figure out the formula for attracting the internet population to their site. After that comes the idea they can farm them for money. Once that idea hits, member security as well as privacy is up for the highest bidder. We see this time and again as owners of sites try to turn a buck on their presence on the web.
So how long will it be before ads are swamping The New York Times site?
May 27th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
In -3 seconds…
May 27th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Is this the same New York Times that up until fairly recently locked all there content away behind login pages?
May 28th, 2008 at 3:45 am
“So how long will it be before ads are swamping The New York Times site?”
You mean they’re ad free? That would be a miraculous experience