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Michael Sippey announced it on Twitter's blog — think of it as the next stage of the animated GIF:
Like Tweets, the brevity of videos on Vine (6 seconds or less) inspires creativity. Now that you can easily capture motion and sound, we look forward to seeing what you create.
iPhone only, at the moment, and a separate app from Twitter itself. (More here.) An example:
Holding hands at Tilden park vine.co/v/biTaEEwdq2n?1
— James Buckhouse (@buckhouse) January 24, 2013
I predict these will be embraced by those who believe the only thing GIFs were missing were rapid-fire jump cuts.
In the world of media, longer content is heralded as higher quality. A six-minute piece is more prestigious than a minute-twenty package. Full-length features trump shorts. Shows beat webisodes. Two-thousand words are better than two hundred. There are lots of reasons for the industry bias toward longer content. Legacy platforms and business models. Prominence and awards. Creative freedom and journalistic context. Ask just about anyone in the content business, and they prefer longer work.
That doesn't mean there's not a market for longer-form content on mobile. I read books and watch movies on my iPhone while flying back and forth from NYC. Tablet users, especially in evening and nighttime hours, read longer-form stories and binge on Netflix. But on average across the mobile universe, shorter content is consumed more. It's also the gateway to longer forms of content: social apps act as recommendation engines for your attention. That's how Facebook's app became the "home page" of mobile, accounting for more time spent than all mobile browsers combined.
Part of the problem is the industry's fixation on "time spent" as an engagement metric. I remember a Poynter study a couple years ago that discovered the average "bail out" point on a tablet is 78.3 seconds of reading. The recommendation? Write the story in such a way that gets users to keep reading. The obvious solution: write a shorter story.
It's often better to maximize "time saved" rather than time spent, especially on a per session basis. Imagine, for example, that you can get the nugget of a 2-minute video in a 24-second clip, or 80% of the value in 20% of the time. For most mobile users, that's more delightful than watching the full 2 minutes. The more delighted the users, the more frequently they'll return, which all adds up to a lot of time spent/user at the end of the month.
CFO magazine has an interview with Victoria Harker, the chief financial officer of Gannett, which is one of a number of news companies in various stages of splitting off its print properties (newspapers, mostly) from its broadcast and digital ones. The positive spin is that it'll let each type of company pursue the best approach without strategy tax; the negative spin is that it's sending print off onto an ice floe where its continued decline will no longer infect the other side of the business. This question would seem to position Gannett as a candidate for the newspaper industry rollup (or mop-up) many have been anticipating (emphasis mine):
Q: Some people praise Gannett because it isn't burdening the newspaper spin-off with debt, as other media companies have done. Others criticize Gannett for not including, say, Cars.com in the spin-off to provide more advertising revenue. How do you respond to these views?
A: Relative to the debt, we felt very strongly that the publishing segment — which has its own digital properties, by the way — needed to have the kind of capital structure that will enable them to be a consolidator in the industry, should that be the strategic decision they make. They have produced a very efficient model for running the newsroom of today and tomorrow. So we didn't want to saddle them with a lot of debt. We wanted to enable a good revenue stream, a good cost structure, and good cash production, so they can do the kinds of things they need to do to create longevity within that business.
Relative to Cars.com, we will have affiliation agreements with the publishing business for five years after the deal closes. In our way of thinking it's the best of both worlds, in that Cars.com will live in the broadcast and digital company, where it will have the right type of capital structure and investment, while the publishing side will continue to be able to leverage that relationship.
You know, we spent a lot of time with investors during the last 10 days, and a number of them asked how they can become an investor on both sides of the house once we spin. So it's not that everybody wants to go into growth and be in broadcast and digital. We have a number of investors saying, "We're very interested in publishing, this is an interesting story for the value side of our investment house." And it's a dividend-producing entity, which is very attractive to them.
Getting external capital for that sort of move will likely only get tougher, so flexibility on the balance sheet is important.
Hopefully you know about PastPages, the tool built by L.A. Times data journalist Ben Welsh to record what some of the web's most important news sites have on their homepage — hour by hour, every single day. Want to see what The Guardian's homepage looked like Tuesday night? Here you go. Want to see how that Ebola patient first appeared on DallasNews.com in September? Try the small item here. It's a valuable service, particularly for future researchers who will want to study how stories moved through new media. (For print media, we have physical archives; for digital news, work even a few years old has an alarming tendency to disappear.)
It's possible for me to find a century-old newspaper, yet work I did 8-10 years ago on the web is gone.
— Derek Willis (@derekwillis) November 13, 2014
Anyway, Ben is back with a new tool called StoryTracker, "a set of open source tools for archiving and analyzing news homepages," backed in part by the Reynolds Journalism Institute at Mizzou.
It offers a menu of options, documented here, for creating an orderly archive of HTML snapshots, extracting hyperlinks with a bonus set of metadata that captures each link's prominence on the page and visualizing a page's layout with animations that show changes over time.
The potential uses for researchers are obvious, but I could also imagine plenty of realtime uses. Tracking your own homepage over time, you could get good data on how the granular movement of stories there correlates with traffic over time. (To ask questions like: Is the top slot more or less valuable on weekends or overnight than during the day Monday to Friday?) You could track your competition's homepages to get hard data on what stories they're pushing hardest. And unlike the base PastPages, which saves screenshots of homepages, StoryTracker gets at the HTML to determine what stories are where. It's all open source, so have at it. (Here's a sample analysis to see what sources the Drudge Report links to most.)
Ben presented StoryTracker at a conference at RJI earlier this week; here's the video and his slide deck.
Interesting new study (PDF) from Stefano DellaVigna of UC Berkeley and Johannes Hermle of the University of Bonn. From the abstract (emphasis mine):
Media outlets are increasingly owned by conglomerates, inducing a conflict of interest: a media outlet can bias its coverage to benefit companies in the same group. We test for bias by examining movie reviews by media outlets owned by News Corp. — such as the Wall Street Journal — and by Time Warner — such as Time.
We use a matching procedure based on reported preferences to disentangle bias due to conflict of interest from correlated tastes. We find no evidence of bias in the reviews for 20th Century Fox movies in the News Corp. outlets, nor for the reviews of Warner Bros. movies in the Time Warner outlets. We can reject even small effects, such as biasing the review by one extra star (out of four) every 13 movies. We test for differential bias when the return to bias is plausibly higher, examine bias by media outlet and by journalist, as well as editorial bias. We also consider bias by omission: whether the media at conflict of interest are more likely to review highly-rated movies by affiliated studios.
In none of these dimensions do we find systematic evidence of bias. Lastly, we document that conflict of interest within a movie aggregator does not lead to bias either.
(For an interesting and somewhat contradictory perspective, you might enjoy this great piece from the summer on the history of Entertainment Weekly and its role within the various iterations of Time Warner.)
So why don't movie reviews get skewed to support the corporate parent? DellaVigna and Hermle suggest it's the high degree of competition: "We conclude that media reputation in this competitive industry acts as a powerful disciplining force." In other words, there are plenty of voices available on any given movie, so readers who think the fix is in for Horrible Bosses 2 would find it easy to switch to some other source of reviews.
(I'd argue another factor is that inaccurate movie reviews exact a more concrete cost to readers — a wasted movie ticket and a lame night out — than most other news products. You generally don't lose money and time if a city council story has a fact wrong. That direct tie to consumer behavior probably incentivizes more ready switching.)
If competition on a given subject discourages bias, you can imagine the opposite would be true too — less competition, more bias. You can certainly read that as discouraging: After all, there are many beats that have fewer professional reporters covering them than 10 or 20 years ago. But you could also read it as encouraging, since social media and personal publishing can bring corrective voices to the fore. In all cases, it seems to be a critical mass of interested voices that can help tamp down (or at least surface) bias.
News video aggregator Watchup just announced a new funding round, a $2.75 million investment led by Tribune Media, the broadcast arm of the former Tribune Company. With this round, Watchup has now raised $4.25 million since its launch in 2012. McClatchy along with prior funders the Knight Enterprise Fund, the Stanford-StartX Fund, and businessmen Ned Lamont, Gordon Crovitz, and Jim Friedlich are also investors."We are so excited about this round because we have brought together a select group of media innovators who are willing to contribute their industry knowledge and their content to help us reinvent the video news experience," Adriano Farano, Watchup's co-founder and CEO said in a statement. Watchup (which started as a Knight News Challenge winner) is an app that allows users to build personalized newscasts by pulling video from dozens of global and local news outlets. Most of the video is pulled in through public YouTube channels, but Watchup also has agreements with The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, PBS NewsHour, and other organizations to directly provide video to the app. This round marks the latest in a series of investments legacy news organizations are making in news startups. In September, Vice Media received $500 million in funding, including $250 million from A&E Networks, which is owned by Hearst and Disney. Last month, The New York Times Co. and German publishing behemoth Axel Springer said they were investing $3.7 million into Blendle, a Dutch news reading platform where readers pay by the article.
Tribune Media, for its part, is investing in Watchup because it "extends our vision of expanding the reach of quality local news content," Larry Wert, Tribune's president of broadcasting said in a statement. Tribune Media owns or operates 42 different local broadcast stations.
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my homework!!!
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oh okay then, bye :b
*turns off tv*
(bit odd...)
Watchng from behinde a tree*
*gets up carefully with out waking Blood or Sora, walks to the door and looks at the stars*
Looks down*
tear falls from eyes*
(oh the sky looks beautiful tonight) *smiles*
comes out of room with homework*
okay, math, science, social studies
sets it down on kitchen table
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~ wakes up and rubs eyes and walk outside without shirt on~
walks past Blood*
nice body
Sitting in tree*
I wish...
Balko didnt control me
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wots up fellow shin0bi-dA
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I've missed you
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i missed you a lot but i had another a ranked mission...but im happy im with you now....
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*smiles* I'm glad
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It has a 19x zoom and is 6mp with two memory card slots (CF and XD) of which I have collected a few over the last 5 years.
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The fight club shows two bridge cameras that look good but has the zoom only moved on 1x since mine was made. I know the new Fuji is 30x but not sure about the build quality.
I have a budget of around £400 to £500 but don't want to spend it on a camera that doesn't give me much more than what I have already.
I mainly take Family pictures, holidays and do enjoy landscapes and night shots. I still have 2 35mm bodies and all the lenses but was put on the back seat when the Fuji came along.
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I am an IT professional who specialises in the Oracle RDBMS, specifically performance, architecture and VLDBs. I can usually be hired at fairly short notice to help with performance or design issues, I'm based in the South of England, close to Stansted airport so within easy travel of much of Europe.
As well as carrying out consultancy and contract work I also present at conferences, maintain this blog and occasionally run training courses.
I have been an independent consultant since 1995, apart from 6 years where I was able to combine IT with my other love, genetics. I was the Database Services Manager for the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI), the UK side of the Human Genome Project. I was privileged to be able to design and build some of the largest database around at that time, the largest eventually growing to over 100TB.
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I have also carried out project management and team leading roles for clients. As my blog suggests, I can be as interested in the human side of getting the job done as the technology.
Prior to being independent I worked for Oracle Corp for 3 years as a developer and for the NHS before that. I have a degree in Genetics and Zoology.
In 2010 I was delighted to become a member of the OakTable network. I am an active member of the UK Oracle User Group, currently chairing the Infrastructure and Management Special Interest Group and regularly presenting at other SIGs.
If you need help with an Oracle project or a performance issue, please contact me.
- 1. Fahd Mirza - August 10, 2010
I am also very much proud of my 2TB database, and yes I also 'foolishly' yes to most of my employer's demands, but that has always resulted in learning new skills and pushing my limits.
- 2. Rohit - November 3, 2010
Very informative blog Martin.
Oracle people love tinkering with very large databases. Though I am not into Oracle, but delivered few apps. on Oracle back-end too.
I want to create a sample VLDB, but not following how to gather data.


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A contest held to find out, between two men whose penis is bigger. two men start at opposite ends of the room and run at eachother with thier penis aiming not drectly at the other mans dick but slightly to the side, the man to get hit first looses, for the reason that he/she has a smaller penis
Yo josh wanna joust? Josh: sure bro, Shawg guy looks like you have the smaller penis
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1. A medieval contest of arms wherein two knights, each armed with a lance and mounted on his noble destrier, ride hellbent at one another with the objective of poking the other fellow with the tip of their lance.
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A sleezy sexual act.
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No 1: En une seule fleur C'est pourtant nous qui t'avons proposé
No 2: Contre qui, rose
No 3: De ton rêve trop plein
No 4: La rose complète J'ai une telle conscience de ton
No 5: Dirait-on Abandon entouré d'abandon
Just as with the Mid-Winter Songs, Les chansons des roses are cast as an arch form. Lauridsen devised an ingenious and subtly interconnected formal design by further developing the musical materials of the opening movement, En une seule fleur, in the third, De ton rêve trop plein, while bringing the materials of the second movement, Contre qui, rose, to full consummation in the fourth section, La rose complète. Thus Dirait-on, written first but placed last, becomes the voluptuous summation of the entire work. Lauridsen brilliantly emphasizes the cumulative quality of Dirait-on—which is filled with elaborate polyphony that flows by as naturally as a stream—by reserving the entry of the piano for this luminous finale. (While Lauridsen's expertise at writing for choral forces is often commented on, his elegantly judged writing for piano is equally assured; as is evident on this recording, the composer himself is an expert pianist who coaxes particularly alluring sonorities from the keyboard.)
Unlike the extroverted intensity that characterizes the Mid-Winter Songs, Les chansons des roses are so intimate as to suggest an introspective self-communing. Lauridsen has remarked how certain lines in Rilke's verse attracted him immediately and how in Contre qui, rose he was particularly touched by this poet's expression of 'the state of giving love and not receiving it back'. Like the German poet, the American composer has tapped a profound source of inspiration by contemplating the evanescent beauty of a rose. In his perceptive volume Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation William H Gass aptly describes how images of this flower pervade this sensitive poet's œuvre: 'Roses climb his life as if he were their trellis.' So, too, in his Les chansons des roses, Lauridsen translates the poet's love for roses into rapturous music that entwines its way throughout the trellis of the listener's memory.
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