Another day, another UK newspaper website goes down
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Today's failure: The Independent The Independent newspaper's website fell over early this morning and is still struggling to get back on its feet.â¦
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The Dec. 31 issues of The Cincinnati Post and The Kentucky Post will be the last for both newspapers, which are part of a dying breed of afternoon dailies.
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TechWeb - Web sites for Indymedia, a Texas company, were knocked offline when the servers housing them were seized in Britain. Indymedia and civil libertarians are charging censorship.
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Website buried in bandwidth blizzard Hot on the heels of the recent Southern Railway website debacle - where inclement weather provoked a rush of information-seeking commuters to the company's online information resource, thereby instantly derailing it - we're delighted to report that just the threat of some white stuff falling from the sky has buried the Met Office. The weather-botherers' site currently offers:â¦
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Black sheep at SEO firm Times Online has blamed a rogue individual at its search engine optimisation contractor Sitelynx for the link spam campaign that rained digital derision upon the UK's oldest daily national newspaper today.â¦
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Blog-stealing columnist disses his source Tech Digest Oh how I love the Daily Mail. What a splendid newspaper. No, really. Its online offering is now very good to the point where a US-exiled liberal friend of mine confessed to me the other day that after the Gruniard, it is his first online stop for UK news.â¦
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'Serious defects and delays' An internet portal to enable the public to report non-urgent crime has been closed following "serious defects and delays".â¦
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Also: Suddenly everything's coming up widgets. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Ad lineage is way down and readership continues to fall off and nobody in the newspaper business will be sorry to see the end of 2007. 2008 could be better, if the online side flourishes and a presidential election drums up additional interest.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - R U cycle? Book! Fancy an adds down the sub? There's a gr8 new carnage.
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Capital Radio and GWR saw Â£45m wiped off their combined stock market values yesterday as investors digested details of their proposed merger alongside trading updates published simultaneously by both companies.
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The BBC is to close some websites and invest in those that add "sufficient public value".
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BBC Click reports on papers' fight to keep their readers as increasing numbers turn to the web for news.
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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This URL is no longer valid.  Please update your bookmarks to the new URL: http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/to
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Blog: Microsoft has dropped its "Get the Facts" website, but the replacement isn't much better.
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Business & money: The government yesterday handed Northern Rock a further lifeline as it struggled to keep the stricken bank afloat and push through a private sale