Correction: Balancing Bottom Lines and Headlines
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A chart with an article on Sept. 30 about the business model of The St. Petersburg Times in Florida included an incorrect figure from Nielsen/NetRatings for the Web site traffic of a competitor, The Tampa Tribune, in November 2006. The total number of unique visitors was about 870,000, not 637,247, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.
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In NEW YORK story headlined, "U.S. stocks headed for weak  open; oil data on tap" please read in paragraph six "...senior  dealer at Binexx.com..." instead of "...senior dealer at  Bynexx.com..."
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Some mistakes are not always mistakes.
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By Delthia Ricks, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Jun.
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Comment is free: Naomi Klein: Finance journalists have attacked my book, but I remain devoted to their papers. After all, they supplied the facts I used.
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In NEW YORK story headlined, "U.S. stocks headed for weak open; oil data on tap" please read in paragraph six "...senior dealer at Binexx.com..." instead of "...senior dealer at Bynexx.com..."
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(Corrects name in 4th paragraph to Simon Fuller instead of Simon Cowell; also corrects spelling of Portnow in 10th paragraph.)       By Sue Zeidler
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After spending a day with the old keyword page, and getting bored with it, I came up with a new way to look at news, something I've not tried before, that might be fun and/or useful http://nytimesriver.com/keywords.html  Since it's likely to change again soon, here's a screen shot. How it works. Every hour, as usual, it does the nytimesriver scan. Every story is linked to in the database undern all the keywords it references. Then the report, in HTML, is prepared, with the keywords in the left column, and links to all the stories in the right colum. The list is sorted by number of references, the keywords with the most references appear at the top of the list.  So today, baseball is the top item, with 15 references. The teams, the Cleveland Indians and Colorado Rockies, rank high. For some reason (heh) the Boston Red Sox don't appear, even though they're still in it, and the Yankees, even though they've been eliminated (yay!) are near the top at position 10.  It's another leaderboard! (Oh shit.) The stories age, and are removed after 24 hours. After all this is news, not olds.  If you have comments, post them under the screen shot, linked above. PS: Note that since the list just started up today, the initial stories, even though some are already 24 hours old, will remain in the queue until tomorrow morning at this time. So the list will be artificially fat today, it'll thin down tomorrow.
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By Frank Michael Russell, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 17--Here's some news you may have missed last week, based on staff and wire reports.
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Corrects headline and story to show that settlement has been reached; adds dropped word "million" in paragraph 2
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Econospinning: How to Read Between the Lines When the Media Manipulate the Numbers By Gene Epstein John Wiley & Sons, 246 pages, $24.95.
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Corrects comparison year to 2005 instead of 2006 in paragraph 12
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A few things you may not have caught in last week's 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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(Corrects first paragraph to say move was expected, not unexpected)
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News sites may be tempted by an advertising scheme that lets them profit from ads linked to selected words within an article. But publishers who value a separation of editorial and advertising content should steer clear. By Adam L. Penenberg.
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Corrects attribution in paragraph one to "a top U.S. intelligence official" from "the top U.S. intelligence official."