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As we've known in the news business for decades tagging news content makes it more valuable. Adding things like category codes, PeopleTickering, company stock tickers and other forms of tagging is extremely valuable for helping people find what they need.
We read a terrific analysis by John Blossom of Shore Communications called Vanishing Frontier: Online Premium Content Pioneers Adapt to a Crowded Neighborhood.
The management team at Newstex has been sharing around this terrific, wide ranging article from the MIT Technology Review.
Several Newstex executives will be attending the Securities Industry Association's Technology Management Conference.
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced today that our own Larry Schwartz has been elected to the Content Division's Board of Directors.
Larry Schwartz, Newstex President, will be speaking on a panel called Who's Paying Who and How? at the SIIA Content Forum. This year's Forum will be held in Los Angeles May 24 and 25.
Everyone here at Newstex is thrilled to launch "ContentOn Demand" our new offering for content distributors and enterprise customers.
We will be attending the Buying & Selling EContent 2005 conference which will be held at the Camelback Inn in Scottsdale Arizona next week - April 10-12.
Recently there's been a boatload of articles, reports, and posts about journalism and journalists. Many of these stories predict various "deaths" (the death of the newspaper is a common theme).
Not too long ago, the only way for corporations to influence news was for their PR people to issue a press release (intended for reporters only) or hit the phones to talk up friendly journalists.
In a fascinating legal case that has far-reaching ramifications for the future of the news business, French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) is suing Google Inc. for the way that Google News displays AFP stories and photos.
We find it interesting that the Associated Press, in what Editor & Publisher Magazine calls "a break with tradition" will now offer its newspaper members two different leads for certain news stories.
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