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This is where the internet comes in. Newspaper sites need to convince the public that they want to start paying for something they have been getting for free for years. There are many theories as to how this can be done: some suggest pay walls, some suggest charging for new add-on services, some suggest daily or monthly subscriptions. There is no clear answer, but there is a clear business model.

The transition from free to paid is not going to be easy but McDermott creates another interesting parallel in the article as an additional revenue creating idea: iTunes. As he points out, Apple sells millions of iPods each year, spurred on, at least in part, by the sale of music through iTunes. He cites the idea of using an electronic gadget to increase the sales of a digital medium- as music sales and iPod sales affect each other, so too could e-reader technology and digital newspaper subscription sales correspond.

via Bottled water will save journalism – Editors Weblog.

Imagine that you could push a button, and magically create a story about a baseball game. That’s what the Stats Monkey system does. Given information commonly available online about many games—the box score and the play-by-play—the system automatically generates the text of a story about that game that captures the overall dynamic of the game and highlights the key plays and key players. The story includes an appropriate headline and a photo of the most important player in the game.

via Intelligent Information Laboratory @ Northwestern University – Projects – Stats Monkey.

Originally, Breaking Tweets was to be nothing more than a personal blog, telling a few major stories around the world every day through the use of Twitter.

It blossomed into something so much more.

It’s been 750 posts, 6,000 featured tweets, and 150,000 unique visitors (320,000 pageviews) from 194 countries since then — and more than 100 news organizations around the world have visited the site since it began, including Reuters, Associated Press, BBC, CNN, Los Angeles Times, and New York Times — but none of this has gone to my head.

via Letter from the editor: Breaking Tweets turns six months old | Breaking Tweets.

YouTube – reporterscenter’s Channel.

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ABOUT VBS

VBS is an online broadcast network. We stream original content, free of charge and 24 hours a day. We carry a mix of domestic and international news, pop and underground culture coverage, and the best music in the world. People have used words like eclectic, smart, funny, shocking, and revolutionary to describe VBS, but we kind of just snapped our fingers in their faces and went, “Whatever. Tell us something we don’t know.”

With Academy Award-nominated director Spike Jonze (Adaptation, Being John Malkovich) as our creative director, original content from a veritable United Nations of contributors, and bureaus in 20 countries, VBS has hit the planet in a manner not unlike a massive global plague. Streaming on VBS’s signature “in-room” widescreen and remote, content will be available all the time, on-demand.

Basically, VBS will exploit every utopian vision the internet has thus far failed to live up to. Thanks for watching.

via About VBS.TV.