Oregon News Incubator Fallows on "How to Save the News"

[Dave Myers]

I just finished reading an interesting article about Google's efforts
to find ways traditional media organizations can potentially weather
the print/broadcast to online transition ("How to Save the News" James
Fallows, Atlantic Magazine). The most interesting part of the article
(for me) centered on the "Living Stories" experiment that Google, NYT
and Washington Post conducted over a three month period, beginning in
December last year and ending in February. The source code from that
experiment is now available at Google Labs for any news organization
to use.

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

I don't suppose you have a link to that source code. Otherwise, I'll
have to ... wait for it ... Google for it. ;-)

[Dave Myers - Open Forest Consortium]

Ed,

Here's an obscure research technique that a variety of journalists, investigative reporters and researchers might find handy:

1. Highlight and copy relevant key words or a search term into to your computer's clipboard.
(In this example, we'll highlight--quotes and all--"How to Save the News" and copy it into our clipboard.)

2. Point your browser to google.com and paste the text from your computer's clipboard into Google's search query field.

3. Push either the "Google Search" or "I'm Feeling Lucky" button.

4. Most importantly, please accept my sincere apologies for the above smart-alecky response. :-D

-dave myers

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Quoting Dave Myers - Open Forest Consortium <openc...@gmail.com>:

> Ed,
>
> Here's an obscure research technique that a variety of journalists,
> investigative reporters and researchers might find handy:
>
> 1. Highlight and copy relevant key words or a search term into to your
> computer's clipboard.
> (In this example, we'll highlight--quotes and all--"How to Save the News"
> and copy it into our clipboard.)
>
> 2. Point your browser to google.com and paste the text from your computer's
> clipboard into Google's search query field.
>
> 3. Push either the "Google Search" or "I'm Feeling Lucky" button.
>
> 4. Most importantly, please accept my sincere apologies for the above
> smart-alecky response. :-D
>
> -dave myers

Oh ... *Google* ... I use Bing ;-)