Buzzfeed
Jonah Peretti on the nature and future of Buzzfeed Paid Members Public
Interesting interview with Jonah Peretti, the founder of Buzzfeed. He’s somewhat guarded, as you might expect, but what he does say is interesting… [hat-tip: Alex Watson [https://twitter.com/Sifter/status/468121076531466240]]
Clickbait and Listicles: not a universal panacea Paid Members Public
Charlie Brooker [http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/16/five-years-time-news-articles-single-icon-fires-info-nuggets-charlie-brooker?CMP=twt_fd] : > Now, here, in the present day, it’s clear the internet wasn’t a fad. More or less everything else was. Newspapers, for instance. They used to be sombre dossiers issued each morning, bringing grave
What does Buzzfeed journalism look like? Paid Members Public
I’ve been watching Buzzfeed UK with interest since Patrick Smith [http://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith] jumped ship from The Media Briefing to join them last year. I was curious to see some examples of his journalism filtered through Buzzfeed’s style. Here’s a couple of examples: * The Independent
The core difference between search and social Paid Members Public
Interesting column from John Gapper in the FT today. Here he’s talking about Jonah Peretti [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/05c084ae-69cc-11e3-89ce-00144feabdc0.html], founder of Buzzfeed: > His insight was that sharing works differently from search. Search is a way to discover information, whereas sharing is prompted by
Labour goes all broadcast on Twitter Paid Members Public
It might be a good time to start culling the politicians you follow on Twitter. Buzzfeed’s Jim Waterson explains why Labour spammed its followers’ Twitter feeds [http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/labour-have-found-a-new-way-of-spamming-everyone] : > It’s an attempt to recreate blanket broadcast-style coverage on Twitter. And if 4.5m people
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Buzzfeed writer resigns in plagarism shocker [http://www.theonion.com/articles/buzzfeed-writer-resigns-in-disgrace-after-plagiari,32616/] : > The 26-year-old Mills, a once promising young writer in BuzzFeed’s Animals division best known for authoring the popular posts “First-World Bear Problems” and “Seal And Owl Are BFFs,” admitted this week that he copied captions
