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RAKESH AGRAWAL
I am Senior Director of Product at Audible.
I have been designing and marketing Internet services since 1993. I have worked at Tellme, AOL Search, uReach Technologies, washingtonpost.com and startribune.com.
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Category Archives: newspapers
Don’t like how a reporter treated you? Tell Google
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is allowing newsmakers to comment on stories that appear in Google News. Google says it allows people who are quoted in articles or affiliated with organizations in them to comment, as well as … Continue reading
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Writing news for search engines and blogs
One of the reasons I love blogging is that it gives me the opportunity to see things at a micro level. I can see patterns and analyze data in a way that I couldn’t in a typical work role. When … Continue reading
Posted in blogs, journalism, media, newspapers, search, seo
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The New York Times to set content free?
The New York Post is reporting that rival The New York Times is about to set its TimesSelect content free. TimesSelect has kept key parts of nytimes.com behind a subscription firewall since 2005. The pay content includes Times op-ed columnists, … Continue reading
Posted in journalism, media, newspapers
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Using the Web to cover breaking events
After the crash of ComAir Flight 5191, about a year ago, I wrote a piece criticizing the lackluster way news sites use Web resources in covering breaking news. When the news broke of the 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis last … Continue reading
Posted in journalism, media, newspapers, web 2, web 2.0
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Redefining news
I was at a party earlier this week with some journalists from The Washington Post and some recent journalism graduates. We started talking about Loudoun Extra, the Post’s new hyperlocal Web site focused on a wealthy suburban county. Among the … Continue reading
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Mastering a new way of storytelling
I pick on The Washington Post a lot. It’s my local paper, so many of the examples I use come from it. But they also have, handsdown, the best newspaper Web site in the country. A recent project on how … Continue reading
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Outside.in puts neighborhood news on the map
Brady at O’Reilly Radar has a great post on Outside.in. The startup aggregates local blogs, organizes them by neighborhood and plots them on a map. I’ve written before about the importance of being hyperlocal. If I were running a media … Continue reading
Posted in city guides, geotagging, journalism, local search, maps, media, newspapers, web 2, web 2.0
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Flickr vs. The Washington Post
There was a big bike race outside my door yesterday. Thousands of people showed up to watch pro cyclists from around the world in the 100km CSC Invitational. What’s the best source to find out about what happened yesterday? Oddly, … Continue reading
Posted in flickr, geotagging, google, journalism, media, newspapers, photography, web 2, web 2.0, yahoo, YouTube
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Living in a fragmented media world
Jason Fry has a thoughtful piece on the fragmentation of media in the WSJ: A Reality Check for Newspapers (subscription required). He talks about fragmentation of television, music and newspapers. Some excerpts from the discussion on newspapers: Articles are emailed … Continue reading
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The power of bloggers
Two great stories this week that illustrate how the influence of bloggers equals and sometimes eclipses mainstream media: TechCrunch reports on an erroneous Engadget story that shaved $4 billion off the value of Apple. The story, based on a fake … Continue reading
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