links for 2007-07-11

• Wikipedia ranks first for online news - Editors Weblog
  "According to Nielsen//NetRatings, the encyclopedia site Wikipedia is the top news and information destination on the Internet, gaining 20 million unique monthly users in the past year."
  (tags: wikipedia wiki news web2.0 citizenmedia newmedia)
• Backfence's closing: Learning and moving on - Editors Weblog
  "Heaton suggests that they focus on building local information databases before setting their sights on lucrative goals and revenue assumptions. A successful, stable model for a hyperlocal news site has yet to be developed, and until then, the focus cann
  (tags: hyperlocal citizenmedia news journalism journalism2.0 newmedia business)
• Blog Platforms Head to Head: Six Apart
  Useful comparison of the blogging platforms offered by Six Apart, Automatic (Wordpress.com), etc.
  (tags: blogging tools web2.0 sixapart wordpress newmedia)
• Learning How to Count in the Ajax Age
  "AP is reporting that Nielsen/NetRatings is set to announce soon that it will abandon rankings based on page views, and will begin tracking how long visitors spend at sites."
  (tags: traffic rankings ratings nielsen)
• Journalism and Citizenship: New Agendas - CyberJournalist.net - Online News Association - Education
  At a conference in Austin this month called “Journalism and Citizenship: New Agendas,” Dan Gillmor will argue in his keynote "for the renewed importance of media literacy in the changing media environment."
  (tags: internet journalism news education medialiteracy citizenmedia newmedia)
• MediaShift . Facebook Rising::Social Media Runs on 'Friend' Power | PBS
  "older folks — especially in this online media world — have taken to Facebook for a few reasons"... Read on to get Mark Glaser's reasons.
  (tags: facebook community socialnetworking web2.0 newmedia)
• Pacific Epoch - PSB Investigating Netease Blogger
  "Popular Netease financial blogger Dai Tou Da Ge is under investigation by the Jilin Province Securities Regulatory Bureau and Jilin Public Security Bureau for profiting from stock advice without the necessary authorization, reports New Express."
  (tags: china blogging chineseinternetresearch finance law)
• Securing Firefox: How to avoid hacker attacks on Mozilla's browser | ZDNet Photo Gallery
  "Firefox users should be aware that hackers can exploit software flaws and design features to launch attacks..."
  (tags: mozilla firefox security tools howto privacy)
• How to make customized Google maps
  The official guide.
  (tags: google googlemaps maps newmedia education howto tools web2.0)
• …My heart’s in Accra » Lost (and found) in Translation
  "Computer-based translation is vastly better than it was a few years back, but it’s still completely inadequate for what we’re trying to do with Global Voices - present information from around the world to people in their native languages."
  (tags: translation globalvoices blogs citizenmedia)
• Sifry's Alerts: The State of the Live Web, April 2007
  I forgot to bookmark this in April when it came out. Useful as always.
  (tags: technorati blogosphere blogs blogging web2.0 language international globalvoices)