8 mistakes newspapers made; Google and Facebook’s future visions; Metromix menage a trois needed; All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash; Die tie.

Eight historical mistakes the newspaper industry made
“The race isn’t over yet, but there are mistakes newspapers have made that I think will have lasting consequences. We need to think through the impact of these mistakes and what we’ll do about them. but we’ll pay for these mistakes for a long time.” They mistakes are: Missing out on blogs, classifieds, effective search, verticals, reinvesting in online, realizing users have control, lack of utility and pushing content instead of pulling. Howard offers solutions, too! Great entry.

23-Year-Old Mark Zuckerberg Has Google Sweating
“Owen Van Natta, Facebook’s chief operating officer, said a visit to Amazon.com will uncover all the product recommendations one might want but the value can be limited in the anonymity of the people posting the reviews. On the other hand, if you take your online activities and put them through the filter of the people you know well, those actions take on greater meaning.”

What If Moses Had Had Google?
“When asked about Google’s future, he talks about the targeted personalization of search results: ‘The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask questions such as ‘What shall I do tomorrow?’ and ‘What job shall I take?’”

Wikipedia ranks first for online news
“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.”

This will become the trend: news sites to require real names on comments
“The wild-web 2.0 has advantages, and normally I advocate be as much like the unfettered web as possible, and even though it contradicts my ’stop thinking like big media’ advocacy, there are some journalistic standards worth maintaining. One of them is truthfulness and transparancy. People should stand behind their opinons and assertions with their real identity.”

MySpace News worth using
“After about an hour using the beta version of MySpace News, I’m pretty sure it’s going to be worth your time. … If for no other reason, check it out to learn how you can rate your content up the list and drive traffic to your own site.”

Metromix Los Angeles Launches
Whoa, Tribune’s Metromix gets shiny. I dig, except Orlando/Baltimore versions have lots more nice image teases. And the Chicago version has lots more scannable info visible and deeplinked. If these three iterations could have a menage a trois and produce a baby, it would be really bodacious. (Via Squared) Word on the street is the Trib will be rolling out a lot of redesigns this summer.

The lessons from BackFence.com
Great stuff here: “Hyper-local is about utility and networks of people, not citizen journalism” And… “The only thing that makes it easier is being able to do it in ‘gulps” as in ‘Here’s the local phone number for this service’ or ‘here’s where you sign up for this’. That’s it. Most people can’t do much more and those that could don’t have the time. Microblogging and Facebook status updates are literally a gift from heaven in this scenario.”

A New Branded Journalism
Medill is retooling the way it teaches the trade, to the dismay of faculty and students. More on the rapid changes and controversy (Full disclosure: If you didn’t know from the about page, I’m a Medill MSJ grad.)

Open-Source Journalism: It’s a Lot Tougher Than You Think
“But fundamentally, crowdsourced journalism’s promise must be realized by the crowd; if a project doesn’t suit the ‘users,’ it won’t fly. So hearing from — and listening to — these users is key.”

Dayton Daily News Acts Like a Start-Up with Pets Sites
“A group at the Dayton Daily News decided to act like a tech start-up and launch a niche Web site in just nine days that centered on this growth area. … In addition to social networking among pet lovers, the site offers photo uploads, photo galleries, helpful information and polls.”

New rituals for new media pt 2
“The big problem is site stickiness. Far too many web site visitors are ‘one click and out.’ They dive bomb into the site, check the weather and are gone. They come to the home page, scan the top headlines, and give up very few clicks.”

A neutral ‘Net needs up to twice the bandwidth of a tiered network
“Recent research suggests the obvious: that building an undifferentiated network requires far more capacity than one in which traffic is prioritized, throttled, and controlled. But when AT&T researchers are involved in writing the paper in question, the results seem a bit more sinister. Is the research just another attempt by a major backbone Internet operator to justify a non-neutral Internet?” Be careful kids, there’s so much evil out there!

Cutting the ties that bind
“Off with the yoke. Damn the tie.” (Via Hartnett … Although he as been known to wear his republican red power tie around the office on occasion.)

‘Chicago Sun-Times’ Looks to Redefine Itself as ‘Liberal, Working-Class’ Paper
Interesting move. “Under marching orders from Publisher John Cruickshank and Editor in Chief Michael Cooke, new Editorial Page Editor Cheryl L. Reed introduced a new Commentary section Tuesday with a promise to turn the tabloid back into the liberal-leaning paper it was for decades before the Reagan administration.“

Revamp: Del.icio.us preps next version — and gives us a peek
I am so excited about this. I hope they 1-increase the character count for link notes 2-build a cooler system for organizing/combining tags you already have. 3-streamline the lag time on the search/tagging process — I’ve found once you get beyond 6,000-7,000 links, the site slows immensely… especially when using the Firefox tag plugin (which is also a key to accumulating that many links).

Korean company GPNC has put together a 70 inch all-in-one PC, making it the world’s largest.
“Although the manufacturer didn’t even bother taking a product shot without an XP error message in it, so who knows what kind of effort they’re putting into this thing. If you open up the monitor it’s probably just filled with styrofoam peanuts instead of actual electronics.” I laughed at this for half of Monday.

Silly live shot turns into web phenom
Following up the clip of Jonathon and his professed love of turtles that I mentioned a couple weeks ago. Bonus clip: Bill O’Reilly interviews the “I Like Turtles” Kid.

New York Bike Share Project
This is awesome! Like in Denmark! Too bad it’s just for a week as a “summer charrette” … (Could that name be any more pretentious?) (Via Khoi Vinh)

MTV Labs: Short Circuitz
MTV can’t seem to find a successful vehicle for Nick Cannon. So now he’s doing a show on submitted remixed videos.

The Beard Team USA Blog: Chicks dig beards!
Beard nerds, rock it. Also, beardists, it’s time to book your Aug. 4 flight to St. Louis.

Mediastorm: Black Market by Patrick Brown
Great use of chapters and tight editing. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but they’re almost too short.

33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names
Word, word nerds.

And finally, here’s some widely-discussed news you’ve probably read elsewhere, but just in case:

Breaking News: All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash
“I feel like ctrl-alt-deleting myself”

New NetRatings Metrics: A Work in Progress
“While NetRatings’ average time per person and average number of sessions metrics typically reflect what the average user does, the total minutes and total sessions measurements provide information from ‘a ranking perspective’…” Howard Owens rightfully questions this as a final solution

Michael Moore Rips Wolf Blitzer on CNN: “Why Don’t You Tell the American People the Truth” [VIDEO]
I don’t mean to jump on the broadcast haterz train here but have you ever actually seen a broadcast TV news retraction/correction? Wolf says they’ll issue one if there’s incorrect information but I’ve never, ever seen one.

Google, Yahoo Both Working On Next Generation Social Networks
“It’s a busy Sunday evening – first the news on Yahoo Mosh, and now news that Google is working on its own next generation social networking service called Socialstream, possibly to take the spotlight away from the ailing Orkut.”