Joanna Geary

Although the magic of Free technology means that the cost of serving up each video is “close enough to free to round down,” “close enough to free” multiplied by seventy-five billion is still a very large number. A recent report by Credit Suisse estimates that YouTube’s bandwidth costs in 2009 will be three hundred and sixty million dollars. - Joanna Geary

It’s interesting to discover that a neglected community will indeed continue to function without a dedicated community manager. However, the results are lackluster and the picture are not ‘pretty’. - Joanna Geary

It took a long time for newspapers to build the cash flow to afford big time, expensive investigative journalism, and for publishers to recognize its value (and some of them still aren't convinced) in helping to retain readers. So if it took newspapers more than 100 years to build the business and content models that we all now cherish, why do we expect a fully formed online model to emerge in just 10 years? - Joanna Geary

“The Zonie Report was a journalistic success and an economic revenue failure,” Klawonn said. “I just thought if I could hang in there in some way and prove that I’m committed to this field and that I’m interested in trying new things, that something was going to break my way.” - Joanna Geary

Google started to display author names in Google News, so you can easily find the articles written by your favorite journalists. If you click on the author's name, you'll find his most recent articles and you can subscribe to a feed or get alerts by email. - Joanna Geary

28% of the most popular queries were for what I classed as 'Guardian Navigation', i.e. queries like 'crossword', 'G2' or 'podcast'. - Joanna Geary

We’re a place on the Web (independent and not-for-profit) where you can bring specific errors, issues and problems you’ve found in media coverage in your community and try to get them fixed. - Joanna Geary

The Daily Mail posted a story on their website about my friend Andy Stanford-Clark, and used a crop from one of my photos to illustrate it. As it happens, I would have been perfectly happy for them to use it (and even to crop it) if they’d asked for permission. At the time I post this, they are not following the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND licence and they are also not linking back to my Flickr page per the Flickr terms and conditions. - Joanna Geary

New York Times Co., publisher of the namesake newspaper, is likely to begin charging users to access its news on mobile devices before it does so on its Web sites, the head of digital operations said. - Joanna Geary

The way to get me to participate is to provide me a better way to do the things that I was already trying to do without you. Your community has to save me time, not drain it. Your signal to noise ratio has to be extraordinary, because social media has made this a very noisy world. - Joanna Geary

One must ask, first, whether the claimant had a reasonable expectation of privacy in relation to the particular information in question and, if so, then move to the second stage of enquiring whether there is some countervailing public interest such as to justify overriding that prima facie right. - Joanna Geary

Half of Britain's local and regional newspapers will close within the next five years, a media analyst told parliament today. - Joanna Geary

Montgomery added that journalists had been housed in "great barns of offices" but needed to reconnect with people in the local areas they served. "The public want professional content but they want it instantly and directly from the source not sifted by many pairs of hands," he said. "They want it from the scene of the action and they want to engage with the originators or journalists and not merely accept what is handed out on an infrequent and untimely basis." - Joanna Geary

Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of The Guardian, on the future of journalism. Event at the Institut für Medienpolitik in Berlin. - Joanna Geary

The Times has great data on the words that send readers in search of a dictionary. - Joanna Geary

In case you didn’t see it, here’s Jason Jones of the Daily Show at The New York Times talking about “aged news” and challenging an editor to “find one thing in there that happened today.” - Joanna Geary