Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I’ve been enjoying a needed break from blogging this year but I thought it was time to pop my head up and share some thoughts. Hosted and Mobile-Specific Article Formats. As a user I like the new hosted and mobile-specific article formats, be that Facebook Instant Articles , Apple News Format or Google’s AMP project.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 26, 2009

Whether it is individual releases or your entire newsroom, hosting on PitchEngine means that the content is not on your site, so your domain loses the SEO benefit of the links pointing to that content. I want to stress that this issue is not unique to PitchEngine, it applies to many third-party release hosting services.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 22, 2009

Tuesday’s announcement that GQ and DETAILS will get their own sites in October is definitely encouraging, and is a big improvement over hosting both on men.style.com. Props to Silicon Alley Insider for including a photo of the consultants from Office Space in their write-up.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 18, 2009

The large graphic links to the home page, and the “More from Newsweek&# links point to other content: Hosting the video on Newsweek.com is a good idea because long-term that’s where you want users and search engines to access it. The video is not currently available on Facebook).

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Adam Sherk

MAY 18, 2009

The large graphic links to the home page, and the “More from Newsweek&# links point to other content: Hosting the video on Newsweek.com is a good idea because long-term that’s where you want users and search engines to access it. The video is not currently available on Facebook).

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 8, 2010

Why not just send a DMCA complaint to the web host and get the site taken down? Having represented several “big&# news sources in the blog space, I can tell you that in my several years of doing this, the requests I have made have never been denied, even overseas. Or … well, ask nicely.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 8, 2009

The main caveat being that Living Stories should ultimately be hosted on the actual news sites, not on Google. With the shift to the public phase of the experiment The New York Times and The Washington Post will no longer be updating their test pages hosted on Google Labs. So I think it is a concept that is worth experimenting with.

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