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Bringing Living Stories to WordPress
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Posted by Eric Zhang, Software Engineer
For the last few months we’ve been talking with publishers about ways to make it easier for them to use Living Stories, our experimental format for displaying news coverage, on their own websites. Today we’re releasing a Living Stories
plugin and theme
for WordPress. Now anyone who publishes through WordPress can use the plugin to organize coverage of an ongoing event on a single dynamic page.
We first showcased
Living Stories
in December through a two-month-long experiment with the New York Times and Washington Post. We got great feedback from both readers and publishers. Our next step was to
open-source
the Living Stories format, allowing publishers to build on it using Google’s AppEngine infrastructure. We then released a
version of the code
that runs independent of our infrastructure. Since then, a number of publications have shared their ideas for ways we can offer additional tools to help them create Living Stories.
The WordPress plugin is a direct result of those conversations. We hope the plug-and-play solution will make it easy for you to get a Living Story up and running in almost no time at all. Head to our
documentation page
for detailed instructions. If you have questions or feedback, feel free to leave us a note in our
help forum
. We’re looking forward to reading your stories and seeing how the Living Stories format evolves on WordPress.
Two more weeks to update your Google News Sitemap
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Posted by Andy Golding, Google News Software Engineer
Almost five months ago, we
announced
a redesign for our Google News Sitemap. We wanted to give publishers plenty of advance notice so they could make a smooth transition to the new format.
This transition period will end on May 4, when we'll discontinue supporting all old-style Google News Sitemaps. If you are a publisher and haven't already shifted your Google News sitemap to the new format, we urge you to do so by following
these instructions
as soon as possible. This update is key to avoid interruption in crawling your content and allow our crawler to capture all necessary information about your articles.
If you've already made the changes to your sitemap, we thank you. There is no need to worry about this update. If you're interested in learning more about Google News sitemaps, we encourage you to read
this section of our Help Center
and submit a sitemap for your articles in Google News. You may also be interested in checking out our
Help Forum
where other publishers have shared useful tips and discussed other Sitemaps-related questions.
Don't forget to update your Google News Sitemaps. There are only
two more weeks
to go!
Eric Schmidt discusses innovation with news editors
Monday, April 12, 2010
Posted by Chris Gaither, Senior Manager, Global Communications & Public Affairs
This week, hundreds of newsroom leaders from across the country are gathered in Washington DC for the American Society of News Editors’ annual conference. The theme of this year's
event
is "ideas," and Eric Schmidt shared many of his as the opening speaker. He
spoke
about some of the big trends that are shaping the Internet, such as the rise of mobile and cloud computing, and some lessons he has learned about how to navigate the Web’s constant pace of change.
He also talked about the importance of journalism to functioning democracies and encouraged the group to work together -- as well as with technology partners like Google -- to find new ways to reach and engage audiences, tell important stories and build thriving businesses online.
You can watch Eric's speech, which we've posted on YouTube, below. And if you’re interested in reading or contributing to the discussion about the future of news, check out the unofficial conference
blog
and
#asne10
on Twitter.
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