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Monthly Archives: November 2006

Social Media Spam: Ick!

(NOTE: I originally wrote this for Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits blog. Since it’s also relevant here, I’m cross-posting it.)

What does "Digg bait" look like? These screen grabs from a site that sells dental insurance via an affiliate program show how out-of-place the article "Geek’s Guide to Getting in Shape" is. (Click to enlarge)

Well, I knew [...]

Buh-Bye Old Stars, and Good Riddance

Independent music journalist Michael Kirk.

This morning I was having an interesting conversation with my friend, independent music journalist Michael Kirk. We were tossing around observations on how the conventional "star system," at least in the entertainment business, appears to be waning with the rise of the internet — particularly with easy access to social and [...]

Blogs: Popularity Doesn\’t Equal Influence

Technorati’s latest snapshot of blog influence (click to enlarge). Consider what this data really shows.

(NOTE: I originally posted this item on Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits blog. I’m cross-posting it here because I think it’s also relevant to Contentious readers.)
On Nov. 6, Technorati published its latest quarterly state of the blogosphere report. Currently, this search service tracks [...]

RSS-to-Javascript: Getting Buggy?

For a while now on several blogs I’ve been using the free tool RSS-to-Javascript to syndicate the content of certain feeds into sidebars. In the last couple of days, however, there seems to be a bug regarding this tool for at least one of my blogs, The Right Conversation.
I’m trying to diagnose this problem, and [...]