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Techdirt: SF Chronicle’s Stages Of Google Grief Lead To Suggestion For Google To Just Buy Newspapers
“This post refers to views of SF Chronicle columnists. It’s quite amusing to see the “stages of Google grief” on editorial pages of the struggling paper which rid itself of hundreds of reporters lately.” (tags: newspapers media+evolution human+nature psychology emotions business tidbits+fodder)

John Battelle’s Searchblog: Death of Journalism – Blame Google? No. Ask Google to Lead? Yes.
“Google & others should help support & evolve the 4th estate. But assuming the way to support more of the same – which gave us a bloated newsroom that puts out a product fewer and fewer people want each year – is to ask for tenure over evolution.” (tags: newspapers news+biz media+evolution strategy business problems journalism tid)

Use Delicious to uncover your brand (and improve your SEO)
“In del.icio.us, search for your brand, site, or name. You’ll see some pink highlighed words “Saved by X People”, click on that, and it’ll take you to that page where you can see details of comments, a sorted tag listing, and a history.” (tags: tagging social+media research PR+marketing branding strategy tips)

Teaching Online Journalism » How Gannett trains video shooters
“Yesterday I got to see one day of Gannett’s video training for reporters. I enjoyed it a lot — especially their classy gear! Take a look at the list:” (tags: journalism video training news+biz newspapers media+evolution multimedia tidbits+fodder)

Top Edublogs – August 2007 ~ Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes
“Don’t believe myth of ‘rankings’. They matter to commercial media and advertisers, people who count eyeballs, not insights. Even were the Technorati (or Feedburner) rankings accurate, they wouldn’t be work the paper they were written on.” (tags: statistics metrics blogs problems mycoverage AmyGahran)

Ethan Zuckerman: Zimbabwe blacklists Global Voices
“Evidently, Global Voices is a source of “‘virulent propaganda’ to delegitimize ‘our just struggle against Anglo-Saxons’.” 41 sites blacklisted by ZANU-PF govt. Also: Washington Post, CNN, & the personal blog of our Zimbabwe correspondent.” (tags: government world Africa censorship freedom blogs info+access tidbits+fodder)

SEO Egghead by Jaimie Sirovich
“We love Google, but I bet we like our email more, especially when it’s mission-critical. We’d probably be less fond of Gmail when it messes it up. Here’s what’s wrong with Gmail, with links to evidence. Bear this in mind before you switch to Gmail:” (tags: e-mail problems services mycoverage AmyGahran)

PC World – Apple Lays AppleWorks to Rest
“Apple’s venerable consumer application suite AppleWorks, which at one point was the industry’s best-selling piece of software, beating even Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC, has finally been laid to rest at the age of 23.” (tags: software mac evolution business)

HOW-TO Create an RSS Feed
“This is a short guide to creating an RSS feed for sites that don’t have one. I’ve posted it here because I keep forgetting how to do it. Hope it’s useful. NB: it won’t work for sites that require a log-on, such as Facebook groups.” (tags: feeds tools tutorial syndication distribution)

Blog Action Day – October 15th – Topic: The Environment : The Blog Herald
“October 15th, the 1st annual “Blog Action Day”, offering an opportunity for bloggers around the world to write about a common subject in whatever way is appropriate to them and their blog. Topic: environment, 3 ways to get involved:” (tags: blogs community events environment collaboration)

MiniMediaGuy » Blog Archive » Journalists should feed their heads
“Poynter commentator Amy Gahran says everyone, especially journalists, should learn to use a feed reader to direct a variety of blog postings and news reports to a central spot” (tags: mycoverage AmyGahran feeds comments conversational+media participatory+media participation)

DIGG TOOLBOX: 50+ Digg Tools and Resources
“With the launch of the Digg API , developers have built many tools to enhance the Digg experience for both readers of the social news site and authors hoping to get their content Dugg. We’ve compiled a list of more than 50 of the best.” (tags: mashup resources tools web2.0 social+media)