OutsideIn.com
OutsideIn now lets you geotag specific posts, rather than entire blogs.
stevenberlinjohnson.com: Outside.in: Not Just For Placebloggers Anymore
“An important group we were missing: bloggers who write occasionally about places around them, but not exclusively. We track over 2,000 regular placebloggers, but the number of bloggers who post occasionally about locally-relevant info is much larger.” (tags: blogging [...]
Amy Gahran
In your own home, you get to put the couch where YOU want it. Who cares if that’s not the living room?
Here’s another reason why learning to use a feed reader is a cornerstone skill for truly succeeding in online media today:
It’s not about your site anymore.In fact, it hasn’t been for at [...]
Amy Gahran
Interviewing bloggers is a two-way street. Get used to it.
Almost daily I get interview requests from mainstream media outlets and independent bloggers. That’s fine, I’m happy to share what I know.
But — at least for me — it works both ways.
Just to be clear: If you want to interview me, my terms are that [...]
Invictus: A blog on U.S. Politics and the Fight Against Torture
“The APA rally was covered by Democracy Now! Amy Goodman also interviewed Stephen Soldz and Steven Reisner, two prominent APA activists who have been working to change APA policy. The interview can be watched or read in transcript here.”
(tags: psychology government nefarious problems journalism adversarial [...]
Author Vladimir Nabokov
From “A Guide to Berlin,” part 5, “The Pub.” I just read it last night in The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov:
“There, under the mirror, the child still sits alone. But he is now looking our way. From there he can see the inside of the tavern — the green island of the billiard [...]
Beth’s Blog: NpTechTag Summary: NpTech Events, Twitters, and Green Web Hosting
Here, Beth Kanter gives an excellent example of how to blog about a conference session. Basically it’s notes glorified with links. Succinct, useful.
(tags: notetaking liveblogging events good+example)
Steve Outing » What’s happening to my e-mail?
“Problem: I use my e-mail archive constantly, using Gmail’s incredible and fast [...]
My inbox, seen through Gmail mobile. Lean and fast.
I’m spending the weekend relaxing up at my cabin near the Continental Divide. We only have dialup net access here. (Don’t razz me for getting online from here. I use my computer and e-mail for much more than just work!)
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m pretty reliant on [...]
Nina Hale, via Flickr (CC license)
Online publishers, take note: You can’t buy loyalty.
Hear 2.0: About Loyalty
“Loyalty, in other words, is earned. It’s not solicited. You cannot bribe audiences into being loyal. It’s a two-way street. To get loyalty you have to give it. Giving loyalty means delivering what people want the way they want [...]
Comedy Central
Watch this video. Better skewering than a shish kabob festival!
My colleague Tish Grier has joked that the fastest way to get traffic to your blog is to “flame an A-list [blogger].” That’s the troll ethic in a nutshell.
Andrew Keen — a consummate smarmy snobbish gadfly and author of “The Cult of the Amateur” [...]
The San Francisco Chronicle is working through the stages of Google Grief.
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 [...]
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