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LAist: LAist Editor Tony Pierce Moves on to LA Times — Mainstream Media Will Never Be the Same
“Whirlwind here at LAist. Early this morning our Editor told the staff via email that he would soon be accepting a new job at the LA Times running all of their blogs (of which there are about 25, currently) and he would be starting in just a few weeks.” (tags: citizen+journalism blogs newspapers career mainstream+media California tidbits+fodder)

Center for Citizen Media: Blog » Blog Archive » On Klein’s Errors, Time’s Semi-Stonewall and the Net’s Power
“This is not just about a columnist’s mistakes. Time itself has compounded the problem, demonstrating contempt for its audience. It’s also a testament to the power of the Net to surface MSM wrongdoing.” (tags: journalism accuracy accountability ethics problems criticism credibility tidbits+fodder)

Dopp Juice
“The blogosphere is a cloud, not a box. If you have something to offer, start sharing it. Some people will pay attention while others won’t. What matters is that you’re giving yourself a voice, and you’re joining a network of other voices.” (tags: blogging motivation)

The Ethical Blogger: Social Networking for the Socially Exclusive
“Apply to the Diamond Lounge and A Small World. But be warned, the barriers to entry are high. And as with many social networking sites, members find much to complain about. What was it Groucho Marx said about membership in these types of clubs?” (tags: social+networks society human+nature economics)

Ajax Blog » NASA Relaunches 5.0 with Prototype and Script.aculo.us
“NASA has relaunched their site tonight as NASA 5.0, in celebration of their 50th anniversary next year. It is the beginning of many web 2.0 features to come for NASA.” (tags: government web2.0 design)

Dont Confuse Us - A Digital Marketing Resource: Findings and Follow up on Twitter
“Lesson Learned: We initially used twitter as another medium to push news and marketing items, we found that the community demanded more interaction. Our solution was to make sure that we would answer back when pinged on twitter” (tags: microblogging marketing learning relationship+building business)

Front Range Bloggers wiki
Wiki I just launched to complement the Front Range Bloggers group I organize on Meetup.com (tags: wikis blogs blogging tools)

SharedCopy
UPDATE: There is a public version of this service, see the comments to this post. “Simply click on the bookmark & start using SharedCopy! You choose who to reveal the copy’s link to, we’ll never publish the link anywhere on the website.” — Except that when someone posted this on my blog, it showed up in my comment moderation queue.” (tags: sharing privacy web2.0 services problems)

Plagiarize Mashable Stories and Make Money with Associated Content
“While seeing Mashable stories re-printed word-for-word on splogs is nothing new, the source here was somewhat surprising: Associated Content. The company has raised $10 million in funding,” (tags: content-rights law nefarious business problems)

Coke Is Holding Off on Sipping Facebooks Beacon - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
“Coca-Cola has decided not to use Beacon for now, according to Carol Kruse, Coke’s vice president of global interactive marketing (tags: advertising branding privacy business social+media problems)

Learn Freelance Writing and Blogging at ChrisBlogging.com
“The bad thing about Associated Content is that you have to write blocks of articles for it to be worth your time. That can take an hour or so. With my current workload, taking an hour out of my day to write these articles is not worth my time.” (tags: writing business economics)

Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » Wordpress footer follies
“Here were the gory details in my case. No doubt others will differ. I don’t have a clear sense of the starting point for the exploit — no doubt some little chink in the Wordpress armor that I can only hope is no longer open in the current version.” (tags: Wordpress spam hackers problems)

Pipes: Rewire the web
I still need to check this out: “Yahoo Pipes: Aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. Like Unix pipes, simple commands can be combined together to create output that meets your needs.” I need to investigate this tool.” (tags: feeds mashup tools web2.0)

Susan Mernit’s Blog: Women and Tech: Earn vs. Have
“Why do women continually feel they have to earn a place in the world? Why don’t more women recognize that they have a place, and the challenge is just to keep it, or to expand what you have? Is this a scarcity thing?” (tags: gender generations career business society problems)