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Monthly Archives: March 2008

links for 2008-03-21

The stories that never were… « Rach’s ENO Blog
Good example of transparency in journalism as well as journalism education. It’s important to talk about what went wrong or what didn’t pan out, as well as what did. Helps to demystify journalism and make it more accessible. Well done! (tags: journalism environment education blogging transparency)

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links for 2008-03-20

Open Mobile Video Coalition : About Us
“Alliance of U.S. commercial and public broadcasters committed to the development of mobile digital television. The Coalition’s current members include leading broadcast station groups operating over 420 commercial television stations.”

(tags: mobile video TV broadcast media+evolution)

CNN.com - Mobile Services
Per PEJ 08 report: “CNN Mobile, re-launched in March 2007 independent of [...]

links for 2008-03-19

Microblogging is killing my blogging « discobeta
I totally agree with this: “Generally, one line of thought often turns into a blog post. With Twitter, that one line of thought becomes a small post that speaks for itself, and it feels like old content once I release it into the Twittersphere.”
(tags: microblogging blogging processes)

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Twitter Up, Blogging Down

Yes, I’m Twittering more than I’m blogging here lately. I don’t think that’s a bad thing.

Just a few minutes ago, Jeremiah Owyang posted to Twitter:
“Is your blogging reducing due to Twitter usage? It has for Adam Stewart.”
…So I hopped over to see what Adam Stewart had to say. This part of his post rang true [...]

links for 2008-03-18

Paul Oberjuerge » Blog Archive » Tips on Keeping Your Print Journalism Job
“Stop whining. Journalism is notorious for contrary and crabby people, for second-guessers and “that’s not how we’ve done it before” grousers. 5 yrs ago you might have been overlooked as the Charming Curmudgeon. Now, you’re the Negative Nellie.”
(tags: blogging journalism tips career culture [...]

Making your home page “bloggier,” but not “a blog.”

JoniMitchell.com

A bloggier home page definitely doesn’t have to be ugly.

Right now, several of my clients are working on site redesigns and also are looking for ways to increase site traffic. One of the most basic strategies for attracting more traffic to your site is making your site more appealing to search engines. That’s why I’m [...]

links for 2008-03-17

How to find Presidential Signing Statements
“Search here on: “my constitutional authority” OR “unitary executive”. This will return about 250 documents. Most of them, from Ronald Reagan to the present are signing statements—but there are several veto messages sprinkled among them.”
(tags: government resources law leadership documents)

Zoopy | Your Social Media Playground | Share videos, photos, podcasts [...]

links for 2008-03-16

Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business
From my friend Randy Cassingham: “Hey, look at this! Only 14 years after I put it into practice, WIRED magazine’s Chris Anderson (author of The Long Tail) has fully grasped my business model: making money by giving away something of value for free.”
(tags: economics business+models business publishing marketing)

links for 2008-03-15

Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal - Video - WTVQ 36 - Lexington, Kentucky
This guy gets my vote for dumb legislator of the day. Let alone the fact that what he’s proposing is impossible — what kind of sense does it make to propose this in the KY state legislature? D’oh!
(tags: anonymity [...]

links for 2008-03-14

UK: Times publishes interactive map for survey - editorsweblog
“The UK Times has used the results of an interactive survey on its website to create a story on Brit’s spending habits, complete with the Times’ first ever Google map showing the location of survey contributors.” uses Google forms and Yahoo Pipes.
(tags: maps journalism UK newspapers geotagging)

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