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Part of the job: “Oversee the gathering and organisation of the user-generated content submitted to the Herald Group’s series of community websites. The group currently has 24 ultra-local websites up and running, 12 more will be launched next Monday.”
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By predilection, I’m mostly a “snacker” — albeit a voracious one, and I devour some topics wholesale. But I’ve played all these other roles in various projects.
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“Subject matter experts who dive through mountains of digital info and distill it down to its most relevant, essential parts. Digital Curators are the future of online content. Brands, media companies & dedicated individuals can all become curators.”
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“Some of our favorite Boulder haunts that offer WiFi access have begun to restrict sending email via Outlook or Mac Mail, essentially blocking SMTP ports. Seems some jerk — or series of jerks — decided to use these public WiFi points to send spam.”
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Maybe it’s not that discussions are “uncivil”–maybe it’s just that there are so many people who want to have discussions about so many things that gets the experts and others all jumpy and nervous about what’s happening in online conversation.”"
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“Perugia Journalism Festival session “24/7 The hows and whys of rolling news” had something of a different focus – the role of cable news channels as suporting a national identity and the difficulty of making this model financially sustainable.”
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“Leaderboard list, which tracks the most frequently cited sources on Techmeme, Official Google Blog came in at #30, Microsoft’s press site #33, and Business Wire #56. That doesn’t mean journalists don’t have a place in the ecosystem of sources.”
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Poynter has teamed with BlogNetNews to create the Poynter Blog network.
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Lisa Williams has started a new series: News is code, code is news” about the merger of journalism and high tech. 1st post is a video.
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STeve OUting’s right — sociologists must be having a field day with youtube.
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New upgrades to Google Maps
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NYT and Google partnered to provide a NYT layer in Google Earth allowing you to track articles geographically. You can now browse NYT news based on geography. Has the NYT become hyperlocal, even though the content may not have that perspective?