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City wi-fi put to the test, Future Tense: August 8, 2007
“Rescuers and law enforcement officersneeded street maps, ongoing traffic info and a way to monitor the site. Minneapolis info officer says this is not how she would choose to test the system’s effectiveness, but is pleased with how it worked out.” (tags: wifi government disaster communication+networks)

MarketingSherpa: How to Calculate a Blog’s Reach & Influence — More Complex Than You Think
“How many readers do you have?” I asked. Turns out that was the *wrong* question. Paul said that if you’re considering sponsoring an independent blogger, determining their reach requires at least six separate calculations:” (tags: blogs audience community influence metrics advertising)

Google Offers Easy Embed Code for Maps
“Placing an interactive Google Map on your personal website or blog will be as simple as adding any other widget to a site, as Google reportedly states that it will be as simple as posting a YouTube widget.” (tags: tools syndication maps interactive)

Count inbound links: backlinks wordpress plugin
“I was looking for a plugin that could display the number of inbound links to my blog, but I only found plugins that used Technorati backlinks. Since I wanted to count all links and not only links from blogs, I wrote this plugin.” (tags: links blogs statistics metrics)

WikiScanner Reveals Anonymous Wikipedia Editors - Lost Remote TV Blog
“This is a journalist’s dream come true! You can now discover which organizations (or at least their IP address) have added or edited entries on Wikipedia using the WikiScanner.” (tags: wikis transparency tools accountability journalism citizen+journalism tidbits+fodder)

Hearst-Argyle Goes Back to School - 8/15/2007 6:06:00 PM - Broadcasting & Cable
“Highschoolplaybook.com: schedules, scores, statistics and weather. 10 sports to 3 screens: local TV, broadband and mobile. Contributed and pro video. Hearst is training 60 students to be “one-man bands,” shoot irreverent HD video from sidelines.” (tags: sports local hyperlocal video citizen+journalism generations multimedia business advertising tidbits+fodder)

Search Engine Journal
“Data from a recently concluded study of the mobile media authority, M:Metrics shows that there are around 12.3 million American and European mobile users who access social networking sites through their mobile phones.” (tags: social+networks mobile social+media research statistics US Europe tidbits+fodder)

Ajax Blog » TwitKu: Single Interface For Twitter And Jaiku
“The site brings your Twitter and Jaiku accounts onto one screen and adds a posting interface that allows you to post just to one of the services, or to both.” (tags: social+networks social+media liveblogging microblogging tools)

» Tips For Handling Multiple Projects
“Finish them: Important to find the point when they’re actually finished. When they can’t come to an end, because your client doesn’t want to, decisions take ages or the client changes his mind every week, things get painful.” (tags: productivity management tips)

Ethan Zuckerman» Anonymous Blogging - updated!
“New version of my guide to Anonymous Blogging with Wordpress and Tor. This guide is one of several we’re trying to produce as part of the Global Voices Advocacy project.” (tags: blogging security anonymity world tutorial tools)

the Constant Observer: Karp and Co. launch social networking for journalists and those who love them
“Publish2 a new social network for journalists– “independent “news bloggers,” “citizen” journalists, students, i.e. ALL journalists” More than doing anything for “social news” I’m hoping that it will lead to better networking.”(tags: tidbits+fodder social+networks journalism networking social+media)

Techdirt: Why Full Text Feeds Actually Increase Page Views (The Freakonomics Explanation)
“By making it easier for anyone to read our content, the more likely they are to recommend it. Much greater adoption than limiting what we give to our readers and begging them to come to our site if they want to read more than a sentence or two.” (tags: feeds content+strategy community audience traffic business tidbits+fodder)

Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: New Media Meets Campus Media
“Journalism education is lagging behind industry in embracing the new media technologies that students will need to be competitive in the work place, according to a paper presented Friday.” (tags: education journalism problems tidbits+fodder technology skills research)

Susan Mernit’s Blog: User-generated conferences–the next steps take root
“Conferences–just like media companies–are being nibbled at by the grassroots, the user base, the audience. I am asking myself if these UGC conferences also have higher % of female organizers–and speakers–and the answer is definitely yes.” (tags: events unconferences women gender trends media media+evolution)

Flow vs. Structure: Escaping From the Document & Directory Jungle | Zoli’s Blog
“On the web: a document is no longer a file of a specific type, generated by a specific application: it’s a logical unit, defined by context, which weaves together content created by several applications.” (tags: collaboration arranging+ideas wikis tools document+management analysis AmyGahran)