January 4, 2010 – 3:18 pm
I’ve been using the document-sharing service Scribd to embed documents in posts for various projects. but sometimes the “fullscreen” feature doesn’t work with the embedded document. I’m trying to troubleshoot this. So as a test I’m embedded a Scribd document here, to see if fullscreen works:
1 5 2010 Concurrent Meeting of the Oakland Redevelopment [...]
October 8, 2009 – 10:55 am
I have come to loathe e-mail. Well, at least for coordination (like setting meetings) or collaboration (like working together on projects) or tasks (like answering people’s questions) or ongoing conversations (like discussion groups). I quickly get overwhelmed by all those separate messages, each of which requires a surprising amount of thought to place it in [...]
By Amy Gahran
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August 12, 2009 – 5:06 pm
Mark Cuban: This is your media on crack. Any questions?
Image by Getty Images via Daylife
The apparent crack epidemic sweeping the executive suites of media organizations across the U.S. has claimed another victim.
Mark Cuban loves the news business. Over the years he’s done and said some smart things in media. But on his blog a few [...]
April 21, 2009 – 11:32 am
The way many newspapers count print vs. online readers is like comparing apples and oranges. (Image by telex via Flickr)
Newspaper publishers and advertising managers routinely toss around print and online readership numbers — but sometimes in ways that don’t make sense, and that might even miss opportunities to build revenue, business, and community.
Yesterday Dan Thornton, [...]
April 24, 2008 – 10:53 am
Brymo, via Flickr (CC license)
Talk is a good start, and it need not be cheap, but by itself it generally doesn’t get much done.
Earlier today Nokia’s Charlie Schick posted a thoughtful comment about how Nokia and its current and would-be customers might, through talking openly together, improve the situation in the high-end US phone market. [...]
By Amy Gahran
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April 10, 2008 – 10:02 am
Berbercarpet, via Flickr (CC license)
Journalism sudents need the right tools — and skills — for the kinds of careers and opportunities they’re really going to be making for themselves.
Picking up on my post yesterday, Univ. of Florida journalism professor Mindy McAdams challenged me (and her other readers) to translate my quick list of what j-schools [...]
By Amy Gahran
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January 24, 2008 – 2:22 pm
My Mediafly profile currently contains these news headline podcasts.
Yesterday I offered some tips about making news podcasts smart. Today, Contentious reader Carson commented, “You should create a public profile on Mediafly.com to allow people easy access to those feeds. Or, take their public RSS aggregated feed and put it on your blog, then people just [...]
November 11, 2007 – 2:01 pm
Lijit as a “me collector” — see it in action in my sidebar.
Yesterday I finally got around to implementing the Lijit search widget on this blog. I didn’t realize until I started playing around with the widget settings that this cool little tool actually goes a long way toward being the kind of “me collector” [...]