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links for 2008-05-10

May 10, 2008 – 9:37 am

Intimate Teen Photo Stolen By Cell Phone Store Manager | The News is NowPublic.com
Be careful what data you leave on your cell phone: “A student from Kennesaw State University, Britney Lewin, said the manager of a cell phone store went through her mobile phone and sent an intimate picture from her phone to his.”
(tags: privacy [...]

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links for 2008-05-09

May 9, 2008 – 9:38 am

Contact Manager, Web Based CRM, Address Book for Small Business: Highrise
CRM tool recommended by several colleagues, but also heard about it as a crowdsourcing coordination tool. Hmmm, I’ll have to check it out
(tags: services productivity management)

The Future of Newspapers. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos
“People ask me how I edit the blogs at [...]

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links for 2008-05-08

May 8, 2008 – 9:35 am

Ning Blog : Blog Archive - Landing a Job in Social Media
Good job-hunting resource for a growing field. (Thanks to Cathy Dold for the tip)
(tags: career social+media social+networks resources tidbits+fodder)

Personal Democracy Forum – Come Together, Now? The World Live Web and Politics
“As much as I enjoy shooting virtual spitballs from the back of the digital [...]

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links for 2008-05-07

May 7, 2008 – 9:34 am

Dopp Juice » Blog Archive » Engage.com is neither bi-phobic nor lazy. (They’re just really busy and use slow servers.)
Why can’t I be bisexual on your site? “That was a database decision. We allow you to be straight or gay, but bisexuality requires searching the entire database, and that’s a big load on the servers.” [...]

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links for 2008-05-06

May 6, 2008 – 9:33 am

Twitter Can Be Liberated - Here’s How
“Several popular bloggers have complained that it’s time to ditch Twitter and move to a decentralized version of the service that won’t go down every time usage spikes. one aspect of Twitter - it’s openness - could also be its Achilles heel.”
(tags: twitter services social+media media+evolution infrastructure change disagreement)

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links for 2008-05-05

May 5, 2008 – 9:36 am

Skribit: Blog Topic Suggestion Application
“Skribit is a user-generated content suggestion application for blogs. Effortlessly assemble what your readers really want to hear.”
(tags: blogging blogs community crowdsourcing ideas services widgets writing)

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links for 2008-05-04

May 4, 2008 – 9:33 am

Nielsen Online Service to Track Computer, Mobile Internet Users
“Nielsen Online has unveiled a new syndicated Internet measurement tool, TotalWeb, that will track both Internet and mobile use. Stats on the unduplicated, unique audience for more than 200 Internet sites across computer and mobile platforms.”
(tags: mobile statistics business business+models media advertising services tidbits+fodder)

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links for 2008-05-03

May 3, 2008 – 9:35 am

GovTrack.us: Tracking the U.S. Congress
1-person operation — govt. data resource — info and analysis. Recommended by Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation.
(tags: government databases datacasting transparency resources services)

Jtm-sv - Media Giraffe
Wiki for NewsTools 2008 session notes
(tags: conferences events media journalism wiki)

Your Media Consortium Community Network
Apparently this group is having a conference in CO next week.
(tags: [...]

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links for 2008-05-02

May 2, 2008 – 9:36 am

A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
Mike Williams of KU just showed this to me, way cool!
(tags: visual+communication visualization data tools resources)

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links for 2008-04-30

April 30, 2008 – 9:35 am

GreylockNews.COM: Upstate New York weekly editor offers opportunity
“When big-media Cassandras come to our conventions and prognosticate about the future of journalism being interactive & hyperlocal, we just grin because that’s what we’ve been doing. We’re doing more online, but the key thing is that people are engaged.”
(tags: local hyperlocal journalism community conversational+media newspapers print career [...]

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