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Newsrooms hemorrhage more jobs than ever

April 14, 2008 – 10:36 am

Further to my earlier point that preparing today’s j-school students (undergrad and grad) mainly to work within mainstream news orgs does them an increasingly grave disservice, Rick Edmonds noted on Poynter.org today:
2,400 Newsroom Jobs Lost: Biggest Dip in 30 Years
WASHINGTON — After years of mildly reassuring numbers tracking the size of newspaper newsroom staffs, the [...]

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New J-Skills: What to Measure?

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 [...]

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How to make Furl better (so I’d start using it more again)

December 26, 2007 – 4:23 pm

Furl, I love ya, but…

First, the good news: I love Furl. I really do. I have for several years. It’s long been one of my favorite social bookmarking tools because it includes several features beyond basic item tagging and descriptions:

Archiving: Furl saves a complete copy (or at least, it attempts to, and lets you know [...]

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Social Media Up, Porn Down? Hmmmmm….

December 18, 2007 – 4:57 pm

I was just watching the first episode of Buzzlogic Vino Diaries, a pretty good vidcast where people get together in a wine bar to talk about social media. Just my speed on both counts!
Here, Buzzlogic’s Valerie Combs talks with Bill Tancer of Hitwise about several intriguing online-media topics — over a fine glass of tempranillo. [...]

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Feed overload? Ditch the guilt, embrace serendipity

November 14, 2007 – 9:49 am

Here’s what my feed reader looks like right now.

I’ve lost track of how many RSS feeds I subscribe to in my feed reader — somewhere between 100 and 200, I’m guessing. But that doesn’t matter, because despite the volume it’s surprisingly manageable and rewarding. The secret, I’ve found, is to let go of any sense [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Feeds (RSS), Microblogging, blogs, conversational media, emotions, networking, productivity, psychology | Comments (10)

Feeds: Getting Pretty Mainstream

August 29, 2007 – 11:04 am

David Chief, via Flickr (CC license)

How many people use feeds? Probably a whole lot more than you think.

In my Aug. 21 post, It’s not about your site anymore, I talked about how web sites are becoming less important for online content distribution as RSS feeds (with their many uses) are enjoying increasingly mainstream usage.
Basically, the [...]

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