December 2, 2009 – 4:18 pm
C’mon, journo types, be honest. Which of these resources is REALLY your go-to, most relevant and current style guide?
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Apparently there are NO SINGLE PEOPLE in the states of MT, WY, ND, and SD.*
*Livestock statistics not included
Seriously, this interactive singles map is fun. I just wish there was a poly version!
Thanks to Allan Jenkins for the pointer.
On Twitter, hashtags are a powerful, simple tool for tracking topics, communities, live events, or breaking news. They make you findable, and they allow on-the-fly collaboration. When you insert one of these short character-string tags beginning with #, you make it easy for Twitter users who don’t already follow you (plus anyone searching Twitter) [...]
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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Jack Vinson
Knowledge management guru Jack Vinson had a lot of advice for scattered content creators like me.
In response to my post yesterday, I want one place for all my content, knowledge management guru and very cool guy Jack Vinson (who I finally got to meet at BlogHer) posted an elaborate list of almost-options that [...]
April 18, 2007 – 11:01 am
Minnesota Public Radio got a lot of things about online community right with this "Idea Generator" project.
As I mentioned yesterday, tomorrow I’m giving a session about online political coverage called "Tools of Engagement: It’s a Conversation, Stupid!"
I’ve been collecting a lot of "string" for this talk, and I won’t pretend I have it thoroughly [...]
January 18, 2007 – 7:14 pm
Forgive me from getting geeky for a moment — but oh, this is sweet…
Check out the Nokia 93i, which was featured at the Consumer Electronics Show last week. I heard about it this morning on Slashdot Review, and it had me drooling…
…READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE at my other blog on citizen journalism, [...]
January 12, 2007 – 5:21 pm
One way to cut e-mail overload: Here’s what it looks like when you read a discussion list on the web, rather than by e-mail. (Click to enlarge)
For more than a decade, e-mail discussion lists have been a mainstay of conversational media — and I think they’re likely to continue to remain popular. E-mail is approachable [...]
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