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I've attended a few conferences and it appears to me that most folks in journalism hate advertising. Maybe that comes from seeing the last eight inches of their story end up on the composing room floor to make room for another two column by four-inch ad or [...]
I love Friendfeed. However, I am far more enthusiastic about the platform's robust RSS and search capabilities than its current value proposition as a universal social aggregator. I find it generates too much noise at times, but when you tap its search/RSS tools you have a killer app.
As [...]
It's almost funny, but then again, are they serious or poking fun at the inanity of press releases? Another log on the fire of the PR Spam bruhaha come inadvertantly (?) from Stage Two consulting, which seems at face value, to be an actual recommendation about how to do it [...]
The debate over whether Twitter has become so important a form of communication that it should be standardized — and thereby removed in some sense from the company that created it — has been going on for awhile now, and recently reared its head again on the Gillmor Gang, [...]
Brian Solis's guest-column at TechCrunch on social media press releases and the evolution of the dreaded press release.
[...]I agreed to help judge the competition for Second Life and the Public Good: A Community Challenge gives real rewards. I need to say no to all offers for the rest of the summer, so I can concentrate on the social media classroom/collaboratory, but I couldn’t say no [...]
I was at my 25th High School reunion last night at Polytechnic School. I always knew that place was special, filled with wicked smart people and amazing faculty. I was lucky to have gone there. Seeing so many old friends, swapping stories of glories [...]
Breakfast is by far my favorite meal of the day as it acts as the foundation of your day. A few weeks ago Lijit Networks hosted a breakfast the morning after TECH cocktail DC 2. It at Busboys & Poets in Washington, D.C. and was a [...]
by Josh Bernoff
This week we'll look at a group that gets less attention online, seniors. (If you're new to this weekly data chart or the Social Technographics Profile, check out the previous weekly data charts.) This chart is from Chapter 3 of Groundswell.
San Jose Mercury News: Facebook may lift its 5,000 friends limit. Excerpt:
Tech bloggers Mark Cuban, Robert Scoble and Jason Calacanis are among the tiny portion of Facebook users who say they've hit the 5,000-pals wall and aren't happy about it. But lifting the limit would put Facebook at risk of becoming more like [...]
Ok, here’s an unusual way to use multimedia in your newsroom. Recently my newspaper The Spokesman-Review, signed a deal with Los Angeles-based Mapleton to produce hourly radio newscasts. These two-minute long newscasts are now being broadcast on a local news talk radio station as well as [...]
One of the main goals of online information design is to present content in a way that allows users/readers to find what they want. Tagging, the digital extension of newspaper sections, is one technique used on just about every modern news website as a way to help users browse or [...]
Hey, folks like the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America are pushing a bill to get real educational benefits to the troops. Barack's behind this, and Bush/McCain's against.
The real bill, the "Webb/Hagel" bill, covers the cost of a four-year public school college education anywhere in the country.
It includes National [...]
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Elliott Ng 01:38 PM May 07, 2008 from web in reply to stoweboyd
I had a minor headache with the Clear security folks tonight at IAD (Dulles, near DC). I arrived at about 8:45pm, checked in, and proceeded to the Clear security line -- where I have paid money, filled forms, done biometric profiling -- with the expectation that I would rapidly move [...]
There seems to be a mini-bitchmeme brewing, sparked by VC blogger Fred Wilson’s recent post about Disqus, which is the commenting system that I use on this blog and many others use as well. Why Fred decided to write about Disqus at this point I don’t know — maybe [...]
