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A major earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Wenchuan County in China’s southwestern Sichuan Province Monday afternoon, the State Seismological Bureau said. A smaller quake jolted Beijing within minutes. The major earthquake took place at 2.28 p.m. Its epicentre was located 31.0 degrees north latitude and 103.4 degrees [...]
Mike Caulfield offers a deconstruction of a Washington Post columnist's attack on amateurs participating in the mediasphere. [...]
Monster.com Founder Starts Social Networking Site for the Dead
Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor helped you find a job, and helped ease you into middle age. Now he wants to help you build the last web page you’ll ever need. Tributes.com is scheduled for a soft launch in June. It aims [...]
San Francisco Chronicle: Motherhood can be mother of blogging. Excerpt:
A decade ago, blogging and social networking largely were a means for teenagers to keep in touch with friends. Now, tech-savvy moms and dads use Web 2.0 and mobile tools to instantly share news about their wee ones, connect to other families and prepare [...]
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Paul Bradshaw, via seesmic.com
Paul Bradshaw posted a video asking how journos could use Seesmic. (Click to watch the video and view responses.) |
Newspaper brands like the NEW YORK Times, WASHINGTON Post, BOSTON Globe, etc. face a unique challenge in the online media age — how to value non-local readers.
I received this offer in the snail mail this week from the New York Times:
As I [...]
In the third of a series of probes of attention in the classroom and my own mind, I briefly revisit my earlier classroom episodes, in which I turned the camera on my students while they stared at their laptops, then showed them the video while [...]
Jamie Lyn Stahl at AlterNet: Our Media Have Been So Wrong for So Long. In his new book, E&P editor Greg Mitchell offers a stinging indictment of the media's complicity with Washington's war-marketing machine.
[...]LOS ANGELES -- Three of the biggest broadcasters in Britain, the BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 are in a joint venture to provide a platform to distribute video programming online. For now, it is called "Project Kangaroo."
Unlike Hulu in the United States, which is a streaming platform, [...]
Photo of the Week: This photo of tulips taken by Melissa Goodman would somewhat frankly make a nice gift for mom as I wish all the moms out there Happy Mother's Day.
These are tough, fast-changing times for newspapers, and many of them are taking severe measures to get back on track. Sometimes, it means putting the innovative online guy in charge of print too, as Bay Area News Group has done with online advertising head David [...]
Adopting a Competitive mindset
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 [...]
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When an Israeli court said Israeli media couldn't cover an investigation of Ehud Olmert, the NY Post broke the ice. |
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, [...]
