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Yesterday I asked, "Are obituaries obsolete?" My point was not that people don't want to read obituaries. My point was that in this era, we should be building life stories of major figures as online reference material, not waiting until they become death stories.
So today we have a [...]
Yesterday I listened in on a Marketing Profs Seminar titled "Actionable Web Analytics: Unleash the Marketing Power of Your Web Data." During this seminar Google Analytics evangelist Avinash Kaushik gave several straight forward tips on how to better harness web analytics data.
The tip that I liked the most is [...]
I’m a little late on this one because I’m on vacation this week, and my blogging and Twittering metabolism has slowed down, but I wanted to take note of a great post that my friend and fellow mesh organizer Mike McDerment wrote the other day, entitled “7 ways [...]
Forum Communications Zac Echola said the only way to deal with comments is to get your hands dirty.
By that he means you have to interact with the public, but that doesn't necessarily mean spending large amounts of time on comment moderation. I've found by interviewing different people that beat [...]
Earlier, I saw the AP having trouble if a group of Ohio papers didn't use it. Now, Jay Rosen points us to to a Wired pickup that links to this story from the MinnPost about Minneapolis Star Tribune sending the AP the requisite two-year notice that it [...]
"The constant spectacle of thoughtful, well-researched articles by the likes of Tim Garton Ash and Polly Toynbee having a long tail of drivel and personal abuse appended to them, like those yucky strings of poo sometimes seen dangling from goldfish, is so demeaning that I wonder anyone continues to write for the paper (masochism, [...]
I am. Drop me a line if you want to get together to compare notes, hear about Maroon Ventures’ schemes for world domination or just get caffeinated …
I’ll be participating in the Optimize and Monetize panel on Friday, Sept. 12 from 2:30 to 3:45. Here’s [...]
allvoices.com/incentive
This new citizen media and community site now offers cash prizes for its most trafficked content. |
Myer has created a Twitter account called DNCjournalists [...] 
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In between dozing on the couch last night while watching Barack Obama’s speech out of one eye, I caught sight of the announcement of the Android App Store Market, Google’s answer [...]
The success of Brazilian newspapers may be a result of a growing economy that gave rise to better education and a middle class that wishes to belong to the "mainstream reading public", reports The Readership Institute (RI). Internet usage remains relatively low in the country, so [...] Tucked away in a BBC article advising (ex) customers of the bankrupt Zoom airline - UK insurance firm International Passenger Protection listed Zoom as one of the airlines excluded from its insurance against carrier failure. Others include LAB Airlines, Olympic Airlines, Alitalia, Frontier Airlines, and Airunion.
Guess I [...]
It's always fun to watch the government pretend it understands the Internet. That fatuous fiasco of e-petitions, for example, which gives every British citizen the right to create and sign petitions online, as well as the right shortly thereafter to receive an email from Number 10 saying, in essence, [...]
This morning, on NPR’s Morning Edition, host Steve Inskeep interviewed former New York mayor and Republican presidential candidate Rudy Guiliani, who has been in Denver to offer an anti-Democratic presence to media gathered there for the Democratic convention. Guiliani made the suggestion that Hillary Clinton is helping Republican candidate [...]
This morning, on NPR’s Morning Edition, host Steve Inskeep interviewed former New York mayor and Republican presidential candidate Rudy Guiliani, who has been in Denver to offer an anti-Democratic presence to media gathered there for the Democratic convention. Guiliani made the suggestion that Hillary Clinton is helping Republican candidate [...]
