If you don’t use Google Reader or Bloglines or some other feed reader, you can stop reading now.
OK, still here?
Months ago, after at least a couple years of just throwing all my feeds in Google Reader and sorting by newest, reading from the top down and marking all as read when I felt full of [...]
All about rss
When all I have left is my Fun folder, I win
March 6, 2010
Modernize your newsroom today
January 14, 2008
Many employees at news organizations have a very easy time blaming out-of-date computers, front-end print publishing systems, and Web content management systems on such faceless, amorphous entities as “Corporate,” or perhaps “The Budget.”
Nevertheless, there are plenty of free or not-completely-expensive ways you can modernize your newsroom today.
Here are 5.
Use Google Documents (or any one of [...]
If you don’t get unbundled media, you’re not selling attention*
September 30, 2007
Command-and-control, top-down, masthead mass media is dead.
Seriously.
It’s over, and the readers/users/viewers won.
And without getting all “Information wants to be free,” I’ll just say that if you don’t get what Howard** and Zac are talking about here, it’s time for you to start understanding it.
Take Howard’s advice, young journalists:
“Blogs should be a daily routine for every [...]
Meta notes: Where to find my microchunks
August 3, 2007
If you get the feeling I haven’t been writing here as much lately, you’re right.
But I’m still out here, reading everything I can get my hands on and throwing up links left and right. They’re just not always where you’re expecting them, eh?
So then, if the meager postings to Delicious you find on the right [...]
Using RSS to track the politicians you cover
February 3, 2007
Megan Taylor, an online journalism student at the University of Florida*, has been reviewing RSS feeds from newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post this week.
She points out a feature I hadn’t seen yet in the Post’s Congressional voting database: RSS feeds on every member of Congress full of their votes. (Thanks Adrian!)
Here’s [...]