Month: January 2007

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Thanks for pointing out the Sentinel, Andy! And a blog post is *exactly* the place to post half-formed thoughts – here we all are carrying on the discussion. Types of online video: redux – Andy Dickinson

A community site without a community – Matt McAlister

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Pligg can now import RSS feeds – could be REALLY interesting if you let it import all your newspaper’s story and blog feeds and then let readers vote and comment on their favorites… A community site without a community – Matt McAlister

WordPress Quicktags Guide

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Instructions on adding your own Quicktags to the WordPress toolbar that runs just above the text area when writing a post. WordPress Quicktags Guide

Web newspaper blog traffic triples in Dec-study | Reuters.com

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“The number of people reading Internet blogs on the top 10 U.S. newspaper sites more than tripled in December from a year ago and accounted for a larger percentage of overall traffic to those sites, according to data released on Wednesday.” Web newspaper blog traffic triples in Dec-study | Reuters.com

Hey!Watch – Just encode

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Online video encoding while you wait. Could be very useful for editors and staffers to convert and upload video without involving them in Flash. Hey!Watch – Just encode

Journalism students need new heroes; Journalism heroes need new students

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in Media

This week’s running conversation between Mindy McAdams, Bryan Murley, Howard Owens, and Ron Curley, among many others, boiled over into the U.K. media blogosphere, and I’m finding myself alternately cited, enlightened, and humbled.Let’s start with some enlightenment from a 19-year-old journalism student at the University of Lincoln, UK: Dave Lee. Lee read Martin Stabe’s follow-up…

Newspaper blogs appear to be hitting the takeoff point, if they haven’t already

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in Media

It appears to be time for me to get back to doing some preliminary data gathering for my thesis in my spare time: Web newspaper blog traffic triples in Dec.-study (via Reuters) “Blog pages accounted for 13 percent of overall visits to newspaper sites in [December 2006], up from 4 percent a year earlier. Total…

Nucleus CMS: Pure Publishing

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A PHP/MySQL-based CMS, free and open, from the looks of it. Not sure if this is an old-school solution that Drupal or PHPNuke knock out of the water, but it looks pleasant enough at Duke City Fix. Nucleus CMS: Pure Publishing

Stranger’s Flash Links

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