Month: January 2009
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Spartans, you rock my world
I spotted a tweet today from Steve Sloan that reminded me there was some sort of awesome road trip going on, wherein San Jose State student journalists are on their way to the inauguration by way of the South, reporting on landmark events in the civil rights movement. Their reports are being run on CNN…
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flipping typical
Saving this so I don’t have to go look at Kottke and Subtraction for it next time. Type something in the box and it shows up in fonts you already have on your system. flipping typical
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Why commenting on news sites still stinks: Further notes on the commenting survey results
The most striking conclusion I’ve come to based on the results of the commenting survey that 49 online news folks answered over the last week or two was this: Commenting on news stories is still broken. Busted. Stinks. It’s a mudpit. Still. I’ve been writing about how to improve commenting on news sites for a…
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Standard templates aren’t such a bad idea | yelvington.com
Steve’s notes on what can go wrong with news site design and how to rein in the client from time to time. Standard templates aren’t such a bad idea | yelvington.com
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The community-directed reporter: Daniel Victor gears up to go mojo
From Daniel Victor comes news that he’s working on a new job description, and a new reporting beat: “If I can sell my editors on the concept, I would be the author and community manager of a new blog. My stated goal will be to have at least one originally reported story per day, usually…
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Internship opportunity: Work with CICM to help push innovation in college media
Bryan Murley announces the CICM internship program: “The pitch: How would you like to learn new media skills while having a positive impact on the college media environment? Join us for a semester of new media opportunity as the first intern for the Center for Innovation in College Media for Spring 2009.” Sounds like a…
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Commenting survey results
For a couple years now, I’ve been working with editors, reporters, and commenters on news sites taking the following hypothesis as a given: Commenters will be the most civil in the place that is the most public. For example, I expected commenters on news stories, where more people could see their words, to be more…
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The Yammer Blog – Get Your YammerFox
“This lightweight Firefox extension places a small Yammer logo in the lower right corner of your Firefox browser. When new messages arrive, YammerFox pops up a small window displaying the message. You can click the Yammer logo to display a list of the last twenty messages, reply, or post new messages.” The Yammer Blog –…
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Dealing with the elephant: Cutting ties to the legacy albatross
[Some time ago, I wrote a series of posts that attempted to address some of the revenue-related issues facing traditional news organizations and suggested some possible solutions to making incremental (and larger) changes that might help them stay profitable. For no good reason, I’m going to carry on the ill-advised, barely meaningful elephant metaphor (or…
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Building communities from Twitter posts — Matt McAlister
Interesting method — run search.twitter.com feeds into a Yahoo Pipe and route that into Pligg, plus, spit a twitterfeed with a prefix back out to the mothership. Little to no code involved, but no database pivot points at the Pligg site (like usernames, tags, dates, etc.) I think. Building communities from Twitter posts — Matt…