Year: 2012
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Link: How to Use the “Network Density” Formula to Measure the Health of a Community
I’m a sucker for engagement formulas, especially when they help provide a means to quantitatively track something that sounds as fluffy and qualitative as “the health of a community.” Great ideas here for community managers and related parties: How to Use the “Network Density” Formula to Measure the Health of a Community
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FAQ on how the New York Times handles comments
New York Times Public Editor Margaregt Sullivan on their workflow and editorial collaboration on the question of comments: Questions and Answers on How The Times Handles Online Comments From Readers
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Current obsessions
In no particular order… Men In Blazers, a soccer podcast by Brits of some vintage, in New York City, mostly, for ESPN’s Grantland. Funny. Roadrunner, by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers. Hay Day, an iPhone farm game. Or as we call it in my household (all members of the household, cats excluded) “the farm game” or…
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A good quick read on Product Management
Some of the basics of product management, from A List Apart, for both of you wondering what I’ve been doing for the last couple years: Product Management for the Web. Not everything applies, and there are a lot of assumptions in this about Agile and the size of the organization involved, but it’s a good overview.
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Why Italy?
On Sunday, after bearing the brunt of an excited explanation of Italy’s glorious victory over England via penalties, including a stunning Panenka from Pirlo, my own wife turned around and asked me why I was rooting for the Azzurri. This was weird, because it’s her fault. (Hey, this is a blog post about soccer. If…
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2012 Civic Media Conference takeaways, open questions, reactions, notes
It’s been three years since I last made the trek to Cambridge for what we once called KNCMIT, and although the cast of characters has changed (with little-to-no representation of 2007-8-9 Knight News Challenge winners, different faces at the MIT Media Lab, and a rebooted Knight Foundation posse) the outcome was similar. All unhappy airport…
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A future history of crowdsourced reporting
During the second or third or so year of my still-brief career in what we might as well call “the news business” for lack of a more encompassing and descriptive term, I found myself jumping up and down advocating for a tool to standardize the task of gathering data from the news audience. Crowdsourcing as…
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Channel switching
Not sure how much I have to say these days, as most of my media-thinking-and-writing happens in the office and not on this or any blog, but I’m going to make a run at switching back to WordPress from the Tumblr I’ve been barely touching. We’ll see. No promises.