Category: Ideas
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Everything that comes next
Bit of an announcement to make, although if you follow me on Twitter, the first shoe of the pair dropped last night. I’m joining Gannett Digital today, as Product Manager, Local Sites. That means I’ll be working with more than 100 newspapers and broadcast news outlets, thousands of journalists, and helping them deliver information to…
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Looser than average ends
Let’s just dig into the bucket of links I’ve been mailing myself from Tweetie, er, Twitter for the iPhone, and see what we can tie together here… There is now a “Share on Twitter” bookmarklet for your Web browser that pairs rather nicely with the recently released “Tweet” button for your website. (An aside: There should…
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My day at the3six5
Late last fall, when Daniel Honigman and Len Kendall were running around online talking about the3six5, a sort of social media experiment where a different person would write a post each day of the year 2010, I was interested. I claimed a day, choosing August 9, with the aim of taking a shot at the…
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Five ways you can keep supporting USA soccer
Congratulations to the millions of American sports fans who started paying attention to the United States men’s soccer team over the last few weeks at the World Cup! No, really, I’m not being sarcastic this time — you’ve been awesome. Tweeting about the team’s chances, the watershed draw against England, the stunning way they won…
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Be a silobuster
Remember the great print vs. online war of 1995-2005? Well, some of you are probably still fighting this war, eh? Not everyone got the news yet, but the war is over, and the silobusters won. Anyway, you’re going to think this is crazy, but lately I’ve spotted a new silo developing, over there in the…
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Philadelphia and the pace of innovation
Exactly a year ago today, I worked my last day in corporate at a newspaper company and walked out the door to three days of technical unemployment before I started my new job at a startup on a Monday. Of course, those three days of unemployment were highlighted by a Saturday spent in Philadelphia at…
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Randomer than you
In the process of making some sort of point about “random story” buttons on news sites this morning, I added one to this blog. It’s up top in the nav for now. Look for the obviously labeled link that says “Random Post.” Or just click on this thing: But let’s be honest. This isn’t a…
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Three threads tied together
I’ve been doing a bit of lightweight reporting and writing for a few other spots on the Web over the last two weeks, and the stories all pull together very nicely, like so: First, over at the official Publish2 Blog, I posted a few notes on Evolving Platforms for Collaboration. You’ll find five examples there of…
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When all I have left is my Fun folder, I win
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…