January 2010
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Video: David Karp on Tumblr’s beginnings and next... →
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The Vikings Prayer
Our Favre-ther who art in Mississippi hallowed be thy name. Thy bowl will come, it will be won, in Miami as it is in the Dome. Give us this Sunday, our weekly win. Give us touchdown passes, but do not let others pass against us. Lead us not into frustration, but deliver us to the Super Bowl. For thine is the MVP, the best of the NFC, and the glory of the Purple People Eaters now and forever, Amen.
Nonprofit journalism startups’ executive pay: How... →
Bay Area News Project’s CEO Lisa Frazier has a $400,000 salary, which reminds me of the news and criticisms about Paul Steiger getting $570,000 to run ProPublica. This begs the question: how much is…
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SOCIAL MEDIA: Compiling my tips
A great round-up of resources here for anyone just starting out in social media, or someone more experienced.
sreetips:
Sree Sreenivasan Columbia Journalism School Dean of Student Affairs Contributing editor, DNAinfo.com: http://dnainfo.com Twitter: @sreenet | http://twitter.com/sreenet/favorites Site: http://Sree.net | http://SreeTips.com Blog: http://sreetips.tumblr.com E-mail: sree@sree.net...
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Pretty remarkable footage of Anderson Cooper carrying a bleeding kid to safety in Haiti.
Why the Tablet won’t save the print industry →
Over the course of the last several weeks, I have seen countless articles calling Apple’s Tablet the “savior” of journalism and similar prophetic names. However, I am still somewhat skeptical that…
Create your own newspaper (err aggregator) using... →
After two years, NewsCred relaunched its website today to give users the ability to create their own customized newspaper – without the paper.
Basically, the site allows users to create their own…
doughamlin asked: How's New York going? Are you happy you decided on graduate school? I thought about it but in the end I just didn't have enough faith in a school to teach me journalism. Actually I didn't have enough faith in journalism to be a fulfilling future for me. Now I'm a flack. But I'm sure you weighed all that before diving in. Was it the right choice?
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Why Facebook’s Privacy Changes are Detrimental to... →
Excerpt from a Mashable post that ran today: // Facebook news application source code open to college news sites
Advanced Facebook for Journalists
10 ways universities use social media…
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Why are newspapers investing in breaking news for... →
The LATimes is creating a new section called LATExtra for late breaking news. Which begs the question: How new will the breaking news be? It seems it will still be quite old by the time it is on the stands. No?
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Mashable is not for sale.
mashable:
While commenting on speculation isn’t something I’ve done in the past, I think it would be nice to keep our community in the loop as much as we can on recent Mashable-related rumors. And with our writers on the ground at CES this week, I think it’s especially important to keep our focus on the real news.
We’re very open to partnerships and always talk with those that get in touch....
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Mashable.com website redesign: What do you think? →
Mashable.com, the social media guide that I often write for, has released a redesign of its site today. The new design features a tweaked header with new navigation that is categorized in way that…
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Monday Note's 2010 Media Watch List →
One of my favorite blogs, Monday Note, has a great media watch list that includes commentary on:
Paywalls
Dailies shifting to periodicals
Advertising moving to match up with time spent
Audience Measurement
User-generated content and the blogosphere
And of course, the Tablet
The Tech Watch List is worth a look too, and includes Facebook becoming the Internet.
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Not waiting for the reader, customer to come to... →
I was reading this post about retailers using social media to reach our to customers and it reminded me of how journalism has transformed from waiting for the audience to come to the content to reaching out to the audience directly and bringing the content to them.
“If the news is important enough, it will find me.” This is something that is happening in retail and other industries...
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Anything that is useful to both dissidents in Iran and Martha Stewart has a lot...
– Clay Shirky
Why Twitter Will Endure - NYTimes.com
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