September 2011
9 posts
“So what does innovation consist of? For a start, it involves rethinking not just...”
– Love it. Hate the focus on apps these days.
Memo to media: A Facebook app is not innovation — Tech News and Analysis
“Pumping Facebook full of links to your site so you can benefit from a bump in...”
– Great piece. There must be a middle ground between the two. How do we make our sites social without making them meaningless?
With ‘frictionless sharing,’ Facebook and news orgs push boundaries of online privacy | Poynter.
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A possible reason why your page engagement has... →
I may have figured it out. I think.
“Match them with aspects of yourself, your products, and your services. But never...”
– OMG. This is what I was talking about at #ONA11
Why People Don’t Want the “Real” You | Copyblogger
“We need good journalism so that we can make important decisions as a society...”
– Here’s why news sites “over aggregate”… | ZDNet
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Post-#ONA11 thoughts
I wanted to take a minute to think about the talks I had and the sessions I attended at ONA11. Random and not necessarily journalism-related topics.
Tech is not everything
I’ve had the privilege and honor to be a part of the weekly phenomenon that is #wjchat. And we were lucky enough to get a session at this year’s conference. Thanks to @webjournalist, we had some awesome temporary...
“So rather than tracking your number of followers or fans, keep an eye on how...”
– Gallup social media poll shows retweets mean more than followers | Knight Digital Media Center
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Write Hard, Die Free {musings}
This pin.
When I was a cub reporter at the Kansas City Star, I was gifted one of these by an editor.
I came across it again today and I stopped.
I wrote about 5-6 stories on half of a suburban/rural county north of Kansas City every day as part of my “fellowship.”
I smoked too many cigarettes, stayed up too late and lived off sauteed spinach and spaghetti. Sometimes ramen. I...
