Archive for December, 2006

Tip: For you online publishers who don’t know how to handle web feeds

Friday, December 15th, 2006

If you have web feeds on your site and you don’t use <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"... anywhere on your site, you’re missing out on a lot of subscribers.
Each feed you publish ought to have its own “link” tag because it makes it easier for folks to find your feeds.
This code belongs in the head of your […]

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I like this what-if: The new news beats

Monday, December 11th, 2006

All-about-the-words journalism-blog Gangrey sparked a thread with its recent post, New Rules:

If you got to blow up your newspaper, effectively immediately, meaning even the potential elimination of the traditional, nuts-and-bolts beats – cops, city hall, school board – and if you then got to rethink completely how we harvest stories …
What would the “beats” be?
Great […]

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