Archive for August, 2007

BoingBoing says they’re filing a FOIA

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

If I had any numbers on how many bloggers out there have filed a FOIA, well, that would make this post more interesting. No matter. The folk at the popular Boing Boing say they’re doing the FOIA-dance on behalf of some detained-by-TSA air-travelers. This will very likely make FOIA’s popular in the a-list blog crowd, […]

Member of SPJ? Send ‘the prez’ your blog

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Christine Tatum, president of Society for Professional Journalists (and a co-worker of mine), is posting links to all SPJ member blogs on her blog. If you are, and you do, send her the link.
Now, I don’t think the current state of blogroll-style links is particularly useful (which is why I haven’t started mine yet). Sure, […]

Some useful links for online newspapers from the Web Design Update list

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Laura Carlson is a familiar name in my inbox. I’ve been reading the Web Design Update for at least five years, and Laura’s the one that puts that email together every week. She works for the Information Technology Systems and Services at University of Minnesota Duluth. The email keeps me up with what’s going on […]

Obligatory “Hey look at us we’re fancy” post

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

The Bivings Report ranked the top ten newspaper web sites in the United States. The Denver Post’s site (which I work hard on most every day) came in at number five. Five! Only the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today and Houston Chronicle ranked higher. Check out what they wrote (I added links to […]

July’s most-popular posts: Best quotes, blog networks, recognize employees, digital identity management, internship tips

Monday, August 13th, 2007

These are the links from my reading list that got the most clicks in July (along with any notes I wrote on the link, or sometimes a quote from the linked article).

Best. Journalism Quotes. Ever.
Should Newspapers Become Local Blog Networks?: “What’s becoming clear is that blogs are now the organizing principle for newspapers’ original online […]

How to fight Google’s article commenting plan

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Google announced this week it would allow people mentioned in news articles to address misquotes and add information to those articles. I wouldn’t call this a shot across the bow of newspapers, because Google’s been firing at local papers for a while. This would probably affect mid- and large-market newspapers the most (according to […]

Cool Job: This American Life web manager

Monday, August 6th, 2007

I added a category to JoeThink just now, “Cool Jobs,” spurred by this posting from www.ThisAmericanLife.org. It’s not an awesome gig, but they tell great stories and you can work it from home.

We’re looking for someone to run ThisAmericanLife.org along with other aspects of our web presence, including our MySpace and Facebook profiles. It’s […]

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