First, an announcement from the Department of Holiday Offerings: Happy Thanksgiving to you, you U.S.-living internet reader. For you other-country folk, well, no turkey.
Yesterday Flickr announced Flickr Places — new indexes for what looks like just about every place / city / town / state / province / country (but not neighborhood, yet — […]
Ran across a couple fun quizzes today: “How many HTML elements can you name in 5 minutes?” and “How Many CSS Properties Can You Name in 7 Minutes?” (also on that site is the Booze Test, which sports the best online quiz interface I have ever ever seen. Must steal.)
Anyway, so I didn’t do as […]
First off I’m giving a shout-out to Foamee, the site that helps you keep track of beers that you owe people. It’s not grand, it’s not big, it’s not going to change the world — it’s just small and it’s fun.
There are two sites worth thinking about that do local and do small well: SignalMap […]
These are the links from my reading list that got the most clicks in October (along with any notes I wrote on the link, or sometimes a quote from the linked article).
Nine Steps to a Successful Online Community (whitepaper): “Social media is a powerful way to grow and engage your audience, but it’s even […]
Stumbled on this at Peter Van Dijck’s weblog
Sites that put “community” in a separate tab most likely think of community as an add-on to their business, not as core to their business.
I’ve seen it countless times: Reporter wants to help out online. Reporter gets the okay to start blogging. Reporter blogs for a few weeks. Without any comments, or any idea that anybody’s really reading, reporter quits the blog.
Or, there’s video. Or audio. Reporter shoots video, hands it off to online team. Neither online team or […]
Okay, I know September was a pretty dead month, and that’s what these link-posts are for: to maintain some life on this blog until the next post strikes me.
These are the links from my reading list that got the most clicks in September (along with any notes I wrote on the link, or […]
Snark aside, my employer the Post is up for the General Excellence (medium site), Breaking News and something else relating to our business columnist Al Lewis. That’s terrific, and it comes from the work of our team and Al Lewis. On another Al Lewis-related note, he wrote an excellent and semi-snarky column about leadership […]
These are the links from my reading list that got the most clicks in August (along with any notes I wrote on the link, or sometimes a quote from the linked article).
Topix is not necessarily your friend: “Publishers get quite worked up about Google and Yahoo “stealing” their news, but for the most part, and […]
Howard Owens has a solid post about five attributes necessary for newspapers to continually cope with the changing information landscape. Number four is my favorite:
Fourth, measuring success won’t be a matter of dollars and sense only. I think Hagel is right on this point: We need to develop metrics that help us gauge our ability […]