The Becker-Posner Blog: The Future of Newspapers--Posner
To me the problem stems from people thinking that newspapers are synonymous with news, or journalism, or reporting. In my experience those three things are happening less and less at newspapers. Making it illegal to link to a newspaper would kill their business faster than anything else (IMO).
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BSU students land jobs with NASA | Local News | Idaho Statesman
Very proud of my little bro.
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Lifestream for Wordpress
alright, gonna need to play with this.
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The Long Tail - Wired Blogs
nice little banter between two authors. wonder if they're both just driving book sales.
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We have two lifelines « Ztoryteller
Our two nervous systems of the Web.
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Get Off the Bus : CJR
Need to spend some time to read this but it looks very interesting.
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UBM’S TechWeb to Reorganize, Cut Jobs - B2B @ FolioMag.com
It looks like even new media isn't immune to the layoffs.
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The nine tribes of the internet
A cool slideshare of Pew's latest research. I find it interesting that the Digital Collaborators and the Desktop Veterans had the highest income are both high contributors and both have been online for the longest.
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10 Ways Journalism Schools Are Teaching Social Media
It's nice to see Journalism Schools recognize the importance of social media. Especially if they don't want to turn out unemployable students.
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Search growth helps loft Google over profit estimate | Digital Media - CNET News
""Aggregate paid clicks, which include clicks related to ads served on Google sites and the sites of our AdSense partners, increased approximately 17 percent over the first quarter of 2008 and increased approximately 3 percent over the fourth quarter of 2008," the company said. "
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Google Shows a 3% Sequential Dip In Revenues: First One Ever
"And it’s actually not as bad as analysts had been expecting. And, perhaps most importantly for Google, its paid click numbers were actually up. Aggregate paid clicks were up 3% quarter to quarter, and 17% year over year."
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Google shares rise as profit beats Street view | Reuters
"But revenue fell 3 percent from the 2008 fourth quarter. Google reported a net profit in the first quarter ended March 31 of $1.42 billion, or $4.49 cents a share, up from $1.31 billion, or $4.12 a share, a year earlier."
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Yahoo Launches Slick Desktop AIR App For Monitoring Twitter
I can only see this being useful for people not running TweetDeck. But cool to see Yahoo! getting involved.
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5 Tips for Optimizing Your Brand’s Facebook Presence
Great advice. Facebook pages will become a must have for all brands (some may argue that they already are).
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How-To: Search the Social Web - Ultimate Toolkit
A great resource for all your social media research needs.
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Who's Getting Hired in Tech? Q1 Numbers from ReadWriteHire - ReadWriteWeb
Our site ReadWriteHire covers new hires in tech and new media. Today we're publishing our aggregate numbers for the first 3 months of 2009. Who's hiring? Software and IT companies, social media and social networking companies and marketing and advertising firms.
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Web 2.0 Expo: Why social media marketing fails | Social Business | ZDNet.com
Today at Web 2.0 Expo, “Forrester reunion” panel made up of Jeremiah Owyang, Peter Kim and Charlene Li told a packed room at Moscone West how they believe social media marketing is failing. Don’t fear, however, because they also discussed how they believe it can be fixed.
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Share RSS Feeds via AIR with ShareFire - ReadWriteWeb
I may check this one out. I've never played around much with client based RSS readers but some people really like them. Now if this just synced with Google Reader that'd be awesome.
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Do We Need a New Internet? - NYTimes.com
I hear a lot of talk about a "new Internet" and there are obviously a lot of smart people working on their own versions of one but I have a hard time seeing people switching. It's not like you could just flip a switch and move everyone over. I could see a worlld where "private/safe" *Internets* charge a premium (think AOL 2.0)
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HOW TO: Create Groups for Twitter
Twitter still doesn't offer groups, but here's a list of services that provide the ability to have public and private (or a public/private hybrid) groups.
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Notation: * = Private bookmark and comment|… = Clipping [?] | … = Public highlight [?]





