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Post a day 2011: Thank you
Thank you, WordPress, for challenging bloggers to post at least once a day through 2011, and for launching your Daily Post blog. Although I’m running four days late, I accept your challenge and aim to...
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What should publishers do about embedded content?
Embedly is an incredible technology that converts links into embedded content. The screenshot above shows how Embedly’s Parrotfish plugin (for Safari, Chrome and Firefox) works with Twitter.com to...
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I love Mediagazer, and find my own Paper.li-powered The J Daily interesting, there are quite a few blogs that provide regular posts that round up news about news and journalism. Here are some for you...
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Do you find it harder to link in a CMS than a blog?
The difficulty of adding links in a content management system is one excuse Amy Gahran (@agahran) hears from news organizations for not linking. Our content management system makes it difficult or...
View ArticleA conversation outside the walled garden
Many journalists strive to spark conversation. Of course, those conversations happen outside of your web site. If you wrote only for a newspaper, would you want people only to discuss issues as they...
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What stats from a 4-day-old blog say about you
This blog was revived five days ago, and I’m horrible obsessed with its stats, so here is what I’ve learned by looking at the first four days of data from Google Analytics, Twitter and Facebook. You...
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Prepare before you live-tweet from an event like #TEDx
John Jolliffe and Kary Mullis by TEDxOrangeCoast licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Preparation is key for live events. Organizers plan ahead. Speakers and performers rehearse. If you plan to use Twitter...
View ArticleIt’s not a resolution, more inspiration and perspiration
I’ve decided to write at least one blog post every day. As I ramp up the frequency, you can expect the quality of the posts to decrease a bit. In a rather selfish move, this blog is becoming a more...
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Meet my robot editor, Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway and Carlos Gutierrez aboard Hemingway’s boat Pilar , 1934. (public domain) If you’re looking for a decent, cheap editor, allow me to introduce you to Hemingway. He started helping me...
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