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Go ahead: Ask me a question
Experimenting with something called Formspring , which is basically a way of automating a question-and-answer post, and will also (if I understand it correctly) cross-post the responses to a Tumblr blog, Facebook, Twitter, etc. So go ahead, ask me a question and I will do my best to answer.  ...
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The Dallas Morning News pulls down the wall
Editor & Publisher reported this week that the Dallas Morning News (which is owned by Belo Corp.) has done a major restructuring of the newspaper, and one of the most contentious aspects of that re-organization will see the editors of several sections reporting to newly-appointed general ...
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Daily Mirror editor says to forget about SEO
Matt Kelly of the Mirror decries what he believes to be a cruel delusion on the part of newspapers, who have used SEO techniques to accumulate a broader audience — but have succeeded only in attracting “locusts” who have little long-term value, while at the same time ...
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Peabody Hotel, Memphis
Looking down at the grand lobby of the famous Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis, with the fountain where the Peabody ducks come and swim twice a day Posted via web from mathewingram’s posterous
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Video of my TEDx Toronto talk
Back in September, I was honoured to be asked to be one of the featured presenters at the first TEDx Toronto, a kind of mini-version of the famous TED conference (whose videos are highly recommended). The video of that presentation,which was entitled “Five Ways New Media Can Save Old Media,” is ...
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The Globe and Facebook
I did a workshop/presentation for Globe and Mail reporters about Facebook this week, and I’ve embedded a version of the PowerPoint here (it’s on Slideshare too if you want to view it there ). It’s not very long, nor does it go into a lot of depth about the various issues that ...
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McSweeney’s: Has Bell Invented the “Telegraph Killer?”
What if a tech blogger was writing about the launch of the telephone? McSweeney’s imagines for you: “We had difficulty reaching other users on the Bell apparatus, which Alexander Graham admits will have limited utility until they build a second Telephone. In comparison, the ...
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Union Station
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Has the WaPo chosen paper over web?
The recent cuts at the Washington Post — as reported by Politico and Washington’s City Paper — have once again brought to the surface a culture clash that has been going on in mainstream newsrooms for most of the last decade, and one that shows no sign of ending any time soon. ...
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Comment behaviour: How far is too far?
As someone whose job involves thinking about our social-media policies and our approach to comment behaviour, I’m always looking at what other newspapers and media outlets are doing, and today I came across a case that crossed a line — for me, at least — in terms of how to ...
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Is Rupert Murdoch stupid like a fox?
There’s been plenty of recent discussion about Rupert Murdoch and his “I’m taking my sites out of Google” campaign (which I mentioned in this post ), and much of the debate centers around whether he is serious or just blustering. Jack Schafer at Slate seems to lean ...
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When a blog beats a NYT story
It may have gotten lost amid the back-and-forth in the comments on her piece at the Columbia Journalism Review — many of which take her to task for criticizing “crowdfunding” startup Spot.us and its role in the Garbage Patch story the New York Times published recently — ...
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Your readers are paying you — with attention
Rupert Murdoch, that sly old rascal, caused a minor Twitter-storm recently, with an interview in which he suggested that News Corp. might remove its websites from Google, which he has described in the past as a “thief” that takes content without asking (Google, for its part, said ...
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Citizen journalism: I’ll take it, flaws and all
Citizen journalism: I’ll take it, flaws and all
mathewingram.com — Paul Carr, who started writing for TechCrunch not long ago, is an entertaining writer, and he often... puts his finger on issues that others tend to avoid in their headlong rush towards whatever is shiny and new, which is why I’m glad Mike ... (more) Citizen journalism: I’ll take it, flaws and all