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Thank you, Google
(This post is starting in the middle of a conversation. It’s in response to Google’s account name policy for its new social networking service, Google+. In brief, Google has conflicting policies about what you can call yourself and is implementing … Continue reading
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OK, if he doesn’t want us to read his papers
[Rupert] Murdoch plans to put News Corp content, including from UK newspapers such as the Sun and the Times, behind a paywall and has threatened to remove it from Google’s search index and Google News. (“Google to allow publishers to … Continue reading
More journalistic evolution
Steven Berlin Johnson has a similar take on the evolutionary process of changing the way journalism is done: So this is what the old-growth forests tell us: there is going to be more content, not less; more information, more analysis, … Continue reading
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Journalistic heavy lifting
Well, everyone else seems to be blogging Clay Shirky’s Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable, so I may as well, too. I think there’s a lot of sensible points for us to consider at work with our quarterly membership periodical. The … Continue reading
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Social media smack-down
I admit it, I am an early adopter. I love to learn new things and to tinker. So I’ve tried Plurk (abandoned it); Friend Feed (it just chugs along; I’m not sure I remember everything I set it up to … Continue reading
Community funded reporting
As a sometime-participant in community-supported agriculture, I don’t find the idea of community-funded reporting entirely oddball. I even think it’s a creative idea. But I want to see how it works out. Spot.Us is a nonprofit project to pioneer “community … Continue reading
Frightening!
The Typealyzer got my actual MBTI type for both my blogs. INTP – The Thinkers The logical and analytical type. They are especialy attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something more complex to dig into. … Continue reading
Resist the present!
Not to mention the future: Online Literacy Is a Lesser Kind – ChronicleReview.com So let’s restrain the digitizing of all liberal-arts classrooms. More than that, given the tidal wave of technology in young people’s lives, let’s frame a number of … Continue reading
Social media
A wonderfully succint definition by lynnewu on Twitter: social media are “presence by other means”, and that includes Twitter, IM, and SecondLife