Interesting stuff I saw online, Jan. 27 to Jan. 31
Here’s some of the stuff I thought was interesting while stomping through the Internet from Jan. 27 through Jan. 31:
- Angela Foster: As the recession grows, publications serving Britain's ethnic communities are more relevant than ever – An item that I'll put in our Post-Dispatch blog, A Conversation about Race: "So is there still a need for the black press? Yes. There are still many issues affecting the black community that do not get covered in many mainstream papers – for instance, the disproportionate number of black people in mental health institutions and the high school exclusion rates for black boys." [via the Guardian]
- Editing comments does not make you legally liable | BeatBlogging.Org – This falsehood must stop now. It’s been used — knowingly and unknowingly — by news organizations for years as justification not to allow user comments. [via journalism.uk.org]
- Nieman Reports Article: When Journalists Blog: How It Changes What They Do – "In generating story ideas, blogging journalists don’t need someone to tell them who the readers are and what they want: They already know, because the readers are on their blogs, telling them who they are and what they’re curious about. In this new blogging relationship, editors are the middlemen being cut out." [via Journerdism]
- 10 Steps To Protect The Admin Area In WordPress – Smashing Magazine: "The administration area of a Web application is a favorite target of hackers and thus particularly well protected. The same goes for WordPress: when creating a blog, the system creates an administrative user with a perfectly secure password and blocks public access to the settings area with a log-in page."
- Getting Crisis Communications Right: Miracle on the Hudson – Brief but interesting post: "A crisis is one of the trickiest things that companies, organizations and municipalities can be forced to deal with. That is why the majority has such a hard time doing it right. Why is that?" [via @VandiverGroup on Twitter]
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Kurt's Tweets- Realizing how woefully out of touch I have been with this part of the county. (@ Saint Louis Bread Company) http://4sq.com/5z5Bfh
- Just had my first Gmail phone call -- with my parents -- and the quality was fantastic. Wow. http://tcrn.ch/a8GndI
- Another day, another interview. Fingers crossed. (@ Saint Louis Bread Co) http://4sq.com/avGImL
- Helping my son learn the first 20 elements on the periodic table. Disturbed by how many more elements there are since I studied this stuff.
- Giving blood. (@ St. Martin's Episcopal Church) http://4sq.com/aiWuEk
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