The interesting stuff I saw online on Dec. 2
Here’s some of the stuff I thought was interesting while stomping through the Internet on Dec. 2 from 8:35 am to 6:50 pm:
- Even Gen X is aTwitter - TIME - My experience, too: "If you haven't heard of Twitter yet — or, if you're wondering, "Why would anyone ever want to Twitter?" — you're probably, well, not young."
- Readership Institute: Get Smart About Your Readers - My experience as well! "Flash poll: Number out of 180 freshman journalism students with Twitter accounts - 0. Number out of 180 who have never even heard of Twitter - 180."
- DVR commercial skipping: 50% or 97%? Depends on whom you ask - Are you buying this? "If you ask ABC, network execs will tell you that DVR-using homes actually see more total commercials than homes without the devices. According to one ABC exec, speaking recently at a television conference in New York that we attended, fewer people skip commercials than used to."
- Social media 'offers opportunities for online news providers' - "As well as increasing page impressions, social media campaigns can also result in brand enhancement, outgoing NYTimes.com senior vice-president and general manager Vivian Schiller said."
- Get Your Google Profile Tidied Up | chrisbrogan.com - ",,,Because that means my contact info and bio is on every review that someone *might* see every time they Google."
Interesting stuff I saw online from Sep. 30 to Oct. 5
Here’s some of the stuff I thought was interesting while stomping through the Internet from Sep. 30 through Oct. 5:
- (On Facebook…) To Friend or Not to Friend? | American Journalism Review - One point of view, from NYT standards editor: "…being a friend on Facebook…is essentially meaningless, and everybody knows that. So it's hard to imagine any real conflict of interest that could arise from your being a friend of somebody on Facebook and writing about that person."
- What The F**K is Social Media? - Terrific (and irreverent) slideshare on what social media is. Yeah, it's been there awhile. Yeah, I just found it. (via JackLail.com).
- How shared bookmarks can make you smarter >> Teaching Online Journalism - Vis-a-vis discussions we've had in social media brownbags in our newsroom: "How can bookmarking make you smarter? By cutting through the junk and the spam. People bookmark sites because they judge those sites to have value."
- Tracking Yourself and Your Blog Brand Across the Online Social World « Lorelle on WordPress - Interesting tool for tracking your brand. "The Yahoo Pipes Social Media Fire Hose searches across Twitter, Flickr, Friendfeed, Digg, various search engines, and even includes blog comments. It creates a custom feed you can then add to your feed reader."
- SR.com: Spokesman-Review to cut staff; editor resigns - These guys were leaders among smaller papers in online. "Jim Kershner, president of the Spokane Editorial Society, which represents the editorial department, called the cuts brutal. The 86-person union will lose 21 members in the layoffs…"
- Newspapers First Need to Redefine 'News' to Move Forward Online - "This is a strategy to be executed foremost on online and mobile rather than print. (Though personalized print editions aren't out of the question in the future.)" Funny that this came out the day I wrote about ending the print publications. Neat coincidence.