Interesting stuff I saw online, Jun. 23 to Jul. 24

July 24, 2009 by · View Comments
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Here’s some of the stuff I thought was interesting while stomping through the Internet from Jun. 23 through Jul. 24:

Show Us the Money: How Social Media Engagement is Paying Off – Blog – Standing Partnership – "Those brands that were the most engaged saw their revenue grow over the past year by 18% while the least engaged brands saw losses of negative 6%."
News Websites in Texas and Kentucky Invoke Shield Laws for Online Commenters – "This week brings word of two new cases testing whether state shield laws apply to user comments posted on news websites."
CNN’s iReport attracts nearly 4,000 submissions on Iranian elections | Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog – The role of amateurs has been significant in coverage of the Iranian elections.
Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment Nieman Journalism Lab – "Journalism has been crowdsourced before, but it’s the scale of the Guardian’s project — 170,000 documents reviewed in the first 80 hours, thanks to a visitor participation rate of 56 percent — that’s breathtaking."

Interesting stuff I saw online, Jun. 1 to Jun. 8

June 8, 2009 by · View Comments
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Here’s some of the stuff I thought was interesting while stomping through the Internet from Jun. 1 through Jun. 8:

Boston Police Would Tweet A Zombie Attack | NewsTechZilla – "I love things like this; when an organization or company I assume is otherwise faceless is able to properly use social media (by, gasp, being social), it always kind of makes me happy."
ConvoTrack – Loads comments from Twitter, digg, etc. on any page – "This simple bookmarklet will load comments from Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, Reddit, HackerNews and any blog mentioning the article and will load it in a handy sidebar."
50 Great Examples of Data Visualization – "Below are 50 of the best data visualizations and tools for creating your own visualizations out there, covering everything from Digg activity to network connectivity to what’s currently happening on Twitter."
Is this useful? An account of how I started blogging and how it changed my journalism – "Pete told me this was known as “crowd-sourcing” and had a wide range of potential applications for newspapers. I can not stress enough how helpful it was to have someone that I could call to have coffee with and pick their brains on how the web “worked”. I started to look at journalism in a new way through Pete’s explanations of blogging."