Interesting stuff I saw online from Dec. 3 to Dec. 4
Here’s some of the stuff I thought was interesting while stomping through the Internet from Dec. 3 through Dec. 4:
- Carnegie Mellon's reCAPTCHA software helps digitize books a word at a time - Am I the last person on earth who knew about this? I think it's really cool. "reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher."
- 10 changes in journalists role (and 5 things that remain the same) « O Lago | The Lake - This is a great list. Thanks!
- Why Twitter Turned Down Facebook - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - Ain't this the truth? "Twitter decided that it had too much left to do, beginning with figuring out how to make money."
- ACBJ leads $4.1M round to ThePort - Birmingham Business Journal: - This is the company that provides the foundation for MySTLtoday.com. "Existing investors included in the new round were Lee Enterprises, a newspaper publisher, Atlanta-based Imlay Investments, angel investor Robert Jetmundsen and ThePort's CEO Bob Cramer.
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."