Interesting stuff I saw online, Aug. 12 to Aug. 14
Here’s some of the stuff I thought was interesting while stomping through the Internet from Aug. 12 through Aug. 14:
- Video: Social Media Revolution – Great video, lots of stats about the boom in social media growth. Thanks @stevebuttry
- Employers Are Freaking Out About Twitter and Facebook, Study Shows – Fascinating Citizen Media Law Project post includes hysterical example of dumb employee, Facebook and her boss.
- The 7 Deadly Sins of Blogging – "The same problems come up again and again, keeping bloggers from building a real audience for what they have to say. So how about you? Do you commit one of these seven deadly sins with your content?"
- News numeracy: online tools for reporting numbers – Journalism.co.uk: "Following on from Steve Harrison’s excellent two-part guide on news numeracy, ‘How to: get to grips with numbers as a journalist’, here’s a round-up of some of the best online tools and sites for journalists when reporting figures and stats."
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.
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