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.
Kurt's Tweets- Funny. SW airlines magazine bothers to mention that pacemakers are always authorized electronic devices. #fb
- A disgrace, St. Louis. People still litter? http://post.ly/OUsk
- Redemption for Lindsey Jacobellis in snowboardcross? Only click if you really wanna know. http://bit.ly/99OgbM
- West Countians: If you're in the market for a pancake supper tonight, there's one here: http://stmartinschurch.org.
- The fiddling continues, even as Rome burns.