The interesting stuff I saw online, Feb. 17
Here’s some of the stuff I thought was interesting while stomping through the Internet on Feb. 17 from 8:27 am to 8:59 am:
- Trekkies Guide To Twitter – From TrekMovie.com: "A few big Trek celebrities are tweeting. The King of all Trek Twitter is @wilw (Wil Wheaton) who with around 90,000 is ranked 15th in total followers. Other Trek Twitterers in the top 200 are @LeVarburton (LeVar Burton) and @BrentSpiner (Brent Spiner). Rounding out the Trek celeb list are @georgetakei (George Takei), @WilliamShatner (William Shatner), @leonardnimoy (Leonard Nimoy), and @jj_abrams (JJ Abrams)."
- Get The Most From Google Analytics – Bless you, GrokDotCom: "Here’s a great list of Analytics tutorials, including topics like linking your AdWords and Analytics together, setting up goal tracking, creating profiles, etc." (via NewsTechzilla)
- The “new newsroom” is being created one reporter at a time – Nieman Journalism Lab: "PR whiz Steve Rubel says he looks a lot like Peter Abraham, who is not some vaporware demo from 2015, but a flesh-and-blood reporter covering the Yankees spring training camp in Florida right now."
- Zuckerberg On Who Owns User Data On Facebook: It’s Complicated – More on Facebook from TechCrunch: "Zuckerberg is saying, “Trust us.” But it is difficult to trust a company that is stripping users of rights they’ve become accustomed to, even if hardly any of them ever actually asserted those rights in practice."
- Facebook’s Users Ask Who Owns Their Information – NYTimes.com: "Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, said in a blog post on Monday that the philosophy 'that people own their information and control who they share it with has remained constant.' Despite the complaints, he did not indicate the language would be revised."
Interesting stuff I saw online, Dec. 9 to Dec. 14
Here’s some of the stuff I thought was interesting while stomping through the Internet from Dec. 9 through Dec. 14:
- Majel Barrett-Roddenberry To Play Computer Voice In New Star Trek Movie | TrekMovie.com – Majel Barrett Roddenberry has been part of Star Trek since the first pilot (“The Cage”) where she played ‘Number One.’ Although that role was not carried over to the main series, she did get a recurring role on the show as Nurse Chapel and also played Deanna Troi’s mother Lwaxana Troi on The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine.
- Michael Skoler on newsroom culture » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism – Among his comments: “When people say news is a conversation, they don’t mean you have to have comments…You do, but that not what they’re talking about. Journalism’s a conversation because people expect there is a conversation…Knowledge is no longer viewed as congregated and only accessible to an elite.”
- So How Much Time Do You Waste On Twitter? – I’ve wasted 47,010 Seconds or 784 Minutes or 13.06 Hours or 0.54 Days with 1,567 Tweets on Twitter!
- Advertisers Face Hurdles on Social Networking Sites – NYTimes.com – “IDC, the technology research firm, published a study last month that reported that just 3 percent of Internet users in the United States would willingly let publishers use their friends for advertising. The report described social advertising as ‘stillborn.’”
- Maryland High Court Hears Argument on Internet Anonymity | Citizen Media Law Project – “Once a court orders a blog-hosting service, website operator, or ISP to reveal the identity of an anonymous Internet speaker, that speaker irretrievably loses his/her First Amendment right to speak anonymously (in that particular context). There is no dearth of Supreme Court cases suggesting that this right is nothing to be sniffed at.”
- Corporate Blogging: You’re Doing It Wrong >> SitePoint – A blog can be a successful and useful part of the web strategy for your company. In July, we made corporate blogging our number one tip for how to speak directly to your customers — which is something you should be striving to do.
- Florida Student Sues Principal Over Suspension for Facebook Postings | Citizen Media Law Project – “Based on the relatively banal statements Evans posted (and quickly took down), I think she has a pretty good argument that the suspension violated her First Amendment rights.”
- TimeSpace: World – TimeSpace is an interactive map that allows you to navigate articles, photos, video and commentary from around the globe. Discover news hot-spots where coverage is clustered. Use the timeline to illustrate peaks in coverage, and customize your news searches to a particular day or specific hour.
What I’ve read, Aug. 2 through Aug. 8
These are my links for August 2nd through August 8th:
- Pew Internet: Search Engine Use – The percentage of internet users who use search engines on a typical day has been steadily rising from about one-third of all users in 2002, to a new high of just under one-half (49%).
- Advertising – Google’s New Tool Is Meant for Marketers – NYTimes.com – Users can also slice the data into finer geographic areas than with Trends and view it on a map. And they can download the data onto spreadsheets to compare it to their own forecasts or research.
- The Mr. Spock Guide to Effective Blogging | Copyblogger – “ITry using a little Vulcan logic to move it in the right direction.” OK. This is a fun read. Thanks, Will. And for the record, I didn’t want “to Pon Farr his pointy ears off.”
- paidContent appears on Guardian site -
- If the FCC comes to regulate the Internet, newspapers will lose their freedom of the press « The Future of News – “…what if the FCC comes to regulate the Internet, as might begin to happen should they be given the right to enforce Net Neutrality policies?”
- Understanding Your Legal Risks When You Blog or Publish Online | Citizen Media Law Project – The risks you could face when you publish online can take a number of forms, depending on what and how you publish.
- TrekWeb.com – First Cut of Star Trek Movie Screened at Paramount with Impressive Results – What can I say? I’m a trekkie.
- Newspaper Consortium Picks Mike Silver As Its First-Ever Leader – Fantastic news for a man I have known and respected for a long time. (via Online News Squared)
- ONA News: 2008 Online Journalism Awards – Finalists – Finalists for the 9th annual Online Journalism Awards, which honor excellence in digital journalism, were announced today by the Online News Association (ONA).
- LATimes-er’s farewell blog item: 42 things I know – Telling reader’s comment: “You forgot to mention that the Times and other large papers forgot or dismissed the small business owner.”
- What’s really killing newspapers: They’re no longer the best providers of social currency. – By Jack Shafer – Slate Magazine – But to read a newspaper and then keep your trap shut is to miss the point: Newspapers are designed to be read and argued over.
- Net Law Luminaries File Amicus Brief in Lori Drew Case – “…the government’s theory … would impose criminal penalties for … violating a website’s terms of service, something … millions of Internet users do every day, often without even knowing it.”
Kurt's Tweets- Why is this not a national story? Maybe I missed it. Appalling. Disabled woman was tortured and held as a sex slave http://ow.ly/2CiAq
- Bravo. RT @pwthornton: "Banning unsigned online comments undermines the media’s role as a forum for debate.” http://bit.ly/bmZsOn
- I would like to just take the two steps forward and skip the one step back. How about that? Would that be OK?
- Still seeking talented journalists to run #Patch sites in two south St. Louis County communities. Know anyone? http://ow.ly/2Axnv
- Waiting for a listings collector to give her more #Patch marketing cards. The work never stops.