Interesting stuff I saw online, May. 30 to May. 31

May 31, 2009 by Kurt · View Comments
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Here’s some of the stuff I thought was interesting while stomping through the Internet from May. 30 through May. 31:

Four observations about charging for news that are often overlooked – “Plenty has been written about the futility of erecting pay walls — much of which I agree with — but a few points are often overlooked.”
100 Amazing Free WordPress Themes for 2009 – “High quality free WordPress Themes have become harder and harder to find in the past year, with the influx of premium themes, more and more designers and developers are selling themes (and rightly so, they do amazing work). But, that aside, the quality is certainly there, and we are sure you will be impressed with this WordPress theme compilation for 2009.”
Getting the mean out of comments – A group of citizens meeting on the evening of May 20 in Knoxville over sandwiches and sweet tea might be end up influencing how news sites across the country view and manage comments.
Cyberbullying: What the research is telling us… – “Delivered to the Year of the Child summit, this talk surveys the current research on cyberbullying and online harassment, pulling in Pew Internet data as well as the work of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, Internet Solutions for Kids and other academics and scholars researching this topic.”

Interesting stuff I saw online, Feb. 26 to Mar. 3

March 3, 2009 by Kurt · View Comments
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Here’s some of the stuff I thought was interesting while stomping through the Internet from Feb. 26 through Mar. 3:

Coverage Plan: The San Francisco Post-Chronicle – Fascinating. Via Journerdism.
How The Globe and Mail uses social media to engage its audience – Mathew Ingram at the G&M: "That means I am trying to think of — and follow through on — as many different methods of creating, enhancing, fertilizing and connecting with communities of readers around various topics as I can."
Digg Is Working On a Toolbar To Go After StumbleUpon, TinyURL, and All The Rest – From TechCrunch: "A super-secret Digg toolbar has been spotted in the wild. We tracked down a beta tester who gave us the skinny on its features. The toolbar lets you Digg or Bury the page you are on, and shows how many Diggs it has already received." Plus, it includes tinyurl-like functionality and a random feature like StumbleUpon.
15 Useful WordPress Tricks to Make Your Theme Even Better – From ForTheLose.org: "Here are only a few of the many great snippets of code that will take your current theme creation and make it that much better."