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.
Interesting stuff I saw online from Sep. 20 to Sep. 28
Here’s some of the stuff I thought was interesting while stomping through the Internet from Sep. 20 through Sep. 28:
- Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog » Blog Archive » Was the Scotsman right to sack Nick Clayton for blogging? – "Journalism.co.uk tried contacting the Scotsman…but received no response to the following: does the Scotsman have a set policy on staff writing for external websites? and are journalists aware of this?" The Post-Dispatch has a policy about blogging outside the newsroom by staffers.
- Buttry: Finding our way in social media | GazetteOnline.com – Cedar Rapids, Iowa City – Good strategies and ideas for how to engage audiences from the newspaper newsroom in social media.
- Digg aims to raise its profile – San Jose Mercury News – "Digg's traffic is showing signs of plateauing," Malik wrote this week. "What's troubling is that a mere 1 percent of its users (who can be labeled addicts) are generating 32 percent of the visits."
- Are We Ready for Citizen Journateerism? | PBS – "Basically that means ordinary folks leveraging social media tools to help people in need. I'm not talking about political or community-relevant reporting and opinioning, which is certainly a kind of volunteer community service, but about the re-purposing of citizen journalism tools in response to life and death issues on the ground."
- Interview with Ron Sylvester about using Twitter as a reporting tool | BeatBlogging.Org – Yes! “For traditional print, it kind of puts us back in the game,” he said. “It allows us to cover the courts live.”
- Citing abuse, Maui News kills online story comments – Pacific Business News (Honolulu): – How 19th century! "Instead, publisher Joe Bradley said readers would be directed to submit letters to the editor that could be printed in the newspaper or online. Submitting a letter requires readers to leave their names and contact numbers."
- ThePort helps clients, users interact on Web | ajc.com – Yeah. OK. Whatever.
Kurt's Tweets- 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.
- Realizing how woefully out of touch I have been with this part of the county. (@ Saint Louis Bread Company) http://4sq.com/5z5Bfh