A quick aside for a self-plug…
Yours truly appeared as a guest last Sunday on Flashpoint , a local-affairs discussion show on Local6 (CBS affiliate) to discuss how social media is influencing the 2008 election. We talked about the candidates’ outreach to younger voters and dissected the McCain and Obama campaigns’ Web sites on the air.
Check out the video (and skip ahead to 00:50 or you’ll see that blank TV screen). Video is HERE .
And now, back to Tropical Storm Fay here in Orlando…
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Rob Curley heading to the Washington PostFrom: journalistopia.com
Post Date: 2006-09-07 16:09:59
Online journalism guru Rob Curley is packing his bags to go to the Washington Post, according to Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits .
If you’re not familiar with Curley, he’s the guy who wracked up awards with his revamp of Lawrence.com and has transformed the Naples Daily News ‘ online presence. It will be interesting to see what changes Curley makes to the sites of the Washingtonpost.com, Slate and Newsweek.com.
I wonder if his speedy style will fly in a big corpora...
more Find reusable photos easilyFrom: journalistopia.com
Post Date: 2006-09-06 15:45:12
Lifehacker has a splendid post on how to find cheap or free photos that you can use in your blogs, web designs and more.
Some of the tips include using a Creative Commons search interface, user-edited Wikimedia Commons , CCHits and CCMixter , EveryStockPhoto and some Google ingenuity by using the search term “this work is licensed under a Creative Commons.”
One of my favorite tricks not mentioned in the post is to search for content in Google using “site:.gov...
more Google sniffing for old news storiesFrom: journalistopia.com
Post Date: 2006-09-06 14:22:20
Google gets even closer to the news industry by launching a service to search newspapers archives dating back to the 1700s, according to a San Francisco Chronicle report.
Google offers robust document scanning capabilities, and I fear it may in the future wish to gain some modicum of control over publishing rights for a newspaper’s archives in exchange. A newspaper’s archives, according to the Long Tail theory that’s all the rage these days, can be one of its greatest...
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