Archive for May 2007

links for 2007-05-31

Newspaper’s Decline Could Be PR Moment For Google – Seeking Alpha Neil Henry, a professor of journalism at UC Berkeley, has a lament about the decline of newspaper journalism in the soon to be editorially downsized San Francisco Chronicle. He puts forth some good examples of the types of investigative journalism that ar (tags: newspaper+websites [...]

links for 2007-05-26

How do I motivate myself to be a good cog in the machine? How do I motivate myself at work now that I’m at a much bigger employer and my contributions to the organization aren’t that important anymore? “Just do it” is the WRONG answer. So it GTD. (tags: writing work motivation)

links for 2007-05-24

Flickr Pro and the freemium business model for newspapers Create a tool that millions of users can play with for free, but make sure there are premium features they can pay just a little bit more to access. Make them look cool. Call them “Pros.” (tags: newspaper+websites future flickr)

links for 2007-05-21

Bloggers are forcing newspaper journalists to become human Bloggers are becoming new human faces of news, with credibility that we assess and weigh. According to a Swedish panel of journalists, this new tendency to “consider the blogger” now “spills over to traditional media.” (tags: blogging journalism future)

links for 2007-05-18

Digg.com’s Autobury Secret Blacklist… Are you still being banned by automatic burying? Digg blacklists bloggers who become too popular (tags: digg censorship blogging)