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Re: KMOV puts Facebook to work covering airport tornado

donday — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 20:28:58 -0000

PS: no Twitter or FB integration on LR when commenting from An iPad for some reason!

Re: KMOV puts Facebook to work covering airport tornado

donday — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 20:28:10 -0000

Bryce is one of the best at SM in our company - and the industry. KMOV is a leader in this type of thing. It goes back to Cory's old "web producers do it on any platform" shirt idea: Facebook is just (yet another) platform, but the type of content it can create is dynamic and strong.

While Twitter gets all the press, the real audience (and engagement) happens on Facebook. Bravo to Bryce and team for the great effort (and their site is something to behold today as well!)

Re: UPDATE: Apple not banning all radio station apps

donday — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:02:47 -0000

Insane.

This is along the lines of telling people to hold their phones a different way, or disabling the orientation lock switch on iPads, or not putting freaking flash on the devices for dubious reasons.

We get it. Steve Jobs trusts his gut. But he and his company are quickly becoming anti-consumer. Apple does not always know best - but they are quickly showing the worst symptoms of a monopoly.

Once upon a time, a company called Sony was the maker of every portable audio device on the planet. Now... Notsomuch.

Apple acts like it can't fail - but as someone who has lots of apple toys, I'm starting to hope they do.

Re: Is Our News Getting Over-Skyped? - mediabistro.com: TVNewser

donday — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:28:42 -0000

Says a newspaper reporter.. someone who probably does 95% of his interviews by TELEPHONE.

What a waste of time. Viewers don't care about the quality of the video... they just care if they can get the information in a comprehensible format.

This would be a little bit like me saying "Why isn't the NYDN printed on heavier paper with more color?"

Re: Fwix inks deal with New York Times Company

donday — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:36:41 -0000

Now they just need to fwix that name...

Re: Notes, All-Olympics edition

donday — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:12:43 -0000

KUSA may be the #1 metered-market station in the country... but I'll bet dimes to dollars they aren't number one period :)

Re: Lost Remote: Local Online News, Advertising, Hyperlocal and Neighborhood Blogs

donday — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:12:11 -0000

Yes... but are the people who look at the site viewsers?

Re: Lost Remote: Local Online News, Advertising, Hyperlocal and Neighborhood Blogs

donday — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:11:37 -0000

Pretty slick. We don't currently have traffic data in the Boise area.

I just went and looked through the "historic" data from yesterday - and it maches what we saw on the traffic cams (a wreck slowed things down).

Looks pretty accurate...

Re: Lost Remote: Local Online News, Advertising, Hyperlocal and Neighborhood Blogs

donday — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:13:20 -0000

Is this 2009... or did I miss something?

The Daily Free Press will no longer be able to subsidize its news content off overpriced classifieds.... give it a year -- at most.

Re: Lost Remote: Local Online News, Advertising, Hyperlocal and Neighborhood Blogs

donday — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:42:22 -0000

Bingo. And I agree.... your RT was pretty good!

Re: Lost Remote: Local Online News, Advertising, Hyperlocal and Neighborhood Blogs

donday — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:09:44 -0000

That second tweet is almost worse! "Read more here" Huh? How about wrap it all into one simple tweet.

The MinnPost report that said WCCO got "100k" pageviews in an hour sounds impressive - but in the grand scheme of things, that number could have been a lot bigger.

I just want to say again -- the fact that WCCO did this is great -- but the execution could have been stronger.

Re: Lost Remote: Local Online News, Advertising, Hyperlocal and Neighborhood Blogs

donday — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:31:31 -0000

Don't get me wrong - I LIKE that they broke it on Twitter. But a better approach would have been:

" A high-level source with the Vikings tells WCCO that QB Brett Favre is expected to sign w/ the team today http:/is.gd/AbCd "

That way you get the link -- AND leave enough room for an RT. The way it was done used all 140 chars... not a good way to get RT'ed, and had no link to their site.

Re: Lost Remote: Local Online News, Advertising, Hyperlocal and Neighborhood Blogs

donday — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:23:52 -0000

Too bad they didn't add a link to the story on their site.

I don't think this is a good example... it didn't do a thing for them... except maybe give them a warm-tingly Twittery feeling.