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6 months ago
in News as a bludgeoning device on Zac Echola is muffin but trouble
Individual interest survives the tsunami of the now. I still follow Burma, I still follow former Yugoslavia for that matter. I read books, blogs, discuss with people I know who are/have been affected. I'm not sure the expanded "world" you want comes from media, so much as it comes from the individual. And I'm not sure that's a bad thing.
(Although a media that knows me and feeds my ever-expanding areas of interests.....)
(Although a media that knows me and feeds my ever-expanding areas of interests.....)
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6 months ago
in New Tricks: Break the Twitterfeed habit on Old Media, New Tricks
I use Twitterfeed for our college newspaper, but it's only a matter of a headline or two every couple of days.The problem with repeatedly see with the "human touch" is a number of reporters and editors who are basically replicating an RSS feed. "Hey. come and see this neat thing I just did." They still see it as promotional, rather than conversational.
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JoeRuiz
Oh, no doubt that's still a problem with using it for promotional rather than conversational, but there's nothing too wrong with that. Sure, promo your good stuff. I wouldn't promo everything, but that's just me.
I would suggest using it to find stories/videos/etc. of interest to your student body and other readers and tweet that, too.
Working at a TV station, I see a few of our tweeters promoting their story on the next show. Well, that's all fine and good, but the only people following them so far are other station employees and few others. They already know what you're working on or are already set to tune in or read the accompanying story/video on the Website.
I guess my point is, don't just promote, but engage as well.
I would suggest using it to find stories/videos/etc. of interest to your student body and other readers and tweet that, too.
Working at a TV station, I see a few of our tweeters promoting their story on the next show. Well, that's all fine and good, but the only people following them so far are other station employees and few others. They already know what you're working on or are already set to tune in or read the accompanying story/video on the Website.
I guess my point is, don't just promote, but engage as well.
8 months ago
in Moving on, details TBA on the exploding newsroom
Wow. Best of luck with the next chapter.
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John Hassell
Thanks, Mark. Now I have more time to read your squibs!
10 months ago
in Apple: A better stock than Google? on Mathew's comments
And I'm still kicking myself for not having bought Apple shares when they were selling for $24 each, pre-splits.
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mathewi
you and me both, Mark :-)
Daniel Gibbons
And I'm still trying to figure out which companies are now about to begin the kind of growth trajectory Apple and Google showed between 2003 and 2008...
Take, for example, the pirates off the coast of Somalia. Big news this summer/fall. They're still there, on the pirated Ukrainian ship. But you wouldn't know that unless you were actively still trying to follow that news.
What was once stripped across the front pages of many major news sites, you can only find updates in random sources, most of which aren't the major news sites (if it's there, it's buried so deep, it's useless).
What has surfaced on some sites, though, is that the French this week captured 19 other pirates.
What I'm suggesting brings people back into the original information. If they became disinterested for whatever reason, this gives them a link from something they're currently interested in to something they were once interested in.
It also helps solve the loss of serendipity people feel when they're looking through news sites. Tags only drill inwards, they don't drill back out. It creates a tunnel vision where people can miss other important information they might find interesting.