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3 weeks ago

in #CNNFail: Why Traditional Media Is Failing to Understand The Web on TheLetterTwo.com
You do realize CNN stopped being a "news" source at least five years ago. At best it is a tv network that produces dramatic programming about current events. CNN is the MTV of news.
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livenewstoday A distinction between the US and International versions of CNN needs to be made here...CNNI had hours and hours of live Iran coverage all weekend right from when the results were announced early Saturday US time. The outraged on Twitter should re-direct their anger towards the US domestic news media in general - CNN were no better or worse then their US counterparts in this.
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Ken Yeung @Jenn - yeah, I know that the perception of mainstream media being a "news source" has gone the way of the Dodo bird about five years ago. I still subscribe to the belief in television news - not sure why I'm still interested in it, but I am. I want these news stations to succeed but I'm also a advocate of looking at what the web & technology can offer in terms of advancement of news to the general public. I guess I'm never satisfied. That can't be a bad thing, can it?

11 months ago

in Lijit Throws Ads Onto My Site on Chris Brogan
Hey Micah & Chris,

I have never had google ads (or text ad links of any kind) on any of my sites and I never will -- I think they're ugly and distract my ADD-addled brain.

Call me clueless, but I never saw the ads on lijit before the NewTech Meetup. I should have paid more attention before I put the wijit on my blogs.

I removed lijit from my page after NewTech because I don't want ads on my site, even if the search result page is served by lijit.

I would probably purchase an ad-free lijit solution if the price was right -- and being a Z-list blogger with no visitors, lijit would probably make more than ads from my subscription.

1 year ago

in Micah Baldwin: Random Thoughts and Public Musings on Learn To Duck
Awwww. Cheer up emo stormtrooper!

1 year ago

in 5 Lessons Learned From Gordon Ramsay on Learn To Duck
I always love the little prayer he says before he tries the establishment's food for the first time -- asking that their food not kill him.

I admit it, I'm a Gordon Ramsay junkie.

1 year ago

in Lijit Uncovers a Douche Bag on Learn To Duck
Oh Snap!

You know though, the perp could be a non-myyahoolog user and not show up in myyahoolog at all.

1 year ago

in http://learntoduck.com/business/who-owns-trust-the-first-click-or-the-second-click on Learn To Duck
Hi Micah, that was a great post.

I think the trust issue is an interesting one to approach because traditional search engines such as google have more to gain from advertisers and less to gain from providing users with the most accurate and trustworthy result.

I think the first line of search trust is a person's own knowledge and intuition. If you're searching for www.learntoduck.com and the first result is www.learntoduck.com, you're pretty sure that it is an authoritative result. If the first result is www.I-SEOed-this-first-result-haha.com, and the second result is www.learntoduck.com, most people will choose the second result because of their own "self-filter". Self-filters are click agnostic. =)

The second line of trust would fall into unknowns or unknowables that aren't caught by one's own self-filter. I agree that the chain-of-trust in the gateway clicks are where lijit can be of most value over the machine-based search engines, even with the Wikipedias and Mahalos competing for audiences seeking authoritative information.
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