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Dispatches from 2009
Posted on March 3
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Briefly Noted from March 3, 2009
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The Media 2.0 Best Practices
An attempt to set and document the best practices for social media platforms
Topic: Social Media
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Hearst tries to figure out the pay-wall
Having been on the ground for practical discussions of the same issues years ago, I'm amazed how many lessons have not been learned
Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Newspapers
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The Elements of Social Architecture
The incomparable Christina Wodtke outlines the key patterns for creating successful online communities
Topics: Social Media, Web Patterns
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Elastic lists and search
Interesting interface for searching on a set of fixed terms
Topics: User Interface, Search Engines
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The first sketches of history
Great summary of all the different experiments in visualizing the words news is literally made of
Topics: Journalism, Web Design
Inside
This Just In
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A Safari adventure
With the exception of a few years when Internet Explorer was actually the more standard-compliant browser, I’ve always surfed the Web with a Netscape-originated browser. I supported Mozilla when it was still struggling to make something even approaching a usable browser. My name was one of thousands to be found in a New York Times ad announcing Firefox’s debut. I have friends that work with Mozilla.
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Schrödinger’s press
Working in the media during revolutionary times is an interesting experience. You’re at once aware of the changing landscape, and because of the need to report on it from a stable perspective, you’re unable to really participate.
Category: Journalism
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Let’s go Canada!
Not sure I really understood what being Canadian was until…
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Terminal City celebration
Were it my city, I’m not sure what I would…
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Slacking in the new normal
One of the biggest myths of the past twenty years went something like this: the generation following the baby boomers was an underachieving lot, destined not to realize the success of its parents.