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Who is going to pay for the bleeding-edge social media tools we all know and love if not the early-adopting, kool-aid drinking aviators like me?
links for 2008-04-23
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Author Archives: Joanna
links for 2008-04-21
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Couldn’t help but quote this: “Coyne adds that this difference doesn’t just occur with images of people. Men tend to fixate more on areas of private anatomy on animals as well, as evidenced when users were directed to browse the American Kennel Club sit
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newsletters feel personal because they arrive in users’ inboxes, and users have an ongoing relationship with them. Newsletters also have a social aspect, as users often forward them to colleagues and friends.
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People rarely read Web pages word by word; instead, they scan the page, picking out individual words and sentences.
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Intranet Usability Guidelines, vol. 4:
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75 Best Practices for Design of Websites and Intranets, Based on Usability Studies with People Who Use Assistive Technology
links for 2008-04-19
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58 percent of editors said letting journalists join online conversations and give personal views would harm journalism, but only 36 percent of the public agreed.
Almost history…
links for 2008-04-15
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“Interactivity is not video, or ‘multimedia’; it is not flashy bells and whistles. At its core, it is about giving the user control.”
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Markmedia explores a derelict building in Stockholm and streams the experience over his mobile phone.
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In the pre-Internet world, the so-called mainstream media played the role of gatekeeper: determining with authority what the public did and did not need to know. Much more editorial censorship existed. But now the public can get any information it wants
Waiting at the bus stop
links for 2008-04-14
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“Virgin’s customers are “content providers”. A few years ago I would have accepted I was in the minority but these days nearly everyone I know is publishing something or other online be it photos, blogs, video or audio.”
Hare and Hounds
“Twitter beats Facebook any day…”
Twitter gets its own song courtesy of journalism student Alana Taylor:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qrmTJWbmdU]
“…not many people do it, but me and Scoble do.”
“The cool thing about Twitter is you get to meet new people. You even get to stalk the famous ones too.”
[via Fred Wilson]
links for 2008-04-13
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Setup unlimited messages to be delivered to your twitter page when you want. Need a message sent 2 hours from now, no problem, setup a TwitResponse. via @bounder
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not exclusive, not leaked, but maybe by linking to it I prove the point.
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“Andrew Baron has decided to sell his Twitter account to the highest bidder…On offer through Ebay are his account, login and his 1387 followers. Bidding is currently just under $500.””
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A protest against imported children’s programmes.
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I’ve been running a series of Newspaper Site Search Engine Smackdowns to see which papers were able to index their own content faster than Google could. It turned out that the answer was not many…””
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Publishing daily lists of links in this way gives a blogger an opportunity to ‘micro-blog’ about items they’ve read but haven’t wanted to or had the time to write a full-length post about, and to add another regular stream of content to their blog.