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26 Reasons Kids (Or Anyone) Should Not Be Allowed On BuzzFeed

by on March 18, 2013

in Internet,Journalism

After seeing BuzzFeed’s “26 Reasons Kids Should Not Be Allowed On Facebook” post, I couldn’t help myself. It was yet another one of those stories that pulls a bait-and-switch, cleverly I’ll admit, and made me feel dumb for getting sucked into such stupid stuff, along with feeling despair that is this really where journalism is heading, [...]

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Watching Another News Story Get “Stolen” Without Attribution

by on February 13, 2012

in Journalism

Occasionally, you can watch how a story you’ve broken spreads to other news outlets. Disappointingly, that can mean watching it spread without your originating story getting the credit. My story last week of the “Spreading Romney” site is a great/sad example of this. Last week, I wrote a story at Search Engine Land about a [...]

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Enough With The Slideshow Pollution & This Means You, Huffington Post

by on January 7, 2012

in Journalism,Rants

Let me ask you this. If last year was all about Google’s war on thin content, does taking a bulletpoint list of 20 items and turning it into a 22 page slideshow make each individual page too thin? I’d say so, so maybe Google could turn its attention to penalizing the Huffington Post? I follow [...]

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A Better Letter To New York Times Readers About Digital Subscriptions

by on March 28, 2011

in Journalism,Newspapers

Today, the New York Times is taking a major step forward as we introduce digital subscriptions in the United States and the rest of the world. Since we first announced the plan 11 days ago, we’ve heard from so many of you, our readers. We’ve also heard from a bunch of noisy bloggers, but they [...]

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All The New York Times Paywall That’s Fit For No One To Use

by on March 17, 2011

in Journalism,Newspapers

So the New York Times is finally getting a paywall. I’ve got no problem with paywalls. I’ve run my own membership based services for almost 15 years. My issue is with paywalls that make little sense. How’s the NYT paywall going to impact me? Apparently, not at all. That’s because I read most New York [...]

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Backtracking From The Huffington Post To Original Source Of The Auto-Correct Murder Case

by on February 17, 2011

in Internet,Journalism,Newspapers

A sad and strange story — a man in the UK killed after a text was misread as saying “nutter.” Even stranger, how I came to be reading it via the Huffington Post — several sources removed from the original story. My discovery chain.

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