‘Bodice Ripping 2.0′ : CyberJournalist.net “The Internet mastermind for Harlequin, publisher of those romance novels with the shirtless studs and swooning, bosomy damsels on the covers, discusses the demand for online reading in an interview with Fast Company’s Kermit Pattison.” (tags: ebooks writing web2.0 community)
The Online Community Cookbook – Newspaper Association of America: Advancing Newspaper Media for the 21st Century “The Cookbook provides a structured approach to understanding online communities and a step-by-step guide to building and sustaining them successfully in local markets.” (tags: naa journalism newspapers social community) Citizen Journalism and Newspaper Sites: The Revolution will be Uploaded [...]
Bruce Lee’s Top 7 Fundamentals for Getting Your Life in Shape Enough said. (tags: career lifehacks productivity) The Challenge Dividend: Facebook Ads Don’t Rock Interesting look at a social media ad campaign… “So, with a highly-relevant ad served to a highly-targeted audience, only 12 of the 71,023 ad impressions led to an action. That’s a [...]
Today’s long run – my longest so far – provided a couple of epiphanies: 1. Pizza and beer are great training foods, at least for me. Possibly. Further research will be required. Last night we ordered a big, greasy pepperoni and sausage pizza and I ate four slices, which I enjoyed with a couple of [...]
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43 Folders Series: Inbox Zero | 43 Folders A great series on how to manage your email inbox. Some nice tips. Some will be familiar to users of GTD or other systems, but this is a nice refresher and pulls a lot of things together – plus the guy has an engaging, funny writing style. [...]
There is no piece of Web development for big sites so often viewed as critically important and at the same time pushed into the background of the process than Web standards. Because Web standards can mean different things depending on who’s describing them, and are often the subject of intense debate, they can be hard [...]
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Reluctantly, a Daily Stops Its Presses, Living Online – New York Times “On Saturday, The Capital Times, the city’s fabled 90-year-old daily newspaper founded in response to the jingoist fervor of World War I, stopped printing to devote itself to publishing its daily report on the Web.” (tags: media newspapers technology)
The Science of Thinking Smarter: A Conversation with Brain Expert John J. Medina “Neuroscience can show managers ways to improve productivity.” (tags: intelligence science management,) May 1, 1964: First Basic Program Runs Happy Birthday, BASIC! How fondly I remember writing your peeks and pokes for my first Space Invaders style game when I was a [...]
It’s been a tough week for newspapers, including our own (Telegraph, Cabinet papers announce layoffs). Everywhere you look, pundits are predicting game over (Ad Age’s “The Newspaper Deathwatch” series, for example); thing is, they’re wrong. The newspaper industry is in transition – and change is never easy. Will newspaper companies look different five years from [...]
I terrifically enjoyed the book In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, by Michael Pollan – and agreed with many of the author's arguments, including: people (myself included) should generally eat better quality food and less of it, people should eat real food, not processed food product, and that people should eat more leaves. Right [...]
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