Not mine, somebody else’s:
wfaachannel8 Family baffled by parents’ suicide on train tracks http://tinyurl.com/kpgsc9
digg_2000 “If You Don’t Replace the Toilet Paper Rolls…” – http://digg.com/d2vRiS?t1
BartGatsby Yikes! Sears Tower’s 1353-Foot High Glass Balconies http://su.pr/27X45e
Pogue It had to happen: The first music video shot entirely on an iiPhone 3GS. Not bad! http://bit.ly/sOXL5
dhinojosa68 This gem came on the MP3 player during my walk today. ? http://blip.fm/~9a9ly
mashable http://bit.ly/fVLpA <– Fittingly, our most retweeted post today is: “HOW TO: Get Retweeted on Twitter”
cnn Lone survivor of 1971 crash fell 2 miles http://bit.ly/2xMLCf
ijefff Retweeting @mackcamera: Tips for Photographing Fireworks http://tr.im/qCEQ
manolith The 20 Funniest Vanity License Plates Online: The 20 Funniest Vanity Plates Online. Serious. http://digg.com/u17Ee4
twittilicious 20+ Resources and Tutorials for Creative Forms using CSS : Speckyboy Design Magazine http://bit.ly/oVnKR
twittilicious 20+ Resources and Tutorials for Creative Forms using CSS : Speckyboy Design Magazine http://bit.ly/oVnKR
consumerist McDonald’s 10 lb. Bags of Ice Contain Less Than 7 lbs. [Fast Food Fraud] http://tinyurl.com/n6ymbf
WSJ Cryptologist Cracks Presidential Code http://bit.ly/2oULkc
twittilicious 15 Essential WordPress Plugins for Portfolio Sites http://bit.ly/1EWGV2
consumerist Top 10 Ironic Ads From History [Consumer Culture] http://tinyurl.com/lhypmo
mashable HOW TO: Get Retweeted on Twitter – http://bit.ly/fVLpA
PeterSokolowski In the week since the death of Michael Jackson, the most looked-up word at www.Merriam-Webster.com was ‘emaciated.’
GrandPrairNews Today Newspapers, covering suburbs southwest of Dallas, closes its … – Pegasus News: http://fenje.com/2oa
Last night I met with a friend whom I hadn’t seen in close to 10 years in what was supposed to be a larger reunion — turned out it was just the two of us. We worked together at the Star-Telegram all that time ago and since, he’s left print journalism and is now the editor in chief for a popular video game blog, Kotaku.
Before giving up print completely, he worked as a cop reporter at The Rocky Mountain News while also writing a video game column. The latter soon became his daily beat. The paper, going through staff cuts, one decided they needed a cop reporter and not a video game reviewer and gave him the option of returning to his old beat or leaving altogether. I can’t imagine it was an easy decision but he chose the digital path and hasn’t left since.
The Rocky closed its doors last year, so that definitely was a wise decision. He tells me that when the doors closed in Denver, he received calls from former staffers who were putting together a blog version of the paper that they would write and sell subscriptions for. I forget what their target was, but they sold about 3,000 subscriptions. I told him that I had just read that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which went all-digital earlier this year, was averaging more than 800,000 unique hits per month. He paused for a moment, and said his web site is now averaging almost 60 million hits per month and their staff is small. “How can they afford to pay the newspaper’s salary with those numbers?”
Good question.
I find that I spend a lot of time experimenting with apps, online and off, building projects that ultimately go nowhere. Even whatever little information I get on social media and its uses, such as Facebook and Twitter, I bring back to the workplace and implement it either in my daily routine, or on the company website or simply share it among coworkers. The last option works best, since there’s always something else that they know that I don’t.
In trying to decide what the site should look like, I’ve overlooked the fact that I’m not producing any content. So maybe by taking this step forward I’ll simply be stalled. That would actually be an improvement. Why am I telling you this?
