While the Twitter vs. Google debates rage on, a group of 42 mice have combined the best of both worlds and created a new search engine called Topsy. Type a couple of words into Topsy and it will return a list of web pages ranked by how many times they were linked to on Twitter, and [...]
Tom Grubisich wrote yesterday that newspapers need to do a better job of “selling their content” to readers who arrive at a particular article or blog post via search engines. I don’t know if emulating carnival barkers will convert searchers into loyal visitors, but journalists (mainstream and otherwise) can help tell a story and provide context by [...]
Instead of scheduling a day full of #followfriday tweets, I’ve decided to share seven tweets from people I heartily recommend because they consistently find and share interesting links. As a matter of fact, one of these friends, Craig Kanalley of Breaking Tweets, sent me the link to QuoteURL, which is the tool I used to gather and display [...]
The following is an account of the role Jit Fong Chin, a member of the Orange County Register‘s web task force, played when an earthquake shook a newsroom staffed for a Sunday night. The text was originally written as a comment on my post about how @OCReggie connected with the community during the quake. Jit was [...]
