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How people, journalists, and companies connect through links and social tools

Entries for March, 2010

Context is personal

A single news item is only important to a reader if it makes sense within a larger context. An example An example that journalist Matt Thompson offers up is the torrent of news items about health-care reform. Each item only makes sense if you understand the bigger picture. CUNY Professer Jay Rosen hails an NPR [...]

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Links are four times more important than social

News consumers care about “links to related material” more than any other feature on news sites according to  the Understanding the Participatory News Consumer report (by Kristen Purcell, Lee Rainie, Amy Mitchell, Tom Rosenstiel and Kenny Olmstead) published March 1, 2010 as part of the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The ability to share [...]

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I wanted to make these sites

I come up with crazy ideas all the time, and I occasionally snatch up domain names in case I have time to actually work on those ideas. Within the last few months, I’ve let these domains expire. Feel free to register them yourself and/or at least take the ideas and run with them. agrg8.com would [...]

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Optimize WordPress permalinks for search engines

If you have a WordPress blog, you must customize your permalink settings to give your posts a fighting chance to rank high in search engines. In this video, Eric Stegemann (@EricStegemann) of Tribus Real Estate shows the March 6 crowd at #SMMOC, the Orange County Social Media Mastermind Roundtable, how to optimize WordPress permalinks for search engines. For [...]

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