Almighty Link

These are links to select web pages recently bookmarked by members of my
delicious.com network — and some opportunities inspired by those pages. Read the posts and then share them on Twitter by clicking on the “tweet” links:

• Four Types of Online Aggregation (from martinstabe) – Howard Owens describes four kinds of online aggregators gain an audience by sending people away [read and tweet]
• How Journalists Can Leverage Social Media (from ksablan) – Jason Falls says “You’re a journalist. Your content is going to be valued at a higher level because of your training.” Opportunity: Read and practice Falls’ tips on how journalists can leverage social media to “increase the impact of their work and promote it to larger audiences.” [read and tweet]
• My shot heard around world (from currybet) – Columnist takes on response by bloggers, fails to link to own column and referenced blogs. Opportunity: Do your readers a favor and link to any web pages or sites that you mention in your articles and blog posts. [read and tweet]

In case you read that last one, here are links that you might find helpful:

• It’s not the medium we should worry about, it’s the content – Cale Cowan’s original column, where he suggests “all newspapers in the world need to shut down their websites, if just for a day”
• ‘Papers should close own websites for a day to show they produce most news on net’ – Jon Slattery’s blog post, from which Cowan quoted comments
• Save the paper: stop the presses for a day – Slattery’s followup, in which he linked to …
• 6 other things newspapers could stop doing for a day to prove their “unique” value … – Martin Belam’s blog post that takes a jab at Cowan’s original proposal by naming other newspaper products that he thinks the world could do without
• User profile: Jon Slattery – Blogger profile, in which Slattery — whom Cowan referred to as a “cyber-pundit” — reveals that he was editor for the Press Gazette for 13 years
• Press Gazette – Wikipedia entry about the “media trade magazine dedicated to journalism and the press”
• Press Gazzette, journalism today – Web site of Press Gazette
• About Martin Belam and currybetdotnet – Belam’s profile, in which he says that he has written for Press Gazette and blogged for the BBC
• Jon Slattery – Slattery’s blog
• currybetdotnet – Martin Belam’s blog
• @jonslattery and @currybet – Twitter pages for Jon Slattery and Martin Belam