Thanks for visiting New Media Bytes. If you like what you see, subscribe to my RSS feed.Reporters and bloggers at MLive have tested a few different ways of covering live events (e.g. football games, press conferences) using our blogging software.
Here’s a couple of the ideas we’ve used:
Write a new entry in a blog every time [...]
Are you one of those journalists/producers waiting for this Facebook fad to finally end? It might be time to strap up and finally start figuring out what this whole social networking thing is all about.
Facebook will likely be here for the long haul, following a Friday announcement that some say will make it easier to [...]
Ever wonder how people found your blog or where your commenters come from? If you write a typical news site blog, you likely don’t have access to all the mounds of data that your web staff hoards (oh yes, we hoard it, for s&g (j/k)).
But you probably would love to know who is reading your [...]
Note before reading: I’m no Digg samurai, only a social media ninja! Please correct me of any misstatements, and forgive my oversimplifying the issue
You may have heard, Digg.com restructured it’s algorithm. If you’ve ever dropped a crossword puzzle from your newspaper comics page or gone through a redesign, you can probably guess - users don’t [...]
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