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Entries for January, 2008

Get your pics! Library of Congress photos launch on Flickr

Thanks for visiting New Media Bytes. If you like what you see, subscribe to my RSS feed.Bloggers, Remixers rejoice. The Library of Congress launched it’s photostream on Flickr, according to Mashable. That means free images!!!

Free images mean you can repost them in your blogs and remix them for new artwork. Pretty cool!
Says Mashable:
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Need primaries coverage? Use Twitter to find it

Michigan voters head to the polls to vote for their favorite GOP candidate, Clinton or no one or to skew the Republican primary. All the news sites are reporting the same stuff. McCain this, Romney that. Who’s got the good stuff? Who’s on the ground with the action?
To find the sideline stories about the event [...]

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Can 75 percent of journalists really be getting story ideas from blogs?

Online marketer Andy Beal makes note of a Brodeur and MarketWire survey (pdf) which found that 75 percent of journalists use blogs to generate story ideas. This sounds like an awesome statistic - but I’m not so sure I believe it.
Jerry Johnson, head of strategic planning at Brodeur, clarifies a little in a press release:
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Niche topics will help you crack front page of Digg

The MLive.com crew and Business Review staff have worked hard the last week to bring some great Detroit Auto Show coverage to our readers. The posting has been non-stop and the coverage has included videos, photos and interviews.
But the most-read item isn’t necessarily about the newest concept. Nay! It’s a video about how the new [...]

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