Thanks for visiting New Media Bytes. If you like what you see, subscribe to my RSS feed.Scanning my feedback email at MLive, I found an interesting pitch from MSNBC. One of their reporters pitched a special they put together on the quality of U.S. bridges. Sounds like a pretty cool data set.
I checked it out, […]
Note: Apologies for double RSS sends today. Somehow my previous entry was unpublished and I had to get it back out there.
The other day I mentioned that the MLive Twitter account will try to follow all the Twitterers in Michigan. I know I didn’t catch every Michigan Tweeter, but I did find more than 1,300 […]
After reading a few experiments by John Hassell at NJ.com and Kurt Greenbaum at STLtoday, I decided to try out a Twixperiment myself for MLive’s sake.
Hassell found 622 people with “New Jersey” in their profiles and started following them with the NJ.com Giants Twitter account. While in St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch has set up an […]
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 […]
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