Thanks for visiting New Media Bytes. If you like what you see, subscribe to my RSS feed.Yowsa! MNSBC is getting some heat from the search marketing/optimizing side of the web after posting an BusinessWeek article that blasts RSS feeds, blogs, SEO, spam filters, AdWords and other business web services.
The article is meant to argue why […]
Michigan State University journalism professor Dave Poulson asked me to talk to his computer-assisted reporting class next week about all the fun web tools journalists should use to help do their jobs. Exciting! I have a few ideas so I thought I would put them down and then ask you what tools you think I […]
Blog Herald has an interesting post about requiring journalists and news orgs to comment on stories and respond to comments.
The author mentions a Steve Rubel blog post which highlighted CNET’s policy of requiring its staff members to participate in commenting. Have you heard of any other places with a similar stance?
While I encourage news people, […]
Before going to bed, I noticed that the front page of msnbc was down. Usually, I don’t bother contacting anyone about this type of thing because they are often brief glitches that no producer wants to be caught with. But when I woke up, it was still there. So I thought I should say something.
Sadly, […]
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