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Thanks for visiting New Media Bytes. If you like what you see, subscribe to my RSS feed.I admit it. I’m a stats junkie. I love watching reader trends and feed subscription rates. I can’t get enough. But I know that isn’t necessarily helping me become a better producer. I know stats aren’t helping me become [...]

Columnists are often regarded as the bread and butter of newspapers’ niche sections. Many believe that newspaper readers sometimes buy newspapers for the sole reason of catching their favorite columnist. So, if that’s the case, wouldn’t throngs of web readers flock to a columnist’s new blog?
Not so, as many online news sites have discovered.
Though it [...]

One thing that has long plagued my web feed-reading experience is the problem of having to visit a blog to actually comment on a post. Don’t get me wrong. I love visiting blogs and seeing what’s going on. But I have longed for a day when I could comment from my Google Reader account [...]

I’ll start by this: I’m no multimedia expert. But I know what I find most interesting. John Hassell posted a couple of well-constructed videos created by the Star-Ledger to highlight the power of storytelling through technology. (img by Torchondo.)
The second video John posted caught me, here’s the desription:
shot in one take with minimal narration by [...]