Thanks for visiting New Media Bytes. If you like what you see, subscribe to my RSS feed.Yoni Greenbaum writes that this year’s presidential election cycle is and will be a big “traffic boon for newspaper websites.” And he’s right! I’ve noticed unique user spikes by the thousands on the nights of presidential primaries and also [...]
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, [...]
ProBlogger dropped a great post this morning about 7 types of blog posts that build traffic and links.
The list offers great tips for what kind of entries to write when your stuck on creating a new post. This is a great resource for new blog writers who may not understand why their posts are not [...]
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