As AngryJournalist.com hit its 5,000th comment mark yesterday, I began to think more about comments on the web and the lack of consensus on how news organizations approach the concept of online conversations.
The main problems with comments stem from two areas: identity and filtering.
Comment identity
I remember in my first journalism class I was fortunate enough [...]
As previously featured here, I’m finding more and more of my friends blogging. So, here goes two more I found.
+ Beck Diefenbach has started a blog featuring some of the photos he’s shot during his internship at the South Bend Tribune. I’m not a huge photoblog person, but I get more interested when it’s photos [...]
I just discovered Muxtape.com today via several people I’m following on Tumblr. You have to give it a try.
Muxtape has a lightening-fast sign-up process and it’s functionality is dirt simple to use. Upload up to 12 mp3 files (no larger than 10 mb each) and then send your friends an easy to use URL — [...]
Not that the comparison above between Republican and Democratic donors from Chicago is any surprise, but the Huffington Post has a nice Google Maps mashup that geographically charts presidential campaign contributions.
Found any other nifty charts, graphs, maps, interactive Flash apps, etc. that deals with the primaries tomorrow? Put them in the comments, I’d love [...]
Ever since I read a friend’s Facebook note that Barack Obama’s servers were crushed by the power of hope, I wondered how his traffic levels compared to Hillary Clinton’s.
So, who’s received more Internet traffic? Answer: It’s all in how you measure traffic, which means there’s no clear winner here.
Using the site Compete.com to compare site [...]
For at least 4 hours, Barack Obama’s campaign Web site has displayed that image above. His Web site is down, servers overloaded just mere hours before the polls open for Super Duper Fat Tuesday tomorrow.
It didn’t come online fully until about midnight on Monday evening.
While some might see this as a good sign for [...]
What is the deal with journalists always being the last ones to this party called the Internet?
First, it was creating Web sites. Next, it was the pay walls falling down. Then, blogging was met with skepticism and took forever to execute properly. And it took forever for Wikipedia to gain some recognition. Oh, and look [...]
A few weeks back, a friend of mine joined Twitter and stated an opinion of what I think many people have of the micro-blogging service: it’s kind of pointless.
To a degree, I must admit the value of Twitter is extremely on the fence. Should you use it? Is it worth your time? Frankly, I haven’t [...]
If you’re on Facebook, like I am, then you’ve probably become more than accustomed to the newsfeed, which embodies the social network definition of “too much information.” The main problem with the newsfeed is the signal-to-noise ratio, and that’s starting to make Facebook gradually less useful. And this is part of a larger problem with [...]
Earlier this week, EveryBlock.com launched in Chicago as well as San Francisco and NYC. While I can’t directly benefit from this new Web site, I do like the idea and think it’s something Chicagoans should give a try.
What is EveryBlock? Simply put, the site aggregates information — including news, public records and even Craigslist-style personals [...]
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