Monthly Archives: March 2008

One for Fun: Want a Mapfaced or Evernote Beta Invite?* 12

It’s the end of the week, which means time for Ricochet’s One for Fun.
Today, I’m giving away private beta invites.
Update: All the invites are gone. If I get more in the future, I’ll post a new note.
Mapfaced allows users to create, search for and rate food and drink crawls in New York City. It’s positioned [...]

Here’s One Reason to Have News Blogs Hosted Elsewhere 0

The Times Online in London had a temporary outage today.
Despite being “very busy,” there were links to several blogs hosted on TypePad, and those pages were live.

Toronto Star Maps Earth Hour Blackout 0

Downtown Toronto will go dark at 8 p.m. Saturday as citizens turn out the lights to observe Earth Hour, a World Wildlife Fund campaign to raise global awareness of the human impact on the environment.
The Toronto Star staff produced a map of participants, but apparently was overwhelmed by the response and didn’t map all 1,163 [...]

Minding the Credibility Gap 0

Poynter Online has announced a one-hour webinar April 8 on maintaining credibility with the online news audience.
NewsU blurb talks about a review of the “Online Credibility Gap” survey, but has no link to what survey the seminar will focus on. A guess tells me it’s an update on APME’s Building Trust in the News” project.
For [...]

One for Fun: Journalist Bars Announce Last Call 1

Yes, I realize this was first posted last Friday. And yes, I realize the story is about the demise of pubs where journalists would congregate to talk to sources and each other. But it’s a good piece (though the London segment was lame) and it’s the weekend.
While the video focuses on the longtime hangouts that [...]

Mapping NCAA March Madness 1

With March Madness fully upon is, the question everyone seems to be asking is, “Where’s a good sports bar that has my favorite team’s game on?”
In New York, MapFaced has come to the rescue. The site, which is still in private beta, has a map of sports bars hosting NCAA March Madness broadcasts.

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Maximizing Story Traffic With Half-Life Analysis 1

I love The Economist.
You may scoff at their Web site, but there are few sources that analyze business and world affairs as well or as soberly.
On March 6, they published a story called, “Hold the Front Page,” which described an HP Social Computing Lab study that tried to answer the question: How do you maximize [...]

One for Fun: Happy Journalists Look on the Sunny Side 0

Not everyone is grousing in newsland.
I recently mentioned the launch of AngryJournalist.com, an anonymous rant site for news people fed up with their jobs.
Just a few days ago, Denver Post programmer Joe Murphy accentuated the positive by launching upbeat confessional site HappyJournalist.com.
Though there aren’t nearly as many posts, many of them include names and links. [...]

How to Make the Most of Your Next Conference 0

Social media consultant Chris Brogan has posted 10 tips for conference goers.
Since the season is about to get into full swing, here are some of the best ideas from the list:

Scour the web (technorati and Google Blogsearch) to see who’s coming, and reach out to people you want to see.
Have a really simple, brief sentence [...]

Computation + Journalism Videos Posted 0

Didn’t make it to the Journalism 3G symposium in Atlanta? Catch up on what you missed.
Georgia Tech has posted videos of the talks and panels, and links posted by conference attendees.