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 [...]
Categories: Maps, One For Fun, Tips & Tools
Tagged: beta, invites, Maps, productivity
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.
Categories: General Journalism
Tagged: blogs, outage, Times Online, typepad
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 [...]
Categories: Data + Graphics, Maps
Tagged: Earth Hour, environment, fun, Toronto Star
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 [...]
Categories: General Journalism
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 [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Tips & Tools
Tagged: exposure, lineup, readership, rundown, story order, traffic
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. [...]
Categories: General Journalism, One For Fun
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 [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Tips & Tools
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.
Categories: General Journalism, Social Media, Tips & Tools
Tagged: conferences, technology, video