Ricochet Reads…
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Verbal bulletin board for mobile phone users to exchange location-specific info.
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“We are building tools to explore how the millions of terms already represented in Web-accessible controlled vocabularies can be used to enhance the process and resultant products of social tagging.”
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Check out the entries from this year’s contest. Winners will be announced in June.
Ricochet Reads…
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“The nation’s third-largest newspaper group is adopting Caspio Bridge as a rapid database- and application-building platform for its Web sites after deployment at five of its large dailies — The Sacramento Bee, The Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star, The
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Paper ain’t dead yet, and won’t be for a long time.
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Stuck for a headline? Learn which words to avoid.
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Community mapping site
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“Interface demos for visualizing the MACE project expert vocabulary for metatagging architectural contents. The vocabulary contains more than 2000 terms, organized hierarchically in a number of facets and fields.”
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“We’ve identified 11 places across the US that represent distinct types of voter communities…. As the 2008 campaign progresses, the Monitor will write about what issues matter in each of these communities, how the issues affect residents’ votes, and
Is This What Cable News Has Been Reduced To?
A friend who loves news but isn’t in the news business forwarded this to me. It’s a pretty dead-on, yet sad commentary on the state of cable news.
Washington Post Reporter Embeds Farewell to Readers
I wonder what kind of traffic Linton Weeks’ story has been getting since it went up?
As mentioned in Romenesko on Tuesday, the former features editor hid a message in his review of a speech by John Updike.
Weeks was among more than 100 WaPo reporters who took a buyout.
The Trouble With Twitter and News of the China Quake
Yesterday, a massive earthquake did untold amounts of damage in Chengdu, the largest city in China.
While people were trying to get details of magnitude, damage and the status of loved ones, the Web was simultaneously aflame with self-congratulatory news that the first reports of the quake came out on Twitter, thanks to Robert Scoble bringing attention to them.
As people interested in reporting what’s happening around us, we should think more carefully about where and how to find our sources.
Twitter is a great tool for communication, and a great resource for scanning what’s happening “out there.” But by no means should anyone be congratulating themselves for being first to report about an event in China on a service that’s primarily used by those who type in English and Japanese.
Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land, Kaiser Kuo at Ogilvy China and Joshua Allen have some additional thoughts worth reading.
