Looking for old tweets? You won’t find any that are more than a week or so old on Twitter. Put the blame on all the massive number of new tweets coming in. The engines, they canna hold captain! Or that is, the search index behind Twitter Search can’t hold it all. From Where Have All […]
May 2010
‘The Wire’ creator David Simon’s speech to the Minnesota chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists
‘The Wire’ creator David Simon’s speech to the Minnesota chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists This is good. Warning: Simon drops F-bombs like he’s back in the newsroom.
‘The trends are impressive, even if the numbers sound more like a successful taco stand than a big news operation.’ That’s what media reporter David Carr wrote in a profile of MinnPost in today’s New York Times. Well, not every successful taco stand gets written up in the New York Times, so I’m happy with
Sam Whitmore on the Tyranny of Page Views and SEO
Sam Whitmore on the Tyranny of Page Views and SEO utnereader: newsweek: youngmanhattanite: gillianmae: Journalists have been complaining lately about the pressure to generate page views. Such pressure is not new. But it’s intensifying. It’s now a luxury for a reporter to write a story about an obscure but important topic. That used to be
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In a lengthy post, Twitter has just announced it will ban all third party ad platforms that inject advertising into users twitter streams. This technically means the end of Ad.ly and potentially the just launched Tweetup. Twitter Bans All Third Party Ad Platforms Injecting In-stream advertising Oh, snap. An ‘Open" platform becomes ‘Closed’ platform. Just