Author Archives: Michael Becker
The Web strategy hamster wheel
Today our company’s CEO paid us a visit. To mark the occasion, we had a meeting to talk about how much content our paper should be putting online.
Our corporate owners have a policy about how much content we and the other papers should be putting online for free. I won’t give a number, but [...]
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The perils of centralization
My paper’s Web site is down tonight. I don’t know if it’s scheduled maintenance or not. I assume if this is scheduled maintenance that I didn’t get the memo. As the Web editor, I should get those memos.
I think it likely that it’s not scheduled maintenance, and here’s why. The main Web site for the [...]
Info about Twitter for journalists
An absolute bevy of information for journalistic uses of Twitter from Mr. Steve Buttry. Read it, and read the article he links to by Julie Posetti; it’s an analysis of Twitter use by Australian journalists.
New Web Site
My newspaper just launched its new Web site, so I’m spending a lot of time answering e-mails, training news staff and squashing bugs. Excuse me if I’m quieter than usual on the Web.
Oh, and if you want to see the new Web site we’ve hatched, check it out.
On a sadder note, my brand-spanking-new 27-inch iMac [...]
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
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