Category Archives: Miscellany
JESS3 / The State of The Internet
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Cross-posted from my Posterous site at Becker’s Online Journal
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Survey: Nearly one-third of journalists don’t use social media or read blogs
- More than 30 per cent of journalists do not use social networking sites.
- 52 per cent of journalists don’t use Twitter.
- One-third of journalists do not read blogs.
- More than half don’t watch videos online.
- 75 percent of journalists do not listen to podcasts.
Yet 91 percent “agree that new media and communications tools and technologies are [...]
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It’s coming...
We’re now targeting the 3.0 release for early May
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God help us. WordPress 3.0 is almost here, and the new menu system looks sweet.
Cross-posted from my Posterous site at Becker’s Online Journal
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Reflections of a Newsosaur: Maybe others should copy early LAT deadlines
As revolutionary as forethought might be in some newsrooms, the smart front pages produced at the LAT since the tighter deadlines were implemented suggest that early closes could lead to more of the deep, interpretive coverage that newspapers are uniquely equipped to deliver.
By playing to print’s singular capability to illuminate complex and subtle subjects, publishers [...]
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Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
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