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What I'm Reading
- Apple to Unveil its Next Move in Music?CBS News | Aug 30, 2010Apple has scheduled a big event for Wednesday. CBS News speculates on the company's coming announcements.
- Can Preschoolers Be Depressed?New York Times | Aug 25, 2010Some psychologists believe preschoolers can experience bouts of depression, this New York Times report says.
- Electronic Arts stands by Medal of Honor Taliban featureCNET | Aug 25, 2010EA defends the ability to play as Taliban soldiers in the upcoming "Medal of Honor" game.
- Twitter’s not stupid – you just have boring friendswww.andrewdubber.com | Aug 16, 2010A nice look at how to get the most out of Twitter and refutation of some common Twitter complaints.
- Is 3-D dead in the water? A box-office analysisSlate | Aug 24, 2010Slate magazine looks at whether people are happy with just two dimensions in their movies, thank you very much.
- Apple to Unveil its Next Move in Music?
Recent Comments
My Clips- Cause of plane crash west of Bozeman under investigation, pilot pronounced dead at scene August 31, 2010
- The man who wanted train horns August 16, 2010
- Money well spent? August 15, 2010
- Local telecom company gets $64 million to bring high-speed Internet to rural Gallatin County August 5, 2010
- Montana Opticom receives $64 million in stimulus money for rural broadband August 4, 2010
- AT&T to replace Alltel in Montana within a year June 25, 2010
- Bozeman twin looks to scale namesake peak: K2 June 21, 2010
- High water claims Amsterdam Road bridge June 12, 2010
- Trio of veteran Belgrade teachers retiring June 7, 2010
- MSU robot digger wins NASA competition May 29, 2010
Tag Archives: google
Google Book Search disappoints the scholarly searcher
University of California professor Geoffrey Nunberg has taken a critical look at Google's book search and found it's metadata lacking -- though he does find room for a little hope.
Links from Lee, Kelly and Melynda
Lee shares this video made by Google to explain the way its Google Docs system works. Lee has this to say about the video: Here’s a video link I came across. It’s different than the “story telling” we’ll probably be doing, but I still think it’s well done because it presents a challenge and a solution in [...]
Google as the news industry’s middle man
In the grand scheme of things, the Internet was supposed to directly connect people — buyers and sellers, readers and writers, etc. — and eliminate the middle man. In reality, the middle man is more important than ever, and the biggest middle man of them all is Google, argues Nicholas Carr.
Posted in New Media Also tagged Google News, journalism, Matthew Ingram, middle man, New Media, news, Nicholas Carr, Nieman Journalism Lab, Rough Type, scarcity, syndication Comments closed
A quick note
I added some search engine optimization tools to the site today, a couple of plugins for WordPress. Don’t think I’ve sold out. I’m not going to add advertisements or anything. I just want to experiment a bit and see if these plugins bring me any more traffic. I’ll report on what I find.
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
Jason Calcanis on how to kill Google