I don’t agree with the premise at all — citizens’ media has never been more robust or reliable — but here is a new meme beginning to make the rounds. Shaping the Future of the Newspaper blog: Citizen journalism on its way out? Citizen journalism is being hindered and may even be dying at the […]
Pander city: On the Republican YouTube debate
Just watched the Republican YouTube debate on CNN. Quite a contrast from the Democratic YouTube debate in so many ways — far fewer inventive user videos and far more predictable questions that made this not very different from a debate with traditional media scribes. The opening was a bit bizarre. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (who’s […]
Top 100 Social Media Sites: Guess who’s #1?
I’m not into bragging, but thanks to VirtualHosting for naming this blog the #1 Social Media/Web 2.0 blog in all the land. Here’s their Top 100 list. There are a few on here I hadn’t heard of and will be checking out (I often leave the marketing/PR social media angle to others). Tom Pick runs […]
10 ways to protect your online reputation
RISMedia: 10 Ways to Protect Your Online Reputation. Here are 3 of the great tips there: 4. Use sub-domains. If you really do not want to budget for buying individual domains, try sub-domains on your primary domain. Most hosting services allow you to have multiple free sub-domains such as www.careers.yourbusiness.com. Sub-domains are treated as individual […]
Fussiness in the California school system
Had my first meeting with Bobby’s third-grade teacher Friday. He’s doing well. But I noticed that on one of his tests, he was marked wrong for not using a serial comma. A serial comma, for those who don’t know, is the comma before the final "and" in a phrase such as "ham, chips, and eggs." […]