David LaFontaine's
Sips from the Firehose
A blog that attempts to distill the internet into one easy-to-gulp mental beverage.
Ahhh! Tasty.
Turning “Likes” into Schwag: American Airlines and Klout
One in an occasional, erratic and occasionally erratic series Time is money. Image is everything. Manners maketh man. Your reputation precedes you. And now, having a high (enough) Klout score wins you entry into the American Airlines first-class lounge, where you can...
Lesson from Reddit and the Boston Bombing — Don’t Stop Experimenting with Crowdsourcing
The genie is not going back into the bottle. Nor should it.
Our jobs as journalists/media professionals are to figure out how better to make this impulse actually turn into something productive. I give Reddit a lot of credit for actually pitching in and helping.
Best of Journalism, Worst of Journalism
Matty Yglesias says on Salon that online journalism means things have never been better! OK, there is some validity to his POV that access to unlimited sources of information has made the sophisticated news consumer (at least potentially) better-informed than ever...
Facebook Ads & the Curated Social Web: A Way to Tame the Firehose
Basically, this boils down to "are we willing to pay - either with our privacy (the coin of the online realm) or in actual ca$h dinero - for the relentless stream of information to be filtered down to stuff that we actually want to see, or that we need to see?" ...
How to Tell a Story – from Pixar, via BoingBoing
OK, this is really derivative, but I'm so impressed with the insight in this list that I'm shamelessly repeating it here. Go to BoingBoing. Click on the ads. Give them some money. They are good. I like BoingBoing. (Please, no DMCA notice for this...) To my journalism...
Gaming Twitter Follower Counts Makes You a Dick
The "Follow/Unfollow Dance" builds your lists ... but to what end? Social media whiz & Cheesehead Homie Erik Johnson writes powerfully about his experience with one of his intellectual idols. Viz: Every school had one. The kid who pretended to be your friend just...