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News of a celebrity's death can now spread across Twitter before the family's informed. That doesn't mean it should.
Philip Seymour Hoffman died yesterday. This was the first and only thing we were told. Arguably, we were told too soon. The news came via a tweetfrom the Wall Street Journal, preceded by that all-too-familiar word, “Breaking.”
But aside from the text of the tweet itself, there was no additional reporting to verify the announcement. That would come approximately 17 minutes later. In the interim, the news went viral. Online publications were willing to believe the Wall Street Journal before it posted a news brief to corroborate its tweet, but prefaced its own writeups and retweets with disclaimers like, “no confirmation yet, but …”
Readers were also reticent as they sent the news further into the world, asking, “Is anyone else reporting this?” Some expressed their hopes that the news was a hoax....
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February 4, 2014 6:06 PM
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Engage website visitors better by designing your site to match how people's eyes move on the page. Here are some surprising eye tracking stats to help. Putting together a great looking website is a great start, but it is just a start. True web design requires you to venture beyond the aesthetic and into the worlds of User Experience and Conversion Rate Optimization. Knowing how the viewers of your site really see it can help to shine light on new and/or missed opportunities within your current design. It may also bring out the need for new elements or changes. While there are plenty of options for improving CRO, eye tracking analysis provides some of the most useful information for optimizing your biggest digital marketing asset, your website. A good design will catch people’s eye, but a great design will keep people on your site and get them engaged with your content. And while you shouldn’tunderestimate the power of good copy, your design is what people notice first. We teamed up with our friends over at Single Grain to put together the infographic below in hopes that it will help everyone get a better, basic understanding of what eye tracking is and what it can do.
I've written before about the importance of context; and ranted too about "stolen" images used, uncredited etc., at Tumblr and other sites. I've tweeted and posted at Facebook about my hatred of su...
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February 3, 2014 5:13 PM
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From a small American literary journal's vow to dedicate a year's coverage to women writers and writers of colour to author and artist Joanna Walsh's burgeoning #readwomen2014 project, readers – and publishers – around the world are starting to take their own small steps to address male writers' dominance in the literary universe.
Shelf Talker, Staff Picks displayed on a shelf (template can be found in Flyers - Half)
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January 31, 2014 11:07 PM
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Critics are always remarking that we in this country lag far behind those of Eurpoean countries when it comes to borrowung books from libraries. Well, this enterprising girl...
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January 30, 2014 7:52 PM
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Content curation is all about collecting best of the stuff from the web. A content curation blog is one easy way to make money and add passive income.
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The percentage of people reading books these days might surprise you. Identifying our false assumptions can lead to huge innovation opportunities.
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January 22, 2014 2:28 PM
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Hello “TechnoTactics” readers, how are you all doing? Busy checking out the new SEO strategies to get more engagement? Welcome to my article regarding...
The post What is preferable: A blog or a traditional Newspaper?
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January 19, 2014 12:58 AM
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We often have cause to complain about media coverage of sex work, but we haven’t had occasion to talk about how good stories can be edited into inadequate ones as they travel from reporter to final outlet. The fate of Jordan Flaherty‘s story about Project ROSE (Reaching Out to the Sexually Exploited) is a great opportunity to look at what happens when a journalist tries to show the public the whole story but is met with resistance from his employer.
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January 18, 2014 3:17 PM
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What if we considered content curation from a user centered design perspective? What would audience centered curation look like?
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January 17, 2014 5:37 PM
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An Alabama judge imposed a 90-day sentence this week on corruption-fighting Alabama blogger Roger Shuler, whom authorities have jailed indefinitely for alleging a sex scandal involving a prominent attorney. At right, Shuler, now 57, is shown puffy-faced in his mug shot following his arrest Oct. 23 in his garage in a suburb of Birmingham. Meanwhile, the New York Times reported Jan. 12 on the threats to civil rights law posed by the libel case underlying Shuler’s jailing. The Times headlined the story, Blogger’s Incarceration Raises First Amendment Questions. The Times story sought so hard to be balanced that it underplayed the court system's outrageous confiscation of Shuler's rights -- and the looming impact on the public. Among the harms, the kangaroo court proceedings set back the state's image more than 50 years to the time of the segregationist Jim Crow era when libel and contempt of court proceedings were used to crush the civil rights movement. Today, many should fear living and doing business in a state operating under one-party rule enforced by a court system aggressively deployed by its political leaders to operate in a lawless manner.
...In view of the apathy of much of the media regarding Shuler's dire circumstances, national coverage in the Sunday edition of the nation's most influential newspaper was a net positive for Shuler and other advocates of the First Amendment.
Bu neither Robertson, a native of a nearby Alabama community, nor his selected experts featured in the article conveyed to the public the appalling danger of a court system operating so lawlessly. Under de facto direction from the state's highest court, the system is on its way to destroying a journalist without a trial and other due process safeguards that the American legal system theoretically requires...
Blogging is a form of self-publishing -- and it's a beautiful thing; but it comes with its own set of responsibilities.
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January 16, 2014 4:38 PM
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Net neutrality explained. Will you have to pay more for Netflix, or a fee to be able to stream YouTube videos at full speed?
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January 16, 2014 4:28 PM
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One writer's chronicle of online harassment is sadly familiar to many.
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January 3, 2014 3:03 PM
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How not to edit a publication.
Luke Lewis shares 28 great editing and layout fumbles.
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December 28, 2013 6:24 PM
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Angela Dunn explores content curation as a means to lifelong and collaborative learning. She shows how to curate around diverse interests, like a Generalist.
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December 28, 2013 4:45 PM
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Netflix & Amazon know something most new to web merchants miss; Information creates online scale becoming the gold at the end of a means rainbow.
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December 28, 2013 4:43 PM
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44% of Links Go Lost: To Preserve Valuable Content Online Will Become a Prime Need
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December 27, 2013 5:11 PM
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A reconsideration of V. C. Andrews’s much-maligned, utterly strange quasi children’s literature.
...Ultimately, Andrews’s novels constitute their own genre, in which secrets, lies, desire, and moral corruption all stem from—and are contained in—the family.
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December 20, 2013 9:47 PM
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Think of it as a writers-in-residence program ... one that never has to end.
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December 20, 2013 6:00 PM
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"Despite years of progress for women in science, men continue to dominate scientific publishing in nearly every country, according to new research in the journal Nature. Not only do men publish far more research than their female colleagues, but papers with men as the dominant author are more likely to be cited by other researchers."
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December 19, 2013 5:46 AM
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There is good news for those who enjoy paper and print! An article in the recent November 2013 issue of Scientific American magazine clearly supports what we already know: most people understand and remember text better when read on paper rather than a screen. According to the article, while e-readers and tablets are becoming more popular as these technologies improve, reading on paper has many advantages.
There’s a lot of junk on the web. There is also a lot of good stuff on the web. And then there is the stuff that’s been lifted from the good and dropped amid the dross—the aggregation, the block-quotes, the straight-off copy-paste jobs.
The extent of that duplication now has a number: according to Matt Cutts, a long time Google search engineer who developed Google’s family-friendly “SafeSearch” filter and who now leads Google’s web spam team, “something like 25% or 30% of the web’s content is duplicate content.”
That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Not all of the duplication is plagiarized or hastily created traffic-seeking junk. Examples of inoffensive duplication include quotes from blogs that link back to the original blog, or the thousands of pages of technical manuals scattered across the web that are updated with small changes but remain largely the same..
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Salon looks at the challenge of reporting celebrity deaths and the speed of the internet with the need for closer consideration of ethics. It's an important debate.