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What about me

April 29th, 2008 by Joe
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There’s a widget on Yahoo!’s obsolete Mash property that is a fill-in-the-blank means of describing ones self. Here’s my attempt at it:

If I were an animal, I would be a sloth
My best features are missing
My Celebrity look-a-likes are sad
What I’m most likely doing now flying under the radar
What I’ll most likely be doing in the future ducking and dodging
My hobbies include walking around with a rocket launcher on my shoulder
If I were a movie character, I would be unemployed
What’s most likely playing on my iPod iPod? I don’t want to be told where to buy my music. I have a Sansa
My nicknames are boring
Things I’m most likely to say uh, um, err, d’oh, meh
Something I can’t leave home without my car
The soundtrack of my life zzzzzzzzzzzzz
My style is lacking
My talents are missing

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del.icio.us site stats incorporated into Yahoo! SERPs

April 19th, 2008 by Joe
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Read about it on TechCrunch

And, as with any good idea, the spam will follow. Bring on the del.icio.us spam (!?).

 

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RSS for journalists

April 19th, 2008 by Joe
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If I could make a living preaching the merits of using RSS readers to journalists, I’d do it. Unfortunately very few make use of RSS feeds. But some do. Of course these are the ones that write about such technology.

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Thanks for trying to do business with us.

April 10th, 2008 by Joe
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I see this on my MyYahoo! page today …

Alaska Air advertisement

 

Being that I’m flying on Alaska Air to San Francisco next week I click and see this page …

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What do Journalists use most for story ideas and research?

April 5th, 2008 by Joe
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I discovered Facebook has an easy-to-use polling service and gave it a try. I limited my poll to only journalism majors but not a specific age group (I wish it would have enabled me to add that). The poll asks the question, “What do you use most for story ideas and research?” I then offered up the following response options:

  • Search engines (Internet)
  • Press releases
  • What I hear from other people
  • What I read (hardcopy)
  • What I read (online)

Realizing the population on Facebook leans towards college age, I really wondered how many would have even had the opportunity to use press releases as a resource. The following results tell the story. [Read more →]

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