Day 1 – Community Building Field Test
(If you didn’t read the first post in this series, you really ought to start here…) Got off to a bad start, after upgrading the site to WordPress 2.6 and the latest BBPress, I find that our Ajax login isn’t working. What’s worse is that I don’t use that to get logged in usually, so it’s been that way since late Friday afternoon. Hence I am the only one that was able to login. After such a bad trip down…
The Worm Turns for Big Media
There have been two big events in the media world in the past couple days, and to some extent, I think both have gone largely unnoticed. The first is that the 2008 Olympics have become a real social media event, such to the extent that it’s been written about almost as much as Misty May’s tattoo or Michael Phelp’s speedo. From the NY Times (pointer via Churbuck.com) article by David Carr: “On Friday, NBC spent the day trying to plug…
One is the Loneliest Number…Community Building 101
Technically, building a community platform is easy: you just get a fist full of developers, hand them a spec, give them a blank server and turn them loose. At some point in the not so distant future you have your new community site ready for testing. Soon there after, you’re ready to welcome the real users. The problem is, you quickly find, even if you’ve got a premium domain, that the world isn’t sitting around waiting for you to open…
Duncan Riley: At the end of the war, Newspapers commit ritual suicide
Duncan Riley writes at Inquisitr that the Philadelphia Inquirer has set a new policy requiring that all “signature investigative reporting” appear in print before it hits the web site. Romenesko has a copy of the memo sent to Inquirer staff. The important parts: Beginning today, we are adopting an Inquirer first policy for our signature investigative reporting, enterprise, trend stories, news features, and reviews of all sorts. What that means is that we won’t post those stories online until they’re…
Friday Music Video: Jamaaladeen Tacuma
The guy with the big bass…Jamaaladeen Tacuma with Calvin Weston (drums), Aram Bajakian (guitar), and Aram Bajakian (Trumpet)
Reel-Time Fishwires Updated
In the Cape Cod Fishwire for Reel-Time.com this week I spent a little more time than usual actually delving into the issue of rotten inshore catches of striped bass off the Boston coast. Basically I note (with statistics) that two of the past 4 years have been some of the worst spawning years since the 1980’s, when the fish almost ceased to exist. Not a good thing… To the North in the Boston Fishwire, I have good reports of tuna…
The Gray Lady Gets Trolled
In quite possibly the single most shoddy piece of journalism I’ve ever read, The New York Times has been taken on a ride by a few Internet dirt balls. In a piece that ran in the Sunday New York Times Magazine, Mattathias Schwartz examined the phenomena of Internet Trolls, in a story entitled “The Trolls Among Us“. Unfortunately, neither Mr. Schwartz or the copyeditors seem to really know what the definition of an Internet Troll is. Too bad, as its…
Great LA Times Piece on Revision3
I’ve said it before – they’re changing the way broadcast media is done…check out the LA Times piece on Revision3. nd so far, people are. Revision3 was started in 2005 by Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson, the guys behind Digg.com, the popular site where users vote on the best news stories of the day. Rose co-hosts the show “Diggnation,” a weekly rundown of the site’s top stories, which Revision3 beams out to about 200,000 viewers per 40-minute episode. He has…
Friday Music Video – Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood
“In the Presence of the Lord” from the Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 -That’s Derek Trucks on guitar with them.