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Post Olympics Reviews from Lenovo

Post Olympics Reviews from Lenovo

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When a project ends, good companies do post-mortems to determine what worked, what didn’t to help them improve institutionally, while identifying possible opportunities created, and mitigating any risks exposed. Great companies do this and they do it in a way that the rest of us can benefit as well.  Such is the case of two excellent post Olympics assessments from Lenovo. First off, I’ve got to call attention to Esteban Panzeri’ post “End of Madness Recap” from his blog, “The…

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Old Media Lessons for New Media

Old Media Lessons for New Media

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Just because you’re new media doesn’t mean you can’t learn a few lessons from old media.  As we’re so fond of saying, new media is all about changing delivery channels of old media, hence I think it’s implied that the old school journalism rules have a place in our lives going forward. First off, we need to think about what type of journalism we’re doing.  In almost all cases for bloggers we’ll fall into one of the following three categories:

NY Times: I Got the News Instantaneously, Oh Boy

NY Times: I Got the News Instantaneously, Oh Boy

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(For our newer readers, I used to work for the premier supplier of newspaper software systems, and in the dim and distant past was a writer with the Worcester Telegram – so I still follow what’s going on in the print world quite closely) The Sunday New York Times had a very intesting article this morning entitled “I Got the News Instantaneously, Oh Boy” which was written by Media Writer Tim Arango.  In it, Tim takes on the issue of…

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How Technorati Gave Away Their Special Sauce

How Technorati Gave Away Their Special Sauce

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I used to use Technorati to find compelling blog posts to share and comments.  It was rather convenient to be able to go to one spot and find out what people were saying in blogs around the globe and to easily search.  One of the most compelling features, for me, was that it was an application designed with blogs only in mind. This morning I was looking a set of compelling blog posts on the anniversary of 9/11.  So I…

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The Worm Turns for Big Media

The Worm Turns for Big Media

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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…

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One is the Loneliest Number…Community Building 101

One is the Loneliest Number…Community Building 101

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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…

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Duncan Riley: At the end of the war, Newspapers commit ritual suicide

Duncan Riley: At the end of the war, Newspapers commit ritual suicide

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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…

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Great LA Times Piece on Revision3

Great LA Times Piece on Revision3

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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…

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Top Ten List of Apple IPhone Apps used by Lindsey Lohan and Paris Hilton while they were Eaten By Sharks

Top Ten List of Apple IPhone Apps used by Lindsey Lohan and Paris Hilton while they were Eaten By Sharks

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Traffic stats – the red headed step child of statistics, damned lies cloaked inside a slathering of untruth and then wrapped in that un-Godliest of file formats, xls and used to bludgeon all that is sane and rational out of your web strategy.  This is the stuff that reduces grown webmasters, those mastadonian throwbacks of an earlier tech era, to tears, and enables the airline magazine reading, conference attending execs to think they actually have a handle on what’s happening….

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Why Most Online Communities Fail…

Why Most Online Communities Fail…

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David Churbuck linked to the Ben Worthen story in the WSJ yesterday entitled “Why Most Online Communities Fail“.  David points out that a simple typo from a Deloitte powerpoint managed the ruin the story and deflect the discussion from the matter at hand to a moot discussion on percentages. 1. Going out with the claim that 60% of businesses invest over $1 million in online communities thanks to a Deloitte typo that should have stated 6% is not a great…

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