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Newspaper Deathwatch: Attacks from Without, Attacks from Within

Newspaper Deathwatch: Attacks from Without, Attacks from Within

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Another really bad week in which to be a lover of print media. Yesterday came the stunning announcement that The New York Times Company ad revenues for all papers had declined 18% in July when compared with last years numbers. Even worse, especially if you’re a member for the Boston Globe or Worcester Telegram staff, the ad numbers for the Time’s New England Media Group dropped 24% vs. last year. Keep that in mind for a couple minutes…we’ll come back…

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The Dark Side of Cloud Computing

The Dark Side of Cloud Computing

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We’ve all done it. Try to email something to a friend and Outlook, or whatever mail client we use accidentally selects a different contact to send to. It’s not such a big problem when you’re sending pictures of the baby, or directions to the weekend barbeque, but what happens when you accidentally send sensitive information to the wrong person, like a journalist. The problem is utterly compounded when you give accidentally give access to your information sitting out in the…

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Full On Winston Wolfe Mode

Full On Winston Wolfe Mode

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Sorry for the lack of updates.  I’ve been in full on Winston Wolfe mode for the past week and a half as I got pulled into a time critical project to upgrade performance using Akamai for 15 or our websites, some of which I’ve never seen before. The good news is that the Akamai DSA product is for real – an incredible boost to performance that requires very little work to set up and very real benefits. This sums up…

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Week 1 – Community Building Field Test

Week 1 – Community Building Field Test

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(If you didn’t read the first post in this series, you really ought to start here…) We’re moving right along on Cycling.com – and it’s beginning to look like the site now has a pulse! Things improved dramatically after we got our login issue fixed.  Here are the basics for the week: 40+ users registered Several new photos added Comments starting to come in 2 new regional cycling groups were created by users The first weeks poll had 65 votes…

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Day 1 – Community Building Field Test

Day 1 – Community Building Field Test

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(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…

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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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The Gray Lady Gets Trolled

The Gray Lady Gets Trolled

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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…

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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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