By Mindy McAdams
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There’s a new case study for how blogs work — particularly how the blogosphere support network can raise one blog’s visibility.
A man in Maine, at the far northeastern corner of the U.S., writes a blog called Maine Web Report. His name is Lance Dutson. The blog was not at all well-known before this series of [...]
Web programmer and engineering student Christian Montoya wrote a summary of the design trends he saw in CSS Reboot 2006, a collection of newly redesigned Web sites from a large number of different sources.
Sites are now intended for a width of 1024 pixels. We used to design for a width of 800, but more [...]
comScore Networks, a market research firm, says its new estimate is “based on the world’s largest, most representative sample and most robust methodology.” That’s researcher-speak for “We count better than you do!”
The firm uses a panel of people with “active representation from countries that comprise 99 percent of the global Internet population.” The 694 million, [...]
Today I braved my university’s clumsy and tedious system for entering textbook adoptions and put in the books I will require for fall semester 2006 courses.
The undergraduate course is the easy one to choose for. This is a class called “Reporting and Writing for Online Media.” I have decided that the best textbook this year [...]
The Indianapolis Star has put a database of NCAA financial reports on its Web site. What an excellent idea!
This is the most detailed, publicly available database of college athletic department financial information ever assembled.It came from forms required by the NCAA for the 2004-05 school year. While the NCAA reports such information only in aggregate, [...]
The Podcasting Legal Guide from Creative Commons provides “a general roadmap of some of the legal issues specific to podcasting.”
When creating your own podcast, it is important to make sure all necessary rights and permissions are secured for the material included in your podcasts. This is relatively easy if you create all of the material [...]
Food for thought from Jeff Jarvis (writing from the We Media gathering in London):
A man from the room says one cannot edit without an agenda and he asks what is the BBC’s agenda other than ‘you are right and we are wrong.’ The BBC is caught in the same bind as old American papers — [...]
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