Mark Glaser interviewed some experts and came up with this list (see the full post for important details):

Get inbound links and link out as well.
Headlines and title tags should have key words up front.
Web addresses for your blog posts or articles should include key words.
Page descriptions should be unique or eliminated.
Highlight your best content on […]

Awesome post from Melissa Worden:
Looking from the outside in
She explains how she consumes and follows news now that she is no longer a working journalist. She is still a news junkie, obviously — but one who never reads a printed newspaper. And she’s clearly online-savvy.

I subscribe to news Twitter accounts. CNN posts breaking news tweets, […]

Student and journalist Jared Silfies dumped out his backpack and showed us the things he carries for mobile reporting.
I love his photo! I would enjoy seeing more like it. What do you say — can you post a picture for us, and give us a gear list? Just post it to Flickr if you don’t […]

The Olympic Torch carried through San Francisco, reported minute by minute, from the scene:

If you still don’t understand the value of Twitter, click the image to see the story.
(Via Team Tibet, on Twitter.)

From Phil Meyer, speaking on the occasion of a two-day symposium marking his retirement as Knight Chair at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication:
The hunter-gatherer model of journalism is no longer sufficient. Citizens can do their own hunting and gathering on the Internet. What they need is somebody to […]

A small news roundup …

Reporters Without Borders: Beijing 2008
The Economist: Still Simmering (March 28) and Welcome to the Olympics (March 27)
Global Voices: Tibet Protests 2008
BBC News: China Allows Diplomats into Tibet (March 28); excellent backgrounders in right-hand sidebar; Profile: The Dalai Lama

Update (3:20 p.m.):

James Fallows posted an interesting example of the Rashomon effect.
The Chinese […]

I have called it one of the best information graphics ever, and now it’s won the Peter Sullivan award at Malofiej 16, the greatest annual honor in the world for infographics. So if you have never experienced it, please have a look:
Deadly Rampage at Virginia Tech (The New York Times)
It was produced on deadline and […]