Mathew Ingram's Latest Updates
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Om has a great piece looking at some of the SEO techniques traditional publishers are using: http://j.mp/dfvMY2
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John Battelle tried to use iChat to talk to his kids while on an airplane, but a flight attendant said it was illegal: http://is.gd/ah6ap
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RT @mmasnick: What? To lock behind a paywall? Who would take that job? RT @mediatwit: The NYT is hiring 12 techies and a social media whiz
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Will the world end in 2012? @mattcutts says: "I believe Google has no official position on that" http://is.gd/agYcL /via @ginatrapani
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mathewi
great post by my fellow mesh cofounder and FreshBooks CEO @MikeMcDerment on why you should come to #meshu in May: http://j.mp/bgD24s
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mathewi
personally, I'm using my RSS reader a lot less than I used to -- I find most of the worthwhile stuff comes to me via Twitter anyway
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mathewi
so a quick survey shows virtually no one clicks through from a partial-text RSS feed, and most people either a) ignore it or b) unsubscribe
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Hey Twitter -- if a site has partial-text vs. full-text RSS feeds, do you 1) get mad and unsubscribe, 2) click through or 3) not care?
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nice custom URL :-) RT @davemcclure: If you feel THREATENED by Social Media, then you probably ARE: http://bit.ly/ReutersIsFucked #MediaFail
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Felix Salmon says Gawker's move away from full-text RSS is part of Denton's plan to leave the blogosphere behind: http://j.mp/95zCFe
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mathewi
overcast and cool near West Palm Beach today -- I'm sure everyone is filled with sympathetic thoughts as they read this :-)
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RT @daschles: Yeah, but can't be a habit [in response to my question re: scooping the wire] http://j.mp/a0oqsf
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didn't Reuters editor-in-chief @daschles defend scooping the wire last year when he did it? http://j.mp/a0oqsf
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Reuters new social-media policy suggests having someone else read a tweet before sending, and says "don't scoop the wire" http://j.mp/a0oqsf
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RT @bobbymacReports: can't argue media should be forbidden to ask for orca video. I would suggest mercy for the family in broadcasting it.
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consensus seems to be that releasing the video of the orca killing its trainer is not the right thing to do -- not sure I agree though
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Kelly McBride makes the case for releasing the orca-killing video here: http://is.gd/aaF7M
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mathewi
what do you think, Twitter? orca trainer's family doesn't want the video of her death released, but others argue it is in public interest
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Kelly McBride at Poynter on why it's important that the video of the killer whale killing a trainer is released: http://is.gd/aaF7M
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The @gigaom team is covering the SxSW 2010 and will be updating our sites constantly. Follow our SxSW page. http://gigaom.com/topic/sxsw
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"I'm stunned we've elevated traditional media as a paragon of reliability" -@michaelwolffnyc #wemedia /via @tolles
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want to help design some of the hottest newspaper and media mobile apps in North America? @spreed is looking for a designer MSG @DaveColeman
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many people don't know Corey Haim was Canadian (born and raised in Toronto). got his start in Canuck TV show called The Edison Twins
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Steve Krakauer at Mediaite says Rather's rationalization of his Obama watermelon comment is "disingenuous" http://is.gd/a8mDb
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Dan Rather: "Much of what we call news, isn't. Much of what we Tweet, or post, or chat away at ... are distractions" http://is.gd/a8lQH
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Covering the Street Protests in Tehran: How Reuters Curates UGC via Twitter: http://is.gd/a8jol
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mathewi
TMZ loads up URL with keywords: http://www.tmz.com/2010/03/10/corey-haim-dead-died-death-lapd-overdose-corey-feldman-lost-boys-two-coreys/
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RT @ThatKevinSmith: Lost Boy goes home: Corey Haim, dead at 38. G'bye, LUCAS. You gave hope to the weird & unlikely.
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I never said it was policy not to link, @palafo -- policy is what is supposed to happen, practice is what actually happens
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mathewi
Google economist Hal Varian is right, newspapers need to engage more -- my take is here: http://is.gd/a7OLY
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mathewi
it occurs to me that this new Twitter service would give them some pretty interesting data on links: http://tcrn.ch/dCz2cY
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for those interested in today's linking debate, see http://bit.ly/bLEpmC "The Hyperlink Society." Academic but readable /via @Chanders
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Jonathan Schwartz writes about how Steve Jobs tried to sue Sun Microsystems, and what Schwartz said in response: http://j.mp/dnVDCw
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New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon was one of the few who actually took more out of Bernie Madoff's funds than he put in: http://j.mp/dy3Krm
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browsing through the headlines of @gaberivera's new site Mediagazer helps prove my theory -- everything is media
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Houston Astros are up 7-2 over the New York Mets at the top of the fifth inning -- the Mets are trying out their third pitcher now
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first pitch goes out at Tradition Field in Port St. Lucie, Fla. -- New York Mets against Houston Astros: http://yfrog.com/al35sj
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Google chief economist: "news industry's financial problems started well before web came along" http://bit.ly/cXpuap /via @stshank
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Sorry, I meant to say that we're watching the New York Mets playing the Houston Astros #dontknowbaseball
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"If Variety no longer requires its chief film critic, it no longer requires me as a reader": @ebertchicago http://bit.ly/aI8eL9
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Going to see the New York Mets play the Houston Aeros at the stadium in Port St. Lucie -- who should I be rooting for? Taking suggestions.
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for the morning crew, my take on the Zachary Kouwe plagiarism thing: "The NYT Needs to Learn the Value of the Link" http://is.gd/a0j0J
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This is smart I think: NYT will spin off the New York Times Book Review as separate pub on eReaders http://bit.ly/cxRyqK /via @TimOBrienNYT
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my take on the Zachary Kouwe plagiarism thing: "The NYT Needs to Learn the Value of the Link" http://is.gd/a0j0J tip @techmeme
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agreed -- RT @fmanjoo: On its first day http://mediagazer.com/ has become an indispensable resource. Great job @gaberivera and @megan.
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mathewi
Congratulations to @craignewmark & crew on the 15th anniversary of craigslist! http://bit.ly/9dDA27 /via @rachelsklar
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just arrived in Port St. Lucie, near Daytona Beach -- by way of Cleveland and Tampa. nice and warm :-)
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on Techmeme's new media site Mediagazer, one item is a post by @carr2n about media writing about media: http://is.gd/9Y7Dk #totallymeta
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on the ground in Cleveland - only an hour and a half to experience the joys and delights of the Cleveland airport. hope it's enough time :-)
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if I was one of those people who checked in via Foursquare at airports, it would say YYZ :-) next stop, Cleveland