The New York Times launched a Netvibes/My Yahoo style Ajax start page on their site called My Times a few days back. These start pages allow users to create a custom home page that features only the information they are interested in. In the case of My Times, users can select from a bevy of Times-related content and add RSS feeds from external blogs as well....
Continue ReadingMicah Sifry’s post last week about YouTube metrics got me thinking about which videos produced by the campaigns have been viewed the most on YouTube. Following is a list of Dem Presidential candidate videos that have attracted more than 200,000 YouTube views. I’ve excluded YouTube spotlight videos, since they tend to attract a ton of views no matter the candidate/quality of the question....
Continue ReadingWhen the CIA began advertising and recruiting via the social network facebook, I kind of laughed since someone working in the clandestine services should keep information safe and not freely divulge it. However, the whole point of social networking sites is to share information with your "closest friends."
Interesting,...
Continue ReadingThe left-leaning news and opinion site The Huffington Post announced a new commenting policy to its community last Thursday. It'll promote top commenters to regular Huffington Post bloggers.
Community members will help determine who gets this honor by using the site's new "I'm A Fan Of" and "Favorite"...
Continue ReadingLast week The New York Time purchased [clarification: the paper is, as Jeff Jarvis notes, "hosting it, selling ads on it, promoting it, but not buying it or hiring its creators"] the sometimes irreverent Freakonomics blog run by University of Chicago economist Dr. Steven Levitt and writer Stephen Dubner. Clearly the newspaper saw that this informative blog had a community worth transplanting to its web site....
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