TBG at Personal Democracy Forum

A number of us will be headed up to NYC later today to attend the Personal Democracy Forum conference tomorrow. I will be participating in the conference’s Idea Market, where I will be discussing “Best Practices in Blogger Relations.” We’ll also be co-sponsoring a post-conference happy hour from 8:00-10:00 tomorrow night with the David All Group,...

Keywords Go First in Headlines, SEOs say

It is mini search engine optimization (SEO) for journalists lesson time!

News outlets want healthy traffic levels on their websites so that they can charge more for advertising.  In fact, The New York Observer's Michael Calderone quotes a former Forbes.com staffer as saying that their former workplace is "a page-view sweatshop "...

Link Roundup (5/15/2007)

Prince William: Facebook Fugitive

Prince William starts a Facebook profile.  Hilarity ensues.

Grupthink

Sort of a Digg for multiple choice questions.  Sample: What is the best open source project?

Truemors

Guy Kawasaki’s new rumor reporting site launches.  Apparently the whole thing was built using WordPress. ...

The Problem with Newsvine

I’ve always been an admirer of the concept and execution of the social news site Newsvine. I wrote about it glowingly when it first came out. Conceptually it always seemed like a good compromise between the chaos of sites like Digg and the top down nature of traditional newspaper websites....

Washington Post Launches Social Networking Component

Late last week the Washington Post launched a light social networking component called My Post. The feature allows users to create a profile that will be linked to whenever a user comments on a Post article. The profile includes personal information about the user and aggregators all of a user’s comments....